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SONGS OF THE SEA from Rudyard Kipling's Verse
1927réf. 159111927. Illustrated by Donald Maxwell. Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1927. Original light blue-grey paper-covered boards with vellum spine. First American Edition of which this is one of 150 large-paper copies signed by Kipling this being copy #6; there was also a UK signed edition but it consisted of 500 un-numbered copies. This is a collection of previously-published Kipling poems plus a previously-UNpublished concluding poem "The Scholars" accompanied by twelve color plates by Donald Maxwell plus 22 monotone head- and tail-pieces. As Richards points out Maxwell -- related to Kipling by marriage -- had been an accomplished naval artist/correspondent during the Great War and was a frequent visitor at the Kiplings' "Bateman's." This is a near-fine copy slight browning at the edges of the boards; there is no jacket but the only jacket issued with this large-paper issue was a glassine one. Richards A370. unknown
Sumner & Stillman · États-Unis425,00 $US≈ 378,96 €
