An Almanac of Twelve Sports: With Words By Rudyard Kipling

First Edition; tan linen-backed pictorial boards; lettering in black on front cover; Heinemann logo in colour on title page and on rear cover; illustration in black by Nicholson on front cover; cream coloured end papers; no previous owner's inscriptions or signatures; the spine is square; 16 leaves with additional blank front free end paper and a blank rear free end paper; [1] blank leaf, [1] title page; Heinemann copyright on verso, [1] poem, [2] 1898 calendar, [24] twelve poems by Rudyard Kipling on verso pages and 12 full page lithographs on recto pages in colour after the original wood cuts by Nicholson [2] ads, and [1] blank leaf; the twelve full page plates depict a sport for each month as follows: Hunting (January), Coursing (February), Racing (March), Boating (April), Fishing (May), Cricket (June), Archery (July), Coaching (August), Shooting (September), Golf (October), Boxing (November) and Skating (December). the spine which is often found in delicate condition is indeed very good with this copy; hinges are strong with top of rear joint just starting; no foxing; no browning; minor off-set (as is common) of the plates to text pages; one of the better copies we have handled; Stewart pp. 156-8.…