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Spine faded, covers quite marked, free endpapers embrowned, pages a little thumbed, with a few doodles. Fourth printing of the School Edition (book first published 1902, School Edition 1930), inscribed by two sisters for two sisters - on the front free endpaper the ownership inscription (in the hand of their mother) of "Susan & Margaret Drabble", i.e. the future novelists A.S. (Dame Antonia) Byatt and, her junior by almost three years, (Dame) Margaret Drabble; on the pastedown facing a bookplate of a ship in full sail on a brilliant green sea, inscribed (in the hand of their aunt Phyllis), "Susan and Margaret". Kathleen Marie Bloor (1906-1984) married in 1933 John Drabble, a barrister, later a judge - Susan and Margaret were her two eldest children; her sister Phyllis Bennett Bloor (1909-2001), two years and two months her junior, was an infants' school teacher, and gave the girls the bookplates ("I loved them," Margaret remembers). Margaret Drabble (1939-) would later be the biographer of Kipling's biographer Angus Wilson, author of The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling (1977). The fifth (1985) and sixth (2000) editions of her The Oxford Companion to English Literature both judge of Kipling, "His most uncontroversial and durable achievements are perhaps his tales for children (principally The Jungle Book, 1894; Just So Stories, 1902; Puck of Pook's Hill, 1906; and Rewards and Fairies, 1910) and his picaresque novel Kim [1901], generally considered his masterpiece." Interviewed on the publication of her novel The Children's Book (2009), A.S. Byatt (Antonia Susan Byatt, née Drabble, later Duffy, 1936-2023) said, "I think the [writer] I think of the most frequently [in the context of English fairy tales], now I've finished the novel, is Kipling. And of Kipling's books - when I was a little girl, I loved Puck of Pook's Hill and that's an archetype book about the nature of being English and Puck is an English sprite - he's not a Scandinavian sprite, or a French sprite, he's not German . . . but what I was also reading as a little girl was the Mowgli books and the Just So Stories and that man could write like nobody else.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 33M100405
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