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243 242 242. TAYLOR, Geoffrey. Insect Life in Britain. Collins. 1946. £20
8vo. Original dark mustard paper-covered boards; pp. 48, 8 colour plates, numerous b&w illustrations; very good.
Second impression. No. 94 in the Britain in Pictures series. A charming introduction to British insects, including a section on their place in English literature.
243. TAYLOR, Tom. Leicester Square: Its Associations and Worthies. With a Sketch of Hunter’s Scientific Character and Works by Richard Owen. Bickers and Son. 1874.
£248
8vo., sometime finely bound in full dark blue morocco, boards with double gilt line panels enclosing a single panel with gilt corner tools, lettered in gilt on spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. With original cloth boards and spine bound in. With 16 illustrations. A very good copy.
First edition. With the bookplate of film director, actor and writer Bryan Forbes.
244. TELEVISION. The Armchair Theatre. How to Write Design Direct Act Enjoy Television PlaysWeidenfeld and Nicolson 1959 £30
4to., original cloth with dust wrapper. A very good copy. First edition.
245. TENNANT, Emma. Black Marina. Faber and Faber. 1985. £20 8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. A fine copy. First edition.
246. THESIGER, Sir Wilfred Patrick. Desert Marsh and Mountain. The World of a Nomad. London: W. & J. Mackay Limited for William Collins Sons and Co Ltd, 1979.
£125
4to (269 x 207). Original brown boards, spine titled in gilt, photographically-illustrated dustwrapper after Thesiger, retaining price; pp. 3-304, [2 (blank)]; numerous photographic illustrations after Thesiger, some full- or double-page, maps after Tom Stalker-Miller, some full- or double-page; dustwrapper slightly rubbed and creased at edges, soft crease on front free endpaper, otherwise a very good, fresh copy in an unclipped dustwrapper.
First edition. A superbly-illustrated record of Thesiger’s travels in Abyssinia, Yemen, Persia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Chitral, dating from his birth in 1910 to 1978, prefaced by a ‘Biographical Summary and List of Principal Travels, 1910-78’ and a short-title list of ‘Other Books and Articles by Wilfred Thesiger’. In the foreword to the revised 1993 edition published by Motivate, Thesiger commented that, ‘This book has always been a personal favourite, capturing as it does the wide scope of my journeys and my affinity with the nomadic way of life. Journeying at walking pace under conditions of some hardship, I was happiest when I had no communication with the outside world, and was utterly dependent on my tribal companions’.
P.N. Grover, Bibliography of Works by Sir Wilfred Thesiger, p. 271. 245 246 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
247. THESIGER, Sir Wilfred Patrick. My Kenya Days. London: HarperCollinsPublishing, 1994.
£195
8vo (245 x 167mm). Original black cloth lettered in gilt on spine, light- brown
endpapers, dustwrapper
retaining price and with barcode label over original barcode; pp. xiv, [2 (full- page map, verso blank)], 224; photographic
illustrations after
Thesiger, some full- or double-page; dustwrapper very slightly creased at edges, small bump on upper board, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition. Signed on the title ‘Wilfred
Thesiger’. An
autobiographical account of Thesiger’s thirty years in Kenya, where he settle in the latter part of his life, which complements Thesiger’s books on the earlier years of his life: ‘When he first came to Kenya in 1960, Thesiger made a series of long journeys on foot with camels to Lake Turkana, Marsabit and other remote areas, drawn by the lure of what was formerly Kenya’s Northern Frontier District, its varied wildlife and distinctive, nomadic tribes. In Tanzania, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and traversed the Maasai country with donkeys. Later, as an Honorary Game Warden, he led anti-poaching patrols in Kenya. [...] My Kenya Days offers fresh insights into Thesiger’s motivations and enigmatic personality. His descriptions of Kenya’s northern tribes are picturesque, vivid and authoritative: Rendille warriors dancing by moonlight; Turkana in pursuit of buffalo; and a closely observed account of Samburu moran during their initiation ceremonies’ (dustwrapper blurb).
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