The Life Story of a Panda Leopard
Caesar The Life Story of a Panda Leopard
G.P. Putnam's & Sons, 1930.
First edition, second issue with the jacket priced at 2/6. 8vo. Red cloth with dark green titles, in a green paper dustwrapper with colour onlay to upper cover showing Caesar the leopard fishing. Top edge red. Colour frontispiece (matching the dustwrapper onlay) and thirteen black and white illustrations by Harry Rountree. A very good copy with some fading to spine, in a very good dustwrapper with some tanning and a short closed tear to the tail of the spine.
Patrick O'Brian's first book, published under his birth name when he was only 15 and still at school. Written in the first person by the eponymous Leopard, the book was a critical success, The New Statesman recommending it as a Christmas gift in December 1930, and The Saturday Review of Literature stating that it was "written in the spirit of an explorer relating his adventures... There is rapid action, copious bloodshed... [and]... extraordinary devotion".
Stock ID: 46024
