THE DEFINITIVE EDITION OF RUDYARD KIPLING'S VERSE (First definitive edition - first printing). Cet article n’est pas disponible.THE DEFINITIVE EDITION OF RUDYARD KIPLING'S VERSE (First definitive edition - first printing)

A wartime first printing of the first definitive edition, published in 1940. This definitive edition includes poems that were not previously published in the inclusive editions of Rudyard Kipling's verse. ***Very good in salmon-red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and a gilt-bordered panel to the spine. The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are generally clean, but are darkened at the edges. Corners uncreased. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also very good with ownership name and date in fountain pen ink on the front free endpaper. The endpapers are very foxed, but interior is clean. The book is printed on extremely thin India paper, and there is some light creasing to a few corners and edges, but the pages are mostly uncreased. No internal foxing. No dustwrapper. ***228mm x 154mm. 845 pages. ***'Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 Dec 1865 - 18 Jan 1936) was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. 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". Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers. Henry James said "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood, but declined both. Following his death in 1936, his ashes were interred at Poets' Corner, part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey. Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed with the political and social climate of the age. The contrasting views of him continued for much of the 20th century. Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: "[Kipling] is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with."' (Wiki) ***A very good wartime first edition of the Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling's verse. A lovely book for the Kipling enthusiast. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…