A Choice of Kipling's Prose by Raine, Craig - 1987q

London: Faber & Faber. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987q. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0571137350 . INSCRIBED by author on full title page, "for Rolland Comstock - with the good wishes of the editor, a fellow ex-[? ] Craig Raine." "As a short-story writer, Rudyard Kipling is equalled only by Chekhov - and this unusually generous selection, intended as a companion volume to T. S. Eliot's A Choice of Kipling's Verse, will undoubtedly confirm Kipling as a great master." Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on front paste-down endpaper. Text block is pulled away from spine head, small bumps on spine ends and bottom right corner of front board, pages are tanned but clean. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has minimal edge and shelf wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 448 pages; Signed by Author .