For a while, Kipling, who never felt entirely at home either in India or in England, was as happy there as he had ever been… On settling in America… Kipling was determined to reinvent himself as a specifically American kind of writer, and for a while believed that his status as an outsider made him uniquely qualified to study American society. It was a long, narrow, green-shingled place that, with one end shaped like a bow, looked a little like an ark. There is "a little-known chapter in Kipling's life: the four years that this outspoken defender of the British Empire spent living just outside Brattleboro, Vermont, where he wrote some of his best work, including The Jungle Books, Captains Courageous, and the first draft of Kim … Kipling wound up in Brattleboro because, in January, 1892, when he was twenty-six and already famous for tales and poems he had published about India, he married a Vermonter named Carrie Balestier …On land bought from Carrie's other brother, Beatty, they built a house, Naulakha, named after the novel, though spelled differently. One of the few copies of this work signed by Kipling that we are aware of. Taber, signed by Kipling on the title page with his name crossed out and dated "1922" by Kipling on the last page of text.
Housed in a custom chemise and morocco slipcase.įirst English edition of Kipling’s richly detailed tale of American deep-sea fishing and faith in hard work, with frontispiece and 21 illustrations by I.W. Octavo, original gilt-stamped pictorial blue cloth, all edges gilt.
Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks. A GREAT RARITY: FIRST EDITION OF KIPLING'S CAPTAIN'S COURAGEOUS, “A SAGA OF HARD PHYSICAL WORK IN CONFLICT WITH NATURAL FORCES,” SIGNED BY HIM ON THE TITLE PAGE AND DATED BY HIM ON THE LAST PAGE OF TEXT, ONE OF A VERY FEW KNOWN SIGNED COPIES
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