A Letter From Rudyard Kipling on the Possible Source of the Tempest
Published by Privately Printed for E. C. Frost and G. P. Winship, Providence, 1906
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used





Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Condition: Used - Very good
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A very scarce, private printing of a letter from Rudyard Kipling to the editor of the 'Spectator' detailing his thoughts on the possible source of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'. The first and only edition. Limited to 52 copies.From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son, literary agent of Rudyard Kipling.In the publisher's original quarter calf with paper to the boards.Very scarce.Privately printed.This work features a letter from the Nobel Prize winning author Rudyard Kipling, to the editor of the Spectator, to which this letter was first published on the 2nd of July in 1898, discussing the possible source of Shakespeare's tempest. Bound in quarter calf with paper to the boards. Externally very smart with fading to the spine and slight edge wear. Spotting to the extremities of the endpapers, lighter to the rear with slight offsetting. Internally firmly bound with bright pages and scattered spotting throughout. The odd page unopened. Very Good Indeed.
Seller Inventory # 895Z25
Bibliographic details
- Title
- A Letter From Rudyard Kipling on the Possible Source of the Tempest
- Author
- Rudyard Kipling; Edwin Collins Frost
- Publisher
- Privately Printed for E. C. Frost and G. P. Winship, Providence
- Publication year
- 1906
- Condition
- Very Good Indeed
- Book Type
- book
- Binding
- Cloth
- Illustrator
- None
- Edition
- First edition.
- Item weight
- 0.5 kilograms
- Dimensions
- 6" by 4.5"
Rooke Books PBFA
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