Man-Eaters of Kumaon
CORBETT, Jim
With a Foreword by Lord Linlithgow. [First UK Edition.]
THE ORIGINAL EDITION IF FULL MOROCCO WITH SLIP-CASE
Published: Oxford University Press Oxford, 1946
Stock code: 51438
Price: £495.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, 3 plates and endpaper maps; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, in custom-made-slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
orange cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Elegant copy of the first UK edition of this big-game classic, first published in India in 1944 with profits devoted to blinded servicemen of WWII. Corbett's collection of true tales from the Raj is an undisputed keystone of big game hunting. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.