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Author: Kipling, Rudyard
Title: Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks
Place Published: London
Publisher:Macmillan and Co.
Date Published: 1897
Description:

viii, 245 + [2] ad pp. Illustrated by I. W. Taber. (8vo) original gilt-decorated and lettered blue cloth, all edges gilt. First Edition.

Considered one of the great nineteenth century novels. In 1900, in his essay “What We Can Expect of the American Boy,” Teddy Roosevelt extolled the book and praised Kipling for describing “in the liveliest way just what a boy should be and do.” Livingston 137.

Covers bright with just a hit of rubbing to extremities; crack to front hinge, rear tender; near fine.