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'Captains Courageous' A Story of the Grand Banks
rif. 71360London: Macmillan and Company 1897. Classic seafaring adventure FIRST EDITION first impression. Crown octavo 20 x 14cm pp.viii; 245 3. With 22 engraved illustrations by Taber including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth front board shows gilt titles and a scene in gilt of Harvey at hauling on a line in apparently rough seas gilt titles and a portrait of Manuel blowing a horn to spine; all edges gilt black endpapers. Blind W.H. Smith stamp to fly-leaf otherwise internally crisp and clean. Heavy rubbing and toning to spine and lower board; upper quite clean. Good. One of Kipling's more moralistic adventure tales which tells the story of Harvey Cheyne the spoiled and perennially annoying son of a railroad magnate. When he falls overboard and is picked up by fishermen who don't believe the story of his origins he is forced to work his way back to land. By the time he reaches he shore and his parents arrive to pick him up he has become a worthy and industrious young man meeting the whole checklist of virtues outlined by Kipling in "If London: Macmillan and Company, 1897 unknown
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