Catalogue Intimate and Descriptive of My Kipling Collection: Books Manuscripts and Letters with Reproductions of Rarities, How I Got Them, Why I Prize Them, and What I Failed to Get.

Signed limited privately printed edition of the catalogue of Philadelphia lawyer Ellis Ames Ballard's renowned Rudyard Kipling collection. One of 120 copies signed by Ellis Ames Ballard. This is number 84. Presented by the collector to fellow bibliophile and book collector Paul Lemperly. Octavo, bound in full vellum, top edge gilt, engraved frontispiece portrait of Kipling, illustrated throughout with photographs. In near fine condition.