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THE FEET OF THE YOUNG MEN
1920WRCLIT77654Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co. 1920. Large octavo. Full medium brown crushed levant raised bands gilt extra gilt doublures and silk moiré endsheets a.e.g. unsigned but perhaps by Bennett. Illustrated with photographs by Lewis R. Freeman. A fine copy. First separate illustrated edition. Copy #5 of twenty copies with the limitation statement amended by Kipling and signed by him with the denotation in another hand reserving these copies "for Mr. Lewis Freeman" the photographer. The ordinary edition consisted of 377 signed copies. The publisher retained the twenty copies for distribution to different parties according to Freeman's wishes. Freeman enjoyed a distinguished career as explorer journalist and war correspondent and his photographs accompanying Kipling's poems cover a wide range of his travels and interests. From the Nelson Doubleday collection sale. RICHARDS A329n. STEWART 291. Doubleday, Page & Co. hardcover books
