The Quest. [First Separate Printing - Ltd to 12 copies]

12 pp; 12mo stapled grey wrappers. Colophon: "Set by Hand and 12 copies printed; none of which are for sale; VII-XI-XXXIII." A forty-line, four-stanza poem about a knight returning from battle. First, and only, separate publication. The poem was first published in The Book of Beauty / A Collection of Beautiful Portraits with Literary, Artistic and Musical Contributions by Men and Women of the Day; edited by. F. Harcourt Williamson; London; Hutchinson & Co, 1897. It was next reprinted by E.W. Martindell in Fragmenta Condita: The Unrecorded Portion of my Kipling Collection. (Appendix to 'A Bibliography of the Work of Rudyard Kipling', 1922; privately printed.) Not recorded in any of the Kipling bibliographies, including Richards (OCLC lists one copy in the Houghton Library, Harvard University.] The publisher, Edward Crussell, was a Sacramento bookseller in the 1920's, a charter member of The Kipling Society, and contributor to The Kipling Journal.

CONDITION: Wrappers faded and with several small edge tears. Front wrapper creased with 2" closed tear at top. Title page sunned at extremities, otherwise internally near-fine [the crease in the wrapper apparently from having been displayed open for some time. This copy signed by Crussell as copy no. 3.

Product Info

Publisher: Edward H. Crussell

Year: 1933

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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