Rudyard Kipling's Verse Inclusive Edition 1885 1932 by Kipling Rudyard (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. pp xviii + 821 red cloth boards, gilt lettering, stained spine, bumped cor ners, small tear to upper spine edge. Damp stain to lower page corners & fox ing to prelims, yellowed & foxed page edges, slight bow to back cover cause.

Half Leather. Condition: G-vg. Octavo; 821pp. India paper edition. Contemporary half blue calf over blue cloth sides, the spine a trifle sunned but nice with raised bands and gilt motifs in compartments. Leaves slightly cockled, G-VG copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: G+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Thus. G+/VG+. 8vo. original blue cloth gilt, teg (slightly rubbed & marked, tearing to final few leaves, with some loss to index, prev. owner's name to FFE) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little rubbed & marked, occ. fraying); pp. xviii, 822 (last blank), with frontispiece. An otherwise very good copy in a decent dustwrapper. The first impression of the fourth edition, printed on India paper, containing 62 poems written between 1926 and 1932 and not hitherto included in the earlier editions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First edition stated. 8vo in red cloth, titles in gilt. Binding tight and square even though the front hinge is cracked, spine darkened and gilt faded almost to the point of illegibility, text block unmarked.

Cloth. Fourth Edition. xviii, 821 Pp. This New Edition contains 62 poems written between 1926 and 1932 and not hitherto included Some ink notations on table of contents ow very good.

8vo. (21.5 x 13.5 cm). pp. xviii+821. Finely bound by Bumpus in full aubergine morocco, sides ruled with three gilt fillets, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering to one compartment, turn-ins ruled with gilt fillets, all edges gilt. Title page printed in red and black. Portrait frontispiece. Ex libris Thomas Probyn Cokayne, with a Christmas gift presentation from his mother dated 1938 to fly leaf. A fine copy. This is the second impression of the fourth edition of Rudyard Kipling's inclusive verse.

First edition thus, first impression, inscribed to the printer in the month after publication on the front free endpaper verso, "Rudyard Kipling, Signed for William Maxwell, Nov. 12/33". It is signed again by Kipling on the frontispiece, underneath his printed signature. A typed letter signed from Kipling to Maxwell, and a 1936 ticket to Kipling's funeral service, are loosely inserted. Kipling's letter is dated 2 November 1933 and reads, "Dear Mr Maxwell, Of course I shall be very happy to inscribe the new Inclusive Verse if you will send it to me here. It's a beautifully turned out book. Most sincerely, Rudyard Kipling". William Maxwell (1873-1957) was managing director of the printers R. & R. Clark, which had long associated with Kipling. The two had collaborated on the previous 1927 edition of Kipling's Inclusive Verse, following which Kipling wrote to Maxwell on 8 January 1928: "With all the pleasure in the world! Artists are few - and in the Sacred art of printing very few: and I owe R. & R. a long debt for the poems and the feeling with which they have presented my books for so long" (Letters, V, p. 409). Maxwell's signed copy of the 1927 edition is now held at Yale. When they renewed their collaboration for this expanded edition of 1933, Kipling wrote to Maxwell saying he was "glad to be in your hands again. They are the best I know" (Letters, VI, p. 155). Maxwell assembled the Edward Clark Collection of the history of printing, held at Edinburgh Napier University Library. His bookplate, seen on the front pastedown, was engraved with a printing workshop scene in 1933 by John Farleigh, best known for illustrating George Bernard Shaw's The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (1932). Following the Collected Verse (1907), the Inclusive Verse series was published in 1919 and expanded in 1921, 1927, and finally by Kipling in this 1933 edition, which contains an additional 62 poems written between 1926 and 1932. It also includes the first appearance of five poems in book form, "The Friends", "A Song of Bananas", "Song of the Dynamo", "Such as in Ships", and "Hymn of the Triumphant Airman". Delighted by his last lifetime collection of poems, Kipling stated while editing the proofs that "the whole blessed thing is about eight hundred pages" (Richards). It was followed by the posthumous "Definitive Edition" of 1940. This copy, in the dust jacket and original box, is printed on India paper and bound in morocco. Copies were also issued on standard paper and bound in cloth. Richards A416; Stewart 605. Thomas Pinney, ed., The Letters of Rudyard Kipling, 1990. Octavo. Original blue morocco, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With dust jacket. Housed in the publisher's printed card box, later annotated in manuscript describing the provenance. Partial splits to front inner hinge, minor foxing to endpapers, else clean; jacket faded to green, folds reinforced with Japanese tissue, unclipped; wear to box, neatly stabilized: overall, a very good copy.