Captains Courageous

by Rudyard Kipling

$1,000 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

First edition

I wanted to see if I could catch and hold something of a rather beautiful localised American atmosphere that was already beginning to fade... -Kipling, on Captains Courageous FIRST EDITION of Kipling's popular nautical tale, with vivid descriptions of the Massachusetts fishing industry. The basis for the 1937 film starring Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, and Mickey Rooney. London: Macmillan, 1897. Octavo, original cloth gilt, all

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