SOUVENIRS OF FRANCE [In Two Volumes, I & II]

1933. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933. Original light yellow wrappers lettered in green.

First Editions, being the American copyright issues -- 75 copies each, issued two weeks apart in March 1933 (to coincide with their periodical appearances in French and in English). This is a series of sketches that together form a personal memoir documenting Kipling's lifelong affection for France, from a childhood trip with his father to the Paris Exhibition of 1878, to beyond the Great War. This title was published four months later in England, bound in blue cloth. Both volumes are in fine condition. Richards A412; Stewart 600.