Man-Eaters of Kumaon
CORBETT, Jim
With a Foreword by Lord Linlithgow. [First UK Edition].
THE FIRST UK EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Oxford University Press Oxford, 1946
Stock code: 50142
Price: £160.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, 3 plates and endpaper maps; orange cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned on rear panel.
This 'wartime economy' version is the first English 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. THE UK EDITION IS FAR SCARCER THAN THE US EDITION.