Jim Corbett - Man-Eaters of Kumaon

Oxford , Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1945. Cloth. A bright second edition of Jim Corbett's popular account of hunting Bengal tigers in Indian leopards, complete with its vanishingly scarce dust wrapper. First-hand account of Jim Corbett's experiences hunting man-eating Bengal tigers and Indian leopards in the Kumaon region of India in the early twentieth century. The best known work by this author, containing ten stories of tracking and shooting man-eating tigers, and incidental information on flora, fauna, and village life. Both first and second editions are rare and the dust wrappers exceptionally so. The second edition of this work, complete with its scarce, unclipped dust wrapper designed by John Butterworth. With frontispiece and five full page photographic plates in black and white. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear, bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities of boards. Dust wrapper unclipped and sound with shelf wear, chipping to head and tail of spine, general light soiling. Mary Hunter's ex libris bookplate to dedication leaf, inscribed 'To Mary with many happy returns of the day. From Joan and Elizabeth.' Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.

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