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Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. With 48 illus and a photogravure portait of the author as frontispiece. ix, [i], 408pp. 8vo ((8-½x5-¾"). With amazing reports of pig-sticking and hunting leopards, bears, tigers, elephants, and crocodiles. She went to Peshawar, the Khyber Pass, Kashmir, the Himalayas, the Deccan, and Ootacamund. Savory was English sportswoman who became a best selling author. Savory took advantage of the rare opportunity for a woman to hunt in India. She was invited by a local maharajah to participate in a pig stick & also hunted for bear, tahr and tiger. "With an eye toward travel, sport, and adventure, Savory arrived in Bombay, proceeded to Agra and was invited to participate in pig sticking by the maharajah, an episode in which one of her female companions was unhorsed and nearly savaged by a boar. Her caravan continued to Chamba, then into Kashmir where bear and tahr were hunted. She proceeded south into the Deccan Plateau to the region near Seunderabad where she bagged three tigers from machans amidst sweltering conditions." (Czech). Czech, Asia, p. 18 Publisher's red cloth, stamped in fgilt. Fine With 48 illus and a photogravure portait of the author as frontispiece. ix, [i], 408pp. 8vo ((8-½x5-¾")
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$254.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition hardback, 1900, with no jacket. In overall good used condition with some minor signs of age, handling and storage - blue cloth boards rubbed and marked, corners rounded. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read - frontis portrait has been removed; no annotations or inscriptions; tanning to rough-trimmed page-ends (gilt upper-edge of page-block retains some lustre) but text and plates bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.
Seller: Hall of Books, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Savory, Isabel. A Sportswoman in India. Hutchinson & Co. and J.B. Lippincott Company, 1900.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Large thick octavo green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt. Illustrated with 48 full-page plates from photographs and a photogravure portrait of the author. Subtitled, "Personal Adventures and Experiences of Travel in Known and Unknown India". Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else a fine, bright copy. Scarce, especially in this condition.
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$512.53 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. ix, 408. with half-title. title in red & black. photogravure frontis. portrait of the author & 48 halftone plates. original gilt-stamped cloth, t.e.g. (some foxing to edges & a few leaves). First American Edition. Including accounts of pig-sticking and hunting leopards, bears, tigers, elephants, and crocodiles. Savory travelled to Peshawar, the Khyber Pass, Kashmir, the Himalayas, the Deccan, and Ootacamund.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada