Item #34949 Kipling Masterpieces: The Man Who Would Be King; Without Benefit of Clergy; The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes; The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney; The Courting of Dinah Shadd. Rudyard KIPLING.
Kipling Masterpieces: The Man Who Would Be King; Without Benefit of Clergy; The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes; The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney; The Courting of Dinah Shadd.
Kipling Masterpieces: The Man Who Would Be King; Without Benefit of Clergy; The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes; The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney; The Courting of Dinah Shadd.

Kipling Masterpieces: The Man Who Would Be King; Without Benefit of Clergy; The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes; The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney; The Courting of Dinah Shadd. New York: F. M. Buckles and Company, 1899.

First Edition Thus. Original blue cloth, printed dustjackets, and lower portion of original carrying case. According to The Annual American Catalogue for 1900, the set sold for $1.50. A very scarce collection of 19th Century dustjackets, all the stories except for Morrowbie Jukes were published separately a year earlier by Brentano and by Doubleday and McClure [Flora Livingston 'Bibliography of the Works of Rudyard Kipling', 1927] A Very Good set, jackets modestly darkened, Morrowbie title with more darkening to jacket than other titles, Man Who Would Be King title with closed tear across front panel, half inch chip at top spine end.

Price: $1,000.00

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