King Albert’s Book: A Tribute to the Belgian King and People from Representative Men and Women Throughout the World.

[KIPLING, Rudyard; Winston S. Churchill; John Galsworthy; Sir Henry Haggard; Edith Wharton; et al].

$850.00

Item Number: 126384

New York: Hearst's International Library Co, 1914.

First edition of King Albert’s Book, produced to profit the Belgian Fund. Quarto, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of King Albert, with numerous tipped-in color plates illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, and Maxfield Parrish. Contains the first appearance of Rudyard Kipling’s The Outlaws. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is lacking the spine.

Produced to benefit the Belgian Fund, King Albert's Book contains contributions by numerous princes, diplomats, ecclesiastics, scholars, scientists, men and women of letters, artists, and composers including Winston S. Churchill, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, Arthur Rackham, and Claude Debussy.