The Works of Rudyard Kipling.

KIPLING, Rudyard.

$2,200.00

Item Number: 147801

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914-1926.

The Seven Seas edition of the Work of Rudyard Kipling, limited to one thousand and fifty numbered copies with the first volume signed by Rudyard Kipling. Royal octavo, 27 volumes, original publisher’s half buckram over grey boards, printed paper spine labels, uncut and partially unopened, title pages printed in red and black, initials and tailpieces printed in red, some volumes illustrated, silk red ribbons bound in. The Seven Seas edition, limited to one thousand and fifty numbered copies of which this is number 823, signed by Rudyard Kipling on the half-title of volume one. Vols. XXIV-XXVII unnumbered, with inserted slips for XXVI and XXVII from the publisher noting these volumes are intentionally unnumbered to avoid errors. From the library of noted collector William A. Strutz, with his bookplate to each pastedown. Perhaps the most beautifully printed edition of Kipling’s works.

English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India, which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907.