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London: Macmillan, 1914. First Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece, 351 pages. Later printing. A book that led Teddy Roosevelt to invite him to the White House and has influenced hunters and writers for over a century. Paul Theroux and a host of modern readers refer to it again and again. Patterson writes with cold reality: "I felt at once that this was a device to lure me into the narrow part of the ravine where, with gangs in front of me and behind me, there would be no escape; still, I thought I would see the adventure through, whatever came of it, so I accompanied the jemadar up the gully." Fiction could not do better than this which influenced Kipling and others in the early 20th Century. A very good copy bound in dark blue cloth centrally stamped in gilt depicting a tiger's head within a double gilt ring, spine lettering gilt, top edge gilt, two bumperd corners, chipping to spine ends.Previous owner's nameGeorge W. Rhoad[from ?] Kenya Colony.
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures (with a Foreword By Frederick Courteney Selous
by Patterson, (Lieut-Col), J.H.
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo; And Other East African Adventures. With a Foreword by Frederick Courtenay Selous.
by PATTERSON, Lieut.-Col. J.H.
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1921. 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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