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A Choice of Kipling's Verse with an Essay on Rudyard Kipling

First edition of A Choice of Kipling's Verse, made by T. S. Eliot

Rudyard Kipling; edited by T. S. EliotThomas Stearns Eliot
First edition. Sm. 8vo. Pp. 306, [2 (blank)]. Indigo cloth boards, titled in gilt to spine; deckled edges printed on heavy wartime paper. Top-edge purple stained, as called for. Sky-blue dustwrapper printed in red and black to spine and front [priced "8s. 6d. net" to front flap]. 1/10,120 copies printed.
Former ownership signature to f.f.e.p., slight browning to fore-edges, a couple of modest closed tears to edge-faded upper dust jacket panel, darkened spine, else fine.
Eliot's lengthy essay aimed at shoring up Kipling's faltering reputation – "I cannot find any justification for the charge that he held a doctrine of race superiority" – was answered in kind by George Orwell in a 1942 essay in Horizon in which he castigates the writer as a "jingo imperialist."
[Gallup B39a]
edition
first edition
format
hardback
scarcity
scarce
publisher
Faber and Faber
published in
London
publication year
1941
ISBN
not assigned
pagination
306 pages
genre
poetry
language
English
binding style
cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
fine
of jacket
very good
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ref.5YQ 89U