Price: $400.00
Quantity: 1 available
Book Condition: Fine
Octavo (24 cm), pp. [2], [vi], vii, [i], [1], 2 - 158. Full red tooled leather with gilt titling and illustration. Illustrated endpapers. Tan illustrated jacket with $26.95 price. Lavishly illustrated throughout with black and white and color photos, drawings, paintings and collages. A stunningly beautiful presentation of 11 adventure stories Beard told to his daughter at his tented encampment at Hog Ranch, Kenya. Very slight edge wear to jacket, else fine. Beard was known for his death-defying wildlife photography and his sometimes beautiful, sometimes nightmarish, collage diaries. His New York Times obituary quotes descriptions of him by other newspapers: "'Peter Beard gentleman, socialite, artist, photographer, Lothario, prophet, playboy and fan of recreational drugs is the last of the adventurers.' The Observer said. ... 'James Dean grown up,' another British paper, The Evening Standard, called him. ... 'The hard-partying septuagenarian shutterbug,' The Daily News of New York wrote." Dust jacket present. First Edition.
Title: Zara's Tales from Hog Ranch: Perilous Escapades in Equatorial Africa
Categories: Adventure,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2004
ISBN Number: 0679426590
ISBN Number 13: 9780679426592
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: near fine
Seller ID: 29307