C J P Ionides (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st printing. Unmarked copy with a bit of spotting and toning to page edges. Quarter grey cloth binding. 248pp. Photos. Dust jacket has some foxing and toning, and retains original price on front flap. Offered in a new mylar cover. -- Ionides spent most of a lifetime in the solitudes of East Africa where he was a hunter, conservationist, naturalist, and snake-catcher. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1965. 254 pages. photos. Ionides tells of his life in Africa as a conservationist, hunter and naturalist, and how he learned to capture venomous snakes (in particular, mambas and vipers). Appendix of notes on rare mammal species collected by Ionides. Nice copy, dust jacket with very minimal wear. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Biography of C.J.P. Ionides, Tanganyika Game Warden, Poacher, Big Game Hunter and a world renowned Herpetologist who spent a lifetime in the remote Tanganyikan bush collecting TENS OF THOUSANDS OF deadly snakes like Green and Black mambas, Puff Adder, Gaboon Viper, Egyptian Cobra and various Spitting Cobras for various zoos. His fabulous collection of record trophy animals are still displayed at the Nairobi Museum. First edition, published in may 1960. The book is inscribed and hand signed by C.J.P. Ionides in green ink on front end page.Unusually rare signed copy.

1st edition chipped dust jacket Very Good octavo. 222pp., b/w pls., Ownership signature & some loss to dust jacket o/w VG.