Fitzpatrick, Percy.

Jock of the Bushveld. Illustrated by E. Caldwell.

5th Edition. London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1908. 16 cm x 21.5 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 475 pages. 23 illustrations on 23 plpates, including colour frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering and design on spine and front board. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean. Preowner’s name and date on front pastedown: ‘Adeline G. Bowen – July 13th, 1909’. A very desirable copy in the original publisher’s binding. Extremely Rare in this very excellent condition.

Includes, for example, the following: Into the Bushveld / Lost in the Veld / The Impala Stampede / The Koodoo Bull / The Berg / Buffalo, Bushfire and Wild Dogs etc.

Sir James Percy FitzPatrick, KCMG (24 July 1862 – 24 January 1931), known as Percy FitzPatrick, was a South African author, politician, mining financier and pioneer of the fruit industry. He wrote the book ‘Jock of the Bushveld’ in 1905, for his young children, and to tell the story of his bull-terrier ‘Jock’ and their adventures in South Africa some 20 years before.
The book 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. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Adventure · Africa · Africa – Rare · Africa, British Southern · Africa, Southern · Africana Collection of Rare Books · Afrikaners · Animals · British Colonial History · British Dominions · British Empire · Catalogue Two – Children’s Books · Children’s Books · Children’s Books Rare · Children’s Literature · Dog Stories · Dogs · Memoirs · Pets · Rural Life · Settler life · South Africa · South African Author · South African Literature · South African Veld · Travel Africa – Rare · Wildlife
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120152AB

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