The Tsavo Story. Sheldrick, Daphne. Sporting

London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1973., 1973. Good. - Octavo, 8-3/8 inches high by 5 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine, laid into a pictorial price-clipped dust wrapper. The covers are bumped. The edges of the soiled dust jacket are chipped. 288 pages, illustrated with pictorial endpapers, a color frontispiece, 4 maps and photographs in color and black & white. Very good in a good dust wrapper. First edition. From the library of professional hunter Bill Ryan, signed by him on the half-title with his Nairobi address. In a tribute to Bill Ryan (c.1908-1985) in Gamecoin Magazine, Chuck Ennis writes of him: "Bill was one of Kenya's best liked and well-known professional hunters". Bill Ryan arrived in Kenya from South Africa when he was 11 years old. He quickly became a crack shot and an expert horseman. He spoke several African languages fluently. After serving in World war II h went into the saw milling business. In 1954 he took up professional hunting full time. He was eagerly sought after and escorted many celebrities throughout East Africa - including Ernest Hemingway, Clark Gable, Gary Cooper Bing Crosby and others. During the last 14 years of his life he resided in Nairobi and Malindi with his dear friend "Bimbetta", the widow of Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh, Virginia.