RED FOX: THE STORY OF HIS ADVENTUROUS CAREER IN THE RINGWAAK WILDS END OF HIS FINAL TRIUMPH OVER THE ENEMIES OF HIS KIND (WITH ROYAL BOOKPLATE)

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 publisher’s handsome full grained 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 (1846– 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 (her bookplate is at the front of the book - an A surmounted by a crown) 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 (1874–1932)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.…