Rudyard Kipling Edited Eliot (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Ameican Edition. 225 pp, b/w illustrations, plates, cream boards/green cloth, 8vo. All edges stamped "not for resale," no other marks, very good; dust jacket short tears, good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hastungs, Howard L. (illustrator). 499 pages + book ads, color frontis, 4 b/w plates by Howard L. Hastings, 8vo; brown cloth. Very good- condition, cover titles dimmed at spine, light wear spine ends, cover lightly rubbed, name/1938 date front endpaper, a few pages bottom corners bumped; no dust jacket.

First British Commonwealth edition, second impression of this compilation of the best pieces of Kipling criticism with contributions by Max Beerbohm, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, George Orwell, and Oscar Wilde. Octavo, original cloth. Edited and with an introduction by Elliot L. Gilbert. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. "This book, skillfully edited, gives the best explanation so far published of the Kipling enigma!" (Financial Times). "Excellent book. an admirable summary of diverse reactions to Kipling" (B.B.C.).

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. First edition. Sm. 8vo. Pp. 306, [2 (blank)]. Indigo cloth boards, titled in gilt to spine; deckled edges printed on heavy wartime paper. Top-edge purple stained, as called for. Sky-blue dustwrapper printed in red and black to spine and front [priced "8s. 6d. net" to front flap]. 1/10,120 copies printed. The first appearance of the 31-page Essay on Kipling and 123 poems with an Index of First Lines. The first U.S. edition, by Charles Scribner's Sons, came out a couple of years later. Former ownership signature to f.f.e.p., slight browning to fore-edges, a couple of modest closed tears to edge-faded upper dust jacket panel, darkened spine, else fine. Eliot's lengthy essay aimed at shoring up Kipling's faltering reputation - "I cannot find any justification for the charge that he held a doctrine of race superiority" - was answered in kind by George Orwell in a 1942 essay in Horizon in which he castigates the writer as a "jingo imperialist.". [Gallup B39a] 425.