KIPLING, Rudyard. The Days Work. (1898 - FIRST EDITION SECOND PRINTING - PRESENTATION COPY)
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AUTHOR: KIPLING, Rudyard.
TITLE: The Days Work.
PUBLISHER: London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1898.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION SECOND PRINTING PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., inscribed on the title-page "Aunt Louie with love from Ruddy Oct. 98", additionally signed below his printed name, bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped blue cloth, top edge gilt, half-tone picture of Kipling neatly tipped to the verso of the half-title.
CONDITION: Internally clean and bright, no previous ownership markings, inscriptions, or bookplate, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, A VERY GOOD COPY.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Louisa Baldwin [nee MacDonald] (1845-1910), was the youngest of the four famed "MacDonald Sisters". She was closest in age to Agnes, Rudyard Kipling's mother. Louisa was the mother of future British Prime Minister, Stanly Baldwin.
