The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
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The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling

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Condition: ["Very Good"]

Format: Hardcover

Price:
$250.00

Description

Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
Year: 1896
Edition: First American Edition (Published simultaneously with the English edition).
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 209
Condition: Near Fine cloth volume with luminous gilt ornamentation and tight structural alignment.
Published immediately following his legendary Jungle Book duology, this 1896 collection serves as a definitive showcase of Rudyard Kipling’s maritime poetry. Dedicated to the city of Bombay, The Seven Seas features foundational genre milestones including "McAndrew's Hymn," "The Mary Gloster," and "The Lost Legion," capturing the mechanical, human, and imperial anxieties of late-Victorian seafaring life.
The Visual Aesthetic:
This volume is a premier example of late-Victorian publisher's trade bindings. Executed on a warm, burnt-orange cloth wrapper, the front board and spine feature a sprawling, intricate gilt-stamped floral Art Nouveau framework signed under the design initials "EMD". The design showcases the era's transition toward organic, flowing asymmetry, making it a stellar decorative display asset for historical or high-design libraries.
Collector's Condition Details:
Near Fine (NF). A highly desirable preservation state. The original cloth remains uniformly clean, stiff, and completely free from the standard corner fraying or structural head-cap collapse common to this edition. The heavy gold gilt tooling remains remarkably luminous and reflective. The binding is flush, square, and uncracked. Interior pages are clean and untrimmed with a neat, elegant previous owner's ink inscription dated "December 1904" on the front flyleaf. Housed in a premium archival protection system.

 

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