Something of Myself; For My Friends Known and Unknown
by Kipling, Rudyard (Biography of Rudyard Kipling.)
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- Hardcover
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
London: MacMillan and Co., Limited 1937. (Hardcover) 237pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt device on the front cover and gilt lettering to the spine. Gilt top edge, photographic plates, index. The covers and spine are lightly edgeworn and the dust jacket has minor edgewear including shallow chips to the top and bottom of the spine. "For some time before his death Rudyard Kipling had been engaged on this volume of Autobiographical Memoirs. The book, although not lengthy, is full of most interesting particulars of the author's personal life in India, America, South Africa, and England". Biography of Rudyard Kipling. Locale: America; England; India; South Africa. (Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, Travel and Adventure).
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-159).
Reviews
On Mar 20 2011, Feeney said:
There must be as many ways to conceive and execute autobiographies as there are authors. Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling's SOMETHING OF MYSELF FOR MY FRIENDS KNOWN AND UNKNOWN (published 1937) is highly selective. It is relatively short and focuses on what made him the writer he became. It also speaks much of his travels with wife, children and servants to South Africa and elsewhere in search of a perfect home. That home turned out to be 17th Century Bateman's in Sussex. *** In SOMETHING OF MYSELF you can enjoy being a fly on the wall when Rudyard and his father John joyously collaborate in recollecting the facts behind the great novel of India KIM. Or see Rudyard helping his Capetown neighbor Cecil Rhodes find the right words for launching the Rhodes Scholarships. *** A favorite vignette of mine involves the baby lion that the Kiplings borrowed for a few months from Rhodes and raised at their nearby South African home, The Woolsack. They named the cub M'Slibaan, Matabele language for Sullivan. M'Slibaan came over from Rhodes with "a she-dog foster-mother," but the latter was dismissed by Mrs Kipling. She fed M'Slibaan via baby bottles. "When he was about the size of a large rabbit, he cut little pins of teeth, and made coughing noises which he was persuaded were genuine roars" (Ch 6, "South Africa"). *** If you like your Kipling straight, here it is. -OOO--
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153690
- Title
- Something of Myself; For My Friends Known and Unknown
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard (Biography of Rudyard Kipling.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- MacMillan and Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, Travel and Adventure
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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