Letters to the Family; Notes on a Recent Trip to Canada de Kipling, Rudyard

Paperback / softback. New.

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Hardback. New.

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Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada, 1910. Book. Good. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The "Second Edition" from 1910, in a larger format than the original 1908 issue. Original pale blue wrappers, printed in black to front. Covers toned and stained, and worn at extremities. Edges toned, and small "Canadiana" ink-stamp inside front cover and to first (half-title) page. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Quite a neat little copy of this scarce item. 94pp..

Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited, 1908. First edition in book form of this collection of Kipling's letters which first appeared in Newspapers during the spring of 1908 after a trip to Canada undertaken in the autumn of 1907. 12 mo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Rare. 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. Kipling was born in India, which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907.

Toronto: Macmillan Company, 1908. First edition. Original printed wraps, measuring 170 x 117mm and complete in 72 pages. Chipping, wear, and staining to spine and wrap edges; splitting to both joints near the foot of spine. Light toning internally, else unmarked. A scarce piece. Housed in a custom slipcase with chemise, with mottling and wear to cloth. Written during a 1907 trip to Canada, Letters to the Family captures the author's commitment to the British Empire and those who are his "family" through it -- indeed, it is among Kipling's most overt and bare examples of Imperialist propaganda. "These articles are scarcely a travelogue, rather a series of political essays on matters Imperial" and an assertion of Britain's so-called civilizing influence on those nations it colonized (Kipling Society).