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Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co. (1933), Ltd., 1942, 174 including Appendices. First Edition, with colored frontis + 10 colored plates + numerous full page illustrations + 2 folding colored maps. From the author's detailed journals of hunts with the Maharajah of Nepal. Hunting tigers in the Naya Mulak of the Nepalese Terai & the forest reserve of Chitawan. Also bagging bear, leopard, deer, and wild boar. Blue cloth with black spine & cover titles and tiger's head decoration to front cover, dust jacket. A Very Good copy with some light edgewear, previous owners inscriptions to front free endpaper, booksellers stamp at bottom of front free endpaper, red dot inside front cover. In a Fair dust jacket, with several chips including a long strip across the top of the rear panel and head of spine, creases & soiling. A Clean Tight Copy See Photos
Seller: John Liberati Books, Barkhamsted, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$381.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Evelyn Arthur Smythies was himself a shikari and worked in the Indian Forest Service to Nepal for over 30 years. He was Chief Conservator of the Forest of Nepal from 1940 through 1947 during which time he had access to the shikar diaries of the Maharaja. Green cloth boards with black lettering to spine and front. Boards are a little marked and generally grubby. Corners bumped and worn. Board edges are grubby and rubbed. Spine is marked with some bumping to the ends. Some foxing to endpages. Front inner hinge is cracked, but holding. Coloured frontispiece showing 'His Highness the Marharaja on Horseback'. Textblock has one or two grubby marks but is generally clean. 174 pp. 43 plates inc frontis (12 in colour). 2 coloured pullouts. There is another pullout tucked in at the rear but I cannot establish whether or not it should be part of the volume. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 850g. All our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 011034:?) Size: 4to - over 9 3/4" - 12" Tall 850 G
Seller: YattonBookShop PBFA, Bristol, United Kingdom
Price: US$388.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Corners bumped, small perforation to front cover, fragment of jacket loosely inserted. Weight: 1 Language: English Publisher's dark green cloth, black ink title and tiger motif
Seller: Acanthophyllum Books, Holywell, FLINT, United Kingdom
Price: US$517.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original (not facsimile) dustwrapper has a 3 inch tear to the top right-hand corner of front panel and a smaller, 2 inch one at the top end of spine, and some smaller tears and creasing to the edges of dustwrapper. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, an old price (16 rupees which would have been 21/4 sterling, or just over a guinea, so quite expensive back then) in pencil at top corner of f/ep and original (or a slightly later) owner's gift message dated August 1946 on same page. Otherwise a good clean tight copy in not so good dustwrapper of this not-very-common hard-cover book. Deals with big-game hunting (tiger mostly, but also leopard, rhino and other animals) in Nepal in the 1930s, based around hunting trips by the hereditary Prime Minister and ruler of Nepal Juddha Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana. 174pp, 12 colour and 31 b&w plates, 2 folding maps. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Jim's Old Books, Kirkwall, United Kingdom
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition published nearly 80 years ago in Calcutta, India, is much sought after by collectors of exotic hunting literature and big game hunters, illustrated with photographs and color plates of numerous paintings likely commissioned by the maharajah of Nepal to promote his country, with two large color folding maps of Nepal. Evelyn Smythies was a conservator of forests in India, Kumaon division for nearly three decades, a tiger hunter and a close friend of Jim Corbett. After retiring, he worked as an advisor to Forestry in Nepal. Enclosed is a facsimile cutting of authors signed presentation to Lord Linlithgow, himself an avid tiger hunter in India and Nepal, and viceroy of India (1936-1943) loosely laid. Large format (aapx.8x10"), light stains on bottom pages, otherwise an excellent copy. Two labels indicates the book once belonged to a tiger hunter, (Mr. Senn of California) , and a taxidermist in india/ Nepal.
Seller: SAFARI BOOKS, Edmonton, AB, Canada