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Lot 104
Sale 5364 - Books & Manuscripts
Nov 12, 2020
7:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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[Literature] Kipling, Rudyard Signed Holograph Excerpt from "Recessional"
No place, no date. MS. on one sheet of wove paper (3 1/8 x 3 3/4 in.; sight): "Recessional./God of our Fathers known of old--/Lord of our far-flung battle-line--/Beneath whose awful Hand we hold/Dominion over Palm and Pine--/Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,/Lest we forget! Lest we forget!/Rudyard Kipling/For Miss J. L. Gilder". Very lightly foxed and with one faint crease. Mounted and framed with a photographic portrait of Kipling, 15 x 9 in. (381 x 228 mm).