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Edinburgh Society, 1909. Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket Included. Good copy without DJ. De Luxe Edition. Only one thousand impressions have been taken of this edition. All pages are completely clean without any marks. Top 2-3 inches of spine back cover are missing. Pages and cover are tight and square. With 4 illustrations including tissue -protected frontispiece. Small tear in tissue.492 pp. Spine and pages are tight. Gilt title on the spine is bright. The Novels and Stories of Richard Harding Davis with Frederic Remington illustrations.

Viking Press, 1974. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/As New. Fine or better copy in As New dustwrapper with original $14.95 price. A first American edition, 1974. Published first in England in 1974. Pages, cover and jacket are crisp and unmarked. Very slight yellow fading about 1/4 inches wide at pages edges, otherwise As New. Protected in clear Mylar cover. 144 pp w/index & sources, B & W/color photographic & other illus., 4to Summary: Martin Fido carefully examines England's first Nobel Prize winner in literature with the publication of Jungle Book, and Gunga Din. He provides a vivid picture of the strange and progressively unhappy life of Kipling, time period of a grim outlook to a country about to go to war, and the complete works of Kipling. Many old illustrations and photos of Kipling, his family, places he visited through the years and important people during wartime. Some color photos of his homes and artwork.