Inventions 1901 Edition by Rudyard Kipling (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. no dust jacket, covers and spine clean in good condition.accept pay pal.

First editions (first U.S. edition of Kim, published the same year as U.K.) 8vo (various sizes), one 4to (283 x 180 mm), some illustrated (see above), a few spots to preliminary leaves of Barrack-Room Ballads, spotting to upper part of title-page and blank opposite in The Second Jungle-Book and a few further in; minor corner clips to bottom outside edges of pp 2 - 3 from printing process in Wee Willie Winkle; foxing to preliminary leaves of Captains Courageous, heavier to half-title, some further random spotting, staining to blank endpapers of The Day's Work, A Fleet in Being and vol. I of From Sea to Sea but not affecting text or bindings, otherwise the occasional spotting but in the main, internally very good with some volumes near-fine: uniformly bound in near-contemporary full green morocco by Lucy G. Watson, double gilt-panelled, the upper panels enclosing nine-panelled cross-sectioned panels, each with four decorative hand-tools of a swastika, a Hindu good fortune symbol (not as later used by the Nazis), gilt-panelled dentelles, all edges gilt, save for three smaller vols., which have top edge gilt, all stamped with the binder's initials to bottom rear dentelle, spines uniformly sunned to a mellow tan, all in very good condition. A collection of first editions of Kipling's early works, supberbly bound by the Arts and Crafts binder and probably a former member of the Women's Guild of Binders, Lucy G. Wrightson. A contemporary manuscript list loosely inserted stating '1st editions of Kipling sent to L. Wrightson to bind by L.G. Wrightson Oct 19th 1906.' Duly stamped by Wrightson in each vol. '19L.G.W.07'. This collection includes the cream of the crop of Kipling's prolific literary output, such as both Jungle Books, Just So Stories., Kim, Puck of Pook's Hill and The Barrack-Room Ballads. Kipling's own introduction to the swastika as a Hindu good luck symbol certainly came through his father's encyclopaedic knowledge of Indian art. The use of such a symbol, however, it can be traced back in antiquity. In Sanskrit the word means 'fortunate' or 'well-being'. Ganesha, the most immediately recognisable of Kipling's 'logos' shows the elephant headed God who was the son of of Siva and Parvatti. Once the Nazis had usurped the swastika, Kipling ordered that it should no longer adorn his books. Bolton's American Armory.