The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling [33 Volumes]

Rudyard Kipling, The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, 33 Volumes, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited and Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1904-1938, 33 Volumes

Traffics and Discoveries, vi + 393 pages; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1904
Actions and Reactions, 299 pages; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1910
Barrack-Room Ballads: And other Verses, xvi + 208 pages, London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1915, 58th edition
Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine own People, xvi + 407 pages; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1916
The Five Nations, xiii + 215 pages; London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1916, nineteenth edition
The Seven Seas, xv + 228 pages; London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1916, London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, thirtieth edition
Plain Tales from the Hills, x + 336 pages; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1917
Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys in Black and White, vi + 353 pages; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1917
Puck of Pook's Hill, x + 306 pages including 20 black and white illustrations; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1917
A Diversity of Creatures, x + 441 pages; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1917
Departmental Ditties: And Other Verses, xi + 176 pages; London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1917, thirty-second edition
Many Inventions, ix + 387 pages; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1918
The Light That Failed, 289 pages; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1918
Wee Willy Winkie: And Other Stories, 372 pages; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1918
The Naulahka: A Story of West and East, 332 pages; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1918
Songs from Books, xxii + 302 pages; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1918
Kim, 413 pages including 10 black and white photographic plates; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1918
The Day's Work, 406 pages; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1919
The Years Between, xiii + 159 + 16 advertisement pages; London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1919
From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Volume 1, xiv + 497 pages; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1919
From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches: Letters of Travel, Volume 2, ix + 438 pages; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1919
Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks, vi + 282 pages including 22 black and white illustrations; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1919
Rewards and Fairies, xii + 338 pages including 4 black and white plates; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1919
Just So Stories: For Little Children, 218 pages including 22 black and white plates designed by Kipling himself; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1919
Letters of Travel (1892-1913), vi + 284 pages; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1920
The Jungle Book, vi + 276 pages including 42 text illustrations (19 full-page) by J L Kipling, W H Drake, and P Frenzeny; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1920
The Second Jungle Book, 299 pages including forty-two text illustrations (nineteen full-page) by J.L. Kipling, W.H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny
London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1920
Debits and Credits, 416 pages; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1926
A Book of Words: Selections from Speeches and Addresses delivered between 1906 and 1927, vii + 299 pages; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1928
Land and Sea Tales: For Scouts and Guides, vi + 281 pages including 12 black and white illustrations; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1930
Limits and Renewals, viii + 400 pages; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1932
Something of myself: For my friends known and unknown, vii + 237 pages; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1937
Thy Servant a Dog: And other Dog Stories, v + 200 pages with few black and white illustrations by Stampa; London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1938

Half red morocco with decorated spines along with 5 raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, inside front wrapper with armorial bookplate of C F J Beausire, and swastika symbol on the title page (each)
7.10 x 5.5 in (18 x 13.9 cm) (each)

Rudyard Joseph Kipling was born in the then named Bombay, India on 30th December 1865. Aged six, he was sent to England to be educated, firstly in Southsea, where he was cared for in a foster home, and later at Westward Ho, a United Services College in Devon. A life of misery at the former was described in his story 'Baa Baa Black Sheep', whilst Westward Ho was used as a basis for his questioning the public-school ethic in 'Stalky and Co'. Kipling returned to India in 1882 to work as an assistant editor for the Civil and Military Gazette of Lahore. His reputation as a writer was established with stories of English life in India, published there in 1888/9. 'The Phantom Rickshaw', 'Soldiers Three' and 'Under the Deodars' are amongst these early works. Returning to England in 1889, Kipling settled in London and continued to earn a living as a writer. In 1892 he married Caroline Balestier, an American. They travelled extensively in the following four years, including a spell living in America, and it was in this time most of his enduring work was written, not least 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Second Jungle Book'. Kipling once again returned to England in 1896 and continued his writing career, although tragedy hit the family when his eldest daughter, Josephine, died in 1899. Nonetheless, in 1901 he completed 'Kim', often considered his best work. The following year, having settled in Sussex, he published 'Just So Stories', a book he had planned to write for Josephine. Having refused the position of Poet Laureate, which was offered in 1895, he did accept the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the first English author to be so honoured.

The works of Rudyard Kipling contain his poetry, novels, stories, travel writings, children’s tales, military tales, and essays.

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