What symbol did Rudyard Kipling put on the dust jackets of his books?

The English author Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), was Indian born and some of his best-known work focuses on Indian themes, including “The Jungle Book” (1894), “The Second Jungle Book” (1895), “Kim” (1901), short stories, such as “The Man Who Would Be King” (1888) and poems such as "Gunga Din" (1890). Being strongly influenced by Indian culture, he used a swastika as his personal emblem on the covers of many editions of his books published in the 1910s and 1920s.

His introduction to the swastika as a Hindu good luck symbol may have come through his father John Lockwood Kipling who had an encyclopaedic knowledge of Indian art (the photograph shows Kipling and his father).

With the rise of Nazism, Kipling ceased to use the swastika in his publications, dissociated himself from the symbol and condemned the Nazi party as abhorrent to him.

This about-turn in the use of the swastika had some curious side effects. One of his 1902 “Just So Stories”, "The Crab That Played with the Sea", originally included an elaborate full-page illustration by Kipling including a stone bearing what was called "a magic mark" (a swastika); some later editions of the stories blotted out the mark on the stone, but left the caption unaltered, leaving readers puzzled.