Maroon cloth binding with gilt title and decoration on the (rebacked) spine. Gilt emblem on the front board.

De Luxe edition of Ten hundred and fifty copies.

We provide an in-depth photographic presentation of this item to stimulate your feeling and touch. More traditional book descriptions are immediately available.

•         Note: This book carries a £5.00 discount to those that subscribe to the F.B.A. mailing list

One of a set of five by Rudyard Kipling

From our photographs you will find an enhanced line of ‘The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories’ short stories. This is Kipling’s personal copy which is one of a unique limited first edition of 1050 produced by Macmillan & Co. of London specially for Rudyard Kipling. In addition to the enhanced line of stories you will see on this restored book, one of the first examples of Rudyard’s ‘elephant, swastika lotus leaf motifs’ which became Rudyard’s emblem for the next 30 years. Rudyard Kipling gave this edition to Colonel Arthur Cory (father of author Annie Sophie Cory, whose pen name was Victoria Cross). In turn Colonel Cory on his return to London from Lahore sold this book for £5 to Jack Lang’s grandfather. Overall this book is in a good condition. Frost Books was gifted this book by Jack Lang, from Jack’s Cambridge library.

NOTE: This is an original  book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. Note: Jack founded the Michelin Guide ‘Midsummer House’- Cambridge’s paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam.

In 2008, Jack was one of the co-founders of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, alongside other members of the Department, and acted as the Foundation’s Chair. The project’s original goals were modest: to build and distribute low-cost computers for prospective applicants to our Computer Science degree. Initially the project was a “success disaster”, as Jack would say, as demand far outstripped the low-scale manufacturing plans. Ultimately the Raspberry Pi became the UK’s most successful computer with more than 60 million sold to date. Jack was drawn to the educational possibilities of the Raspberry Pi, its potential uses in emerging economies and the way it could support self-directed learning.