Ilka Chase
Elephants Arrive at Half-Past Five
London, WH Allen, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of this photo-safari through East Africa by Ilka Chase and Dr Norton Brown. The first edition of this work. By Ilka Chase, American actress, radio host, and novelist, and her husband Norton Brown. A fascinating travelogue from New York through Treetops, Amboseli, Zanzibar, Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt, &c. With notes on the beautiful African animals as well as tips for the travellers and a bibliography.Photographs by Norton Brown. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. From the library of Desmond Morris, a zoologist best known for his 1967 sociobiological work "The Naked Ape". Alongside achieving great acclaim as a zoologist, Morris was also known for being an ethnologist and surrealist painter, and for popular television programmes, including "Zoo Time". In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Desmond Morris bookplate to front pastedown. Dust wrapper excellent with only minor staining mark affecting internal only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Norton Brown. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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