PATTERSON, John Henry (1867-1947). The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, London, August 1910, large 8vo, original pictorial buckram gilt. Reprint. INSCRIBED in pencil by Anthony Eden, "This book belonged to my younger brother, Nicholas. A."

PATTERSON, John Henry (1867-1947).  The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures ... with a Foreword by Frederick Courteney Selous. London: Macmillan and Co., August 1910. Large 8vo (217 x 140mm). Half title, half tone frontispiece and illustrations, map, one-page of publisher's advertisements at the end (some very light mainly marginal spotting and staining, marginal tear to one leaf). Original dark blue pictorial buckram gilt (extremities lightly rubbed, without the dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate); Nicholas Eden (pencil signature ("William Nicholas Eden") on front free endpaper). Reprint. The work was first published in 1907. Czech pp.213-4. INSCRIBED in pencil by Anthony Eden on the front free endpaper, "This book belonged to my younger brother, Nicholas. A[nthony]." Midshipman Nicholas Eden was killed on board HMS Indefatigable during the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916: he was just 16. Anthony Eden's elder brother, John, had been killed in action at the age of 26 in Belgium on 17 October 1914.