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[MODERN FIRST EDITIONS] Group of first editions in dust jackets. Comprising: BAUM, JAMES E. Unknown Ethiopia. New Light on Darkest Abyssinia. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1935]. First American edition. Frontispiece and plates after photographs, half-title. Jacket toned with minor staining and small loss to front panel, interior fine; WALDECK, THODORE J. Treks Across the Veldt. New York: The Viking Press, 1944. First edition. Vignette title page, plates after drawings, half-title. Price-clipped jacket toned with minor losses to extremities, endpapers toned with bookplate and ownership inscription to front free endpaper; BILLE, G. AHLEFELDT. Tandalla. A Danish Game Warden's Study of Native and Wild Life in Kenya and Tanganyika. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951. First English edition. Full-page map, plates after photographs, half-title. Jacket a bit rubbed and edgeworn, ink stamp to front flap, ownership signature to front free endpaper; BARKER, R. DE LA BERE. Rufiji. London: Robert Hale Limited, 1956. First edition. Frontispiece and plates after photographs, half-title. Jacket a bit worn with loss to head of spine, booksellers ticket to front pastedown, ownership signature to front free endpaper; and POLLARD, JOHN. Africa for Adventure. London: Robert Hale Limited, [1961]. First edition. Plates after photographs, half-title. Price-clipped jacket with some edgewear and loss to lower panel, ink stamp to front free endpaper. All in publisher's cloth and dust jackets. The lot five titles. (5) C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson