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Rudyard Kipling, The Sussex Edition of the Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, London: Macmillan and Company, Sussex Edition, 1937-39

The Sussex Edition. Number 78 of 525 sets, signed by the author in volume one; hardbound in full crimson Niger morocco, bound by James Burn & Co. Ltd., with raised bands in six compartments, gilt, and double gilt fillet borders to upper and lower boards. Top edges gilt on rough, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Titles handsomely printed by R.& R. Clark Ltd. of Edinburgh on hand-made rag-paper by Messrs. Portals Ltd. in white on chestnut panels, printed on handmade paper with a watermark of Ganesha (each).
9.75 x 6.75 in (25 x 17.5 cm) (each)

The Sussex edition is universally considered as unquestionably the definitive and most desirable edition of Kipling's collected works. It is also one of the most splendid and extravagantly produced of all literary sets.

"During the last years of his life, Kipling was engaged in a complete revision of his works, and the text of the Sussex edition represents his final revised text. Two volumes of uncollected prose and much verse are here collected for the first time ... Unfortunately, a substantial portion of the edition was destroyed in unbound sheets during the bombing of London in 1941" (Stewart, Rudyard Kipling, pp. 577-580).

Volume I: Plain Tales from the Hills, xv + 433 + 6 blank pages
Volume II: Soldiers Three and other Stories, viii + 374 + 6 blank pages
Volume III: viii + 418 + 6 blank pages
Volume IV: Life's Handicap, xviii + 450 + 6 blank pages
Volume V: Many Inventions, xii + 491 + 6 blank pages
Volume VI: The Day's Work, vii + 423 + 6 blank pages
Volume VII: Traffics and Discoveries, viii + 398 + 6 blank pages
Volume VIII: Actions and Reactions, vii + 288 + 6 blank pages
Volume IX: A Diversity of Creatures, x + 443 + 6 blank pages
Volume X: Debits and Credits, viii + 336 + 6 blank pages

Volume XI: Limits and Renewals, viii + 384 + 6 blank pages
Volume XII: The Jungle Books, x + 478 + 6 blank pages
Volume XIII: Just so stories viii + 227 including 22 black and white plates designed by Kipling himself + 6 blank pages
Volume XIV: Puck of Pook's Hill, viii + 266 + 6 blank pages
Volume XV: Rewards and Fairies, xii + 326 + 6 blank pages
Volume XVI: Land and Sea Tales and 'Thy Servant a Dog', x + 310 + [1] + 3 blank pages
Volume XVII: Stalky & Co., xiv + 427 + 6 blank pages
Volume XVIII: The Light that Failed, [14] + 271 + 6 blank pages
Volume XIX: The Naullakha, [8] + 314 pages + 6 blank pages
Volume XX: Captain Courageous, [10] + 202 + 6 blank pages

Volume XXI: Kim, vii + [2] + 392 pages including 10 black and white photographic plates + 6 blank pages
Volume XXII: From Sea to Sea and other Stories - Volume I, xvi + 466 + 6 blank pages
Volume XXIII: From Sea to Sea and other Sketches - Volume II, x + 468 + 6 blank pages
Volume XXIV: Letters of Travel, x + 434 + 6 blank pages
Volume XXV: A Book of Words, xii + 328 + 6 blank pages
Volume XXVI: The War and a fleet in being, ix + 474 + 6 blank pages
Volume XXVII: The Irish Guards in the Great War- Volume I, xix + 432 including 7 maps + 6 blank pages
Volume XXVIII: The Irish Guards in the Great War- Volume II, ix + 399 including 4 maps + 6 blank pages
Volume XXIX: Uncollected Prose - Volume I, viii + 383 + 6 blank pages
Volume XXX: Uncollected Prose - Volume II, viii + 420 + 6 blank pages

Volume XXXI: Souvenirs of France and Something of Myself, [12] + 247 + 6 blank pages
Volume XXXII: Departmental Ditties and Barrack-Room Ballads, ix + 341 + 6 blank pages
Volume XXXII: The Seven Seas. The Five Nations. The Years Between, xi + 465 + 6 blank pages
Volume XXXIV: Songs from Books and Later Songs from Books, xi + 446 + 6 blank pages
Volume XXXV: Early Verse: The Muse among the motors miscellaneous, vii + 407 + 6 blank pages