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1897145991897. A Story of the Grand Banks. With Illustrations by I.W. Taber. London: Macmillan and Co. 1897. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt all page edges gilt.<br/><br/> First English Edition published about a month after the American. This is Kipling's great novel about the cod fishing fleet of Gloucester Massachusetts written while the newlywed Kiplings lived in Vermont. Kipling freely acknowledged that the book owed much to Dr. James Conland of Brattleboro who brought the Kiplings' elder daughter into the world -- for Conland had been a member of the Massachusetts fishing fleet and it was he who took Kipling to explore the wharves and quays of Boston and Gloucester. The American edition in fact is dedicated to Conland; this English edition bears no dedication. This is the only book of Kipling's which is set entirely in America. All the characters are American. Not only that but the heart of the book -- its moral in a single sentence -- is one of Kipling's main beliefs of this period expressed in terms essentially American or perhaps more particularly New England. He put it later in verse: ".If you don't work you will die!" It is a saga of hard physical work in conflict with natural forces. It is a book which could hardly have been written by anyone who did not admire Huckleberry Finn; it is a book whose claim to survival rests mainly on detail and it is all American detail. Mason CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS was the fourth and last volume to be bound in Macmillan's attractive gift binding style used for the JUNGLE BOOKs in 1894-1895 and for SOLDIER TALES in 1896. In 1937 forty years after publication this tale was made into a film starring Freddie Bartholomew Spencer Tracy who won an Oscar Lionel Barrymore and Mickey Rooney. This is a bright near-fine copy with at the top of the rear cover a damp-mark that affects only the sheen and not the color of the cloth; there is scarcely any of the usual rubbing at the spine ends and the original black endpapers are not cracked. Richards A103; Stewart 163. unknown books
1897202London: Macmillan 1897. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Kipling's popular nautical tale with vivid descriptions of the Massachusetts fishing industry. The basis for the 1937 film starring Spencer Tracy Lionel Barrymore and Mickey Rooney. London: Macmillan 1897. Octavo original cloth gilt all edges gilt. With illustrations by I.W. Taber. Book slightly cocked as often; a few spots to cloth crease to rear endpaper. Text unusually clean and cloth gilt bright. Without scarce dust jacket. Macmillan hardcover books
18971326987New York: The Century Co 1897. Hardcover. 12mo; pp 323; Good-; green spine with gilt text; no jacket; cloth has modest soiling to exterior; mild edge wear; gilt and red illustration to front; green border to panels; strong boards; text block has slight toning to exterior edges; previous owner's name to front pastedown; missing ffep; slight cracks to front gutter at half title page; frontispiece; interior edges slightly toned; text pages show slight toning toward interior edges; illustrated; top edge gilt;. 1326987. FP New Rockville Stock. The Century Co hardcover books
1899012539Macmillan & Co. Ltd. London 1899. Book. Good. Hardcover. 21cm. Good condition with gilt decorative medallion on front and gilt title and upper compressed page edges. Includes 21 b/w illustrations. Macmillan & Co. Ltd. London Hardcover
1897062618London: Macmillan & Co 1897. Book. Illus. by Taber L. W. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. viii 245pp; frontispiece with foxing tissue guard foxed also title page random foxing to interior; blue boards gilt edges gilt decoration to front board and spine light edgewear previous owner's name in pencil inside. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Macmillan & Co Hardcover
1897144073London: Macmillan 1897. First edition of Kipling’s richly detailed tale of American deep-sea fishing with frontispiece and 21 illustrations by I.W. Taber. Octavo original blue cloth elegantly stamped in gilt. In near fine condition with light shelfwear. Pictorial bookplate of L.A. Shilcof to the pastedown. A sharp example. Like his two Jungle Books Kipling wrote this morality tale of life aboard a New England fishing boat while living near Brattleboro Vermont his wife’s hometown. The book thus contains “something of his feelings about America—both his affection and his irritation†Carpenter & Prichard 296. “This is the only book of Kipling’s which is set entirely in America. All the characters are American. Not only that but the heart of the book—its moral in a single sentence—is one of Kipling’s main beliefs of this period expressed in terms essentially American or perhaps more particularly New England. He put it later in verse: ‘And the Gods of the Copy-book Maxims said: ‘If you don’t work you will die!’ It is a saga of hard physical work in conflict with natural forces. It is a book which could hardly have been written by anyone who did not admire Huckleberry Finn; it is a book whose claim to survival rests mainly on detail and it is all American detail†Mason 119. Macmillan hardcover
1897154961897. With Illustrations by I.W. Taber. London: Macmillan and Co. 1897. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt all page edges gilt.<br/> <br/> First English Edition published about a month after the American. This is Kipling's great novel about the cod fishing fleet of Gloucester Massachusetts written while the newlywed Kiplings lived in Vermont. Kipling freely acknowledged that the book owed much to Dr. James Conland of Brattleboro who brought the Kiplings' elder daughter into the world -- for Conland had been a member of the Massachusetts fishing fleet and it was he who took Kipling to explore the wharves and quays of Boston and Gloucester. The American edition in fact is dedicated to Conland; this English edition bears no dedication. This is the only book of Kipling's which is set entirely in America. All the characters are American. Not only that but the heart of the book -- its moral in a single sentence -- is one of Kipling's main beliefs of this period expressed in terms essentially American or perhaps more particularly New England. He put it later in verse: ".If you don't work you will die!" It is a saga of hard physical work in conflict with natural forces. It is a book which could hardly have been written by anyone who did not admire Huckleberry Finn; it is a book whose claim to survival rests mainly on detail and it is all American detail Mason. CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS was the fourth and last volume to be bound in Macmillan's attractive gift binding style used for the JUNGLE BOOKs in 1894-1895 and for SOLDIER TALES in 1896. In 1937 forty years after publication this tale was made into a film starring Freddie Bartholomew Spencer Tracy who won an Oscar Lionel Barrymore and Mickey Rooney. This is a near-fine copy spine less than bright slight rubbing at the extremities light foxing; the original black-coated endpapers are not cracked. Richards A103; Stewart 163. unknown
189715875London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1897. First English Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 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. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1897156181897. With Illustrations by I.W. Taber. London: Macmillan and Co. 1897. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt all page edges gilt.<br/> <br/> First English Edition published about a month after the American. This is Kipling's great novel about the cod fishing fleet of Gloucester Massachusetts written while the newlywed Kiplings lived in Vermont. Kipling freely acknowledged that the book owed much to Dr. James Conland of Brattleboro who brought the Kiplings' elder daughter into the world -- for Conland had been a member of the Massachusetts fishing fleet and it was he who took Kipling to explore the wharves and quays of Boston and Gloucester. The American edition in fact is dedicated to Conland; this English edition bears no dedication. This is the only book of Kipling's which is set entirely in America. All the characters are American. Not only that but the heart of the book -- its moral in a single sentence -- is one of Kipling's main beliefs of this period expressed in terms essentially American or perhaps more particularly New England. He put it later in verse: ".If you don't work you will die!" It is a saga of hard physical work in conflict with natural forces. It is a book which could hardly have been written by anyone who did not admire Huckleberry Finn; it is a book whose claim to survival rests mainly on detail and it is all American detail Mason. CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS was the fourth and last volume to be bound in Macmillan's attractive gift binding style used for the JUNGLE BOOKs in 1894-1895 and for SOLDIER TALES in 1896. In 1937 forty years after publication this tale was made into a film starring Freddie Bartholomew Spencer Tracy who won an Oscar Lionel Barrymore and Mickey Rooney. This is an unusually bright copy fine except for the slightest of rubbing at the spine tips and small bumps at the fore-tips. The original black-coated endpapers are not cracked. Richards A103; Stewart 163. unknown
1899TB33378New York: The Century Co. 1899. Reprint of 1899. Very near fine in decorated green cloth covered boards with red black and gilt decorations on the front board and with the top edge of the text block gilt. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches with the spine very slighlty tanned and with minor rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and to the lower tips of the boards. The blank first free end page is missing. Originally printed in the United States in 1897. Without a dust jacket. 323 pages of text with all 21 of the illustrated black and white plates present as called for in the table of contents. A very presentable collectible copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. The Century Co. hardcover
1897206280New York: Century Co 1897. Hardcover. VG: Writing graphite cursive analytical and stamp on front free end page. Notations on the table of contents. Clean body pages. A green casebound book with gilt text on the spine. viii 323 pages; contains black-and-white illustrations. Century Co hardcover
1897206279New York: Century Co 1897. Hardcover. VG: Wear to the corners and edges. Crack between front end pages. Previous owner name on front free end page. Faint stains and warping to the pages. Readable with solid binding. A green casebound book with gilt text on the spine. viii 323 pages; contains black-and-white illustrations. Century Co hardcover
18971397627New York: The Century Co 1897. Early Edition. Hardcover. Octavo viii 323 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Sunning to spine. Spine cocked. General shelf wear primarily to head and tail of spine and to corners of boards. Mild soiling to rear board. Top edge of textblock gilt. Previous bookseller's stamp to front pastedown. Previous owner's signature to front free endpaper. Age toning throughout. Shelved in Case 14. 1397627. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Century Co hardcover
189752132London: MacMillan and Co Ltd 1897. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 245p 2p ads. A very good copy in original blue cloth with gilt decorations on front cover and spine. Spine rubbed minor wear to edges and corners. All edges gilt. Foxed throughout. <br/><br/> MacMillan and Co Ltd hardcover
18971885London: MacMillan & Co 1897. First Edition. Near fine. Isaac Walton Taber 1857 - 1933. Small 8vo. 7 3/8 x 4 3/4 185 x 121 mm; half-title frontispiece title viii 245 2 advertisements; 22 engraved plates including frontispiece by I. W. Taber. Original blue cloth with gilt designs and lettering on front board and spine black coated endpapers all edges brightly gilt. No dust jacket very light bumping at head and tail of spine otherwise binding in excellent condition as are all the pages clean bright and unmarked. <br /> Martindell 61; Sutherland Victorian Fiction p. 104. One of the great nineteenth-century English adventure novels Captains Courageous follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr. the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. After being tossed overboard an ocean liner Harvey meets Disko Troop captain of the small fishing boat We're Here who refuses to take the young man back to port but agrees to take him on as part of the crew. Over the course of the novel Harvey befriends the captain's son Dan who helps the arrogant millionaire develop into a hard-working honest young man who is self-reliant and content with living simply. <br /> The novel originally appeared as a serialization in McClure's between November 1896 and May 1897. In 1900 Teddy Roosevelt extolled the book in his essay "What We Can Expect of the American Boy" praising Kipling for describing "in the liveliest way just what a boy should be and do".<br /> "The work has always been popular in the USA and various versions have been filmed." Sutherland p. 104.<br /> <br /> The English journalist novelist poet and short-story writer Joseph Rudyard Kipling 1865 - 1936 was born in British India which inspired much of his work. Captains Courageous was written in a particularly prolific period of Kipling's career when he lived in Vermont with his young family. There he produced a profusion of poetry as well as The Jungle Book. MacMillan & Co unknown
1897140948638London: The Macmillan and Company Limited 1897. First British Edition. Near Fine. First British edition first printing. Signed by Rudyard Kipling on the title page. viii 245 pp. illustrated with wood engravings. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with pictorial stamping in gilt all edges gilt black endpapers; lacking the exceedingly rare dust jacket. Near Fine with sunning to spine light rubbing and soiling to cloth and minimal mottling to cloth over rear board. Hinges starting with webbing exposed at rear hinge contents lightly toned faint foxing to prelims and margins. Housed in a custom chemise slipcase blue cloth over quarter blue morocco titled in gilt somewhat rubbed with foxing to paper lining of chemise. Livingston 136 Martindell 68.<br /> <br /> <p>Rudyard Kipling wrote Captains Courageous during the years he lived in Vermont with his young family in a house he designed to resemble a ship. The Dr. James Conland to whom the American edition is dedicated was the family physician whose stories of his time in a Massachusetts fishing fleet inspired this bildungsroman about a millionaire's son who learns the value of hard work at sea. The novel drew praise from Teddy Roosevelt and the 1937 film adaptation won Spencer Tracy an Oscar for his portrayal of a kindly fisherman.<br /> <br /> <p>The first British edition slightly preceded by the first American edition was issued by Macmillan in pretty gift binding reflecting the status Kipling had already achieved as a writer. Signed copies are rare. The Macmillan and Company Limited unknown
1897374815London: Macmillan 1897. First English edition. 22 illustrations by I. W. Taber. 245 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original gilt stamped blue cloth with vignette of fishermen black endpapers a.e.g. Complete with original dust jacket in very good condition lightly yellowed at spine with some archival mending. W. C. Thomas bookplate to front pastedown; minimal foxing to prelims. Taber I.W. First English edition. 22 illustrations by I. W. Taber. 245 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A charming copy with the rare dust jacket of Kipling's only novel set in the United States following the son of a Californian millionaire who stumbles into his adventure by falling overboard and being rescued by a fishing vessel. Teddy Roosevelt praised the book in 1900 for describing "in the liveliest way just what a boy should be and do." Stewart 160; Livingston 136; Richards A103 Macmillan unknown
189771784London:: Macmillan 1897. First edition. publisher's gilt blue cloth preserved in a custom cloth slipcase and chemise. Tiny bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown; slight cracking to inner hinges; small scratch to top edge of the gilt text block; lower corners slightly bumped; else a fresh bright unworn copy with only slight rubbing to the gold decoration. Really a spectacular copy. . 12mo. Macmillan, hardcover
189740582New York : Century Co. 1897 . First American Edition. Original green illustrated cloth and publisher's dustjacket. Although the English edition is occasionally found in dust jacket the American edition is much less common. Not in Tanselle for the English dust jacket see Tanselle 97.91 Very good with light shelf wear in nearly Very good dustjacket with chips at top and bottom of spine and a few tears along the spine and front flap. Century Co. hardcover
1897TB32117New York: The Century Co. 1897. First Edition. First Printing Very near fine in decorated green cloth covered boards with red black and gilt decorations on the front board and with the top edge of the text block gilt. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches with the spine tanned and with minor rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and to the lower tips of the boards. Without a dust jacket. 323 pages of text with all 21 of the illustrated black and white plates present as called for in the table of contents within this copy. A very presentable collectible copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. The Century Co. hardcover
189724318London:Macmillan and Co. Limited 1897. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2019/01/0_img_2063.jpg. London:Macmillan and Co. Limited. 1897. 1st English edition. viii245pp2pp ads. Illustrated by I.W. Taber. All edges gilt. Hardcover. Blue boards lightly soiled and shelfworn with gilt on front cover bright but gilt on the spine dulled. Internally paper just slightly age-toned with a hint of foxing to first and last pages but free of previous owners marks or signatures. A very good copy. London:Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
18979900028063London: Pearson's Magazine 1897. 1st edition. Leather Bound. black-&-white illustrations. 85 pp. Slim 8vo. Handsomely bound in 3/4 reddish-brown niger morocco over reddish-brown cloth t.e.g. The five parts are bound without any preliminary leaves containing 85 pages from the magazine. The binding is by Sangorski and Sutcliffe of London. The spine is in compartments with delicate gilt lettering and the date 1896-7 at bottom. The leather of the front board is a bit spotted more so near the top than elsewhere and the top of the hinge is rubbed. The boards are also slightly bumped. The front free endpaper shows some scuffing. There are four small spots to the rear endpaper of no particular consequence. The contents are generally clean if slightly edge-worn. Overall the book is in very good condition in a most attractive binding. Martindell 68. Written when Kipling was but 31 and not long married to the sister of his American agent this is his only book to be set entirely in America. This unique item contains the December 1896; and the January to April 1897 parts of Pearson's Magazine which constituted the first appearance in print of Kipling's famous novella. The first book publication was by Macmillan London later in 1897 with 21 illustrations by I. W. Taber. The first American book publication was also in 1897 by The Century Co. New York City. This true first printing also contains 16 illustrations by I. W. Taber as well as an additional 21 illustrations by Fred T. Jane the founder of 'Jane's Fighting Ships ' and two by Swain. Pearson's Magazine unknown
189745302New York: The Century Co 1897. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and black gilt and orange pictorial and decorative stamping. viii 323pp. Frontispiece 20 full-page called-for plates. Very good. Internally tight and near fine though binding is a bit edgeworn and the cloth "flecked" with a few stray small spots on spine and rear board; small homely gouge at lower left of front board. A tight and decent first edition of this great seafaring adventure in a binding that's well-loved but still fairly attractive with front board gilt bright. The illustrations by Walton Taber 1857-1933 are pristine. The Century Co hardcover
1899010910The Century Co. No dust jacket. Solid copy of this classic book. Green embossed cloth with bright red black and gilded design and titles. Slight sun darkening to spine. Prior owner presentation as Christmas present and that prior owner's stamp. Pages are clean and bright. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1899. The Century Co. hardcover
1897020310New York: Century 1897 First American Edition. Bright green cloth binding with image of masted boat. Frontispiece 323 pp. Additional black and white illustrations. Ex-library. Minimal library markings. Very good. Century hardcover