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Hardcover Canadian school edition of Rudyard Kipling’s Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks, published in Toronto by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited in 1942 as part of the St. Martin’s Classics series. The red clothbound cover features a central publisher emblem and is stamped « SPECIAL EDITION EXCLUSIVELY FOR USE IN CANADIAN SCHOOLS ». The interior endpapers and flyleaves bear extensive period handwritten inscriptions, including military service/registration numbers and student names (« Ivan Quinn and Joyce Josey, Grade VIII, Entry Island School, 1943–44 »)