whitehead charles e translator (2 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. First US Edition. Splitting to rear spine edge, reglued. Rear cover has slight damp staining to the outer portion, with two very small touches of surface loss. Pages have very slight foxing. Owner's information written on front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. frontispiece, illustrated title-page, 6 plates Ilustrador. First American edition. Duodecimo, 432 pages, blind embossed brown cloth (featuring the head of a male lion), spine darkened, scuffed, some wear, foxing "The book is written in simple words, telling of great successes, and hand to hand battles with the lion, and portraying a hunter's feelings, his anxieties, and pleasures, with literal fidelity - Introduction by the translator." Gerard was credited with killing 25 lions in 11 years around Algeria. He also nurtured a lion cub and raised it. He also describes panthers, jackals, hyenas, stags, antelope, hawking, wild boar etc. Whitehead was a New York lawyer and avid hunter, too, who authored CAMP-FIRES OF THE EVERGLADES. Frontispiece, illustrated title-page, 6 plates.