The Heart of the Hunter

by Laurens Jan Van Der Post

£45 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: The Hogarth Press, 1961. Legends and fables from the African bush FIRST EDITION. Octavo 21 x 14cm , pp.256. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Maurice Wilson. Illustrated with numerous drawings by Maurice Wilson priced 21s. Neat ink name else clean within, jacket a little edge worn, rubbed at joints. Very good. This story collection influenced the James Bond novelist Ian Fleming his books Diamonds are

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