Kipling, Rudyard; Robert Louis Stevenson; Bertha & Fred Goudy, printers.

THE GYPSY TRAIL; [Together with motto card printing Stevenson’s poem “Envoy”].

Boston: Alfred Bartlett / (The Village Press), No-date [1905]. Second edition. But first edition to be printed by the Goudys at their Village Press. Corrects several mistakes in the printing done by Carl Rollins. Both editions and a third done by Cornhill Press in 1909 were unauthorized printings of Kipling's poem "The Gipsy Trail," which first appeared in Century Magazine in 1890. One of 1,000 copies in the trade issue. [Cary 27]. Dark gray paper boards measuring approximately 4 x 4.75"; title page and front cover label printed in black and red; frontis woodcut by E. B. Bird. Small chips from head and tail of spine otherwise near fine with tattered and torn remnants of original glassine still present. STEVENSON POETRY CALLING CARD laid in. Approximately 4 x 2.75"; untitled; rubricated initial “G” in red with rest of poem as well as Stevenson’s initials printed in black; "Alfred Bartlett [in caps]/ 69, Cornhill, Boston, Mass." in black on back. Would appear to have been printed by The Village Press though not marked as such on card.
Item #55777

Price: $250.00