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Lot 284

KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Captains Courageous. London: MacMillan & Company, 1897. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, preceded by the American edition by one month. 
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KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Captains Courageous. London: MacMillan & Company, 1897.

8vo. Half title, illustrations by Isaac Walton Taber. 1 leaf of advertisements. Publisher's blue cloth gilt.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, preceded by the American edition by one month. Captains Courageous was serialized in McClure's Magazine from November1896 to May 1896 and was an immediate success, with President Theodore Roosevelt writing three years later that Kipling had described "in the liveliest way just what a boy should be and do." Livingston 137; Richards A103; Stewart 163.

The Library of John Leonard Gillis Sold to Support the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
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