"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
'Captains Courageous,' A Story of the Grand Banks.
London: Macmillan and Company, 1897. [Classic seafaring adventure] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Crown octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 245 [3]. With 22 engraved illustrations by Taber, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth, front board shows gilt titles and a scene in gilt of Harvey at hauling on a line in apparently rough seas, gilt titles and a portrait of Manuel blowing a horn to spine; all edges gilt, black endpapers. Blind W.H. Smith stamp to fly-leaf, otherwise internally crisp and clean. Heavy rubbing and toning to spine and lower board; upper quite clean. Good. One of Kipling's more moralistic adventure tales, which tells the story of Harvey Cheyne, the spoiled and perennially annoying son of a railroad magnate. When he falls overboard and is picked up by fishermen, who don't believe the story of his origins, he is forced to work his way back to land. By the time he reaches he shore, and his parents arrive to pick him up, he has become a worthy and industrious young man, meeting the whole checklist of virtues outlined by Kipling in "If" Item #71360
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