LOT 3098
23rd July 2025
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LOT 3098
AFRICA. – Rupert FURNEAUX. The Murder of Lord Erroll. London: Stevens & Sons Limited, 1961. First edition, 8vo (214 x 132mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket (price-clipped, browning and spotting verso). Note: as a glamorous member of the Kenyan ‘Happy Valley’ set, the murder of Lord Erroll provoked much speculation, and continues to do so. Not least, it inspired James Fox’s book ‘White Mischief’, which was adapted into the 1988 film directed by Michael Radford. – And a further fourteen volumes relating mostly to Africa (including Harry Dean’s ‘Umbala’, 1929, 8vo, and Dugald Campbell’s ‘Blazing Trails in Bantuland’, [1933], 8vo, and H.W. Lytle and John Dillon’s ‘From Dance Hall to White Slavery, the World’s Greatest Tragedy’, [1912], 8vo, and E. Alexander Powell’s ‘The Map That Is Half Unrolled’, 1925, 8vo) (15).
Estimate: £70 – £100
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