Rudyard Kipling — A Short Story Collection from Rudyard Kipling

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1919-1927. Cloth. Four smart later editions of these collections of short stories from English writer Rudyard Kipling. Four volumes. Later editions. Written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling, an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. This set contains: Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People, 1919. With stories such as On Greenhow Hill, Namgay Doola, and Bertran and Bimi. Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black & White, 1923. With stories such as The Main Guard, Poor Dear Mamma, and At Twenty-Two. The Day's Work, 1927. With stories such as The Bridge-Builders, A Walking Delegate, and The Maltese Cat. Actions and Reactions, 1927. With stories such as The Recall, The Bees and the Flies, and A Deal in Cotton. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spines with the odd small mark to the cloth. Front hinge starting but firm to Soldiers Three. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Minor age toning to the endpapers with a contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .