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Kipling's poems / edited, with an introductory essay, by Wallace Rice ; fully annotated.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC85 K6284 899pb
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 3-249 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : George M. Hill Company, [1899]
- Contents:
- Departmental ditties
- Barrck-room ballads
- Other verses
- Verses from the prose works
- Later verses.
- Notes:
- Contains "Index of first lines".
- The decoration on the front cover, in white, has a tiger's head surmounting a shield made up of stars, stripes, lions and an Irish harp.
- "Bibliographically, this is among the most vexing of all Kipling first editions. The identical text block is known with two different publishers' names on an otherwise idential title-page and on the binding spine (Geo. M. Hill Company and Star Publishing Company [spine monogram] ... Furthermore, the t.p. is an inset leaf, pasted to page v."--Cf. Richards.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has underlines and marginal marks.
- Cited in:
- Stewart, J.M. Kipling, 193. Note.
- Richards, D.A. Kipling, A128
- OCLC:
- 505392
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