Kipling makes an exceedingly good showing
UK: THE FINAL LOT in this Sussex sale of books from a Scottish estate, ‘Hallrule’, was a 35-volume ‘Sussex’ edition of the works of Rudyard Kipling. One of the 525 sets issued in 1937-39, it was signed and, according to the catalogue, “full bound”. It reached £10,500.
Variously bound in cloth or full morocco gilt, 44 volumes of Richard Canon’s regimental histories, o…