The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling: 25 Volume Set
Rudyard Kipling, The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906-12
25 volumes; bound in brownish purple publisher's cloth. with white disk inset into front cover along with elephant and swastika symbol on the title page, spines decorated with a pleasing craftsman-style flower in gilt, top edge gilt with other edges deckle.
9 x 6 in (23 x 15 cm) (each)
Volume I: Plain tales from the hills,1911; xv, 350 pages, 4 illustrations
Volume II: Soldiers three and military tales, Part 1, 1911; 307 pages, 3 illustrations
Volume III: Soldiers Three and military tales, Part 2, 1911; 309-589 pages, 3 illustrations
Volume IV: In Black and White, 1911; 386 pages, xiii, 3 illustrations
Volume V: The Phantom Rickshaw and other Stories, 1911; v, 387 pages, 3 illustrations
Volume VI: Under the Deodars, The Story of the Gadsbys, Wee Willie Winkie, 1911; 3 illustrations, 368 pages
Volume VII: The Jungle Book, 1911; 341 pages, 3 illustrations
Volume VIII: The Second Jungle Book, 1911; 228 pages, 3 illustrations
Volume IX: The light that failed, 1911; 329 pages, 3 illustrations
Volume X: The Naulakha: A story of west and east, 1911; 377 pages, 3 illustrations
Volume XI: Verses, 1911; xiii, 359 pages, 3 illustrations
Volume XII: Captain Courageous, 1911; 242 pages, 3 illustrations
Volume XIII: The Day's Work, Part 1, 1911; 310 pages, 3 illustrations
Volume XIV: The Day's Work, Part 2, 1911; 303 pages, 3 illustrations
Volume XV: From Sea to Sea, Part 1, 1906; xii, 494 pages, 3 illustrations
Volume XVI: From Sea to Sea, Part 2, 1912; 553 pages, 3 illustrations
Volume XVII: Early Verse, 1911; x, 292 pages 3 illustrations
Volume XVIII: Stalky and Co, 1911; xi, 330 pages 3 illustrations
Volume XIX: Kim, 1911; 474 pages, 10 illustrations
Volume XX: Just So Stories, 1911; 279 pages, profusely illustrated
Volume XXI: The Five Nations, 1912; xi, 202 pages, 3 illustrations
Volume XXII: Traffics and Discoveries, 1911; vi, 438 pages, 3 illustrations
Volume XXIII: Puck of the Pook's hill, 1912; vi, 305 pages, 4 illustrations
Volume XXIV: Actions and Reactions, 1911; 324 pages, 4 illustrations
Volume XXV: Rewards and Fairies, 1911; vi, 378 pages, 4 illustrations
Rudyard Joseph Kipling was born in the then named Bombay, India on 30th December 1865. Aged six, he was sent to England to be educated, firstly in Southsea, where he was cared for in a foster home, and later at Westward Ho, a United Services College in Devon. A life of misery at the former was described in his story 'Baa Baa Black Sheep', whilst Westward Ho was used as a basis for his questioning the public school ethic in 'Stalky and Co'. Kipling returned to India in 1882 to work as an assistant editor for the Civil and Military Gazette of Lahore. His reputation as a writer was established with stories of English life in India, published there in 1888/9. 'The Phantom Rickshaw', 'Soldiers Three' and 'Under the Deodars' are amongst these early works. Returning to England in 1889, Kipling settled in London and continued to earn a living as a writer. In 1892 he married Caroline Balestier, an American. They travelled extensively in the following four years, including a spell living in America, and it was in this time most of his enduring work was written, not least 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Second Jungle Book'. Kipling once again returned to England in 1896 and continued his writing career, although tragedy hit the family when his eldest daughter, Josephine, died in 1899. Nonetheless, in 1901 he completed 'Kim', often considered to be his best work. The following year, having settled in Sussex, he published 'Just So Stories', a book he had planned to write for Josephine. Having refused the position of Poet Laureate, which was offered in 1895, he did accept the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the first English author to be so honoured.
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