ELEPHANT. By Commander David Enderby Blunt, R.N. (Retd.). With a foreword by The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Lonsdale, K.G., G.C.V.O., D.L.

# 1933 1st American edition. 8vo (150 x 232mm). Ppxvi,260. B/w photograph plates. Stone grey cloth, spine titled in white, white elephant head vignette on upper board.

# One of the classic studies of African elephants and elephant hunting. "Blunt was an elephant control officer in Tanganyika, hunting primarily in the Lindi Province. He details the natural history and biology of the elephant, relates his experiences as a cultivation officer and provides an excellent chapter on past and present elephant hunters." Czech. "...probably the most encyclopaedic book on elephants." Melland.