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Author - James Mellon
Publisher - HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH; 1975 - First edition
A Good quarto hardcover book in a good dustjacket.
Slight rippling to the dustjacket; light frittering to the back top edge and a 7mm closed tear at the midpoint of the edge. Dust jacket now in a loose protective plastic overwrap.
Gift inscription to the front end-paper.
Front pastedown marked by adhesive tape to previous overwrap which has also caused a shadow to the front end-paper. Similarly to the back end-paper.
Foxing through to the title page and from the final index page to the rear end-papers.
Twenty-one of the fifty-two chapters are written by Mellon the others were commissioned from leading contemporary hunting authorities: game wardens, naturalists, conservationists, professional hunters and sportsmen. Taking for their area some twenty countries and for their subject matter more than two hundred kinds of animals from the ten pound dik-dik to the five-ton elephant.
Pages xx +522 with many illustrations.