[Rarebooks] FS: GREATLY DISCOUNTED From Sea to Sea by Rudyard Kipling in RARE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BOX

[Allington Books]

Kipling, Rudyard
>From Sea to Sea [a/k/a Letters of Travel]; TRUE FIRST EDITION IN
PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL LABELED BOX

New York: Doubleday, 1899. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.  A
Fine copy of the True First Edition, First Printing (slight rubbing to the
spine ends and board corners), housed in a Very Good example of the RARE
ORIGINAL BOX complete with the label. (The set is now commonly called
"Letters of Travel"). (The UK first edition was not published until 1900.)
[PLEASE NOTE: Rudyard Kipling was born in, and spent most of his life in,
India where the Swastika was a symbol of peace. He stopped using it when
the Nazis adopted it.] The volumes contain letters and travel reports
written by Kipling for newspapers between 1887 and 1889. The set includes
letters from journeys within India between November 1887 and February 1888,
as well as from his journey back to England (thus the title "From Sea to
Sea") between March and September 1889. The set includes the first
authorized edition of "American Notes," "Letters of Marque," "The City of
Dreadful Night" and "The Smith Administration". In his Preface to the
collection, Kipling states that he was "forced" to issue the set "by the
enterprise of various publishers" who were pirating and embellishing his
works. The ORIGINAL BOX WITH PUBLISHER'S LABEL on one side (as issued) is
one of only a few remaining in existence, making this an important and
highly-notable copy which would add distinction to any collection. [The set
was originally issued in the box and with each volume wearing a dust
jacket, but only one set wearing the dust jackets is known to exist.]
Rudyard Kipling won the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature, making him the
first author writing in English to win the Prize and remains the youngest
author ever to win the Prize. Of him Henry James stated: "Kipling strikes
me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine
intelligence, that I have ever known." A Collection-Distinguishing set in
the RARE ORIGINAL BOX. Fine. Hardcover in Good Rare Original Box. (2642).
Fine. Item #2642

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