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First Edition "Mauled by a Tiger" with Additional Hunting Books
Item Details
| Title and Author/Editor | Tiger Days (The Hon. James W. Best, Mauled by a Tiger: Encounters in the Indian Jungles (Arthur W. Strachan, 1931), 1933), Five Years of a Hunter’s Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. With Notices of the Native Tribes, and Anecdotse of the Chase of the Lion, Elephant, Hippopotamus, Giraffe, Rhinoceros, etc.: Volume II (Roualeyn Gordon Cumming, 1850), Hunting Memories of Many Lands (Sir Thos. H. Grattan Esmonde), Jungle Giants (Newell Bent, 1936), Kirk on the Zambesi: A Chapter of African History (R. Coupland, 1928) |
| Genre | Hunting and Fishing, Sports, Crafts and Hobbies, Biography, Autobiography and Memoirs |
| Illustrator | Various |
| Type of Illustration | From paintings and photographs, Halftone, Fold-out map, Offset Lithograph |
| Binding | Cloth on board |
| Edition Statement | First Edition |
| Ex-Libris | Jungle Giants is an ex. Andrew Mellon Library book. |
| Number of Books | 6 |
| Additional Information | The first edition Mauled by a Tiger features tipped-in color illustrations from miniature paintings on ivory by Strachan and are mounted on black mats. |
Condition
- wear to covers with fraying, soiling, bumped corners and rubbed edges; cracked hinges; foxing and fading; writing/bookplate to endpapers; one ex. libris; one ex. lib.; tanning to text edges.
Dimensions
6.5" W x 9.25" H x 6.5" D
- measures group.
Item #
ITMG271197
