THE LETTERS OF RUDYARD KIPLING, Volume 1: 1872-89 [and] Volume 2: 1890-99, Edited by Thomas Pinney

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Each volume is inscribed by editor Thomas Pinney to Gordon Van De Water, past president of the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles, on the title page. The first two (of six) volumes in this "annotated edition based on the more than six thousand letters preserved in public and private collections all over the world." Octavo, two volumes: xxxviii, 386 p. with 8 illustrations + vi, 390 p. with 8 illustrations. Original black cloth bindings, with gilt titles. Remainder mark to the bottom edges. Light bumping to the corners and tips, with a bit of mild wear to the dust jackets; (truncated) otherwise very good. (Inventory #: 76140)