A Collection of Novels by Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

Verlag: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1925-1938, London, 1925

Three smart novels from English writer Rudyard Kipling, with illustrations. Three volumes. Later editions. Written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling, an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. Illustrated by John Lockwood Kipling, an English art teacher, illustrator and museum curator who spent most of his career in India. He was the father of Rudyard Kipling. This set includes: Puck of Pook's Hill, 1925. Illustrated with twenty plates. Collated complete. A fantasy book containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. Kim, 1937. Illustrated with ten plates and one map. Collated complete. The life of Kim, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor Irish mother who survives by begging and running small errands on the streets of Lahore in India under British rule in the late nineteenth century. Stalky & Co., 1938. A collection of short stories following three adolescent boys at a British boarding school who display a know-it-all, cynical outlooks on patriotism and authority. In the original full red calf binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Minor fading to the spines. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Light age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 911T10

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Collection of Novels by Rudyard Kipling
Verlag: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1925-1938, London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1925
Einband: Leather
Illustrator: John Lockwood Kipling
Zustand: Very Good
Art des Buches: book