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First Edition "The Wonderland of the Eastern Congo" and More Hunting Books

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The Wonderland of the Eastern Congo: The Region of the Snow-crowned Volcanoes, the Pygmies, the Giant Gorilla and the Okapi (T. Alexander Barnes, 1922), Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter (Theodore Roosevelt, 1905), A Big Game Pocket-book for Kenya Colony (Captain L. M. Dundas, 1927), Hunting in Africa (Frank C. Hibben, 1965)

Title and Author/Editor The Wonderland of the Eastern Congo: The Region of the Snow-crowned Volcanoes, the Pygmies, the Giant Gorilla and the Okapi (T. Alexander Barnes, 1922), Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter (Theodore Roosevelt, 1905), A Big Game Pocket-book for Kenya Colony (Captain L. M. Dundas, 1927), Hunting in Africa (Frank C. Hibben, 1965)
Genre Hunting and Fishing, Biography, Autobiography and Memoirs, Sports, Crafts and Hobbies
Illustrator Various
Type of Illustration Photographs, Fold-out map, Sketches
Binding Cloth on board, Buckram
Edition Statement Early Edition, First Edition
Number of Books 4
Additional Information The Wonderland of the Eastern Congo features a gilt embellished vignette of a gorilla head to the front cover, top text edges in gilt and a fold-out map to the back endpapers. Outdoor Pastimes features a tissue-guarded frontispiece of Roosevelt, a facsimile signature to the lower edge of the portrait, gilt top text edges and untrimmed fore and bottom edges.

Condition

- wear to the covers with soiling, rubbed edges, loose pages and bumped corners; chipping to dust jacket; writing to endpapers; cracked hinges; foxing; fading; worn area to the fold-out map.

Dimensions

5.25" W x 10.0" H x 7.0" D

- measures group.

Item #

ITMG271210

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