8vo. With advertisement leaf at end; original pictorial blue cloth gilt, frontispiece and illustrations by I.W. Taber, advertisement leaf at the end, all edges gilt, black coated endpapers. Original pictorial gilt blue cloth, black coated endpapers (hinges tender; spine extremities and corners slightly rubbed); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: J. H. Greenwood (contemporary signature on half-title verso). 

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, preceded by the American edition by about a month. It previously had been serialized in Pearson's Magazine between December 1896 and April 1897. Written while Kipling was living as a newlywed near Brattleboro, Vermont, Captains Courageous is Kipling's only novel set entirely in America Livingston 137; Richards A103; Stewart 163.