36 VOL SET WORKS RUDYARD KIPLING 1910-1937 SCRIBNER'S

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36 VOLUMES COMPLETE SET THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF RUDYARD KIPLING EACH VOLUME ILLUSTRATED By Rudyard Kipling Published by Charles Scribner's Sons from 1911-1937 Over-all this set is in G+ - VG condition. Maroon cloth-covered boards with white embossed seal of elephant and svastika on front board of each volume. Gold lotus illustration on spine of each volume. This seal represents the elephant-headed Ganesha, the god of auspicious beginnings (with special relation to books). Maroon boards have tonal variations from sunning: generally a browning of the spines. A few books (noted below) have a green cloth-covered boards. Minor soil and minor edge rubbing to boards. Heavier rubs and a couple of chips on two or three volumes (noted below). Gilt to top page edges. Each volume has previous owner's small address label neatly affixed to the top corner of the front pastedown. Bindings are tight and square with no tears or cracks to gutters. Pages are clean (a rare marginal smudge) with no tears, chips or marks. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, from 1911 - 1937, these books are unifrom in size at 8.25" x 5.75". The volumes in this set are listed individually below with volume #, Title, publishing date, and number of pages. Any negative exceptions to condition are noted: Vol. I, 1911, Plain Tales from the Hills, 350 pages Vol. II, 1911, Soldiers Three and Military Tales, Part I, 307 pages Vol. III, 1911, Soldiers Three and Military Tales, Part II, 281 pages (Moderate chipping to top spine edge) Vol. IV, 1911, In Black and White, 386 pages Vol. V, 1911, The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Stories, 387 pages. Vol. VI, 1911, Under the Deodars; The Story of the Gadsby; Wee Willie Winkie, 368 pages Vol. VII, 1911, The Jungle Book, 341 pages ( 1/2" closed tear to rear free endpage) Vol. VIII, 1911, The Second Jungle Book, 228 pages Vol. IX, 1911, The Light that Failed, 329 pages (1/4" closed tear at top of spine) Vol. X, 1911, The Naulahka, The Story of West and East, Written in Collaboration with Wolcott Balestier, 377 pages. Vol. XI, 1911, Verses, 359 pages Vol. XII, 1911, Capatains Courageous, A Story of the Grand Banks, 242 pages ( 1/2" tear at top of spine) Vol. XIII, 1911, The Day's Work, Part I, 310 pages (Moderate scuffing to rear board) Vol. XIV, 1911, The Day's Work, Part II, 303 pages Vol. XV, 1910, From Sea to Sea, Part I, 493 pages Vol. XVI, 1910, From Sea to SEa; Letters of Travel, Part II, 553 pages ( 1/2" tear at top of spine) Vol. XVII, 1911, Early Verse, 292 pages (1/4" x 1/2" chip to top of spine) Vol. XVIII, 1911, Stalky & Co., 330 pages (Minor chip at top of spine) Vol. XIX, 1911, Kim, 474 pages. (A light tear of 4.0" along the gutter at the title page. A 1/4" chip and fraying at top of spine) Vol. XX, 1911, Just So STories for Little Children, 279 pages. Vol. XXI, 1910, The Five Nations, 202 pages (1/4" chip across the top of spine) Vol. XXII,. 1911, Traffics and Discoveries, 438 pages. Vol, XXIII, 1910, Puck of Pook's Hill, 305 pages (Moderate fraying to top of spine) Vol. XXIV, 1911, Actions and Reactions, 324 pages (A 1/2" tear at top of spine and moderate chipping to top of spine) Vol. XXV, 1911, Rewards and Fairies, 378 pages Vol. XXVI, 1917, A Diversity of Creatures, 515 pages ( 1/2" tear along bottom of gutter at front endpages) Vol. XXVII, 1919, The Years Between and Poems from History, 189 pages Vol. XXVIII, 1920, Letters of Travel 1892-1913, 328 pages (Green Cloth-covered boards) Vol. XXIX, 1923, The Irish Guards in the Great War, Part I, The First Battalion, 494 pages, (A light tear of 6.0" along the gutter at the front endpages) Vol. XXX, 1923, The Irish Guards in the Great War, Part II, The Second Battalion and Appendices, 449 pages (Three 1.5" tears along the gutter at the front endpages. A small tear at corner at top of spine.) Vol. XXXI, 1926, Debits and Credits, 452 pages Vol. XXXII, 1928, A Book of Words: Selections from Speeches and Addresses Delivered betwe... read more

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