Jock of the Bushveld

by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick

$4,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, First Issue with drawings of a dung beetle pushing his load with his front legs rather than his back on pages 65, 337 and 457. Illustrated. by E. Caldwell. 475, 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth. Fine, some foxing to edges. Bookplate. Item #368414 This famous children's book is the story of Fitzpatrick's travels with Jock, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, in the 1880s, when he worked as a

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