Fine Books & Manuscripts

KIPLING, Rudyard (1865–1936). Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks. London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1897. 8vo. Half–title, 2 pp. ads. at rear, 22 full–page plates including frontispiece by I. W. Taber. Publisher’s pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, black coated endpapers (lower cover slightly stained, occasional pale spotting at margins). Provenance: Reginald Walpole (bookplate), original bookseller’s ticket. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION which was preceded by the American edition a month later and was previously serialized in Pearson’s Magazine between December 1896 and April 1897. It was lauded by Teddy Roosevelt in his essay “What We Can Expect of the American Boy” as being “in the liveliest way just what a boy should be and do”. Livingston 137; Martindell 68.