Author: Andrews, Roy Chapman
Title: Quest of the Snow Leopard.
Description: New York: Viking Press, 1955. First edition. Pp. 190; 17 illustrations from drawings by Kurt Wiese. Publisher's original tan cloth, lettered in red on the spine and with illustration in red on the front cover, illustrated endpapers, color pictorial dust jacket featuring a snow leopard, 8vo. This is a fascinating fictionalized account of a zoological expedition that Dr. Andrews made in 1916-17 to the little known province of Yunnan, in southwest China, and to the Tibetan frontier (from the jacket flap). No ownership marks. Rare work especially in a complete dust jacket. Front cover and spine of the cloth binding shows water stains, rear panel of dust jacket lightly foxed; this is a good copy only in a complete and attractive dust jacket..

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