New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1928. Hardcover without dust jacket, undated other than copyright date of 1928 (but certainly a reprint, c1950s/1960s), v + 294 pages, plus black-and-white photographs, plus laid in is the price clipped front flap of the dust jacket; very gently used, tight in binding, hardly a trace of shelf wear other than gentle bumps to spine ends, neat five-word three-line gift inscription in ink on free front endpaper dated "1957", otherwise very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our listing for David Coulson's classic Namib, and for Wilfred Thesiger's classic The Danakil Diary: Journeys Through Abyssinia, 1930-34, and for something completely different, our 4 issues of Safari [Club International] Magazine: The Journal of Big Game Hunting (buy two or more and save on postage!).. Hard Cover. Very Good.

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Bookseller: Eric James (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 044812
Title: Safari: A Saga of the African Blue
Author: Johnson, Martin
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Publisher: Grosset and Dunlap
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1928
Keywords: TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY NATURE ANIMALS WATUSI SUDAN CONGO KENYA MASAI SUK TURKANA SAMBURU ENVIRONMENT Ecology Africa African Wildlife Natural Science History
Bookseller catalogs: Photography; Travel; Nature/Natural Science/Pets;

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
Bumps: Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...