Caesar the Life Story of a Panda Leopard by Richard Patrick Russ Patrick O'brian (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Red cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. Tall 8vo. vii, 89pp. With a colour frontispiece and thirteen plates of black and white drawings. The top edge dust soiled, and with a touch of wear to the head of the backstrip and to several corner tips. A sliver of light partial toning and spitting to the free endpapers, and with a little spotting to two or three preliminary and concluding leaves. The binding a little tender at two gatherings, and one plate leaf detached and laid-in. A good copy. No dust wrapper. The author's first book, published at the age of just fifteen.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, black lettering to the spine and the upper panel, top edge dyed dark green. 8vo. 8½'' x 6½''. Contains viii, 89 printed pages of text with colour frontispiece and 13 monochrome illustrations throughout. Old ink name to the front free end paper, the tissue guarding the frontispiece has darkened, light fox spotting to the closed page edges, spine not faded, corners sharp and in Very Good sound and tight condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Rountree, Harry (illustrator). First American Edition. Hardcover; 8vo; 87 pages. First US edition (from U.K. sheets) of Patrick O'Brian's first novel.Orange cloth hardcovers with green text on spine and upper board. Lightly scuffed edges, corners gently bumped. Yellowing interior. Foxed, lightly in text, more thickly near front and back, including title page. Colour frontispiece. 13 b+w illustrations. In a paper jacket, with blue titles and a colour plate pasted to front. Yellowed and lightly to moderately scuffed. 1 chip missing from tail-edge of spine. In a mylar jacket. NPC, $2.00 on flap. VG/G+. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Small4to, first edition, pp,vii,87, coloured frontispiece and illustrations by Harry Rountree, black titled red cloth, pictorial unclipped dust-jacket which is a little toned, some very mild foxing, a crisp copy. The story of a Panda Leopard written by Patrick Russ aged sixteen who was the son of a London doctor. He later changed his name.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rountree, Harry (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1930. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. This is Patrick O'Brian's first book, written when he was still in school, under his real name 'Patrick Russ'. Red cloth with green titles. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations. Caesar is a cub in the Tibetan forests; it follows his early wild life, how he became an orphan and also tells of his capture and taming. REDUCED PRICE. Spine and cover edges are faded, with some more fading starting to affect front and back covers. Light foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. In 2ND issue dustwrapper with colour pictorial onlay to front. The wrapper is showing browning, to same parts that are faded undernath. A few light marks but complete with no tears or chips. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

First edition, first impression, second issue jacket. Patrick O'Brian's story of a panda leopard born in the Tibetan forests is his first book, written when he was 15 years old and before he changed his name from Richard Patrick Russ. "I did it mostly in my bedroom and a little when I should have been doing homework" (jacket blurb). Octavo. Colour frontispiece and 13 black and white plates Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board in black. With dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, free endpapers partially tanned, some spotting to contents and edges of text block. A very good copy in a lightly chipped and tanned jacket with four tape repairs to the verso.