Title: Rewards and Fairies.
Author: Rudyard Kipling. 
Illustrator: Frank Craig. 
Publisher: Macmillan and Co Limited: London. 
Published Date: First Edition. 1910. 
Pagination: pp.338 + catalogue of works. 
Condition: Very good. 
 
"Rudyard Kipling writes: Once upon a time, Dan and Una, brother and sister … had the good fortune to meet with Puck, alias Robin Goodfellow, alias Nick o’ Lincoln, alias Lob-lie-by-the-Fire, the last survivor in England of those whom mortals call Fairies. Their proper name, of course, is ‘The People of the Hills’. This Puck, by means of the magic of Oak, Ash, and Thorn, gave the children power.
 
To see what they should see and hear what they should hear, Though it should have happened three thousand year.
 
A year or so later, the children met Puck once more, and though they were then older and wiser, and wore boots regularly instead of going barefooted when they got the chance, Puck was as kind to them as ever, and introduced them to more people of the old days.
 
Description: 
This is a very good volume of Kipling's collection of fantastical short stories and poems, which contains the first printing of Kipling's poem 'If'.
 
Bound in the publisher's red cloth with gilt decoration to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Top-edge gilt. The boards are in very good condition with some bumping to the corners and to the head of the spine, slight crease to the upper spine, light wear to the extremities and a few light surface marks. The contents are lightly age toned with some browning to the endpapers. Otherwise clean and bright throughout. There is a crack to the front and rear hinge but the contents are firmly bound.