CHAPMAN, ABEL On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa with Studies in Bird-Life. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1908. First edition, presentation copy. Publisher's black pictorial cloth gilt, in dust jacket. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; xvi, 340, 8 pp.; frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations, half-title. Jacket with some minor losses to extremities and light sunning to spine, cloth extremities bumped, hinges overextended but holding, text block lightly and evenly toned throughout, presentation bookplate to front pastedown. In scarce dust jacket. With bookplate that reads, "Presented to the Captain / and Officers of / H.M.S. Southampton [in manuscript] / On this Second War-Christmas / of 1915 / By the Author / [printed signature]". Czech, Africa, pp. 59-60. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
CHAPMAN, ABEL On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa with Studies in Bird-Life. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1908. First edition, presentation copy. Publisher's black pictorial cloth gilt, in dust jacket. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; xvi, 340, 8 pp.; frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations, half-title. Jacket with some minor losses to extremities and light sunning to spine, cloth extremities bumped, hinges overextended but holding, text block lightly and evenly toned throughout, presentation bookplate to front pastedown. In scarce dust jacket. With bookplate that reads, "Presented to the Captain / and Officers of / H.M.S. Southampton [in manuscript] / On this Second War-Christmas / of 1915 / By the Author / [printed signature]". Czech, Africa, pp. 59-60. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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