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This book was first published in 1922 but the Blampied edition, described as the fourth impression, wasn't published until 1923. The new edition or impression had a frontispiece in colour and four line drawings. The book was first published in New York in 1921 by Duffield and Company. I can find out very little about Charles Mayer (1862-1927) except that he was born in New York the same year that the Prussian pianist and composer Charles Mayer died, which is an interesting coincidence. This book is an autobiographical account of his exploits while collecting animals in the Malay peninsular from a base in Singapore.
First edition, 4th impression only
Bibliography code: TFU-23.2i
Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
Series: none
Year: 1923
Format: 8vo
Pages: 223
Binding: dark blue, light blue or green cloth with title and author impressed on cover with an oblong impressed image of a tiger, the same as the dust jacket; title, author and publisher in gold on spine; plain rear board
Size: 193 x 138 mm
Price: 8 shillings and 6 pence on third impression jacket
Dust jacket: not by Blampied
Internal illustrations: frontispiece in colour signed Blam and four line drawings printed in glossy unnumbered leave bound between pages 52-53, 128-129, 154-155 and 220-221, all signed Blam
Printing history: First published, 1922; 4th impression, 1923
Printed by: Unwin Brothers, Limited, London and Woking
Notes: This book is a 4th impression in green cloth issued in a 3rd impression dust jacket. My copy has a label inside the front cover for Chas E. Lauriat Co., Importers and Booksellers, 385 Wash'n St., Boston.
Dust jacket of 3rd impression (click to enlarge)
Frontispiece (click to enlarge)
First edition, 4th impression only
Bibliography code: TFU-23.2ii
Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
Series: Overseas edition
Year: 1923
Format: 8vo
Pages: 223
Binding: green cloth with title and author impressed on cover with an oblong impressed image of a tiger, the same as the dust jacket; title, author and publisher in gold on spine; plain rear board
Size: 193 x 138 mm
Dust jacket: not by Blampied
Price: not known
Dust jacket of Overseas Edition (click to enlarge)
Internal illustrations: frontispiece in colour signed Blam and four line drawings printed in glossy unnumbered leave bound between pages 52-53, 128-129, 154-155 and 220-221, all signed Blam
Printing history: First published, 1922; 4th impression, 1923
Printed by: Unwin Brothers, Limited, London and Woking
Notes: This book is a 4th impression in green cloth issued in an Overseas Edition dust jacket.