Rudyard Kipling — Actions and Reactions

New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling, with charming illustrations to accompany the text. First edition. Bound in the publisher's pictorial green cloth. Written by English novelist, poet and short story writer Rudyard Kipling, who was born in India, a country which inspired much of his work. 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. Illustrated with seven plates and a frontispiece, collated complete. With a number of different artists, including Clara Elsene Williams, George Gibbs and C. B. Falls, among others. Contemporary ink inscription to the front paste down, dated 1909. With nine pages of advertisements between page 173 and 181.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 pictorial green cloth binding. Externally, very good, with light bumping and a little rubbing to the extremities. Small tears to cloth at the head and tail of the spine. The odd mark to cloth. Ink inscription to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with a touch of age toning. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .