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Kipling, Rudyard - Schmied, F.L. - Kim. Translated...

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Kipling, Rudyard - Schmied, F.L. - Kim. Translated by Louis Fabulet and Ch. Fountaine-Walker. Lausanne, Gonin et Cie, 1930. 2 volumes in-4, full chocolate jansenist morocco, spine with 4 nerves decorated with a mosaic cobra, inner listel decorated with a gilt fillet, yellow silk endpapers, gilt heads, common double form case, bordered and lined - 267 pp., [1 f.], 263 pp., [2 ff.] Illustrated with a frontispiece, 14 numbered h-t on the press, 15 chapter headings, culs-de-lampe and lettrines drawn by Schmied and woodcut by Ph. Gonin. Edition at 140 numbered copies on Japon, 1/30 containing a double suite, one in colour for the hors-texte and one in black for the chapter headings (n° 14). A very fine copy. Publisher's signature on the justification.