‘Captains Courageous,’ A Story of the Grand Banks
London and New York: Macmillan and Co. and The Macmillan Company, 1897. I.W. TABER. [FICTION]. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited and New York: The Macmillan Company, 1897. I.W. TABER, illustrator. R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh, printer.
First British edition. 12mo (7 7/16” x 5”); viii, [1]-245pp; red goat over board, double gilt fillet with corner flower ornaments, 6 spine compartments with gilt ornaments and date “1897,” onlaid gilt-lettered labels; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles with marbled boards, owners bookplate “Josephine B. Crane / Sugar Hill / Dalton, Mass.” on front pastedown; binder’s stamp on verso ffep “Bound by Zaehnsdorf”; engraved fp + 20 plates and one illustration in text; light shelf wear to edges, spine sunned, a few spots; very good plus. Item #2358
A beautifully bound copy of Rudyard Kipling’s (1865-1936) exciting tale about a 15-year-old boy, Harvey Cheyne, Jr., who is washed overboard from a trans-Atlantic steamship and picked up by a fishing schooner off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. First published in McClure’s magazine from November 1896 to May 1897, it was published as a book first in the U.S. by Doubleday and then by Macmillan in London.
Bound by Joseph Zaehnsdorf (1816-1886), an Austrian Hungarian binder who moved to London by 1837.
Price: $450.00