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GREAT ADVENTURE BOOKS OF ALL TIME BY LEGENDARY JIM CORBETT [SET OF 5 ]


Estimate: Rs 1,00,000-Rs 1,25,000 ( $1,565-$1,955 )


a)
TITLE: Man-Eaters of Kumaon
AUTHOR: Jim Corbett
PUBLISHER: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press
PLACE: Madras
YEAR: 1944
EDITION: First
BINDING: Hardcover
NO.OF PAGES: pp.228
SIZE:
Height: 21.7 cm
Width: 14.6 cm
Depth: 1.5 cm

TRUE FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC TITLE, PUBLISHED BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS IN INDIA. THIS IS OLD-FASHIONED STORYTELLING AT ITS BEST. NAMED TO NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'S 100 GREATEST ADVENTURE BOOKS OF ALL TIME.

b)
TITLE: Jungle Lore
AUTHOR: Jim Corbett
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1953
EDITION: First
BINDING: Original green cloth binding with original pictorial dust jacket
NO.OF PAGES: pp. 168 + 6 illustrations
SIZE:
Height: 20.2 cm
Width: 14 cm
Depth: 1.2 cm

TRUE FIRST EDITION. RARE

c)
TITLE: Tree Tops
AUTHOR: Jim Corbett
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1955
BINDING: Green cloth bindingtitle on spine
NO.OF PAGES: pp.30
SIZE:
Height: 20.2 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Depth: 0.5 cm

FIRST UK EDITION.

d)
TITLE: The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
AUTHOR: Jim Corbett
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1948
BINDING: Hard cover, original green cloth binding whit dust jacket title on front and spine
NO.OF PAGES: pp.185
SIZE:
Height: 20.2 cm
Width: 14 cm
Depth: 2 cm

FIRST UK EDITION.

e)
TITLE:Man Eaters of Kumaon
AUTHOR: Jim Corbett
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1944
BINDING: Hard cover, original green cloth binding whit dust jacket title on front and spine
NO.OF PAGES: pp.185
SIZE:
Height:21.7 cm
Width: 14.6 cm
Depth: 1.5 cm

FIRST UK EDITION.

Lieutenant-Colonel Jim Corbett was an Indian-born Englishman who became legendary for his ability to track and kill man-eating tigers and leopards - a valuable skill in aregion where a single tiger could kill as many as 400 people. must be as well known through his writing as he was in villages of the Kumaon Hills of the Himalayas in the far north of what was then the United Provinces of India. Tigers, turned to man-eaters by wounds or hunger, were the scourge and terror of the tiny villages and jungles in the hills. District Officers turned in desperation to the hunter and sportsman Lt. Col. Corbett to rid the area of the menace, and they were quickly followedby the villagers themselves. Corbett's love of nature, knowledge of jungle ways, and his keen observation of wild life all combine to make this book one of the classics of its type. The book is introduced by Sir Maurice Hallett, Governor of the United Provinces, and Prefaced by Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, 1936-43.