THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF RUDYARD KIPLING: Complete Set of 23

KIPLING, Rudyard

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, 1908

About this Item

Peach cloth binding with gold colored print and border lines on front and spine with round ivory colored elephant & swaztika decoration on cover. Gold-tinted headedges. Foredges are rough-cut. All books have previous owner bookplate on front paste-down,Text block and end papers are laid paper with watermarks. Illustrations are one sided bound in.Books are all relatively tight, sound and unmarked but there are some issues. Spines are lightly sunned, Books were apparently bound with out spine head pieces. A hundred and ten years later there are some minor issues. several have light crushing at spine ends otherwise defects are noted on individual books. The Outward Bound Editions by Scribners continued to be added to until 1939. This 1908 edition was complete at that time of 23 volumes This set includes the following titles: Vol. I, "Plain Tales from the Hills", light tear in spine top edge.; Vol.II, "Soldiers Three and Military Tales Part 1"; Vol. III, "Soldiers Three and Military Tales Part 2", Split in spine top; Vol. IV, "In Black and White"; Vol. V, "The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories", top spine edge split; Vol. VI, "Under the Deodars ", "The Story of the Gadsbys" and "Wee Wille Winkie"; Vol. VII, "The Jungle Book"; Vol. VIII, "The Second Jungle Book", Spine top edge distorted; Vol. IX, "The Light that Failed"; Vol. X, "The Naulahka, A Story of West and East"; Vol. XI, "Verses 1889 - 1896"; Vol. XII, "Captains Courageous a Story of the Grand Banks", Light damage top and bottom spine ends; Vol. XIII, "The Day's Work Part 1", Small divot in top spineedge an front hinge paper partially split.; Vol. XIV, "The Day's Work Part 2" Small split spine top end; Vol. XV, "From Sea to Sea, Letters of Travel Part 1"; Vol. XVI, "From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Part 2"; Vol. XVII, "Early Verse"; Vol. XVIII, "Stalky and Co."; Vol. XIX, "Kim", Lower spine end torn, two illustrations missing; Vol. XX, "Just so Stories for Little Children"; Vol. XXI, "The Five Nations";, Light tan stain in gutter pages 142/143; Vol. XXII, "Traffics and Discoveries"; and Vol. XXIII, "Puck of Pook's Hill".Tear in spine headedge. All are sound and unmarked. Page numbers vary. Except as noted books all have 3 listed illustrations of works by John Longwood Kipling (Father). "From Sea to Sea, both volumes have 3 photo pages each. XVIII, "Stalkey" has 3 illustrations by Gordon Brown. "Just So Stories: have a drawing by Rudyard Kipling in each story. "Traffics" has 3 uncredited illustrations. "Puck"; this edition has 4 illustrations by Andre Castaigne." Kim" should have 10 Longwood illustrations but is missing two ( Lama & Mooklerjee) Weight of set is 36 lbs. S&H will not be standard. 5 3/4 X 8 1/2. Seller Inventory # 009644

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF RUDYARD ...

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY

Publication Date: 1908

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Frontispiece

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: Outward Bound Edition