Poems 1886-1929. 3 volumes, Limited Edition #141/575. Autographed by Rudyard Kipling

Poems 1886-1929. 3 volumes, Limited Edition #141/575. Autographed by Rudyard Kipling

Author: Kipling, Rudyard

4to.(7.75" x 10.5")1930. Kipling, Rudyard. Garden City, New York. Doubleday, Doran & Company. 3 volumes Limited Edition, Signed by Kipling. Full creamy hardback with red border toward spine and tiny corners to both boards. Upper with gilt medallion of elephant and swastika centered to board. Spine with gilt author/title/publisher to gilt rule framed russet paper towards head of spine. Top edge gilt, deckled fore-edge. many pages uncut. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, evident repair to upper joint of of vol.I, closed tear to mid spine, vol.III with 1.75" x .75" gouge from spine towards foot (see pic). Head of all spines chipped with small loss, affecting title paper label to vols. I and III. Spines sun-faded. Covers lightly soiled. Color bookplates to front pastedowns. Bright gilt to cover decorations. Volume I feature frontispiece of Kipling's manuscript writing. Limited Edition signed by Rudyard Kipling. Attestation page states: This Edition, Printed from type that has now been distributed, is limited to Five Hundred and Thirty-Seven Seta. Twelve of these are for presentation. The first volume of each of the remaining Five Hundred and Twenty-Five numbered sets is signed by the author No. 141.

From Wiki: Joseph Rudyard Kipling FRSL (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology (The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Many older editions of Rudyard Kipling's books have a swastika printed on the cover, associated with a picture of an elephant carrying a lotus flower, reflecting the influence of Indian culture. Kipling's use of the swastika was based on the Indian sun symbol conferring good luck and the Sanskrit word meaning "fortunate" or "well-being". He used the swastika symbol in both right and left-facing forms, and it was in general use by others at the time. In a note to Edward Bok after the death of Lockwood Kipling in 1911, Rudyard said: "I am sending with this for your acceptance, as some little memory of my father to whom you were so kind, the original of one of the plaques that he used to make for me. I thought it being the Swastika would be appropriate for your Swastika. May it bring you even more good fortune." Once the swastika had become widely associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, Kipling ordered that it should no longer adorn his books. Less than a year before his death, Kipling gave a speech (titled "An Undefended Island") to the Royal Society of St George on 6 May 1935, warning of the danger which Nazi Germany posed to Britain.

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