Item #116404 Men of the Jungle. Ion L. IDRIESS.
Men of the Jungle

Men of the Jungle

Sydney, Angus and Robertson, [September] 1932 [first edition].

Octavo, [xii], 266, [2] (colophon, verso blank), [2], 26 ('List of Publications', dated 9.9.32) pages plus 9 pages of plates and front endpaper maps. The foreword (page [v], verso blank) is a cancel.

Light red cloth; spine slightly cockled and faded to orange; boards slightly bowed; a very good copy (internally excellent).

The illustrations are from photographs by W.H. Dudley Le Souef (they were originally published in his book, 'Wild Life in Australia', circa 1910). The author's sixth book, an account of his pre-WW1 mining days on 'the northern Peninsula goldfields' in the hinterland between Cairns and Cooktown. Burnett 6 ('Described by Idriess as his favourite book'); Feain and Aroney, page 76 (noting only 2000 copies of the first edition were printed).

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