Description
The first English edition of Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling, published in London in 1897.
Octavo, vii, 245pp, [1], [2pp ads]. Publisher’s blue stamped cloth, illustrations in gilt on cover and spine. Blue endpapers, booksellers label on rear endpaper. Complete with frontispiece and twenty-two plates by Isaiah West Taber. Left lean to text block, occasional points of foxing throughout. Touch of rubbing to gilt on spine, rubbing to blue cloth on front cover. All edges gilt. Solid binding, a near fine example. (Stewart, 163) (Livingston, 137)
This work was first serialized in McClure’s Magazine in November of 1896. The first full novelization was published in America by Doubleday in 1897, followed by the first English edition a month later.
