Author: CORBETT Jim Title: Man-Eaters of Kumaon. With a Foreword by Lord Linlithgow. [First BS Edition]. FIRST BOOK SOCIETY EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Oxford University Press, Oxford,, 1946. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, 3 plates and endpaper maps; orange cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published simultaneously with 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. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Keywords: field sports, big game hunting, corbett, jim corbett, kumaon, tigers, man-eaters
Price: GBP 94.00 = appr. US$ 134.23 Seller: Island Books
- Book number: 50179
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