Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling Secker & Warburg in their original pictorial dust

in their original pictorial dust jackets

whose presence continues to dominate Manderley

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

local customs

They are rare and significant artifacts of a nation facing its greatest challenge

Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling Secker & Warburg in their original pictorial dustLondon: 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