Friday, March 15, 2013

RR Auctions Rudyard Kipling Signed Book Songs of the Sea


Signed book: Songs of the Sea from Rudyard Kipling’s Verse. Limited edition of 500 large paper copies. London: Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1927. Hardcover with dustjacket and slipcase, 9.5 x 11.5, 99 pages. Signed on the limitations page in black ink. Book condition: VG+/VG-. White and pale blue paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine and gilted upper textblock edge; yellowing/discoloration to spine, textblock edges, and feps; faint musty odor. Dust jacket has chips and creases along edges, with one considerable chip from center of spine (text not effected); all-over yellowing, darkest at spine; spine rubbed. In VG- slipcase; yellowed, rubbed and soiled with waterstain to spine/lower edge; splits along edges (largest split 2.5”). RR Auction COA.

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