Elsa

New York: Pantheon Books, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Slim quarto [29 cm] Forest green paper over boards with a black ink stamped vignette of a lion cub in a tire on the front board. The spine is slightly rolled back. In a very sharp dust jacket, with minor rubbing to the edges, and two shallow tears (one open and one closed) along the bottom edge. The story of Elsa, the Kenya lioness. Brings together many of the pictures that were not included in Adamson's earlier work "Born Free."

A first edition in a bright dust jacket.