Jock and Fitz | Compiled by Cecily Niven daughter of Sir Percy FitzPatrick on 60th Anniversary

Jock and Fitz. In Commemoration of the Sixtieth Anniversary of the First Publication of Jock of the Bushveld

"The diamond jubilee of the publication of that ever-young story Jock of the Bushveld fell in 1967. Jock is a true account of early pioneering days in South Africa,  written by Sir Percy FitzPatrick, who recounted some of the incidents and andventures which befell him and his bull terrier, the immortal Jock.

These stories were told to his children, Cecily, Nugent, Alan and Oliver, and it was largely through the persuasion of Rudyard Kipling - who was a family friend - that Percy FitzPatrick was dragooned into writing the narrative which was subsequently published.... Little has been published about the details of how the story came to be written, or of the artist, Edmund Caldwell, who drew the superb illustrations which have done so much to embellish the great story. The author's daughter, Cecily, has remedied this deficiency, and this volume is published as a commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the first publication of Jock's story, to give the background of the well-loved book."

Publisher: Longmans Southern Africa

Publication Date:  1968

Binding: Hard cover

Book Condition: Good. Inside cover has some age browning

Dust jacket condition: Protected in cellophane but some wear.

Edition: First

Pages: 82

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