KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936) [The Works] London: Macmillan a...

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27.01.2021 10:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 213 | KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936) [The Works] London: Macmillan a...
KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). [The Works.] London: Macmillan and Company, 1937-39.

The Sussex edition, number 188 of 525 copies, signed by Kipling. “During the last years of his life, Kipling was engaged in a complete revision of his works, and the text of the Sussex edition represents his final revised text. Two volumes of uncollected prose and much verse are here collected for the first time... Unfortunately, a substantial portion of the edition was destroyed in unbound sheets during the bombing of London in 1941” (Stewart, pp. 577-580).

35 volumes, octavo (243 x 160mm). Original niger morocco gilt, uncut; orange glazed paper slipcases (occasional light rubbing and wear to extremities).
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