Signed Limited Edition 1 of 500 Rudyard Kipling Songs of the Seas 1st UK 1927 VG

First edition, First printing with 1927 on title page. First printing with "This is one of five hundred large paper copies printed in 1927". Publisher London Macmillan and Co., Limited. 1927. Octavio [ii Limited Edition signature] [xii] 1-99 [i Printer Info]. Original quarter white vellum bound spine and grey/blue paper covered boards.  Large handmade paper copy. Spine lettered in gilt with gilt line decoration to vellum edging. Top edge in gilt. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Twelve color plates and numerous monotone illustrations throughout illustrated by Donald Maxwell. Slipcase. Signed Limited Edition 1 of 500.

Book Condition: Fine Endpapers browned. Binding is tight. Text is clean.

Dust Jacket Condition: Poor Dust jacket front is torn from spine. Rear cover is separated from front cover and is torn.

Slipcase: Poor Bottom missing. Top is torn.

A collection of poems and tales about the sea. The collection includes:

Harp Song of the Dane Women (Pluck of Pook's Hill)

The Merchantmen (The Seven Seas)

The Wet Litany (Traffics and Discoveries)

The Song of Diego Valdez (The Five Nations)

The Liner She's a Lady (The Seven Seas)

The Junk and the Dhow (Land and Sea Tales)

Cruisers (The Five Nations)

The Nurses (Land and Sea Tales)

Song of Red War-Boat (Rewards and Fairies)

The Sea and the Hills (The Five Nations)

Frankie's Trade (Rewards and Fairies)

The Scholars (The Daily Telegraph)