New York: The S.S. McClure Co., 1898. Hardcover. Volume 9 includes: "Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats" by Whitman on page 600; "Camps of Green" by Whitman on page 999; "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Whitman on page 1052 (all three Whitman poems are later printing from "Leaves of Grass"); the conclusion of the first appearance of "Captain Courageous" Rudyard Kipling; first American appearance of short story "The Voyage of Copley Banks" by A. Conan Doyle on page 862; first appearance of "Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Expedition" by Stephen Crane on page 1045; first American appearance of "The Governor of Saint Kitts" by A. Conan Doyle on page 565; "Slaves of the Lamp" by Rudyard Kipling on page 837; "The Two Barks" by Doyle on page 769; and "Pharoah and the Sergeant. A Poem" by Kipling on page 925. Bound in three quarter black leather with marbled paper covered boards and gilt title to spine. Minor wear to edges of boards and corners. A few chips to leather on spine and sunning to spine. Bookplate to front pastedown and previous owner inscription in pen dated 1938 to front free endpaper. Minor browning and occasional spots of foxing to margins, but clean overall. Illustrated. Pages 559 - 1004. PER/061418. Very Good.

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