1910-1928 Macmillan's Pocket Kipling

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Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Twenty volumes of a thirty-five volume set. Macmillan's Pocket Kipling. Illustrated throughout. A collection of the works of Joseph Rudyard Kipling, an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer who was born in British India. Kipling is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story and, in 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at the age of forty-one, its youngest recipient to date. With illustrations from a collection of British artists, including John Lockwood Kipling, an English art teacher, illustrator and museum curator; William Henry Drake, an American painter, watercolorist, illustrator; and Paul Frenzeny, an American artist and illustrator. This set contains: The Jungle Book, 1910. The Second Jungle Book, 1910. The Nauklahka: A Story of West and East, 1910. From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, 1910. Many Inventions, 1910. The Five Nations, 1910. Puck of Pook's Hill, 1911. Departmental Ditties and Other Verses, 1911. Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, 1911. Just So Stories for Little Children, 1911. 'Captain Courageous' A Story of the Grand Banks, 1911. Stalky & Co., 1911. Plain Tales from the Hills, 1913. Kim, 1918. The Light That Failed, 1919. The Years Between, 1919. Letters of Travel (1892-1913), 1920. A Book of Words, 1928. Limits and Renewals, c1930.