London: The Macmillan Co., [1937]. The Sussex Edition. One of 575 numbered sets, signed by the author in the first volume. Leaves measuring 240 x 160 mm, with the set occupying 141 cm (55 in) of shelf space. A Very Good+ set. Bound for the publisher by James Burn & Co. in full reddish-brown Niger morocco. Double ruled in gilt. Spine in six compartments with raised bands. Top edge gilt. Sunning and speckling to some spines, and some rubbing to raised bands and edges. Very clean throughout. Printed in Edinburgh by R&R Clark, Ltd., on handmade paper.

The Sussex Edition, which has become the most desirable collected edition of Kipling's works, was edited by Kipling himself and including two volumes of previously uncollected prose. The edition, published the year after Kipling's death, was intended as a complete retrospective on Kipling's career and the definitive edition of his works. The superbly produced set of course includes Kipling's most lauded fiction – The Jungle Book, Kim, and Just So Stories – as well as his poems and nonfiction, capturing the scope of his literary output.

A contemporary review in the Times Literary Supplement lauded the production: "The publishers are justified in the use of the epithet 'superb' to describe this edition. The fine hand-made paper and Bembo type are equally satisfactory, but perhaps the binding is still more notable. It is...Niger leather, lettered and simply ornamented in gold. The volumes...are comparatively slim and so easy to hold; and they have an air of durability and of being meant for reading as well as for keeping, which is not always the case with éditions de luxe." Very Good + (Item #7813)