By Rudyard Kipling
London   Macmillan and Co.
8" by 5.5"
A smart twenty-one volume set of works by Rudyard Kipling, with the original unclipped dust wrappers.
By Rudyard Kipling

1904-1928 The Works of Rudyard Kipling

London   Macmillan and Co.
8" by 5.5"
A smart twenty-one volume set of works by Rudyard Kipling, with the original unclipped dust wrappers.
£450.00
: 20kgs / : 870M20

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Description

Illustrated, With Dustwrapper

A twenty-one volume set in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers.

A bright and smart collection of twenty-one volumes of the work of the notable author Rudyard Kipling, published by Macmillan and Co. With illustrations to the Just So Stories by the author, and publisher's advertisements to the rear of eight volumes.

This collection comprises:

Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White (1927, pocket edition, later reprint)

Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories (1926, pocket edition, later reprint)

Life's Handicap (1923, pocket edition, later reprint)

The Light that Failed (1925, pocket edition, later reprint)

The Jungle Book (1924, uniform edition, later reprint)

The Second Jungle Book (1924, uniform edition, later reprint)

The Naulahka: A Story of West and East (1928, ninth reprint)

‘Captains Courageous’: A Story of the Grand Banks (1925, uniform edition, later reprint)

Stalky & Co. (1927, pocket edition, later reprint)

Kim (1927, pocket edition, later reprint)

From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches: Volume I (1924, pocket edition, later reprint)

From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches: Volume II (1927, pocket edition, later reprint)

Just So Stories for Little Children (1926, pocket edition, later reprint) 

Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides (1925; first uniform edition) 

Traffics and Discoveries (1904, first edition, later issue, no publisher's advertisements)

Puck of Pook's Hill (1927, pocket edition, later reprint)

Actions and Reactions (1927, fourth reprint)

Rewards and Fairies (1928, fifth reprint)

Songs from Books (1918, sixth reprint)

A Diversity of Creatures (1917, first edition, later issue)

Debits and Credits (Sept 1926, first edition, first reprint, published in the same month as the first edition)

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, cloth is very bright and smart, apart from damp staining to the boards of Debits and Credits, also affecting the paste downs and end papers with tide marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for spotting to the fore edge and offsetting to the end papers. A little spotting to Traffics and Discoveries. Small marks to the title page of Actions and Reactions. Dust wrappers are darkened to the spines of all volumes. Chipping to the head and tail of the spine to the dust wrappers of eight volumes. Small losses to the spine of the wrap to Life’s Handicap, Just So Stories, and From Sea to Sea, Vol II. Mark to the rear flap of Naulahka. Marks to the rear of the dust wrapper to Actions and Reactions, and to the front of Stalky & Co. and Traffic and Discoveries. Damp staining to the dust wrapper for Debits and Credits.

Very Good Indeed

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