Description
First edition, first issue of Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling.
Octavo, xii, 338pp, [10pp ads]. Finely bound in three-quarter red morocco, top edge gilt. Five raised bands, title in gilt on spine. Original cloth covers laid in place, with author’s emblem in gilt on front cover. New endpapers. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, faint soiling to gilt edge. A bright example. Complete with four full page illustrated plates.
This work by Kipling marks the first appearance of his poem “If.”