Captains Courageous
Rudyard Kipling, 1897
KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Captains Courageous. London: Macmillan, 1897.
First English edition, in dust jacket. The only one of Kipling’s novels to be set in the USA, Captains Courageous tells of the pampered son of a millionaire who loses his arrogance when rescued from the open waters and made a member of the crew on a fishing boat. Livingston 137; Richards A103; Stewart 163.
Octavo. Half-title, frontispiece. 2 pp. ads at rear. Original pictorial blue cloth, all edges gilt; pictorial dust jacket (restoration to spine panel ends, edges of panels, flaps and folds, with the “g” in spine title mostly in facsimile); custom box.
Captains Courageous
Rudyard Kipling, 1897
KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Captains Courageous. London: Macmillan, 1897.
First English edition, in dust jacket. The only one of Kipling’s novels to be set in the USA, Captains Courageous tells of the pampered son of a millionaire who loses his arrogance when rescued from the open waters and made a member of the crew on a fishing boat. Livingston 137; Richards A103; Stewart 163.
Octavo. Half-title, frontispiece. 2 pp. ads at rear. Original pictorial blue cloth, all edges gilt; pictorial dust jacket (restoration to spine panel ends, edges of panels, flaps and folds, with the “g” in spine title mostly in facsimile); custom box.
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