Kipling’s Works

Kipling, Rudyard

Published by P.F. Collier & Son, New York, 1930

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10 Volume Set. Additional Shipping fees may apply. Please inquire.

Excellent copy of Kipling?s work in ten volumes. Light gray cloth boards with dark blue (near-black) leather spine and corners. Some volumes show wear at the tope of the spine. Volumes 2 and 10 have a piece (less than two inches) of the spine at the top that is loose. Otherwise, excellent copy.

Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865 at Bombay, India, where his father, John Lockwood Kipling, himself an artist, was principal of the Jeejeebyhoy Art School. In 1907 Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but his Imperialist sentiments, which grew stronger as he grew older, put him more and more out of touch with political, social, and moral realities. In 1915 his son John was killed in action during World War I. Kipling died in London on January 18, 1936, just after his seventieth birthday, and was buried (beside T. S. Eliot, oddly enough) in Westminster Abbey. His pallbearers included a prime minister, an admiral, a general, and the head of a Cambridge college.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1780878399462

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kipling?s Works
• Publisher: P.F. Collier & Son, New York
• Publication Date: 1930
• Language: English
• Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 5.5W x 7.5H x 2D inches 5.5 inches width by 7.5 inches height by 2 inches depth
• Weight: 20 pounds