Rewards and Fairies.
"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says hold on": First American edition of Rudyard Kipling's Rewards and Fairies
Rewards and Fairies.
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Item Number: 121045
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910.
First American edition of Kipling’s historical fantasy collection which contains the first appearance of his poem “If—”. Octavo, original decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated with 4 plates including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition.
English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories and poems. Rewards and Fairies consists of a series of short stories set in historical times with a linking contemporary narrative. Each story is preceded and followed by a poem, including If—, often described as Britain's favorite poem. Other well known poems included in the book are Cold Iron and The Way through the Woods.
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