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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Sir J Percy FitzPatrick

Jock of the Bushveld (SIGNED 1907 first printing)

Published: Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1907

Edition: First Edition, first printing

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Signed on the title page by J Percy Fitzpatrick. His full name was Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick.

The textblock has been recased in nicer boards.

Illustrated by E. Caldwell

1907, First edition, First impression. 475 pages, color frontispiece, plates and marginal illustrations, dark green cloth with gilt titling and gilt vignette of Jock on the upper cover, with the drawings of a dung beetle pushing his load with his front legs rather than his back legs on pages 65, 337 and 457 and Snowball the horse being dragged out of the river on page 316 - these drawings were changed in later impressions.

The dedication page reads: It was the youngest of the High Authorities who gravely informed the Inquiring Stranger that "Jock belongs to the Likkle People!" That being so, it is clearly the duty, no less less that the privilege, of the mere Narrator to dedicate the Story of Jock to those Keenest and Kindest critics, Best of Friends, and Most Delightful of Comrades The Likkle People.

Fitzpatrick's adventures during the time of his life when he was pioneering in the Bushveld are vividly described in this book JOCK OF THE BUSHVELD, which is generally accepted as one of the cornerstones of Africana.

In the early 1900's Fitzpatrick used to tell bedtime adventure stories of his Staffordshire Bull terrier cross, Jock, to his four children — the likkle people — to whom the book was dedicated.

Rudyard Kipling used to participate in the nights of bushveld and Jock stories, and he persuaded Fitzpatrick to put the stories together in book form. Fitzpatrick selected Edmund Caldwell to illustrate the volume, and Caldwell went to South Africa to visit the Bushveld and create the drawings there.

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  • Jacket Condition: n/a
  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Sold By: Springbok Books
  • Contact Person: Wade Burgess
  • Country: United States
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