James L. Clark — Trails of the Hunted

London, Chatto and Windus, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Clark's study of African, Asian and North American animals, illustrated with photographic plates. First Edition. Featuring a photographic frontispiece. 'With forty-seven plates&apos. James L. Clark (1883–1969), was a distinguished explorer and scientist of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and a former president of the Campfire Club of America. He was co-director of the Morden-Clark Asiatic expedition and for a number of years he was with Carl Akeley in Africa. As an expert taxidermist he was responsible for some of the most notable groups that are on display in New York. He was also a sculptor and made some distinguished studies of wild animals. In a cloth binding. Externally, sound with some marks to the boards and sunning to the spine. Some scattered light foxing prominent to the text-block edges. Small tear to the lower edge of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages and plates are generally bright and clean. Good . Ill.: Unamed. Good .