KIPLING

KIPLING, RUDYARD - POEMS 1886-1929 London, Macmillan & Co, 1929. First and limited edition, number 159 of 525 copies (500 for sale), signed by Kipling in volume 1, three volumes, 4to, portrait frontispiece of Kipling by Francis Dodd and signed by him in pencil, internally fine, publisher's crushed red morocco leather bindings (small stain to vol 3, spines a little faded), housed in a later deluxe solander box with leather spine and gilt lettering. A handsome set of the rare true first edition (also printed in New York, but a year later), signed by Kipling, and magnificently produced