Rudyard Kipling - Puck of Pook's Hill - 1906
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Rudyard Kipling, author/illustrator, Puck of Pook's Hill, 1906 first UK edition, hardback in original red binding with gilt swastika, Macmillan London, 19 full-page illustrations by H. R. Millar; very good condition.
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"Puck of Pook's Hill" by Rudyard Kipling - Macmillan, London - 1906 first UK edition - 18cmx15cm - condition: very good copy, in original red publisher's binding ,with gilt swastika on front cover, Frontispiece and 19 full-page monochrome illustrations by H. R. Millar. When first published, Kipling referred to the first four stories as "part of scheme of mine for trying to give children not a notion of history but a notion of time sense which is at the bottom of all history that rightly understood means love of one's fellow man and the land one lives in". (Letters 3, p.189) Siblings Dan and Una of rural Sussex are reciting A Midsummer Night's Dream to one another on Midsummer Eve near the titular "Pook's Hill" when they summon Puck "a small, brown, broad-shouldered, pointy-eared person with a snub nose, slanting blue eyes, and a wicked twinkle in his eye". Puck introduces himself as "the oldest Old Thing in England" and introduces a procession of figures from English history among them a Roman centurion, a Saxon monk, a Norman knight, a Viking sea captain, and so on. Rewards and Fairies, published in 1910, added additional stories and poems. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, stories and poems of British India, and his tales for children. Despite this reputation, Kipling's extraordinary body of work "eludes all labels in its range and variety Kipling's work is not only of the highest artistic excellence, it is deeply humane and fully expresses the sense of one of his favourite texts: 'Praised be Allah for the diversity of his creatures.'" (ODNB) Kipling was in his twenties when his stories of Anglo-Indian life made him a literary celebrity, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907, the year after this book was published. This book has two instances - on the gilt front cover device and on the half title verso of the swastika symbol prevalent in Kipling's published works, an ancient symbol of "good fortune" used at least 5,000 years before being perverted by Hitler's Reich
"Puck of Pook's Hill" by Rudyard Kipling - Macmillan, London - 1906 first UK edition - 18cmx15cm - condition: very good copy, in original red publisher's binding ,with gilt swastika on front cover, Frontispiece and 19 full-page monochrome illustrations by H. R. Millar. When first published, Kipling referred to the first four stories as "part of scheme of mine for trying to give children not a notion of history but a notion of time sense which is at the bottom of all history that rightly understood means love of one's fellow man and the land one lives in". (Letters 3, p.189) Siblings Dan and Una of rural Sussex are reciting A Midsummer Night's Dream to one another on Midsummer Eve near the titular "Pook's Hill" when they summon Puck "a small, brown, broad-shouldered, pointy-eared person with a snub nose, slanting blue eyes, and a wicked twinkle in his eye". Puck introduces himself as "the oldest Old Thing in England" and introduces a procession of figures from English history among them a Roman centurion, a Saxon monk, a Norman knight, a Viking sea captain, and so on. Rewards and Fairies, published in 1910, added additional stories and poems. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, stories and poems of British India, and his tales for children. Despite this reputation, Kipling's extraordinary body of work "eludes all labels in its range and variety Kipling's work is not only of the highest artistic excellence, it is deeply humane and fully expresses the sense of one of his favourite texts: 'Praised be Allah for the diversity of his creatures.'" (ODNB) Kipling was in his twenties when his stories of Anglo-Indian life made him a literary celebrity, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907, the year after this book was published. This book has two instances - on the gilt front cover device and on the half title verso of the swastika symbol prevalent in Kipling's published works, an ancient symbol of "good fortune" used at least 5,000 years before being perverted by Hitler's Reich
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