1923-1937 The Day's Work; Captains Courageous A Story of the Grand Banks; Rewards and Fairies

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

A trio of new impressions of the Macmillan pocket editions for these Rudyard Kipling works.

Uniformly bound in the publisher's full limp crushed morocco. With an illustrative gilt stamp to the front boards.

With twenty-one full-page illustrations to 'Captain Courageous' and twelve plates to 'Rewards and Fairies'. Collated, complete. 

Kipling wrote a varied collection of novels, poems, short stories and essays, his best known being 'The Jungle Book'. He was among the UK's most prominent writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

This set contains the following titles:

'The Day's Work' (1923) - A collection of Kipling's short stories, including 'The Ship that Found Herself', 'Bread Upon the Waters' and 'The Devil and the Deep Sea'. 

'Captains Courageous' (1925) - An adventure novel that follows a spoiled fifteen-year-old named Harvey Cheyne Jr., who is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the North Atlantic. 

'Rewards and Fairies' (1937) - A series of historical fantasy short stories acting as a follow-up to Kipling's earlier book 'Puck of Pook's Hill', set one year later.