The Fire Ox and Other Years: An Account of His Travels in Tibet.Nepal,Assam and Other Far Eastern Islands by Suydam Cutting - 1947

Collins, London. 1947. 1st. edn. Hardback without dustwrapper. Lge 4to. xviii, pp393 incl. general index. index of plants and another of mammals & birds 6 col'd plates incl. frontis. & far too numerous monochrome photo-illus to count. Orig. blue buckram, slightly dulled gilt to spine & upper board. Top edges a tad dusty o/w VG. A heavy book that will require additional postage 'at cost'.

New York.: Charles Scribner's Sons., 1940. First printing. PRESENTATION COPY gift inscribed from the author to the free front endpaper. . Hard. Good. 8vo.. Illustrated.. Good. Lacking dust jacket. Slightly foxed.

Collins, 1947. Hardcover. Good. 1947. No Edition Remarks. 393 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Minor wear marks to boards.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition ~1st Printing. Hardcover. travel memoirs of the explorer/naturalist, vg in blue cloth, lacking the dust jacket; rubbing/splitting to cloth along spine ends and board corners else a tight square unmarked copy with no dust jacket; first printing with "A" on copyright page

Charles Scribner's, 1940. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Spine lettering faded; former owner's signature on front flyleaf.. First Edition. Original Cloth. Good.

Collins, 1947. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered turquoise cloth (spine lettering dulled, spine ends scuffed/worn; inner hinges weakened - Good), no dustwrapper. Pp. xviii + 393, illus with coloured frontispiece, coloured plate and plans and b&w plates (endpapers spotted; no inscriptions).

Collins, 1947T. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Collins 1947 reprint. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover, no dust jacket.

London: Collins, 1947. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xviii 393, colour frontispiece plate and further photographic illustrations throughout. Original hardback binding, light wear only. Contents clean and tight, a few spots to endpapers only, no inscriptions. A very good clean copy..

New York:Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:Charles Scribner's Sons. 1940. 1st edition. xviii+393pp. Illustrated with color and black and white. Hardcover.  Blue boards with title in gilt on front cover and spine lightly soiled and shelfworn with gilt on spine quite dulled. Internally, end-pages darkened with age, with a bookplate to inside front board. The darkening also affects the spine edge of xiv-xvii, possibly from glue? Otherwise pages clean. The binding is tight and hinges intact. A very good copy.