Description:
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) Captains Courageous, First Regular Edition, in the Original Dust Jacket. London: Macmillan, 1897.
Octavo, illustrated throughout by I.W. Taber, bound in full publisher's blue cloth, blocked in gold, coated blue endleaves, with the original publisher's heathered light blue dust jacket, illustrated and titled in blue; a.e.g., binding bright beneath the jacket, the jacket fragmentary at head and along two top corners; one corner of binding bumped, housed in cloth chemise and dark blue half morocco slipcase, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.
Estimate $1,500-2,000
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