Rudyard Kipling's Verse, 1885-1926 (Inclusive Edition, India Paper Edition)

Inclusive edition, India paper edition, 1st thus. xiv, 744pp, on India paper, with a useful index of first lines at rear. In red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and decorations (including swastika, a Hindu symbol of good fortune, which the Anglo-India Kipling used as his personal emblem for much of career, to signify his affinity with India. Kipling was disgusted by Nazi Germany's usurpation of the symbol ceasing to use to it himself in the mid-1930s). The boards are lightly rubbed and rounded on corners and spine ends. Internally neat, clean and bright barring a little tanning on endpapers. In its original dust jacket (rubbed and a little chipped on edges and folds, toned and a few small abrasions). A complete collection of all of Kipling's verse written between 1885 and 1926, including 35 poems written after 1918 which did not appear in an earlier inclusive edition, and one previously unpublished poem.