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Life's Handicap being stories of mine own people. A single volume - Volume IV - from The Sussex Edition of the Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling

1937rif. BIBLIO-56882Macmillan and Co. Ltd London Sussex Edition 1937. From the limited edition of 525 sets of which 500 were for sale. Full russet Niger morocco handmade paper gilt top other edges untrimmed as issued marbled endpapers royal 8vo. xviii 449 1 pp. The Sussex Edition is the finest edition of Kipling's works sumptuously produced and also containing his final thoughts on the text having been revised by Kipling in his last years. Kipling died in 1936 and the edition was published posthumously. Complete sets of the 35 volumes are rare and desirable : only 525 sets were produced and many of these were destroyed when the publisher's warehouse was bombed in 1941. Single volumes such as that offered here are in practice still harder to find : we have a handful only of such single volumes and this represents a possibly unrepeatable chance for one admirer of this early collection of his short stories which first appeared in 1891 to acquire it in the most desirable edition. The contents of this volume are: The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney; The Courting of Dinah Shadd; On Greenhow Hill; The Man Who Was; The Head of the District; Without Benefit of Clergy; At the End of the Passage; The Mutiny of the Mavericks; The Mark of the Beast; The Return of Imray; Namgay Doola; The Lang Men O' Larut; Bertran and Bimi; Reingelder and the German Flag; The Wandering Jew; Through the Fire; The Finances of the Gods; The Amir's Homily; Jews in Shushan; The Limitations of Pambé Serang; Little Tobrah; Moti Guj Mutineer; Bubbling Well Road; 'The City of Dreadful Night; Georgie Porgie; Naboth; The Dream of Duncan Parrenness; L'envoi. A little rubbed with some very small scratches to the bodrds board domr unttrimmed edges darkened or duststained otherwise Very Good. Copy email exchange laid in concerning the volume having been found in a bombed out printer's or bookshop in the Blitz. Macmillan and Co. Ltd, London, Sussex Edition, 1937 unknown

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Just So Stories For Little Children

1902rif. QQ0441Macmillan and Co 1902. Original full red pictorial cloth stamped in black and white after Kipling's illustrations. White lettering and decor to spine. First impression first issue in the second issue binding with the more stable white ink used for lettering the first issue binding tended to be badly affected by flaking to the white ink. Mild sunning to spine. Moderate wear to base and top spine. Slight wear to board corners. White hardly rubbed. Top edges darkened. Very minor marking to rear board. Small 4to 18.3 x 24.1cm. Endpapers uncracked at gutters. Minor foxing and age-browning to endpapers. Minor pencil annots to rear endpaper. Printer's emblem to p. 251. Tiny owner's address label to inside front board old owner's signature to front free endpaper. With loose clipping of a collection of memorial tributes to Kipling from the Sunday Times 19 January 1936 Kipling had died on 18 January including a recollection from Pestonji Bomanji 1851-1938 a Mumbai-based Parsi artist who had studied at the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy School of Art under Kipling's father and knew Kipling himself as as a child. Bomanji here recalls Kipling coming into the modelling studio at the J.J. School of Art and inventing 'childish romances around the models of nymphs gnomes and gargoyles'. He was the inspiration for the Just So Story 'How the Rhinoceros got his Wrinkly Skin' in which a rhinoceros steals a cake from a Parsi 'from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour' and lives to regret it hence the mention in his recollection here: 'I never remember giving Rudyard a cake .'. Also included are 3 further loose inserts: 1 entry from a bookseller's catalogue entry for this edition not this copy; 2 slip of paper with child's drawing on one side and what seems to be an adult's record of a child's response to reading The Elephant's Child dated 1979 all in pencil; 3 newspaper cutting with pictures of a baby armadillo accompanying 'Beginning of the Armadillos'. With 22 full-page b/w illustrations and numerous vignettes all by Kipling himself who although he did not follow his father into painting clearly 'had a distinct gift' ODNB. The Just So Stories begun as bed-time stories for Kipling's daughter Josephine who died in 1899 were published serially from 1897 and in this book edition in 1902. They remain best-beloved classics of children's literature. Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edition 1st impression. Binding sound text unmarked. Very Good. 249pp. Macmillan and Co Hardcover

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