The Works of Rudyard Kipling.

The Seven Seas edition of the Work of Rudyard Kipling, limited to one thousand and fifty numbered copies with the first volume signed by Rudyard Kipling. Royal octavo, 27 volumes, original publisher's half buckram over grey boards, printed paper spine labels, uncut and partially unopened, title pages printed in red and black, initials and tailpieces printed in red, some volumes illustrated, silk red ribbons bound in. The Seven Seas edition, limited to one thousand and fifty numbered copies of which this is number 823, signed by Rudyard Kipling on the half-title of volume one. Vols. XXIV-XXVII unnumbered, with inserted slips for XXVI and XXVII from the publisher noting these volumes are intentionally unnumbered to avoid errors. From the library of noted collector William A. Strutz, with his bookplate to each pastedown. Perhaps the most beautifully printed edition of Kipling's works.