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112 KIPLING, Rudyard. The Collected Works. [New York:] Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1941 complete with the original dust jackets The Burwash edition, number 637 of 1,010 copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf in volume I, as issued; the final and definitive text of Kipling’s works. In the final years of his life, Kipling undertook a complete revision of his works. These final and definitive revised texts were published, with different arrangement of texts, as the Sussex edition in Britain and the Burwash edition in the US. Both sets were posthumously published, using sheets signed by Kipling before his death in 1936. 28 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, titles and decoration to spines gilt, vignettes gilt to front covers, dark red endpapers with monogram vignette in white, top edges gilt, fore edges untrimmed. With dust jackets. Frontispiece to each volume, titles and title page vignettes printed in dark red and black. Bookplates of John and Maggie Phillips.
3 works, octavo. Original coloured boards (red, dark blue, dark green respectively), spines lettered in silver, coloured endpapers. With dust jackets. A very good set in attractive
Books in fine condition, save for vol. II with inner hinges reinforced. Jackets with old and mostly unnecessary tape reinforcement at extremities on verso, not visible on recto, this reinforcement mostly over very minor shelfwear with a few instances of more substantial tears; jackets presenting nicely without sunning. Slipcases without rubbing. Overall a very attractive set. £5,000 [153067] 113 LARSSON, Stieg. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl Who Played with Fire; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. Translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland. London: MacLehose Press, 2008–09 First editions in English of the Millenium trilogy, originally published in Swedish between 2005 and 2007 as Män som Hatar Kvinnor (“Men Who Hate Women”), Flickan Som Lekte med Elden (“The Girl Who Played with Fire”) and Luftslottet som sprängdes (“The Castle in the Air that Blew Up”).
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