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A limited Bombay Edition of Kipling"s works, complete in twenty-five volumes including the scarce Handbook to the Poetry, signed by Rudyard Kipling to the half-title of the first volume. In the publisher"s original quarter cloth binding with paper-covered boards.The first volume is flat signed by the author, Rudyard Kipling, to the half-title.A limited Bombay edition, one of 1,050 copies printed by R. & R. Clark from Herbert P. Horne"s design, with blocks lent by Chatto & Windus. The Bombay edition was initially published in 20 volumes and limited to 1000 copies. Kipling continued to write and it eventually grew to 31 volumes, but the last 11 volumes were limited to 500 copies only.The collected Bombay Edition of Kipling"s prose and verse, gathering his principal novels, short story collections, and poetry from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Complete in twenty-five volumes.Comprising:(1913) Vol I. Plain Tales from the Hills. This copy is flat signed by the author, Rudyard Kipling, to the half title.(1913) Vol. II Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys: In Black and White.(1913) Vol. III Wee Willie Winkie; Under the Deodars; The Phantom "Rickshaw and Other Stories.(1913) Vol. IV From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches; Letters of Travel Volume I.(1913) Vol. V From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches; Letters of Travel Volume II. (1913) Vol. VI Life"s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People(1913) Vol. VII The Light That Failed.(1913) Vol. VIII The Naulahka: A Story of West and East by Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott Balestier.(1913) Vol. IX Many Inventions.(1913) Vol. X "Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks.(1914) Vol. XI The Jungle Book.(1914) Vol. XII The Second Jungle Book.(1914) Vol. XIII The Day"s Work.(1914) Vol. XIV Stalky & Co.(1914) Vol. XVI Just So Stories for Little Children. Illustrated with twenty-two plates and in-text vignettes after drawings by Rudyard Kipling. Collated, complete.(1914) Vol. XVII Traffics and Discoveries.(1914) Vol. XVIII Puck of Pook"s Hill 1905 1906.(1914) Vol. XIX Rewards and Fairies.(1914) Vol. XX Actions and Reactions.(1914) Vol. XXI Departmental Ditties; Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses.(1914) Vol. XXII The Five Nations; The Seven Seas.(1914) A Handbook to the Poetry of Rudyard Kipling by Ralph Durand.(1915) Vol. XXIII Songs from Books.(1917) Vol. XXIV A Diversity of Creatures.(1919) Vol. XXV The Years Between; The Muse Among the Motors.Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907, becoming both the youngest and the first English-language writer to receive the honour, to date he remains its youngest recipient. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." Externally, sound. Slight discolouration to boards and spines with the odd minor handling marks and spot of damp staining. Previous bookseller"s discreet label to the rear pastedown of "A Handbook to the Poetry." Slight offsetting to endpapers, heavier to older copies. Several volumes with cracked joints and hinges, including Handbook, XI, XIV, XXII XXIII, VIII, VII, and III; in places binding materials partially exposed, with minor fraying and occasional small closed tears, boards generally slightly loose but holding. Cracking more pronounced to volumes XIV, VII, and VIII. Spines of volumes I and VI loose, holding only at the cloth of the front joint, with slight loss and fraying to the cloth. Volume V with rear joint cracked, slight fraying and minor loss to the cloth, spine slightly loose but holding. Volume X with a small closed tear to the gutter of the rear pastedown. Slight loss to the spine labels of volumes VII and IV, slightly obscuring the text. Internally firmly bound, with hinges slightly strained in places but sound. Pages generally bright and clean, with light scattered spotting to the first and last few leaves and the occasional spot to the rough-cut fore.
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