With all good wishes Bertram Rota, June 6th 1941.” Bertram Rota began selling books in 1923 and was essentially the first bookseller to specialize in modern first editions. After being stored nearby, and escaping more bombs, it returned to the resurrected bookshop and now leaves Bodley House to find sanctuary in friendly hands in a luckier land. This copy survived fire and water when so many of its fellows were destroyed by Nazi barbarism at Bodley House in October 1940. Jackson’s copy of my boyhood’s favorite book. Inscribed by Bertram Rota, the owner of the Bodley House bookstore in London, “S.W. Octavo, original black-and white-stamped pictorial red cloth. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902.įirst edition, first issue of Kipling’s classic collection of stories, illustrated with 22 plates designed by Kipling himself.
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