Rudyard Kipling – Rewards and Fairies – First Edition 1910 – The appearance of Kipling’s Poem ‘If’
£600.00
A first edition, first printing. Octavo. pp xii, 338, [2] adverts. Illustrations by Frank Craig. Original red cloth with gilt elephant device on front cover. Top edge gilt. Stories and poems. First appearance of the poem ”If –”. Small dink to spine edge. Cloth at head of spine slightly rubbed. Prelims and edges spotted without inscriptions. Very good. No dustwrapper. Scarce.
The first appearance of Kipling’s poem ‘If’: “If you can keep your head when all about you/ Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,/ If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,/ But make allowance for their doubting too”
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A first edition, first printing. Octavo. pp xii, 338, [2] adverts. Illustrations by Frank Craig. Original red cloth with gilt elephant device on front cover. Top edge gilt. Stories and poems. First appearance of the poem ”If –”. Small dink to spine edge. Cloth at head of spine slightly rubbed. Prelims and edges spotted without inscriptions. Very good. No dustwrapper. Scarce.
The first appearance of Kipling’s poem ‘If’: “If you can keep your head when all about you/ Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,/ If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,/ But make allowance for their doubting too”
