1945 Animals Are My Hobby

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce, With Dustwrapper

First edition, very scarce.

In the original unclipped dust wrapper.

Illustrations include a frontispiece and sixteen full-page photographs.

'Animals Are My Hobby' is Lintz's memoir about her experience breeding Saint Bernards, leading to an interest in raising chimpanzees and gorillas. Lintz owned two gorillas named Buddy and Massa, as well as an assortment of chimpanzees and orangutans. Though she taught them to wear clothes, eat at the table, and generally do what children do in an entertaining fashion, Lintz asserted that her primary reason for owning these animals was to show 'a sympathy for creatures that in many respects come very close to human beings'. 

Gertrude Davies Lintz (1880-1968) was a English-American dog breeder and socialite who was well known for keeping exotic animals in her Brooklyn home. 

This memoir eventually inspired the film 'Buddy', which was released in 1997. 

Collated, complete.