A Book of Words; Selections from the Speeches and Addresses Delivered Between 1906-1927 (The Gordon Edition) by Kipling, Rudyard - No date

Gordon and Gotch (Australia), Limited, London, No date. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Green / brown coloured textured end pages. Brown textured cloth covered boards with embossed decoration to the front panel, with gilt elephant's head to the front panel along with the Hindu sign of good luck (looks like a reverse swastika); gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Gilt to the top text edge.The title says it all; some of the topics in the speeches and addresses are: – Literature, Values in Life, The Uses of Reading, Our Indian Troops in France, The War and the Schools, The Classics and the Sciences and Waking from Dreams.  Softening and rubbing of the backstrip edges, book corners and lower book edges. A black mark to the top text edge. Tanning in faint foxing of the textblock edges and age toning of the pages. Offset tanning to the half title page.  First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [7], VIII - XVI, [1], 2 - 208 pages, . Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Speeches; Inventory No: 0129073. .