Life with Ionides and the other with plain

and the other with plain plates

volume numbered stamped in gilt in one other compartment and with gilt floral design vignette in the remaining four other compartments

This is a very attractive reprint of a work first published by Meinerzhagen in 1954

Translated from the Russian

folio (14 x 11

Life with Ionides and the other with plainPp. ix, 180, 6 black and white photographs, 6 color photographs, color photograph frontispiece. Publishers tan cloth, small ship on cover, lettered in green on spine, pictorial dustjacket, sm 8vo. This memoir recounts the adventures of an Englishwoman in Africa with a famous snake handler. This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his signature on the front endpaper. Publisher The Viking Press Publisher Place