RED FOX: THE STORY OF HIS ADVENTUROUS CAREER IN THE RINGWAAK WILDS END OF HIS FINAL TRIUMPH OVER THE ENEMIES OF HIS KIND

CHARLES C.D. ROBERTS, Charles Livingston Bull (Ill

Published by Duckworth, London,, 1905

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First Edition. Hardback. Substantial 8vo.pp. 340. Signed presentation copy from the book's owner Dowager Countess of Dudley, her Pembroke Lodge visiting card tipped onto the front endpaper:"With her love and very good wish for Christmas and New Year." Blind stamp of Holdenby House. BOOK: children's fiction. Original publisherÕs handsome full leather binding in dark brown, lettered gilt at spine, with gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers in pale pastel swirls. Frontispiece full colour plate "Red Fox, meanwhile, had been watching the whole scene from that safe little ledge of rock." Full Page plates of black and white illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull. /Georgina Elizabeth Ward, Countess of Dudley (1846Ð 1929) was a British noblewoman and noted beauty. In 1865 the 18-year-old Georgina married 48-year-old William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, a wealthy land and mine owner. She was a close friend of Queen Alexandra and as Dowager Countess, Lady Dudley lived at Pembroke Lodge in London, granted to her by "grace and favour" of King Edward./Charles Livingston Bull (1874Ð1932)was an American illustrator. Bull studied taxidermy in Rochester, New York and is known for his illustration of wildlife Very good. Slight rubbing to covers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: RED FOX: THE STORY OF HIS ADVENTUROUS CAREER IN THE RINGWAAK WILDS END OF HIS FINAL TRIUMPH OVER THE ENEMIES OF HIS KIND
• Publisher: Duckworth, London,
• Publication Date: 1905
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signedes
• Seller catalogs:
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