FOSSEY, Dian. Gorillas in the Mist.

(London): Hodder & Stoughton, 1983.  First edition.  Hardcover.  326 pages plus 16 pages of colour photographs and 64 pages of black and white photographs. Fossey’s detailed account of her years of fieldwork studying mountain gorillas in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda, combining primatology, conservation advocacy, and personal memoir. A landmark work in wildlife conservation literature and the basis for the 1988 film of the same name.  A very good copy, some foxing to edges of endpapers, fore edge, in a very good dust jacket.