The Complete Stalky & Co.

KIPLING, Rudyard.

Item Number: 121477

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1929.

First edition of the complete collection of Kipling’s Stalky & Co. tales. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. Illustrated by L. Raven-Hill. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. A superior example.

A collection of school stories whose juvenile protagonists display a know-it-all, cynical outlook on patriotism and authority, Kipling's The Complete Stalky & Co. contains such stories as The Unsavory Interlude, Regulus, A Translation, A Little Prep, The Last Term, and The Flag Of Their Country.