By Rudyard Kipling
London   Macmillan and Co.
8.5" by 6" vi, 7-80pp.
The first edition of Kipling's story to be published separately from 'Traffics and Discoveries', with illustrations by F. H. Townsend.
By Rudyard Kipling

1905 They

London   Macmillan and Co.
8.5" by 6" vi, 7-80pp.
The first edition of Kipling's story to be published separately from 'Traffics and Discoveries', with illustrations by F. H. Townsend.
£110.00
: 0.5kgs / : 893M8

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First Edition, Illustrated

The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front board.

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and fourteen colour plates. Collated, complete.

Kipling's semi-autobiographical story concerning grief and ghost children, with beautiful illustrations by Frederick Henry Townsend (1868-1920), the first Art Editor of Punch Magazine.

This work was first published in Scribner’s Magazine for August 1904 and collected in Traffics and Discoveries in the same year. This is the first edition to be published separately.

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally smart, though the spine and upper extremities to the front board are slightly darkened. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for offsetting to the paste downs and end papers.

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