PATTERSON, Lieut.-Col. J.H. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo; And Other East African Adventures. With a Foreword by Frederick Courtenay Selous. Macmillan and Co., 1921.
8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt vignette of lion to front, gilt lettering to spine; xx + pp. 338, with a photographic frontispiece, and illustrations throughout; very good. Provenance: bookplate of Anita Loos (1888-1981), actress, writer of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and unexpected owner of this classic on big game hunting.
New edition. "No lion story I have ever heard or read equals in its long-sustained and dramatic interest the story of the Tsavo man-eaters as told by Col. Patterson."(foreword by F.C. Selous). Czech: "This has been in print almost continuously since 1907."
Czech p. 126.
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