The Spotted Sphinx

Signed first edition. Presentation copy to the author Andrew Salkey and his family. 217, [6] pp. 12 pages of colour photographic plates and 64 black and white photographs. Decorative cloth in pictorial jacket; map endpapers. Some rubbing to jacket and short tear at rear panel. Light bumping to ends of book's spine. Internally clean. Jacket clipped, but price left unclipped. Following the saga of Elsa the lion cub, Adamson writes about the time she spent caring for a domesticated cheetah given to her and how the cheetah, Pippa, eventually returned to the wild.

Product Info

Publisher: Collins & Harvill Press 1969

Year: 1969

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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