' CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS' A STORY OF THE GRAND BANKS.
Kipling, Rudyard:
London: Macmillan & Co., 1897. Gilt decorated pictorial blue cloth, a.e.g. Illustrations by I.W. Taber. Trace of faint foxing to tissue guard and frontis, otherwise a fine, bright copy in a very good, unrestored example of the pictorial dust jacket (lightly dust soiled, with shallow losses at crown and toe of spine and foretips, and some closed tears). Half morocco folding case. First British edition, preceded by serialization in PEARSON'S MAGAZINE and by the U.S. edition. One of 10,000 copies printed. One of the enduring "Boys' Books" of its generation, and the source novel for the superb 1937 film adaptation directed by Victor Fleming, starring Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, et al. RICHARDS A103. STEWART 163.
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