First edition. Coloured frontispiece (loose) and 50 black and white photographic plates (3 of which are loose). 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial red cloth, the boards creased. Endpapers browned, occasional foxing. Former owner’s signature to upper pastedown and former owner’s pencil inscription to ffep. xiii, [1 blank], 283, 64 [publisher’s catalogue] pp. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood & Sons, 1911.
Kennion (1866-1942) served as British consul in Persia, and wrote Sport and Life in the Further Himalaya (1910) and the present work, regarded as two of the classic works of big game hunting in Asia.
