Selected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Mine Own People, Phantom Rickshaw, Plain Tales from the Hill, Soldiers ThreeThe Light that Failed and Back Room Ballads) (Salesman's Dummy)

Boston: Desmond Publishing Co, 1899. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Salesman's dummy for the six volume set, sold by subscription. With frontispiece portrait, title page, 5 photogravure plates w/tissue guards and about 10 pages of text with some duotones. Though title page is for Soldiers Three, the elements in the book appear to be from it and the other five books in this Desmond edition of Selected Works: Mine Own People, Phantom Rickshaw, Plain Tales from the Hill, The Light that Failed and Back Room Ballads as listed in the prospectus printed on the front pastdown. Some foxing, solid binding.