KIPLING, Rudyard.
Poems 1886-1929.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc , 1930.
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“A VIRTUOSO IN VERSE”: SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF KIPLING’S COLLECTED POEMS
Signed limited first edition, number 384 of 537 copies, signed by Kipling. Quarto, three volumes, original japon-backed boards, red paper labels to spines printed gilt, gilt motifs to front covers, top edges gilt, frontispiece in volume I of a poem by Kipling specially reproduced for this edition. In near fine condition. An exceptional set of one of the finest editions of Kipling's verse.
“As a virtuoso in verse [Kipling] had more than one style at his command” (Baugh et al., 1505), from earnest cockney dialect to soaring prophetic proclamation. This handsome three-volume collection presents all of Kipling’s poetry—including such memorable works as “Mandalay,” “Gunga Din” and “If”—set in Baskerville type and printed on handmade paper at the Chiswick Press. With frontispiece portrait of Kipling in Volume I, signed in pencil by the artist, Francis Dodd. Livingston 545.
Poems 1886-1929.
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