Author: CORBETT Jim
Title: Man-Eaters of Kumaon. Illustrations by Raymond Sheppard. FIRST UK ILLUSTRATED EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Oxford University Press, Oxford,, 1952. 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.

Keywords: field sports, big game hunting, corbett, jim corbett, kumaon, tigers, man-eaters


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