Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1983. The uncorrected proof copy of Fossey's account of her thirteen years spent in the company of endangered mountain gorillas in Africa. At the time of publication, only 242 mountain gorillas survived on Earth; Fossey herself was murdered in Rwanda two years after the book's publication, presumably by poachers. The film version of Gorillas in the Mist was released in 1988. This proof reproduces holograph corrections on several dozen pages, and it differs from the published text both at these marked places and others. Mild cover spotting and spine fading; near fine in wrappers. An uncommon proof of a wildlife classic. [#033338] SOLD