Buy this book on-line Taylor, John : Pondoro - Last of the Ivory Hunters(London: Frederick Muller, 1956)
First British edition, published one year after the American first edition. 8vo; later brown half leather, with lighter brown leatherette sides, and gilt-on-red spine labels; new endpapers; pp. 275; plates. Gift inscription to fly-leaf; small '64' in pen to half-title verso; very occasional fox spot. Very good condition. (Czech, p. 280) 'With this work Taylor stepped away from the more technical aspects of big game rifles to describing his numerous adventures in Africa. He collected elephant, eland, leopard, lion, buffalo, hippo and a wide variety of other game in Nyasaland and other locales. "Pondoro" means "lion" in Chinyungwe.' - Kenneth Czech, An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785-1999 Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Taylor, John : Pondoro - Last of the Ivory Hunters. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, collectables, out of print books, livres anciens and incunabula. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |