xvi + 474 pp. Hardcover with gilt lettering and inlaid gilt illustrations to front board and spine. With full-colour frontispiece, and 22 monochrome plates, collated and complete. Various other black-and-white line drawings/vignettes, including the dung beetle pushing dung with its front legs on pp 65, 337, 457, and the horse being pulled up a cliff on p 316. These errors were corrected in later editions. Condition: Good. Light rubbing and spots of wear to boards, front board feels loose, spine has chipping to top and has been reglued. Previous owner’s signature to front pastedown, and inscription on verso of frontispiece. Red ink stains towards bottom edges of pp 450-451. Several closed tears to pages towards gutters which have been repaired with tape. Small stains to bottom edges of various pages. Minor creases to corners of some pages and plates. Textblock, spine and rear board still well bound. Please also see photos.
Signed by the author. 1st Edition, 3rd impression.
From Wikipedia entry on the novel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_of_the_Bushveld): Jock of the Bushveld is a true story by South African author Sir James Percy FitzPatrick. The 1907 book tells of FitzPatrick's travels with his dog, Jock, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross, during the 1880s, when he worked as a storeman, prospector's assistant, journalist and ox-wagon transport-rider in the Bushveld region of the Transvaal (then the South African Republic).
Jock of the Bushveld was first published in 1907 and had an extremely warm reception, being reprinted four times in that year alone. Since then it has achieved the status of a classic South African book and has been also widely read abroad – more than one hundred editions have been printed and it has been translated into Afrikaans, Dutch, French, Xhosa and Zulu, amongst others. Illustrations for the book were done by Edmund Caldwell, a brother of Mary Tourtel, creator of Rupert Bear.
Size: 8vo (21,6 x 16cm)
London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1907
- Overall Condition: Good
- Size: 8vo
