KIPLING, Rudyard.

Poems 1886-1929.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc , 1930.

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“A VIRTUOSO IN VERSE”: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF KIPLING’S COLLECTED POEMS 1886-1929

Signed limited edition of the definitive collection of Kipling's poetry. Quarto, three volumes, original japon-backed boards with red paper labels to spines lettered gilt, gilt motifs to front covers, top edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece to volume one of a "The Thousandth Man" in Kipling's hand specially reproduced for this edition in facsimile. One of 525 copies signed by Kipling on the limitation page, this is number 173. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. 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.