Man-Eaters of Kumaon
( Raymond SHEPPARD, illus. ) CORBETT, Jim
Illustrations by Raymond Sheppard.
FIRST UK ILLUSTRATED EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Oxford University Press Oxford, 1952
Stock code: 48598
Price: £94.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, front paste-down lightly spotted; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly rubbed at extremities and with loss (affecting lettering) at head of backstrip.
First illustrated edition of Corbett's collection of true tales from the Raj, an undisputed keystone of big game hunting first published in India in 1944. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.