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155 VAN LAWICK-GOODALL, Jane. “ The Behaviour of Free- living Chimpanzees in the Gombe Stream Reserve.” [published in:] Animal Behaviour Monographs , Volume 1, Part 3. London: Baillière, Tindall & Cassell, 1968 Square octavo. Original pale green wrappers printed in dark green. 12 mon- ochrome plates from photographs, line drawings and statistical diagrams in the text. Spine just lightly sunned, else fine copy. first edition of the author’s phd thesis, completed in 1965, expanded for publication with material based on further re- search conducted in 1967. Goodall’s thesis details her observations of the Kasakela chimpanzee community in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, primarily carried out between 1960 and 1965. She “redefined humanity” in her early works by detailing evidence of both tool usage and emotional relationships in chimpanzee com- munities; both traits previously held in the scientific community as solely belonging to humans (Primatologist John R. Napier quoted in Peterson, p. 286). Goodall revolutionised the study of primates, giving the chimpanzees she studied names (such as Mr Worzle, David Greybeard, and Goblin) in place of numbers, and spending many more hours in the wild interacting with the animals than pre- viously customary. Her methods of observation, which included providing feeding stations for the chimpanzees, were initially criti- cised due their perceived potential to alter natural behaviour, how- ever it is now commonly agreed that such initiatives were crucial for gaining previously inaccessible insight into the chimpanzees’s conduct. Her observations attracted the attention of the National Geographic , who commissioned an article on her work at Gombe (published as My Life with the Wild Chimpanzees in 1963) and sent the Dutch filmmaker, Hugo Van Lawick, to document her studies (they married in 1964, Goodall publishing under her married name for the duration of their marriage). This work is scarce commercially, with no copies traced at auction, and provides a wonderful early example of the influential academic’s work. Peterson, Dale, Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man , Houghton Mifflin, 2006. £1,875 [125628]
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first edition, signed limited issue, number 48 of 350 copies signed by the author and photographer, and printed on large paper and extra-illustrated with 90 images , instead of the 70 in the trade issue. This copy is accompanied by the gravure signed by Ulmann of the plate on p. 31, which, although not called for in the colophon, was supposed to be included. Of the few copies we have seen which retain the slipcase, about half have evidence of water damage and give credence to the widely held idea that a flood in the photogra- pher’s storeroom destroyed many copies. This collaboration by Ulmann and Peterkin focuses on the lives of second- and third-gen- eration “free blacks” in the Gullah region of South Carolina. “Peter- kin, a popular novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929, was born in South Carolina and raised by a black nursemaid who taught her the Gullah dialect before she learned standard English. She mar- ried the heir to Lang Syne, one of the state’s richest plantations, which became the setting for Roll, Jordan, Roll ” (Roth). Parr & Badger I, 135; Roth, 101 Books , p. 78. £32,500 [109882]
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