Kipling Rudyard Editor Beecroft John (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Both volumes have a two-page colored illustration by Richard M. Powers. No interior markings. Very good to near fine condition. Volume II has a small tear in its spine cover. Volume 1 (531 p.) and Volume II (505 p.) Not ex-library. Shelf: A-1.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Pen and ink illustrations by Richard M. Powers. Includes 27 of Kipling's well-known stories and 58 poems; also included is a short autobiograpjical sketch. The book is clean, tight, solid, square, and unmarked except for a discolored circular spot near the spine. Black cloth boards with gold lettering & blue design on spine. . Upper edge tinted red. Fore edge rough cut. Illustrated title page and verso of scene of India in color. Jacket is clean and bright, light scuffing to spine head and tail; a circular hole in the front near the spine about an inch in diameter; front illustration of an Indian scene; back is cream with b/w sketch. Mylar protective cover. 505 pages. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. 1956, Doubleday & Company.

Cloth. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. Richard M. Powers (illustrator). Book Club Edition. 2 vols, 8vos, black cloth with gold lettering on spine, Mylar-protected pictorial and colorful dust jackets--and title pages--with numerous painted scenes of India by Richard Powers (unclipped and spendid),vol. I: ix + 531 pages & vol. II: vii + 505 pages. Two volumes of Kipling's best stories in splendid overall condition and extra special, colorful dust jackets expressive of India. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If-" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature, and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift." Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date.--Wikipedia Exceptional condition internally and externally. Slight loss to upper right corner of dust jacket in volume two with the lovely Indian woman on its cover. For those who sometimes look askance at "Book Club Editions," kindly remember that from the large print runs, most are usually destroyed (especially their often fine dust jackets), and that such editions represent genuine rarities (often of special bibliographic interest)--especially if in superior condition or with noteworthy editors, as is the case here. "Our greatest story writer"--Somerset Maugham.