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Rudyard Kipling. Captains Courageous. London and New York: MacMillan and Co.,Limited, 1897.... (Total: 2 )
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Rudyard Kipling. Captains Courageous. London and New York: MacMillan and Co.,Limited, 1897.8vo. Half title, frontispiece, numerous illustrations by I. W. Taber; 2 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. Original pictorial gilt blue cloth, edges gilt.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, originally serialized in McClure's Magazine from November 1896 to May 1896 to immediate success and preceded by the first American edition by one month. Theodore Roosevelt wrote about the book three years later that Kipling had described "in the liveliest way just what a boy should be and do." Preceded by the American edition by about one month.
Condition: Slight wear to spine ends and corners, small white stain on rear cover, minor soiling.
References: Livingston 137; Richards A103; Stewart 163.
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Rudyard Kipling. Rewards and Fairies. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1910. 8vo. Illustrated with plates by Frank Craig. Original red cloth, upper cover with central gilt Ganesha device, gilt-lettered on spine, top edge gilt.
FIRST EDITION, containing the first appearance of Kipling's immortal poem ''If --''.
Condition: Touch of rubbing to extremities; minor toning to endpapers, otherwise fine and bright.
References: Livingston 341; Stewart 329
Provenance: From the William A. Strutz Library.
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2025 September 10 - 11 Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part III, Rare Books Signature® Auction #6321 (go to Auction Home page)
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