Kipling: The Glass, the Shadow and the Fire

New York: Harper & Row, 1975. -----Blue cloth with gilt design and lettering, headband, deckle front edge, 334 pages, with b & w headpieces through out, illustrated end papers, ink name on title page, dust jacket is in Very Good Plus condition with minor shelf wear. Contents include: Part One: 'A Strangely Clever Youth...' / Admiration and Dislike / How others saw him / A personal rediscovery / The First Years / The House of Desolation / Flagrant injustice / Young man in India / The First Books / Plain Tales / Doors to new worlds / Soldiers Three / Odd Man Out / Part Two: The Search for a Home / An End to boyhood / Romantic friendship / Writing for a living / Many Inventions / The first fable / The Flight from Vermont In a strange land / Captains Couragerous / Ignominious flight / A Check to Growth / Complete surrender / Engines and screws / The South African War / Growth and experiment / Hallo my Fancy / Mowgli / Folk in Housen / Kim / The Other Side / Excommunicatory hatreds / The imperialist / The farces / Flawed opals / Part Three: Retribution and Compassion / Restoring the Balance / The late stories / Revenge and retribution / Dayspring Mishandled / Loneliness and pain / Healing / Belief / What do you expect for the money? / Forgiveness / Untimely / A Vision of Heaven / Dismissed to the Mercy / Pain and Love / The last period / The brutality of art / If the dead rise not--- / The Wish House / The Gardener / Epilogue / Stranger Upon Earth / Who is Kim? / The Shadow and the Fire / Principal events in the Life of Kipling / Principal books by Kipling ./ Some books about Kipling / index. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. Illus. by Jacket design by John Clarke . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".