Twenty-Four Portraits arcadians the work is Kipling's only

the work is Kipling's only novel set entirely in America

of an archer in action with the facsimile signature of Horace Ford below

Top edge of the pages gilt

decorated in black and yellow in a Swedish embroidery style

one of only 1

Twenty-Four Portraits arcadians the work is Kipling's onlyWith critical appreciations by various hands London: George Allen & Unwin, 1920. Original grey paper covered boards with dun cloth spine, with title label to front and spine, which is rubbed and darkened, boards rubbed at extremities. Former ownership signature to first free endpaper. Amongst those portrayed are Max Beerbohm, Anrold Bennett, T. J. Cobden Sanderson, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, T. E. Lawrence, H. G. Wells.