[Rarebooks] FS: Fine First American Edition of Kipling's CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS, 1897
Charles Agvent
charles at charlesagvent.com
Wed Apr 15 12:06:32 EDT 2020
KIPLING, Rudyard. "CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS": A STORY OF THE GRAND BANKS. New
York: Century, 1897. First American Edition. In original decorated green
cloth ornamented in red, gold, and green with gilt lettering. Livingston
138. 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. (#010462) $400
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