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This book, Around the World With Kipling was published in 1926 as an additional volume for inclusion in The Mandalay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling . It is an unidentified later printing of this title [The Map is bound in at the beginning of the first essay Around the World with Kipling , rather than opposite page 78, as the illustrations list indicates. ] ************************************************ The book starts out with an anonymous introductory chapter , Around the World With Kipling . There are a number of excerpts from various writings of Kipling. After this introduction, there are five essays on Kipling, which are as follows: Kipling at Home by Irvin S. Cobb; Rudyard Kipling - A Biographical Sketch . by Anice Page Cooper; Rudyard Kipling s Place in Literature by Richard Le Gallienne ; Rudyard Kipling by William Lyon Phelps; and Rudyard Kipling as a Frenchman Sees Him by André Chevrillon. And, finally, the book closes with The Kipling Index - Being a guide to the Mandalay Edition of Rudyard Kipling s Works … ********************************************* SERIES : Unnumbered last volume of The Mandalay Edition of The Works of Rudyard Kipling [The book has no volume number, but would be considered to be Vol. 26 of The Mandalay Edition ] / TITLE : Around the World With Kipling / AUTHORS : Rudyard Kipling (1865 -1936) [excerpts] / Irvin S. Cobb, Anice Page Cooper, Richard Le Gallienne, William Lyon Phelps, Andre Chevrillon [ Essay contributors] / IMPRINT : Doubleday, Page & Co. / PLACE : Garden City, NY / DATE : 1926 / EDITION ; First year of Publication, but an unidentified later printing. [The folding map is at the beginning of the first essay, rather than opposite page 78 as stated by the illustration list.] / DETAILS : Trade hardcover published as an addendum to the Mandalay Edition; contains one folding map; contains five plate illustrations (printed on calendered paper) - these include a frontispiece photo portrait of Kipling, a photograph of the title page of the First Edition of the Jungle Book ; also displayed are a photo of Gand Banks schooner (ala Captains Courageous ), and two photographs showing Kipling s home in England and the town of Simla, where he resided in India. Includes essays by five different individuals; Includes The Kipling Index ; 121 pages; 5 3/8 x 7 7/8 (approximate 12mo); maroon cloth covered boards and spine; paper title label on spine; Kipling s initials stamped in blind on front board; front and rear end-papers printed in maroon and white, featuring the early Hindu & Buddhist symbol for good luck in each corner; gilt top text-block edge; fore- and bottom edges are rough-cut. Sans the printed dust-jacket ******************************************** CONDITION … VERY GOOD … This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted :: EXTERIOR : spine extremities are compressed and display modest fraying; title label on spine is toned and slightly weathered; front and rear boards are clean, but have bumped corner tis with a touch of fraying; top edge gilt is fairly bright; fore- and bottom text block edges are toned, else clean. / BINDING : Solid … no leaves are detached or loose. Gutter is slightly cracked between pp 58 & 59. / INTERIOR : Clean and unmarked throughout. No writing, marginalia or signatures. Seller Inventory # 2448
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