American Notes. With Introduction.
"Behold me pitched neck-and-crop from twenty days of the high seas into the whirl of California, deprived of any guidance and left to draw my own conclusions": Rudyard Kipling's American Notes
American Notes. With Introduction.
KIPLING, Rudyard.
$200.00
Item Number: 120954
Boston: Brown and Company, 1899.
Rare unauthorized edition of this collection of 7 essays written after Kipling’s first visit to America which first appeared in 1891. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated blue cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Kipling. Introduction by G. P. T. In fine condition. Housed in a custom chemise slipcase.
Kipling made his first visit to America in 1891, where he began his travels in San Francisco before a whirlwind trip around the entire country during which he met Mark Twain and was deeply impressed. American Notes includes At The Golden Gate, American Salmon, The Yellowstone, and America's Defenceless Coasts.
