KIPLING, Rudyard.

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Rudyard Kipling's Verse. Inclusive Edition 1885 - 1932. First edition thus, first impression, inscribed to the printer in the month after publication on the front free endpaper verso, "Rudyard Kipling, Signed for William Maxwell, Nov. 12/33". It is signed again by Kipling on the frontispiece, underneath his printed signature. A typed letter signed from Kipling to Maxwell, and a 1936 ticket to Kipling's funeral service, are loosely inserted.Kipling's letter is dated 2 November 1933 and reads, "Dear Mr Maxwell, Of course I shall be very happy to inscribe the new Inclusive Verse if you will send it to me here. It's a beautifully turned out book. Most sincerely, Rudyard Kipling". William Maxwell (1873-1957) was managing director of the printers R. & R. Clark, which had long associated with Kipling. The two had collaborated on the previous 1927 edition of Kipling's Inclusive Verse, following which Kipling wrote to Maxwell on 8 January 1928: "With all the pleasure in the world! Artists are few - and in the Sacred art of printing very few: and I owe R. & R. a long debt for the poems and the feeling with which they have presented my books for so long" (Letters, V, p. 409). Maxwell's signed copy of the 1927 edition is now held at Yale. When they renewed their collaboration for this expanded edition of 1933, Kipling wrote to Maxwell saying he was "glad to be in your hands again. They are the best I know" (Letters, VI, p. 155).Maxwell assembled the Edward Clark Collection of the history

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