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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited ed. One of 700 numbered copies only (of which this is No. 166) signed by Van De Water and Custer. Hardcovber in light tan buckram cloth with gilt and dark brown lettering and decoration on the front board. 119 pp. with six drawings by Bernadine Custer. Fine in near fine slipcase with tipped on titling and blurb, some toning to the spine portion. Rudyard Kipling lived with his wife on a small estate in Dummerston, Vermont, in a house they built called Naulakha, from 1892 to 1896. It was while he was here that he wrote both "The Jungle Book" and "Captains Courageous". Kipling would have been content to live out his life there but in 1896, a dispute arose between the Kiplings an a neighbor led to a court case and the Kiplings left Vermont never to return. This volume, wrotten by a Dummerston native and historian, tells the story of that dispute. q.