The Lion by Joseph Kessel [U.S. FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1959 • Knopf

THE LION (LE LION) by Joseph Kessel translated from the French by Peter Green

U.S. FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1959] ALFRED A. KNOPF

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

A few torn edges to an otherwise clean and in tact dust jacket; now housed in a new archival jacket protector.

Book itself is excellent; looks and reads like new w. a hint of tanning. 

A vibrant, swift, and suspenseful novel in which love, hate and savagery clash inevitably and then explode.

Patricia Bullit is a child of two worlds. In her trim navy-blue dress, studying her lessons and moving in her parents' world, she is an ordinary ten year old, with ordinary tastes and interests; in her faded dungarees, slipping silently and freely among the great beasts in unexplored, forbidden parts of a vast Kenya game preserve, she enters a world utterly foreign to any ordinary person. 

Slowly at first, and with gathering speed and violence, her two worlds overlap more and more dangerously, and deeply moving drama of love and growing up is played to its terrific climax.