France At War. On The Frontier Of Civilization.
"First to follow truth and last to leave old truths behind, France beloved of every soul that loves its fellow-kind": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's France At War On The Frontier Of Civilization
France At War. On The Frontier Of Civilization.
KIPLING, Rudyard.
$400.00
Item Number: 120244
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915.
First American edition of Kipling’s second collection of military poems and short stories. Octavo, original boards with paper spine label and large paper label to the front panel decorated with the British Admiralty and French Flags. In fine condition. Small bookplate to the pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase.
Kipling's second collection of military poems and tales, France at War contains: Poem: France, The Nation's Spirit and a New Inheritance, Battle Spectacle and a Review, The Spirit of the People, Life in the Trenches on the Mountain Side, and The Common Task of a Great People.
