First Edition. Some toning to gutters, otherwise a square, tight and unmarked copy with text which appears unread. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar.

First Edition. Some toning to gutters, otherwise a square, tight and unmarked copy with text which appears unread. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar.

Fiction. 8vo. Signed First edition (1977. ) Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo

Fiction. 8vo. Signed First edition (1977. ) Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 217 pages. Signed on dedication page by author, "And for Pete Biro-You should have had this book six years ago-I hope it hasn't dated too badly. We'll have to cover the Safari Rally together some day & I'll show you the real-life equivalent of these places. Your old racing buddy Robert F. Jones Oct. 16, 1983 Ovenbrook W. Rupert, VT." Pete Biro (1933-2018) was a legendary motorsports photographer and magician. Robert F. Jones (1934-2002) novels contained fantastic and or surrealistic elements, causing some critics to label his work Slipstream. In The Diamond Bogo, while hunting a rhinoceros he discovers a surviving lost race colony of homo erectus. The book is in very good condition with very slight shelf wear. Interior is clean and tight. The dust jacket is in good condition with one 1/16" closed tear to top on front panel, one1/4" tear to bottom of front panel and one 1/16" tear to top of rear panel. Beige spine/black red text. #031382.

Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($8.95), generally toned. Black boards

Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($8.95), generally toned. Black boards with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, former owner's information on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. The story of a white hunter's last hunt for a Cape buffalo in "a changing Africa."