Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780195622577ISBN:019562257X
Description: Sheppard, Raymond. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Remainder mark. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 190 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: 1st ed
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, London
Date Published: 1954
Description: Used-Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Owner's name & gift inscrip on ffep; binding tight; green cloth faded on spine, with some wear at head. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: hardbound
Publisher: Oxford University Press, London
Date Published: 1954
Description: b&w plates. Very Good in Good-Very Good dustwrapper. 8vo. Dustwrapper. 197pp. 1st edition of this classic account of the author's experiences hunting man-eating tigers among the people and jungles of India; b&w plate illustrations; green cloth boards with growling tiger motif in gilt to front cover; this copy has one small bookshop label to front pastedown, foxing to endpapers, prelims and text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly rubbed, 1cm loss to head of spine, price ... read more
Edition: Second Impression
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1954
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Second Impression 1954. A lovely coy in very good condition in a very good unclipped dust jacket. Photographs available upon request. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, London
Date Published: 1954
Description: Good in Good dust jacket. Text is clean. Ex-library copy with library marks on front/rear endpapers/pastedowns and title page. Cover shows wear, rubbing along bottom edges of front/rear covers. Dust jacket shows wear, with some wrinkling to back panel of DJ. Call tag on spine. Slight slant to spine. 1955 second printing.; Ex-Library; 197 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1954
Description: Hardback. Reading Copy Only. Ex-Library Copy with the usual faults, card pockets, ink stamps, etc. Tight sound copy with average wear in dustjacket. read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, London
Date Published: 1955
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-8"-9" Tall. 2nd printing trade edition hard cover with dust jacket, VG/VG. Prior owner's name and address neatly inked on front pastedown. Old news-clipping affixed to rear paste-down. Otherwise unmarked, very clean and well cared for copy. Dust jacket slightly rubbed, neatly four-corner trimmed at flaps, though retains original price. Clear tape reinforcement to heel. Offered in new mylar cover. 197pp., black and white photographs. Nice copy. read more
Edition: Second Impression
Binding: Green hardback cloth cover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
Date Published: 1954
Description: VG: in very good condition with dustwrapper. Wrapper darkened. Gilt tiger motif still bright on front board. Previous owner's signature and book plate on fep. 197pp: 200mm x 140mm (8" x 6") read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York and London
Date Published: 1955
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Describes the tracking and shooting of man-eating tigers and leopards in the jungles and foothills of India. Brown boards with black tiger head blind stamp, 197 pp., 10 b/w photos, with unclipped illustrated jacket. Some lower edge wear, previous dealer's price in tiny numerals on rear pastedown, very clean text, tight binding, nice jacket with very small closed tear on spine. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, London
Date Published: 1957
Description: Raymond Sheppard. Very Good/Good + Some rubbing to DJ edges and corenrs. Small chip to upper left hand corner (on front board / spine edge) Internally clean, tight and bright. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press,, London:
Date Published: 1954
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First edition thus. Very good in a very good (pen mark through price on front flap, age toning) dust jacket.; 197 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Culler & Sons
Date Published: 1994
Description: Very Good+ with no dust jacket. #934 of 1500 copies. Former owner's small writing on ffep.; The Jim Corbett collection; 9" tall; 204 pages. read more
Description: The Quality Book Club, London, 1955. Hard Cover, 8vo, First Thus. Book Condition: Good. Light edgewear/ Light foxing. Boards and interior very clean. Dust Jacket: Good. Edgewear. Small tears edges and 1cm chip back cover. read more
Binding: HARDCOVER
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1954
Description: VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD jacket. Second impression. Very clean pages and endpapers. Cover and DJ protected by plastic sleeve, only wear is to head and tail of spine where there is a small chip. World of Books makes a contribution to the British Heart Foundation for every book sold. The BHF is the UK's leading heart research charity. read more
Edition: SECOND PRINTING
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University, New York
Date Published: 1955
Description: Photographs. VERY GOOD. NO DUST JACKET. Marbled paper over boards; edgewear and rubbing to covers; previous owner's name and date on endpaper; light foxing to endpapers; pages are clean; binding tight; read more
Edition: First Edition 2nd Impression
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, London
Date Published: 1954
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 6 ¾"-9¾" Tall. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's green cloth with gilt title lettering to spine in a Good Dust-Jacket, with a few small nicks and tears to the outer edges of the wrapper and with one 2.5'' closed tear to edge of the lower cover and one small 5mm chip to centre of spine. Price clipped and with one previous inscription present to the ffep. Clean copy internally, 8vo 197pp First Edition 2nd Impression. read more
Edition: 2nd Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York and London
Date Published: 1955
Description: Good + in Good + jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" Tall. Ex-lib pocket and stamps on fep. " this new book does more than maintain the high standard of that enthralling classic for Jim Corbett has kept his best story of all for the long concluding chapter telling in 'The Talla Des Man-Eater' how he hunted that tiger during his own 'bad time' when he went out on what he feared might be a fatal last test of skill and endurance. read more
"This is a really riveting book. Jim Corbett recounts several man-eating tigers and leopards that he sorted out in the border area between India and Nepal in the early 20th century."
"Jim Corbett is the quintessional English story teller and Shikari...who hunted and lived in India the same time period as my grand father whom my brother said met/knew Jim Corbett."
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