1936 The Day's Work
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Description
Most renowned for 'The Jungle Book', 'Kim' and 'Just so Stories', Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is seen as a pioneer for the short story form and a classic author of children's fiction. He was born in India, the inspiration behind a vast amount of his writings, which include 'The Jungle Book', 'Just So Stories' and 'Kim'. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907, becoming the youngest ever recipient and first English language writer to do so.
'The Day's Work' is a collection of short stories, first published in 1898.
In the publisher's original binding, with a gilt elephant on the front cover and an illustrated, unclipped dust wrapper.
Contains four leaves of publisher's advertisements for the works of Kipling.
Condition
In a full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper has slight chipping to the head of the spine and is slightly age toned with the odd spot. Ownership inscription to the front loose leaf. Internally firmly bound, pages bright and clean.
Near Fine
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