Captain Courageous by Kipling R J (1 results)
More imagesPublished by Macmillan and Co., Limited 1916-1918, London, 1916
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Add to basketLeather. Condition: Good Only. Twelve pocket editions of Rudyard Kipling adventures, excellent travel companions filled with adventure and excitement. Twelve pocket editions of short story collections and novels by the prolific British author Rudyard Kipling, published between 1916-1918. In the publisher's decorative original soft red leatherette. These charming pocket editions allow readers to enjoy the Nobel-Prize winning author with ease and on the go, being perfect travelling companions as these short stories and novels dive into exotic adventures. Considered a master of the short story, this selection includes historical fiction seen in Puck of Pook's Hill and Kim, what is often considered his masterpiece set during The Great Game. - Kim. Contains a frontispiece, and all nine other illustrated plates by Rudyard's father J. Lockwood Kipling. Collated complete. (1918, first pocket edition 1908).- Soldiers Three; the Story of the Gasbys; In Black and White (1917, first pocket edition 1907).- Just So Stories. Contains full-page and in-text illustrations by Kipling throughout (1915, first pocket edition 1908).- 'Captain Courageous': A Story of Grand Banks (1916, first pocket edition 1907).- Stalky and Co. (1917, first pocket edition 1908).- Traffics and Discoveries (1917, first pocket edition 1908).- Plain Tales from the Hills (1916, first pocket edition 1907).- Puck of Pook's Hill. Contains all twenty full-page illustrations by H.R. Millar. Collated complete (1917, first pocket edition 1908).- Rewards and Fairies. Contains all four illustrated plates by Frank Craig. Collated complete (1918, first pocket edition 1910).- The Day's Work (1918, first pocket edition 1908).- Life's Handicap (1917, first pocket edition 1907).- Many Inventions (1917, first pocket edition 1907). In the publisher's decorative original soft red leatherette.Externally, the odd faint handling mark to covers and front glit decoration intact. Knocks to the extremities. Minor loss to heads of spines, heavier to Kim and Just So. Rear cover and final couple of leaves and blanks of Plain Tales and Day's Work are loose, with rear joint of Work holding only by tail. Small splits to heads of joints of Just So, Handicap and Soldiers, a little heavier to Kim and heaviest to Day's Work, with split stretching to center of front joint. Small puncture to tail of spine of Many Inventions. Fading to Kim covers. Faint browning to end papers, with offsetting to free end papers of Work, Soldiers, Kim, Stalky, Traffics, Rewards and Many Inventions. Internally, final leaf of Plain is loosening from hinge, strain to tails of hinges between pp.83-94 and between ppp.96-97 of Just So, final leaf of Day's Work bound with loose rear cover, with pp.404-405 hinge failed. Pages are bright and mostly clean, with minor age toning and a couple of faint spots to first leaves of Rewards, and faint offsetting to first couple leaves of Kim. Good Only. Rudyard Kipling; J. Lockwood Kipling; H.R. Millar (illustrator). book.…