Rudyard Kipling’s Vermont Feud.

VAN DE WATER, Frederic. [Rudyard Kipling].

Item Number: 135848

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1937.

First edition of Van de Water’s account of Kipling’s feud with his brother-in-law in Dummerston, which was made very public by local newspapers. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with drawings by Bernadine Custer. With a previous collector’s photocopy of a cutting from the New York Herald Tribune’s April 1937 article ‘Feud in Family Drove Kipling From Vermont.’ In very good condition. Design by Vrest Orton. A very desirable work in the pantheon of Kiplingalia.

Rudyard Kipling wrote the bulk of his best-known works in his now historic Shingle Style house, Naulahka, in Dummerston, Vermont. Here, Frederic Van de Water, a close friend of Kipling's brother-in-law Beatty Balestier, tells the story of the legendary family feud which flared up in a public trial and ultimately drove Kipling from Vermont.