First edition. Thames and Hudson, London 1975. 128 pp. With 114 illustrations.
"Kipling's life and work are extraordinary, unlike those of any other English writer. They also vividly reflect an age that had passed and yet left strong, ineffaceable marks upon our lives today. The huge formative experience of India's colours and sounds and smells; a Victorian upbringing indulgent and tyrannical by turns; loneliness and alienation in the London of the English Decadence; lengthy travels round a world half modern, half strange and antiquated; an isolated yet active old age in Sussex: these are some of the many elements of a man much admired, much hated and much misunderstood." (from the front-flap of the dust jacket)
Book and dust jacket are in very good condition with some signs of use and shelfwear.
