THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO (1st edition)

Foreword by Frederick Courteney Selous, xx,338pp Map, full page and text illustrations from photographs. First edition in the fourth printing  The book was first printed in October 1907. No d.j. but a fine copy with the gilt lion decoration to the front board with a double circular border. No wear, inscriptions or fading. 

This is the first edition, fourth impression, january 1908, the first edition, first impression was published three months previously.

The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of man-eating lions in the Tsavo which were responsible for the deaths of a number of construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda railway between March and December 1898. The significance of this lion pair was their unusual behavior of killing men and the manner of their attacks. .