Binding: Blue cloth hardcover, gilt spine titles, sewn signatures. Book Condition: Good (spine slightly sunned; light wear and soiling to cloth; front hinge split top 7cm; very light prelim foxing; binding is sound but mull is exposed at p74, p90, and p26; text and plates clean and sound). Jacket Condition: no dj. Edition: Original publication, presumed first edition. Publisher: London Wright & Brown no date [1933]
Seller ID: 1582
Written with kindness towards wild animals who have killed humans, "Man, amongst all the animals, is the only one who kills for pleasure or through malice and forethought, and he is the most dangerous killer of all". This is not a facsimile reprint. Size: v, 312p: frontispiece + 17 black/white photographs on coated paper (11 leaves hors-texte); 23.2 cm. 761g.