Beasts Royal

Patrick O'Brian's second book, published under his own name. Animal stories and four wonderful Indian stories featuring Hussein, ex Mahout, snake charmer, and possessed of the uncanny knack of discovering cobras and other venomous creatures in Englishmen's bungalows. Illustrations by the prolific Charles Tunnicliffe two years after his great success with Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson.

Publisher: Putnam. First English edition.
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Gift inscription. Edgewear, foxing to prelims, extremities and scattered throughout. Good in very good dustwrapper.


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