Set Of Twenty-Six MacMillan's Rudyard Kipling Pocket Edition Books. The leather bound books from the Macmillan Pocket Kipling series, in smart condition. Full semi-rigid maroon calf covers with gilt titles and gilt Kipling decoration to front boards of a swastika with a picture of an elephant carrying a lotus flower. Page edges gilt, silk marker ribbons. Wear or scuffing to the volumes, worn and rubbed to the spine ends, fading to the spines. MacMillian & Co. Limited, St. Martin's Street, London. Size given is for the books grouped together.
The swastika is an ancient symbol that originally represented good fortune, peace, and well-being. It was used by many cultures, including Native Americans, Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains. Book titles are as follows:-
Traffics And Discoveries (1917), Plain Tales From The Hills (1918), The Fives Nations (1918), Departmental Ditties (1918), Life's Handicap (1918), Rewards And Fairies (1918), Wee Willie Winkie (1918), Captains Courageous (1918), From Sea To Sea - Vol.1 (1918), From Sea To Sea - Vol.2 (1918), Soldiers Three & Other Stories (1918), The Seven Seas (1918), Kim (1918), Many Inventions (1918) Songs From Books (1918), The Years Between (1919), Barrack Room Ballads (1919), The Light That Failed (1919), Actions And Reactions (1919), A Diversity Of Creatures (1919), The Naulahka (1919), Just So; Stories (1919), The Jungle Book (1919), The Second Jungle Book (1919), Debits And Credits (1926) & Something Of Myself (1937).