First edition first printing. Hardback book is tight clean and square. Boards sharp and clean, title gilt perfect. Text block clean, with light toning to edges, some marking to top edge. Feels lightly read. Minor bump to head and foot of spine, Previous booksellers pencil price to FEP. Very good condition. Jacket some minor sunning to spine. Overall very good. For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. This book is fitted with a non adhesive archival quality book protector to make a worthy addition to your collection. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. A nice example of this collectible first edition first printing title, with fascinating diary entries, particularly interesting in relation to Kipling and the loss of Kipling' s son during WWI