Kipling Rudyard

1978 · réf. 43854 — Franklin Center PA: The Franklin Library 1978. Hardcover. Illustrations by Ben F. Stahl. 8vo. Full red calf with gilt lettering raised bands and gilt decorations. 227pp. All edges gilt. Line drawings green moire endpapers and matching sewn-in page marker. Very good. Spine mildly sunned. A tight and attractive volume unspecified limited edition in "The Collector's Library of the World's Best-Loved Books" -- with choice and unusual autograph addition: This copy extra-illustrated with unique added frontispiece consisting of a reproduction of a cartoonist's 1938 renderings of the stars of the 1937 MGM film version of this book Freddie Bartholomew and Spencer Tracy for the Disney film "Mother Goose Goes Hollywood" -- and tipped beneath this 5½" X 4½" image is a fine vintage signature of Bartholomew in bold green ink on a heavy stock 3" X 2" card. Bartholomew 1924-92 was an English-American actor one of most famed child stars of all time. The Franklin Library hardcover