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KIPLING, Rudyard SKU: 11557 Barcode:
Second edition, published one month after the first. Crown 8vo (190 mm); viii, 245, (2) pp; Frontispiece with tissue-guard (now blotchy and browned) and 22 illustrations by I. W. Taber; publisher's original royal blue boards with gilt lettering and decoration, tips of corners bumped; all edges gilt; clean black endpapers; previous owner's gilt inscription to the half-title page, dated Xmas 1897. A Fine copy. Originally issued in serialised form in Pearson's Magazine between 1896 and 1897, the work is Kipling's only novel set entirely in America.
