[DU CHAILLU, PAUL] Vaucaire, Michel; Watts, Emily Pepper (Translator)

Paul du Chaillu: Gorilla Hunter, Being the Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Paul du Chaillu

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930.

First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. viii, 322 pp, including a chronology of du Chaillu's life. Original decorative cloth with gold paper label on spine. Decorative endpapers, color frontispiece. Bump to one corner, mild spine slant. No dust jacket. French anthropologist Paul du Chaillu was the first to describe the Pygmy people of Central Africa, as well as the first modern outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas.

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