Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling.

KIPLING, Rudyard. [Kermit Roosevelt].

Item Number: 122083

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907.

First edition of Kipling’s collected verse, inscribed by him to President Theodore Roosevelt’s son Kermit Roosevelt. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Association copy, signed and inscribed by Rudyard Kipling with a line from The Feet of the Young Men to Kermit Roosevelt on the title page, “Rudyard Kipling Bolemons: August 4. 1912: “now the young men go to dance before the Trues.” RK.” With Roosevelts ownership inscription to the title page, “Kermit Roosevelt March 23, 1909” and his daughter Belle Kermit Roosevelt’s bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and writer Kermit Roosevelt was a graduate of Harvard College, served in both World Wars (in World War I with both the British and American armies), and explored two continents with his father, Theodore Roosevelt. One of Roosevelt’s most popular books, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, recounted their father and son expedition to the Brazilian Jungle which would become known as the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition. In 1909, the year of Kermit’s ownership inscription in the present volume, he and his father undertook a year-long expedition in Africa funded by the Smithsonian Institution. After this trip and a swing through Europe, Kermit returned to Harvard and completed four years of study in two and a half years, graduating with the Class of 1912 (the year of Kipling’s inscription). In very good condition. A unique association.

English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India, which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907.