The Sussex Edition of the Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling.
London: MacMillan and Company, 1937. 35 vols. Royal 8vo. (245 x 155 mm, 9 1/2 x 6 inches). Signed by the author and printed on hand-made paper. Half-titles printed in rust. Publisher’s brown niger morocco, covers double ruled in gilt, spines lettered in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., others uncut. Condition: Some very minor rubbing. the rarest edition of the works of rudyard kipling, signed by the author. “During the last years of his life, Kipling was engaged in a complete revision of his works and the Sussex edition represents his final revised texts. Two volumes of uncollected prose and much verse are here collected for the first time. This de luxe, signed edition was published after the author’s death by Macmillan & Co. and is limited to 525 sets of which 500 are for sale. Unfortunately, a substantial portion of the edition was destroyed in unbound sheets during the bombing of London in 1941.” (Stewart, Rudyard Kipling a Bibliographical Catalogue, Toronto, 1959, p. 577.) Stewart, p. 577.
The Sussex Edition of the Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling.
London: MacMillan and Company, 1937. 35 vols. Royal 8vo. (245 x 155 mm, 9 1/2 x 6 inches). Signed by the author and printed on hand-made paper. Half-titles printed in rust. Publisher’s brown niger morocco, covers double ruled in gilt, spines lettered in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., others uncut. Condition: Some very minor rubbing. the rarest edition of the works of rudyard kipling, signed by the author. “During the last years of his life, Kipling was engaged in a complete revision of his works and the Sussex edition represents his final revised texts. Two volumes of uncollected prose and much verse are here collected for the first time. This de luxe, signed edition was published after the author’s death by Macmillan & Co. and is limited to 525 sets of which 500 are for sale. Unfortunately, a substantial portion of the edition was destroyed in unbound sheets during the bombing of London in 1941.” (Stewart, Rudyard Kipling a Bibliographical Catalogue, Toronto, 1959, p. 577.) Stewart, p. 577.
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