[New York]: Holiday House, 1935. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Small quarto with black red and green pictorial boards; black red and green matching pictorial jacket; 64 unnumbered pages; color illustrations; illustrated lining papers; 26 cm Jacket is very good (-) with chipping at edges, small vertical holes to back cover; two ~1 inch closed tears to bottom front edge; a very good copy with edgewear to boards; clean unmarked pages and sturdy binding. Hardcover.
Boomba hunts the leopard that killed the chief's goat. "The narrative is frankly fiction. But its minor incidents and its setting are drawn from first-hand observations in a hinterland village, the counterpart of Mabai, among a people whom we have chosen to term the "Dimbas" lest, giving them their correct name, we be suspected of posing as anthropologists." --Authors.
