THE LAST IVORY HUNTER: THE SAGA OF WALLY JOHNSON. By Peter Hathaway Capstick. Derrydale Press Edition.

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(Hardcover, 1988). (1987) 1988 Derrydale Press edition. 8vo (161 x 241mm). Ppxx,220. B/w photographs by M. Phillip Kahl. Burgundy bonded leather, gilt ruled borders to armorial motif, gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt, silk marker, watered silk end-papers. Edition limited to 2,500 copies, signed and numbered by the author. Former owner's name neatly to front end-paper verso but a fine copy. No. 0989 of an edition limited to 2,500 copies, signed and numbered by the author. Fifty years' African hunting, based on 150 hours of interviews between Capstick and Johnson. "A hunter since 1926, Wally Johnson conducted his last professional safari in Zambia, .when he was over seventy. .The Last Ivory Hunter is certainly not an arbitrary title. On a simple chronological basis, Wally probably was the last commercial hunter of ivory. He certainly had contemporaries, but almost everyone of note is already dead. Nobody, I think, who is still alive, has spent the sheer years Wally has in pursuit of 'white gold.' He is the doyen of that noble band of adventurers who lived the hard, hungry, weary way in the malaria-ridden expanses of Africa. His story bears witness for posterity to African hunting and the men who lived the life that can no longer be known. And, as you learn of Wally's adventures in this book, you will marvel that he is alive at all, let alone that he was able to record his amazing life before it was too late." . Seller Inventory # 57903

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