KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Betrothed.
$1,800.00
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Item Number: RRB-149559
+$450
Rare Pamphlet of Rudyard Kipling's poem The Betrothed
Rare pamphlet of Kipling's humorous and ironic poem. Duodecimo, original wrappers, frontispiece of Kipling, pictorial initials, six pages. In very good condition. Rare with none appearing at auction in the last 100 years.
Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The Betrothed” (1886), first published in Departmental Ditties and Other Verses, exemplifies his early mastery of wit, irony, and social observation. Written during his years in British India, the poem humorously explores masculine indulgence and moral choice through the narrator’s mock-serious decision to favor cigars over marriage, parodying Victorian ideals of romance and respectability. Beneath its comic tone, “The Betrothed” reveals Kipling’s emerging interest in the conflicts between personal pleasure, social convention, and the disciplined self—a tension that would later define his broader literary treatment of duty and individualism.
The Betrothed.
$1,800.00
In Stock
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