8vo. (Some offsetting from old laid-in clippings.) Original red cloth gilt, added rear pocket (some toning to edges); folding case. Provenance: K.N.K, 17 September 1926).

FIRST EDITION of Kipling’s collection of stories and poems. 

[Laid in:] KIPLING. Typed letter signed, with holograph corrections (“Rudyard Kipling”), to Sir Kenneth D. Mackenzie. Sussex, 20 January 1927. 2 pages on a bifolium, 8vo, on Bateman’s Burwash stationary with original addressed and stamped envelope, some toning and creasing. Marked "private" and regarding science, the occult, and the Church: “The whole question raised by you in your thesis is too great an [sic] one to be decided on general rules, it seems to me. The Church used to take one view of it some time ago, and Science now takes the other. It is very difficult to come to any conclusion, on the relative balance of good and evil… Thank you again for your interesting handling of the thorny subject.”