Kipling, Rudyard

8vo (195 x 130mm.), FIRST EDITION, 20 illustrations by H.R. Millar, original red cloth lettered and with design in gilt, top edge gilt, DUST-JACKET, some browning to endpapers, minor holes or splitting to hinges, bookseller's slip laid-down to front free endpaper, soiled dust-jacket with some minor loss to head and foot of spine, extremities slightly frayed

Richards A205

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Of the ten stories in this collection all had previously been published in the Strand in 1906. The sixteen poems appear in print for the first time.