The End of the Game.

BEARD, Peter Hill.

$9,800.00

Item Number: 148059

New York: The Viking Press, 1965.

First edition of the photographer’s first book with over 75 black-and-white and color photographic plates. Tall quarto, original ivory cloth. Uniquely inscribed by Peter Beard across four pages, including original artwork. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Special Delivery To Renny & Lucas H. from your pal Peter (Beard) Hog Ranch Box 4191 Nairobi 1960’s and beyond with his footprints and drawings. On the half-title page Beard has in original photographs and made annotations and below the author’s note an original photograph of his daughter “Zara B. Lamu Jan 1990.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. A unique example.

On its publication in 1965, Beard's "book was immediately acclaimed, with not one but two glowing reviews in The New York Times In addition to being singularly beautiful (with its luscious printing and scrapbook aesthetic), The End of the Game, is thoughtful as well. Long taken as a seminal book on wildlife conservation, it is actually an epic visual poem on the subject of loss" (Roth, 170; Open Book, 208).