Rudyard Kipling — Letters of Travel

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1920 . First edition. Cloth. First edition of travel letters from renowned The Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling. First edition.In publisher's original red cloth binding with gilded elephant emblem. In unclipped dust wrapper.From Rudyard Kipling, Nobel-Prize winner best known for The Jungle Book (1894) and Just So Stories (1902). Kipling's youth in British India greatly shaped his writing, as did his extensive cross-continental travels, such as recorded in this work. The collection of letters documents Kipling's journeys through the likes of America, Japan and Egypt, among other places. The letters span the years of 1892 to 1913 and are chronologically ordered into the sections "From Tideway to Tideway", "Letters to the Family" and "Egypt of the Magicians". In publisher's original red cloth binding. With unclipped dust wrapper. Slight bumping and discolouration, most noticeable to the spine. Moderate tearing and chips to dust wrapper but reinforced with archival binding and otherwise intact. Inscription dated 1926 to first free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the exception of mild spotting concentrated towards the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good/Good.