First limited edition De Luxe of the definitive collection of Kipling's verse. Royal octavo, bound in full limp vellum with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt, decorated with turquoise initials. One of 500 numbered copies, this is number 466. Signed by the publisher and printer on the limitations page. In near fine condition. Rudyard Kipling was the celebrated author of classic poems such as "Mandalay," "Gunga Din," "Recessional" and "The White Man's Burden," Kipling won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. "The family and the Empire were the poles about which his genius turned" (DNB).

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Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling.

Publisher

Hodder & Stoughton, London

Publication Date

1912

Binding

Hardcover

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1st Edition

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