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KIPLING, RUDYARD

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KIPLING, RUDYARD
(1865 - 1936) English writer and Nobel Prize winner. Among his works are The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous and Kim. Good content A.L.S. "Rudyard Kipling" 1p. 8vo., [n.p., n.d. but ca. 1897], to his publishers S. S. Maclure, in part: "...I shall be obliged if at your earliest...convenience you will send me gallery-proofs of the remainder of Captains Courageous...". Kipling's exciting story Captains Courageous, published in 1897, followed in the success of The Jungle Book, throwing a spoiled boy into a robust adventure in an alien environment of the sea. It remains, to this day, a literary favorite. Sold with an A.L.S. by J. L. KIPLING, the father of Rudyard Kipling, 4pp. 8vo., [n.p.], Apr. 8, 1896, to Robert McClure, regarding an article by E. Kay Robinson, and objecting to certain passages in it. Folds, boldly written and very good. Two items.