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Rudyard KIPLING, Captains Courageous; A Story of the Great Banks - FIRST EDITION
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London: MacMillan & Co., 1897. FIRST EDITION
Small 8vo. 7 3/8 x 4 3/4 (185 x 121 mm); half-title, frontispiece, title, viii, 245, [2 advertisements]; 22 engraved plates, including frontispiece, by Isaac Walton Taber (1857 – 1933). Original blue cloth with gilt designs and lettering on front board and spine, black coated endpapers, all edges brightly gilt. No dust jacket, very light bumping at head and tail of spine, otherwise binding in excellent condition as are all the pages, clean, bright and unmarked.
[Martindell 61; Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, p. 104].
One of the great nineteenth-century English adventure novels, Captains Courageous follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. After being tossed overboard an ocean liner, Harvey meets Disko Troop, captain of the small fishing boat We're Here, who refuses to take the young man back to port, but agrees to take him on as part of the crew. Over the course of the novel, Harvey befriends the captain's son Dan, who helps the arrogant millionaire develop into a hard-working, honest young man who is self-reliant and content with living simply.
The novel originally appeared as a serialization in McClure's, between November 1896 and May 1897. In 1900, Teddy Roosevelt extolled the book in his essay "What We Can Expect of the American Boy", praising Kipling for describing "in the liveliest way just what a boy should be and do".
"The work has always been popular in the USA and various versions have been filmed." (Sutherland, p. 104).
The English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Captains Courageous was written in a particularly prolific period of Kipling's career when he lived in Vermont with his young family. There he produced a profusion of poetry as well as The Jungle Book.
Condition: Near fine.
- Dimensions:Height: 7.38 in (18.75 cm)Width: 4.75 in (12.07 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1897
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Middletown, NY
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