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ONE OF ONLY TWENTY-SIX SIGNED COPIES KUNZ, GEORGE FREDERICK. Ivory and the Elephant. The Belgian Congo Edition. Profusion of plates, including 4
ONE OF ONLY TWENTY-SIX SIGNED COPIES KUNZ, GEORGE FREDERICK. Ivory and the Elephant. The Belgian Congo Edition. Profusion of plates, including 4 folding, and numerous text illustrations. 8vo, original buckram with spine and front cover labels, darkened, usual deterioration of spine label, here affecting head and foot, cover intact but for scuffing; wear to preliminaries, including split before half-title, front blank and edges of frontispiece reinforced, scattered soiling; rest clean and a good, solid copy. Garden City, 1916
- Notes: one of only twenty-six signed copies of the rare belgian congo edition. This presented to Professor Richard S. Lull of Yale University. This special printing contains an altered title-page to reflect the edition, printed in turquoise, and an additional tipped-in colophon leaf printing all names ending in Kunz's, with his signature. "The scarcest of Kunz's major works with information that does not appear elsewhere in the gemological literature"--Sinkankas 3702-3.
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