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LOT 3121
11th November 2020
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LOT 3121
KIPLING FAMILY COLLECTION. - Stephen CRANE. Wounds in the Rain. London: Methuen & Co., 1900. First UK edition, inscribed by Cora Crane to Rudyard Kipling, 8vo (191 x 121mm.) (Browning to pastedowns, light spotting to preliminaries.) Original red cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine (fading to spine, soiling to margins). Note: the inscription reads 'To Rudyard Kipling Esq., Compliments of Cora Crane'. Crane was an admirer of Kipling's work and it's possible they met when Kipling lived in America. However, the Crane's also lived in Oxted, England, when Stephen was sent to Europe on assignments as war correspondent. Cora accompanied him and, writing under the name 'Imogene Carter' is now considered to be the first female war correspondent. They were befriended by members of the Fabian society, as well as H.G. Wells and Joseph Conrad. Stephen died of tuberculosis at a sanatorium in Germany, aged twenty-eight. Provenance: Rudyard Kipling (bookplate to front pastedown). - And a collection of forty-one further volumes with an association to the Kipling and the Macdonald family (including 'A Pinchbeck Goddess', 1897, 8vo, inscribed by Alice M. Fleming ['Trix' Kipling, Rudyard's sister] and with the ownership name of 'Alice Kipling', the author's mother); and 'Rewards and Fairies', 1910, 8vo, with an ownership inscription of 'Trix Fleming'; and Angela Thirkell's 'The Brandons', 1939, 8vo, inscribed by Thirkell to her 'Darling Aunt Trix' [Thirkell was a cousin of Rudyard and 'Trix'], with a framed photograph of Thirkell as a child; and books with ownership inscriptions of Helen, Edith, Margaret and Florence Macdonald, and volumes owned and inscribed by Kipling's cousin, Julius F. Macdonald, and several volumes about the family.
Hammer price: £900
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