Kipling Rudyard

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1910ref. 11849Doubleday Page and Company. New York. 1910. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION U. S. IN PUBLISHERS DELUX LEATHER BINDING. Precedes the first U. K separate edition by 4 years. Oblong 8vo. 4.4 x 6.4 inches. 8 double leaves uncut at the top held in by a white cord tie. Each double leaf has a red rule and dot border the text printed in black with red initial letters. Half title has "IF" printed in red within an ornamental black panel the same printed onto the front board with the addition of the author's name. The Publishers note on page 5 appears in four different variants with priority unknown and this copy has variant iv. In the rare original delux publishers dark green morocco leather binding with gilt ruling and lettering to the front panel Richards binding variant i. There is some mottling to the leather on the front panel. The rear board has a faded area to the top half. Inner front hinge cracked but holding firm. Overall the binding is in very good condition and the gilt is still bright and sharp. Neat three line pencil inscription on the front blank free endpaper dated Xmas 1911. Internally this is a clean and bright copy. An attractive copy of this uncommon little book. Published probably November 1910 very shortly after the Poem first appeared in the book Rewards and Fairies October 1910 this separate publication was issued to capitalise on the huge and instant popularity of what has become Kipling's most enduring work of verse. A poll taken by the BBC in the UK in 2005 voted it as Britain's favourite Poem polling twice as many votes as the number 2 choice Lord Tennyson's The Lady of Shallot. Originally written in 1895 IF was inspired by the actions of Dr. Leander Starr Jameson a British Officer whose forces were defeated by the Boers in 1895 but who was portrayed as a victorious hero by the British press the poem is a powerful masterclass in maintaining the British stiff upper lip. ---- David Alan Richards. Rudyard Kipling. A bibliography. A244. Doubleday, Page and Company. New York. 1910 hardcover

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1518ref. 022154Naulakha Waite Vermont 15 June 1896. Framed Letter. Not examined out of frame. Appears Fine. Humorous handwritten one-page letter SIGNED "Rudyard Kipling" on his Naulakha Waite Vermont stationery to William Livingston Alden. In full: "Many thanks for your kind little note. It's a rummy land this side but there's a heap of material that I've got out of it. however i shall be clearing out in the Fall to get the taste out of my mouth. You see the devil of it is that a reporter once found out from a hired Swede girl that I occasionally sat down to dinner in that kind of rig which the downtrodden subjects of an effete monarchy call evening dress. Since then I have been considered with suspicion. But you'll see me come along in time back to civilization with a bicycle and a fishing-rod." Attractively and professionally matted and framed with a photographic reproduction of Kipling to an overall size of 15-1/2" x 13." Alden was an American journalist humorist and writer of fiction. He had been Consul General in Rome 1885-89 and from 1892 until his death in 1908 he lived in London where he was a regular contributor to magazines. The letterhead is of interest as in 1895 the U. S. Postmaster General authorized a special post office since Kipling received more mail than the largest business in the area. Waite Vermont existed solely in the home of and was named for the Kiplings' neighbor Anna F. Waite who was appointed Postmistress. The Kiplings left Vermont not long after this letter was written never to return Waite Vermont ceased to exist the following year. Today philatelists prize the Waite postmark being the only post office ever created for an individual. Kipling wrote THE JUNGLE BOOK and CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS in Vermont. It is said that Kipling's Naulakha is where skiing was introduced to Vermont and the site of the state's first tennis court. unknown

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