The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
by Corbett, Jim
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG/VG
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Oxford University Press, 1964. Olive green cloth on boards, gilt titles and tiny smudge to rear cover. Edges: foxing. Eps: map of The Area in which the Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag operated between 1918 and 1920; light foxings. Clean contents. Illustrated by line drawings. Binding is As New, albeit only ever so slightly cocked. 191p Dj: clean jacket. Flaps fore--edge with thin vertical yellowing. Spine: very faint sunning, head with teeny chips.. Third Impression, Illustrated Edition. Hb. VG/VG. Illus. by Raymond Sheppard.
Synopsis
Jim Corbett's books are usually collections of stories about how he tracked and shot man-eaters in the Indian Himalayas. The present volume consists of a single story, which is perhaps the most exciting of all Corbett's jungle tales.
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- Bookseller
- BOOKMARK Ltd
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040790
- Title
- The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
- Author
- Corbett, Jim
- Illustrator
- Raymond Sheppard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- Third Impression, Illustrated Edition
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1964
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
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- VG/VG
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- Cloth
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Gilt
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- New
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