THE ELEPHANT STONE. By John Alfred Jordan as told to George Leith.

1959 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Pp128. B/w photographs & line drawings. Red boards, spine titled in gilt.

The autobiography of "Mongaso, the man who is always moving." Jordan was an adventurer and hunter who travelled extensively throughout Africa in the early years of the twentieth century. He was obsessed with the search for the Elephant Stone, a "precious gem to be had (so the natives said) from the skull of a tuskless bull elephant."