Hardcover with near fine unclipped dust jacket.  Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's bookplate on fep. Newspaper article left between pgs. 60-61 has left a shadow but remaining pages (308) are clean, bright and tight with deckled edges. Published by John Day Co., 1955 this is a true story of an American man and his family in Africa in the 1950s.  "I wanted to preserve the memory of a friendship which cut across barriers of race and culture that in our world all too often divide man from man".