Kipling Rudyard Harrison James (2 results)

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Second edition (originally published 1892). Text divided into Part I and Part II with sectional pagination; collates as [half-tile], [title], [8], 15-32, [b/w plate], 33-64, [b/w plate], 65-84, [b/w plate], [6], 7-16, [b/w plate], 17-32, [b/w plate], 33-38, [b/w plate], 39-80, [b/w plate], 81-101, [1], [b/w plate]. Hardcover: H 25.75cm x 20.5cm. No dust jacket present. White cloth soiled and foxed with surface abrasions; front board's gilt lettering remains reasonably bright (no spine lettering). Toning/foxing to text block edges and endpapers; occasional fingerprint soiling to interior leaves which otherwise mostly remain clean. Binding is firm. Edition statement on page [5] "The second edition . . . has been published under the direction of Mrs. George L. Dunlap, Chairman of the Children's Building Committee, of the Board of Lady Managers, and the proceeds of its sale will be used for a Memorial Fund." Explanatory Note by Martha S. Hill dated April 1893 so evidently added for this edition. PART I features facsimile contributions by President Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], L.Q.C. Lamar [Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar], Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling (contribution of "Old Johnny Grundy" on p. 31, 1st sequence), Edward Everett Hale, George W. Cable [George Washington Cable], Sarah Orne Jewett, Eugene Field, Oliver Wendell Holmes, A.C. Swinburne [Algernon Charles Swinburne], Julia Ward Howe, Richard Harding Davis, P. Tschaikowsky [Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky], George Meredith, et al. PART II features facsimile contributions by President Clevland [Stephen Grover Cleveland], Mrs. Grover Cleveland, William D. Howells, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Emile Zola, Mary Mapes Dodge, et al. …