[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS

[Charles Agvent]

KIPLING, Rudyard. "CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS": A STORY OF THE GRAND BANKS. New 
York: Century, 1897. First Edition. In original decorated green cloth 
ornamented in red, gold, and green with gilt lettering. Livingston 138. 
The First American Edition of Kipling's first American novel and one of 
the greatest novels of adventures on the sea, with some variations in 
text from the English edition published earlier the same year. 
Illustrated with 21 full-page black-and-white plates by W. Taber. Laid 
in is a 4-page flyer advertising the book and reproducing one of the 
illustrations, a scarce piece of Kipling ephemera. One of the plates has 
a jagged closed tear just entering the image; name of previous owner on 
front free endpaper. Bright, tight, just about Fine copy. 	$650.00

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