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Rudyard Kipling : The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling. [27 Volumes (I-XIV, XVI-XXVIII) Including:] The Jungle Book and Kim

Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1909, 1911, 1917, 1919, 1920.

Original publisher’s black ½ morocco with light blue marble boards, spine in six compartments of raised bands and gilt floral motifs, gilt text in two and three, top edges gilt, edges uncut (occasionally unopened), endpapers marbled. , Lacks Part One of “From Sea to Sea� (Volume XV), otherwise a very fine set, text and plates are clean and crisp and bound in handsome period binding. , 8vo. , Each volume with a frontispiece, several illustrative plates throughout., Volume : 27 volumes (of 36).

The later volumes (vols XXVI, XXVII, & XXVIII) are published in purple and dark blue boards.
The “Outward Bound� edition was published in installments between 1897 until the end of Kipling’s life in 1936. The complete set eventually included 36 volumes; however, variations appeared in the printing over the years. Text published in two volumes in earlier printings was combined into single volumes to save money on the part of the publishers. The published letters of Rudyard Kipling (2004) indicate that Kipling often disapproved of the cost-saving measures of Scribner’s, preferring that later printings kept the same numeration of the volumes as the earlier ones.


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