KIPLING, Rudyard.

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The Complete Works in Prose and Verse. The Sussex Edition, number 72 of 525 sets only, signed by the author in the first volume and containing two volumes of previously uncollected prose. Published after Kipling's death on 18 January 1936, this magnificent posthumous edition saw a small limitation and became even rarer following the destruction of many unsold sheets during the German bombing of London.In his last years, and with his health failing, Kipling remained determined to finish editing this "great retrospective work" which was first proposed in 1928. The edition was "fuller than that of any other. [Kipling] saw the proofs of at least 21 of the edition's 35 volumes before his death" and it is now "among the most prized and most expensive of all modern editions" (Pinney, p. 231).

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