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The Viking Press; New York, 1965. Hardcover. Acceptable. Collectible photobook gives and artistic depictions of the ravages of colonialism. Ex-library; usual treatments. Dust jacket and cover show some rubbing wear along extremities. Front hinge cracked, webbing shows. Interior pages are clean throughout. A couple interior photo pages are loose, but present. Priced for faults. [ROTH]

London: Paul Hamlyn, 1965. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Quarto. 256pp. illustrated throughout from Beard's photographs with maps, drawings and illustrations from old prints. Green cloth, spine stamped in gold, spine lightly turned. General light wear. In pictorial dust jacket that has some edge wear and a couple 2" tears.

Paul Hamlyn, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. the jacket is a little edge worn and creased. book remains clean, neat and presentable. heavy, may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Paul Hamlyn. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. 15mm chips at head and tail of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 255 pages. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 279 x 201mm. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations. "This book is a chronicle in words and pictures of the gradual remorseless destruction of the central symbol of Africa's life - the animal." - from dust-jacket blurb. Text and photographs both by Peter Hill Beard. .

London : Collins, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 230, [50] p. : chiefly ill., ports. ; 28 cm. Subjects; Mammalia Loxodonta africana Big game hunting Endangered animals Africa History. Blixen, Karen Portrait. Lindstrom, Ingrid Portrait. Finch Hatton, Denys Portrait. Kinyanjui Chief Portrait. Sendeyo Portrait. Blixen, Bror Baron Portrait. Boyes, John Portrait. Patterson, J H Biography Portrait. Grogan, Ewart Scott Biography Portrait. Hunter, John Alexander Portrait. Genre; Illustrated.

C3a: The Viking Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by The Viking Press, New York. 1965. 256 pgs. Illustrated with Color / Black and White Plates.  First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear, rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities (chip present to the front panel of the DJ). Bound in grey cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine and the front board. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Researched, photographed, and compiled over 20 years, Peter Beard’s End of the Game tells the tale of the enterprisers, explorers, missionaries, and big-game hunters whose quests for adventure and "progress" were to change the face of Africa in the 20th century. This landmark volume is assembled from hundreds of historical photographs and writings, starting with the building of the… Read More

(BEARD, PETER). Beard, Peter Hill. Foreword by Joseph Murumbi. THE END OF THE GAME: THE LAST WORD FROM PARADISE - TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY PETER H. BEARD. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977. First Paperback Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Very Good. 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… Read More

(BEARD, PETER). Beard, Peter Hill. Foreword by Joseph Murumbi. THE END OF THE GAME: THE LAST WORD FROM PARADISE - TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY PETER H. BEARD - A UNIQUE COPY ELABORATELY INSCRIBED BY PETER BEARD. Elaborately Inscribed and Signed by Peter Beard. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1988. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Near Fine. 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… Read More

(BEARD, PETER). Beard, Peter Hill. Foreword by Joseph Murumbi. THE END OF THE GAME: THE LAST WORD FROM PARADISE - TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY PETER H. BEARD - A UNIQUE COPY ELABORATELY INSCRIBED BY PETER BEARD. Elaborately Inscribed and Signed by Peter Beard. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1988. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 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… Read More