Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling Secker & Warburg 17 x 12 cm

17 x 12 cm

" Orwell remarked that "Animal Farm was the first book in which I consciously attempted to merge political and artistic purposes into a cohesive whole

in their original pictorial dust jackets

airborne elevators and gleefully subversive verse

the landscapes of East Africa

Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling Secker & Warburg 17 x 12 cmLondon: Published by Macmillan and Co., 1897 With illustrations by I. W. Taber. First English Edition, published approximately one month after the American edition. Two pages of undated advertisements at rear. Bound in the original blue cloth, with pictorial gilt decoration, all edges gilt. This handsome volume is the fourth and final work to be bound in Macmillan's distinctive gilt decorated style previously used for The Jungle Books (1894 95) and