The Lion
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
Price: $250.00
Hardcover. Book club edition. Translated by Peter Green. Slightly bumped corners and spine ends, else near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, creasing and tiny tears. Inscribed by the author. A novel of a young girl's friendship with a lion, set on a game preserve in Kenya, and basis for the 1962 film starring William Holden, Trevor Howard, Capucine and a young Pamela Franklin. Uncommon inscribed.
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