Lions: King of Beasts By Lee Server
Lions: King of Beasts
An Authoritative and Lavishly Illustrated History, Cultural Iconography, and Behavioral Study of Earth's Premier Apex Predator
An Authoritative and Lavishly Illustrated History, Cultural Iconography, and Behavioral Study of Earth's Premier Apex Predator
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Lions: King of Beasts
- Author: Lee Server
- Publisher: New Line Books Ltd, New York / London
- Publication Date: 2005 (First Edition Cycle)
- ISBN-13: 9781597641319 (ISBN-10: 1597641316)
- Edition Details: First Edition. An important, scarce natural history reference work.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium glazed pictorial paper boards (hardcover); complete with original matching illustrated dust jacket.
- Physical Format: Oversized Slim Quarto (4to), 80 pages. Masterfully illustrated with a vibrant mix of full-colour and historical monochrome photographic plates, archival artistic prints, and range charts on premium high-gloss paper stock.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Fine (F) / Near Fine Mint
- Exterior / Boards: The hardcovers are in pristine, flawless condition—perfectly flat, rigid, and completely square. The corners are razor-sharp with no trace of friction or bumping. The spine is completely rigid, upright, and undamaged.
- Interior: The text block is robustly bound, tight, and remarkably fresh. Internal high-gloss pages and vivid full-bleed color layouts are crisp, immaculate, bright white, and entirely free of reader annotations, marks, highlighting, or dog-ears.
- Provenance: Pristine state; completely free of previous owner signatures, institutional stamps, gift inscriptions, or dealer pencil marks.
- Protection: Housed and beautifully preserved inside a professional, archival-grade Mylar / cellophane protective overwrap.
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The Dust Jacket: Fine (F)
- Condition: A brilliant, showroom-quality example. Completely full, bright, and unclipped, perfectly mirroring the crisp underlying boards. Entirely free of fading, chips, surface friction, or edge tearing.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published by New Line Books, Lions: King of Beasts is a comprehensive, beautifully structured tribute to the world’s most iconic apex predator. Written by authoritative non-fiction writer Lee Server, the volume steps away from basic safari overviews to craft a multi-layered study of Panthera leo, exploring both its biological reality and its legendary place in human consciousness.
The monograph is seamlessly organized to examine the lion through three distinct lenses: its evolutionary history through the ages, its profound symbolic and heraldic importance to human civilizations across millennia, and a detailed field account of how the lion survives in its remaining wild habitats today. Backed by brilliant full-color action photography and historic black-and-white plates, this detailed natural history reference reveals the lion's exact place in the natural order. Very scarce in this immaculate condition, this beautifully protected volume serves as an essential addition for serious collectors of wildlife ecology and African zoological literature.
Author Profile: Lee Server
Lee Server is an acclaimed, highly versatile American author, biographer, and cultural historian. Renowned for his meticulous archival research and highly engaging, narrative-driven prose style, Server has authored several definitive, best-selling books spanning natural history, cinematic biographies, and pop-culture evolution. His capability to transform heavy historical data into accessible, visually arresting literature makes his out-of-print reference monographs highly sought after by collectors and specialist booksellers alike.
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