The Seven Seas Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling

Beschreibung

A smart complete twenty-seven volume set of this limited edition of the works of Rudyard Kipling, signed by the author. Complete in twenty-seven volumes. The Seven Seas edition. Volume one is signed by the author to the half title. Limited to one thousand and fifty copies of which this is number five hundred and ninety-two. With the original note of receipt of subscription issued to Mr. Archibald Harrald. A collection of the works of Joseph Rudyard Kipling, an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling is best known for the Jungle Book duology, Kim, the Just So Stories, and many of his short stories, considered an innovator in the art of the short story writing and noted as having "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". This set contains: Plain Tales from the Hills, 1914. Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys: In Black and White, 1913. Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories, 1913. From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, in two volumes, 1913. Life's Handicap, 1914. The Light That Failed, 1914. The Naulahka, 1914. Many Inventions, 1914. Captain Courageous, 1914. The Jungle Book, 1914. The Second Jungle Book, 1914. The Day's Work, 1914. Stalky & Co., 1914. Kim, 1914. Just So Stories, 1914. Traffics and Discoveries, 1915. Puck of Pook's Hill, 1915. Rewards and Fairies, 1915. Actions and Reactions, 1915. Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads, 1915. The Five Nations and The Seven Seas, Etc., 1915. Songs from Books, 1915. A Diversity of Creatures, 1917. The Years Between and Parodies, 1919. Letters of Travel, 1920. Debits and Credits, 1926. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with minor rubbing to the extremities and light fading to the spines. The odd small mark to the boards with light loss of the spine labels of volumes I, II, and VI only. Replacement spine labels inserted into a couple of the volumes. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot or handling mark. Small parts of the text block remain unopened to the first and last few pages of the odd volume. Light tide marks to the rear endpapers of volume four. Very Good Indeed.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

The Seven Seas Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling

Verlag

Doubleday, Page & Company 1913-1926, New York

Erscheinungsjahr

1913

Einband

Cloth

Illustrator

Not Stated

Zustand

Very Good Indeed

Signiert

signed by author

Buchtyp

book

Verkäuferkataloge

• Short Stories