KIPLING, Rudyard "Captains Courageous" New York, The Century Co. 1897
8vo. Original pictorial green cloth, blocked in black, red and gilt; top edge gilt; 21 full page illustrations by I.W. Taber; contemporary ownership inscription and name stamp on front endpaper; pp. viii (2) 323; gift inscription in pencil to front fly leaf; cloth a little marked and dark spotted, front inner hinge reinforced; good copy of the first US trade edition.
As in Kipling's classic novel The Jungle Book in which a young Mowgli finds himself astray in a new environment, "Captains Courageous" follows the evolution in character of Harvey Cheyne, washed overboard from an ocean liner into the trusting hands of the We're Here fishing boat. In his autobiography, Something of Myself , Kipling writes of his intention with the novel as, "I wanted to see if I could catch and hold something of a rather beautiful localised American atmosphere that was already beginning to fade".. Rudyard Kipling would go on to recieve the Nobel Prize for Literautre in 1907.
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