Kipliing Rudyard (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Limits and Renewals. London: MacMillan & Co Limited, 1932. 8vo, red cloth, gilt elephant emblem on front board, printed tan d/w, , t.e.g. 400 pp. With a Nice Association Letter A collection of short stories, most previously published in McCall's Magazine, the Strand Magazine, and other periodicals, now published for the first time in book form as part of the Uniform Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. Three stories are new as well as 18 previously unpublished verses, either introductory to each tale or as a postscript. [Livingston 577 suppl.] The most celebrated story is 'Dayspring Mishandled', a tale of hatred and revenge first published in Mcall's Magazine in 1928 and generally acknowledged as one of Kipling's best shorts. Laid in is a typed letter from Kipling bibliographer Adm. Leroy Chandler concerning a double acrostic in Dayspring Mishandled, asking for the opinions of friends on his analysis. ["A QUERY IN REGARD TO 'DAYSPRING MISHANDLED.' Typed carbon, unsigned.] Ex-libris Sacramento bookseller Edward Crussell (1875-1944), another Kipling scholar and charter member of the Kipling Society. The letter was published it in the April 1939 issue of The Kipling Journal, page 35.] CONDITION: FINE; As-new in fine d/w.…