Rudyard Kipling — Debits and Credits

New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. An attractive example of a later printing of the first US edition of Rudyard Kipling's collection of short stories and poems, in a dust wrapper and wraparound band. The first US edition of this work, with '25th Thousand' to the dust wrapper back strip.In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper, with wraparound band.A collection of fourteen short stories, nineteen poems, and two scenes from an unfinished play.Billed as 'Rudyard Kipling's first book of new fiction in 10 years', many of these works follow Kipling's familiar themes of British colonialism in India and Burma. From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son, literary agent of Rudyard Kipling. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper, and wraparound band. Light shelf wear to back strip tail, with bump to back strip head. Boards in excellent condition. Losses of paper to dust wrapper back strip head and tail, with significant chip to head of front wrap. Offsetting to centre of back strip due to wraparound band. Wraparound band back strip age toned, with significant closed tear to back strip head. Further closed tear and small loss to rear wrap of band. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.