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O Beloved Kids: RUDYARD KIPLING'S LETTERS TO HIS CHILDREN.

O Beloved Kids: RUDYARD KIPLING'S LETTERS TO HIS CHILDREN.

O Beloved Kids: RUDYARD KIPLING'S LETTERS TO HIS CHILDREN.
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O Beloved Kids: RUDYARD KIPLING'S LETTERS TO HIS CHILDREN.

by KIPLING, RUDYARD - Edited by Elliot L. Gilbert:

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UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,facsimile colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with blue+brown lettering to front panel of dw/dj,with blue+brown lettered newspapers' reviews to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges lightly aged/toned with some minimal and faint sporadic dust-soiling spotting/foxing,fore-edges less aged/tanned so brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain maroon cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, ivpp+1-218pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table,an introduction,a Who's Who of letters,4 chapters/sections covering years 1906-8,1909-11,1912-14 and 1915,8pp contemporary b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp124/5,profuse Kipling's b/w sketches,drawings etc contained in his letters; plus [unpaginated] title page,contents list/table,b/w facsimile commemerative scroll with acknowledgements to it's recto as last pages. Anyone who is familiar with 'The Jungle Book' and the 'Just So Stories' will be aware that Rudyard Kipling derived great inspiration and happiness from children.Uncomfortable in the limelight after achieving international literary fame and success,by far his most treasured role became that of father to his three children,two of whom died at a tragically young age.It was for John,Elsie and Josephine - his 'dear people',as he called them,that he invented the magical stories that have delighted generations of children for over a century.Over a period of nine years,from 1905 to 1915,Kipling wrote a series of letters to his beloved 'Babes'.Signed variously 'Daddo','Pater' and 'Thy Parent',the letters reveal the same imagination,verve and wit as Kipling's fictional works and cover everything from hygiene to spelling,news from home,as well as brilliantly graphic descriptions of travel in Europe,Egypt and Canada.Many of the letters are liberally peppered with impromptu pen and ink sketches,humorous stories and poems.Perhaps the most moving are those letters written by Kipling to his son John,who,as a young officer fighting in France during the First World War,was to be killed in the trenches in 1915 only a few weeks before his eighteenth birthday.These letters offer an unprecedented glimpse into the relationship between father and son.After John died the fatherly scrawls of affection came to an abrupt end,as Kipling would never forgive himself for having encouraged his son to enlist. Professor Elliot L. Gilbert is widely and highly regarded for his groundbreaking research on Kipling.He was formerly Professor of English at the University of California and is the author of numerous critical books and articles,including 'Kipling and the Critics' and 'The Good Kipling'. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/ P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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Title
O Beloved Kids: RUDYARD KIPLING'S LETTERS TO HIS CHILDREN.
Author
KIPLING, RUDYARD - Edited by Elliot L. Gilbert:
Illustrator
illus by Rudyard Kipling.
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Used - FINE.
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UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
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Hardcover
ISBN 10
1904435807
ISBN 13
9781904435808
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This edition first published
2007
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2009294750
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