end game text photographs peter de beard (5 résultats)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1965). (1963) 1965 1st UK edition. 4to (210 x 287mm). Pp256. Colour & b/w photographs, illustrations throughout. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. D/w sticker; 50/-, 63/- after Dec 31, 1965. Lean to slightly shaken spine, stains to cloth and end-papers, tanning to edges. Good only in poor dust-wrapper. Beard's unique style and startling photographs and illustrations form an exciting and memorable record of the last days of the big game hunters. Includes "A twenty year illustrated record of the great pachyderm (Loxodonta africana) and man"; tales of Karen Dinesen von Blixen, Philip Percival, J A Hunter, Col Richard Meinertzhagen and Ewart S Grogan; "the never-before-published, hand written diaries of Colonel John Henry Patterson, single-minded pursuer of the man-eaters of Tsavo." Chapters include: Author's note; The Africa of Isak Dinesen; Introduction; Kilima Nirinyaga, the Holy Mountain; A snake from the coast; the shag and the greater shag; Game control; Foot safari; White hunters' banquet. An appendix gives a selection of letters from Kamande. .

Pictorial Wrappers. Etat : Very Good. First Paperback Edition. np, profusely illustrated in duotone. Designed by Ruth Ansel. "The End of the Game" was Peter Beard's prescient first book. Originally subtitled "The Last Word From Paradise: A Pictorial Documentation of the Origins, History & Prospects of The Big Game in Africa", it weaves his own photographs with vintage historical images into a narrative chronicle of the European exploration and exploitation of The Dark Continent, and the ensuing destruction of much of its native wildlife. A most presentable example of the 1977 first Doubleday & Company, Inc. paperbound edition (whose 1965 first edition is cited on pages 208-209 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book" and pages 170-171 of "The Book of 101 Books") of this classic photobook showing just a bit of light rubbing and creasing to the front cover. PLEASE NOTE: This "Sample" copy is NOT SIGNED by Peter Beard! Photography Monograph.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : good +. First American Edition. 256p quarto, illustrated. A good copy in a good plus copy with some wear to the base of the spine and some clear tape on the insde of the dust jacket. Edwin Kennebeck's copy with his ownership signature on the front fly leaf . Kennebeck worked at Viking Press from 1955 to 1983 and worked with Kerouc, Patricj White, Iris Murdoch, Steinbeck Marianne Moore, Saul Below, Thomas Pynchon and Arthur Miller. Laid in is a manila envelope witha viking press where Kennebeck wrote "P Beard E K" .

Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. np, profusely illustrated in duotone. Designed by Ruth Ansel. "The End of the Game" was Peter Beard's prescient first book. Originally subtitled "The Last Word From Paradise: A Pictorial Documentation of the Origins, History & Prospects of The Big Game in Africa", it weaves his own photographs with vintage historical images into a narrative chronicle of the European exploration and exploitation of The Dark Continent, and the ensuing destruction of much of its native wildlife. A brand new, most handsome example of the third printing of the 1988 Chronicle books hardbound edition of this classic photobook (whose 1965 first edition is cited on pages 208-209 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book" and pages 170-171 of "The Book of 101 Books") with a UNIQUE, BOLDLY SIGNED FULL PAGE INSCRIPTION "infinite Salaams Richard! / elephantine memories / and all best / over the last / 4 years * * * * / inestimables / Peter (Beard) / Box 47616 / Nairobi" in red and blue ink to a colleague accompanied by a full watercolor hand and forearm print across the entire half title page and a portion of the verso of the front pastedown. PLEASE NOTE: This "Sample" copy is NOT SIGNED by Peter Beard! Elaborately Inscribed and Signed by Peter Beard. Photography Monograph.

Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Etat : Fine. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. np, profusely illustrated in duotone. Designed by Ruth Ansel. "The End of the Game" was Peter Beard's prescient first book. Originally subtitled "The Last Word From Paradise: A Pictorial Documentation of the Origins, History & Prospects of The Big Game in Africa", it weaves his own photographs with vintage historical images into a narrative chronicle of the European exploration and exploitation of The Dark Continent, and the ensuing destruction of much of its native wildlife. A brand new, most handsome example of the second printing of the 1988 Chronicle books hardbound edition of this classic photobook (whose 1965 first edition is cited on pages 208-209 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book" and pages 170-171 of "The Book of 101 Books") with a UNIQUE, BOLDLY SIGNED FULL PAGE INSCRIPTION "Salaams + regards / and elephantine memories / from Peter Beard" in blue ink WITH A MULTI-COLORED INK HAND PRINT AND WATERCOLOR FLOURISH across the entire half title page showing just a bit of light sunning along the spine. PLEASE NOTE: This "Sample" copy is NOT SIGNED by Peter Beard! Elaborately Inscribed and Signed by Peter Beard. Photography Monograph.