Rudyard Kipling — Actions and Reactions

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1909. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Rudyard Kipling"s work, containing eight stories and eight poems written at the height of his career. In the publisher's original red cloth binding, with Kipling's gilt elephant insignia. First edition.This work is comprised of eight short stories and eight poems by Kipling, including 'With the Night Mail' and 'The House Surgeon&apos. The majority of these were written between 1905 and 1909, appearing initially in newspapers individually. Kipling creates many characters who are there for the sole purpose to listen to a narrator telling his story.Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for The Jungle Book, Kim, and his evocative tales of British India, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. In the publisher's original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight fading to spine with one minor ink mark. Slight offsetting to endpapers. internally, firmly bound. pages bright and clean with one or two spots to first and last few leaves an fore edge. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .