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Maxwell, Marius : Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa.With A monograph on the African Elephant

Heinemann Ltd, London, 1925. First trade Edition (The first edition was limited to 550 copies only). Large Quarto. Navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. Hard Cover. Xxiv + [1] + 206 pp. Fold-out frontispiece + other black and white illustratioins. Containing 113 plates by the author and a preface by Sir Sydney F. Harmer, Director of the British Museum. Book Condition: Good +. Dust-jacket : Poor. Collated complete. Corners bumped. Spine-ends rubbed. Minor soiling to rear board. Gilt titles bright. Uniform browning to end-papers. Embossed stamp from a previous book-seller on the front, free, end-paper (circular, 2.5 cm in diameter). Pencil notation pp 121. Significant browning, acid-tape marks, creasing and loss to the dust-jacket. Spine has been joined via tape to the front and rear panels of the dust-jacket. Ex-libris Louis Weyers, the grandson of Jan Smuts. Jan Smuts was the Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948. Name, address and of Louis Weyers in ink on the front, free, end-paper. “While primarily a book of the author's adventures photographing African big game, there are a few instances of hunting rhino and elephant, the latter in British East Africa's Lorian Swamp. Maxwell describes his battery of cameras and equipment much the way a shikari would describe his rifles. The author is quick to point out, however, that he keeps a .600-bore handy. Needless to say, the photographic images are striking.” (Czech 1999 : 109). PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A LARGE ITEM AND WILL REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGES. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ENQUIRE BEFORE ORDERING.

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