Macmillan Pocket Leather Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling, 33 volumes, 1915 – 1937

33 volumes. Full maroon calf with gilt decorations to spines and front covers. Top edges gilt, with red silk ribbon bookmarks to each of the volumes. Illustrations throughout a number of the volumes, including The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book, Puck of Pook‘s Hill, Land and Sea Tales, Kim, Rewards and Fairies, and Just So Stories.

One volume has a loose page. One has an accidental pen mark. Otherwise, the books are in near fine condition and internally clean with no foxing.

These Macmillan pocket editions were issued over several years, never as a complete set. The volumes include: Actions and Reactions; Barrack Room Ballads; A Book of Words; Captains Courageous; The Day’s Work; Debits and Credits; Departmental Ditties; A Diversity of Creatures; The Five Nations; From Sea to Sea and other sketches, volume I; From Sea to Sea and other sketches, volume II; The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book; Just So Stories; Kim; Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides; Letters of Travel 1892 – 1913; Life’s Handicap; The Light that Failed; Limits and Renewals; Many Inventions; The Naulahka: A Story of West and East; Plain Tales From The Hills; Puck of Pook’s Hill; Rewards and Fairies; The Seven Seas; Soldiers Three, and other stories; Something of Myself; Songs from Books; Stalky and Co.; Traffics and Discoveries; Wee Willie Winkie.

Most volumes are reprints from the 1920s/1930s. The Years Between is a first edition. Founded in London in 1843 by Scottish brothers Daniel and Alexander MacMillan, MacMillan publishers was the first to publish Kipling‘s The Jungle Book in 1894.