Rewards and Fairies - containing If - Rudyard Kipling, Frank Craig (illustrator) 1910 - Macmillan and Co., London - First Edition ‘If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too.....
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, and – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!’

A bright and superior first edition, the first appearance of Kipling’s beloved poem, ‘
If ’, together with a charming collection of (occasionally fantastical and supernatural) stories and verse. Many are set in the surroundings of Kipling’s Sussex home, and perfectly capture the myth and mystery of the English countryside. Includes the tales ‘The Marklake Witches’ and ‘Simple Simon’.

With four full page black and white illustrations by Frank Craig.
  Published 4 October 1910, at 6s; 25,000 copies printed.

Provenance: Neat contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper dated Sept 3 1914.

References: Richards,
Rudyard Kipling A Bibliography, A242. Martindell, Bibliography of Rudyard Kipling, 125. Livingston, Works of Rudyard Kipling, 341. Stewart, Rudyard Kipling: A Biographical Catalogue, 329. Grolier, Catalogue of the works of Rudyard Kipling, 417. Ballard, My Kipling Collection CXLII(A). Bleiler, Fantastic Literature 344.

Octavo (book size 20.4x14.2cm), pp. xii 338 [2 (publisher’s ads for books by Kipling)]. Publisher’s red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, medallion of elephant blocked in gilt to front board, top edge gilt.
  Condition: Near fine, light fraying to head of spine, and very little of the usual sunning, gilt strong and bright, usual offsetting to endpapers.   Ref: 111131   Price: HK$ 7,000