first edition
1919 · Garden City, NY
by KIPLING, Rudyard
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919. First Edition. One of 70 copies printed for copyright purposes. Slim octavo (20.5cm); publisher's original wrappers bound into full navy blue crushed morocco by The French Binders, with five raised bands, titles stamped in gilt on spine, and covers with double-ruled borders and decorative corner pieces tooled in gilt on covers; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt; 8pp, padded with 11 blank terminal leaves. Pinpoint wear, else Fine. A poem first published in the Daily Telegraph (29 January, 1919), concerning the young naval officers who were sent to Cambridge University for two terms between 1919-1922. LIVINGSTON 437. cf.Kipling Society website.
(Inventory #: 51583)