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ADVENTURE ON THE HIGH SEAS

Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous, first editionKIPLING, RUDYARD.

Captains Courageous

"I wanted to see if I could catch and hold something of a rather beautiful localised American atmosphere that was already beginning to fade..." -Kipling, on Captains Courageous

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. $1000.

 

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