First UK edition of Kipling´s Captain Courageous

KIPLING, RUDYARD. ´Captains Courageous´ A Story of the Grand Banks. London (Macmillan and Co.) 1897.

8:o. (7, incl. frontispiece), viii, (1)- 245, (1 blank), (2, book catalogue) pp. Plates by I. W. Taber.
Publisher´s original blue cloth, slightly worn, illustration in gilt on upper cover, all edges gilt. Some minor foxing. Small bookseller´s ticket to front pastedown.

First UK edition. Preceded by the US book edition the prevoius month, originally published 1896-97 in Pearson´s Magazine