Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling gold leaf A superbly presented first impression

A superbly presented first impression of George Orwell's defining novel

" presumably highlighting the book's critical commentary on the colonial situation in South Africa

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Alongside these stand the comic inventiveness of The Twits and George's Marvellous Medicine

His work for Macmillan and others — including Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales (1910) and The Water-Babies (1913) — firmly established him among the foremost illustrators of the early twentieth century

Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling gold leaf A superbly presented first impressionLondon: 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