The Writings in Prose and Verse.

£1,900 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

This handsome, thirty-one volume set was published across twenty-seven years and contains a large amount of the works of the writer, Rudyard Kipling. The collection contains Kipling's most famous work, The Jungle Book and its succeeding companion. Kipling won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for his enigmatic, witty prose and poetry and his legacy endured as one of Britain's most eminent writers. 31 vols, 8vo (21.5 x 15 cm); engraved frontispiece portrait of the author to vol. I with red captioned tissue-guard, various photogravures throughout remaining vols with red captioned tissue-guards, black and white illustrations to some volumes, sporadic, light spotting to some tissue-guards, minor tears to following leaves, to corner of p.179 and p.340 of vol. VII, to edge of p.13 of vol. VIII, to lower edge of p.247 of vol. XIV, to upper corner of p.83 of vol. XVI, to top edges of pp277-88 of vol. XVII due to abrasion to page edges, to edge of rear endpaper of vol. XXI, to edge of p.207 of vol. XXVIII, light purple pen mark to p.11 of vol. VIII, slight foxing to p.123 (likely from paper clipping once being kept there) though not affecting legibility of text, p.210 loose and newspaper clipping pasted to rear endpaper with pencil caption and corresponding offsetting of vol. XII, inserted contemporary newspaper clipping to p.176 of vol. XIII, mark to p.1 of vol. XIV, light stain to pp314-17 of vol. XV, pp55-58 loose and marks to p.330 of vol. XVIII, tissue-guard opposite p.140 l

• Binding: Hardcover

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