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"We went a little higher up the bank where we could look out over the lake of high reeds and, with Pop holding his big gun ready and I with the safety off mine, M'Cola threw a club into the reeds where we heard the snort. There was a wooshing snort and no movement, not a stir in the reeds. Then there was a crashing further away and we could see the reeds swaying with the rush of something through them toward the opposite bank, but could not see what was making the movement. Then I saw the black back, the wide-swept, point-lifted horns and then the quick-moving, climbing rush of a buffalo up the other bank. He went up, his neck up and out, his head horn-heavy, his withers rounded like a fighting bull, in fast strong-legged climb..." FIRST EDITION of Hemingway's classic account of his African safari adventures. New York: Scribner's, 1935. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Cloth with some sunning to spine, dust jacket with minor edgewear and a little sunning to spine panel. An exceptionally nice copy of a difficult book to get in collectible condition. $3800. |
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