Adamson, Joy,

Born Free; Forever Free; and Living Free (abridged version).

NY, Bantam; MacFadden; Scholasti, (1967, 64, 66). 3 VG PBs. Owner names, edge wear.

Crabtree's Collection Old BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS040969I

Catalogue: Nature

ADAMSON Joy

Born Free [with] Living Free [ with] Forever Free. [Mixed Impressions.] THE ELSA TRILOGY COMPLETE IN DUSTWRAPPERS

Collins & Harvill Press,, 1961-62. 3 vols., roy. 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with 3 coloured frontispieces, very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout and endpaper maps in the last two volumes, small contemporary signature on front endpaper of first two volumes; pictorial cloth, backstrips lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean set in mildly worn dustwrapper (one wrapper clipped). The trilogy comprises Born Free. A Lioness of Two Worlds. With Extracts from George Adamson's Letters. Preface by Lord William Percy. Foreword by Captain Charles Pitman, (thirteenth impression, 1961); Living Free. The Story of Elsa and her Cubs. Introduction by Sir Julian Huxley, (first edition, 1961); Forever Free. Elsa's Pride, (first edition, 1962). Bright, crisp set of George and Joy Adamson's account of their pioneering conservation project involving three generations of lions in Kenya's Serengeti in the late 1950s/early 1960s. The first volume formed the basis of James Hill's 1966 Oscar-winning movie of the same name starring husband and wife team Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers. So involved did McKenna and Travers become that they founded independently the Born Free Foundation which flourishes to this day.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 43978

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, adamson, joy adamson, elsa, lions, mammals, conservation, kenya, serengeti, born free

ADAMSON Joy

Born Free [with] Living Free [ with] Forever Free. THE ORIGINAL ELSA TRILOGY COMPLETE IN DUSTWRAPPERS

Collins & Harvill Press,, 1960-62. 3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 3 coloured frontispieces, very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout and endpaper maps in the last two volumes, small contemporary signature on front free endpaper of second volume; pictorial cloth, backstrips lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean, crisp set in dustwrapper, the wrappers with two or three small losses and closed tears. The trilogy comprises Born Free. A Lioness of Two Worlds. With Extracts from George Adamson's Letters. Preface by Lord William Percy. Foreword by Captain Charles Pitman, 1960; Living Free. The Story of Elsa and her Cubs. Introduction by Sir Julian Huxley, 1961; Forever Free. Elsa's Pride, 1962. Near fine set of George and Joy Adamson's account of their pioneering conservation project involving three generations of lions in Kenya's Serengeti in the late 1950s/early 1960s. The first volume formed the basis of James Hill's 1966 Oscar-winning movie of the same name starring husband and wife team Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers. So involved did McKenna and Travers become that they founded independently the Born Free Foundation which flourishes to this day. COMPLETE SETS OF FIRST EDITIONS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 47713

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, adamson, joy adamson, elsa, lions, mammals, conservation, kenya, serengeti, born free

ADAMSON Joy

Born Free [with] Living Free [ with] Forever Free. THE ORIGINAL ELSA TRILOGY COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

Collins & Harvill Press,, 1960-62. 3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 3 coloured frontispieces, very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout and endpaper maps in the last two volumes; pictorial cloth, backstrips lettered in black, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The trilogy comprises Born Free. A Lioness of Two Worlds. With Extracts from George Adamson's Letters. Preface by Lord William Percy. Foreword by Captain Charles Pitman, 1960; Living Free. The Story of Elsa and her Cubs. Introduction by Sir Julian Huxley, 1961; Forever Free. Elsa's Pride, 1962. Near fine set of George and Joy Adamson's account of their pioneering conservation project involving three generations of lions in Kenya's Serengeti in the late 1950s/early 1960s. The first volume formed the basis of James Hill's 1966 Oscar-winning movie of the same name starring husband and wife team Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers. So involved did McKenna and Travers become that they founded independently the Born Free Foundation which flourishes to this day. COMPLETE SETS OF FIRST EDITIONS IN THIS CONDITION ARE VERY SCARCE.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 50117

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, adamson, joy adamson, elsa, lions, mammals, conservation, kenya, serengeti, born free

ADAMSON, JOY

Elsa's Pride: Forever Free

London: Armada Lions, 1972. Abridged Edition. Paperback. Abridged edition. Very good condition paperback.. Very Good .

Philip EmeryProfessional seller

Book number: 71464

Keywords: Joy Adamson

ADAMSON, JOY

Forever Free

Armada, 1975. Reprint. Paperback. Light wear to covers. Pages tanned. Good.

The Childrens BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 109535

Catalogue: Animals and Nature

Keywords: Lion

ADAMSON JOY

Forever Free Elsa's Pride

London, England: Collins & Harvill Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. A Very Good+ book with illustated hardcovers. Tightly bound with a bright, unmarked text. A Christmas inscription on the front free end paper. Maps on the end papers. The DJ is good with a sticker scar to the front cover, scuffing and a tear to the bottom front cover edge. "In the sequel to "Born Free" and "Living Free", Joy Adamson concludes the story of Elsa. Following the lioness's death, the author describes how the three cubs, whose lives were threatened, are released into the Serengeti Park to start a new life." ; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 192 pages; Box 19. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

Bytown BookeryProfessional seller

Book number: 16179

Catalogue: Nature, Wildife

Keywords: Mammals Kenya Tanzania Biography Animals Nature

ADAMSON, JOY

Forever Free: Elsa's Pride

Collins, 1975. Paperback. Pages tanned. Good.

The Childrens BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 120730

Catalogue: Animals and Nature

Keywords: Lion

Joy Adamson

Living Free: The Story of Elsa and Her Cubs & Forever Free: Elsa&Apos;S Pride

London, Collins & Harvill Press, 1961-1962. First edition. Cloth. Two smart first edition copies of these illustrated works exploring the author's life raising a lion named Elsa. Two volumes. Written by Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson, an Austria-Hungary-born naturalist, artist and author. These two volumes detail the life of a lioness named Elsa, rescued and raised by the author. After training Elsa to survive and hunt as best as she could, Adamson set her free and Elsa became the first lioness successfully released back into the wild, the first to have contact after release, and the first known released lion to have a litter of cubs. Adamson spent the rest of her life raising money for wildlife, thanks to the popularity of her first book Born Free. This book detailed her time raising Elsa and was followed by Living Free, which is about Elsa as a mother to her cubs, and Forever Free, which tells of the release of the cubs Jespah, Gopa and Little Elsa. This set includes: Living Free: The Story of Elsa and her Cubs, 1961. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seven colour plates, and many black-and-white plates from photographs. Collated complete. With an introduction by Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. Forever Free: Elsa's Pride, 1962. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seven colour plates, and many black-and-white plates from photographs. Collated complete. In the original pictorial paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrappers are also smart with shelf wear and minor chipping to the extremities. Light sunning to the spines and small closed tears to the panel edges. The odd small mark. Some sympathetic repairs or reinforcements made to the internal side with tape. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Very Good.

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 890T53

Catalogue: Natural Sciences

Keywords: Living Free Forever Free Elsa Cubs Forever Free Adamson Not Stated