"CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS": A STORY OF THE GRAND BANKS
KIPLING, Rudyard
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 (Item ID: 010462)
$650.00