Tales of "the trade" / by Rudyard Kipling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations--Submarine.

World War, 1914-1918.

Sea control.

Submarine warfare--Great Britain.

Submarine warfare.

Great Britain.

Penn Provenance:

Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copies 1 & 2)

Lemperly, Paul, 1858-1939 (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

Lane, John, 1854-1925 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Ballard, Ellis Ames, 1861-1938 (label) (Culture Class Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

27 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[London] : [Privately printed by Clement Shorter], [1916]

Contents:

1. Some work in the Baltic

2. Business in the Sea of Marmora

3. Ravages and repairs.

Notes:

Listed as first English edition, limited.

T.p. within single rule.

On verso of t.p.: "This series of articles, written by Mr. Rudyard Kipling at the request of the British Admiralty, first appeared in The Times, and other British newspapers, on June 21, June 23, and June 28, 1916, respectively. Through the courtesy of the author, and by permission of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, an edition of twenty-five copies has been privately printed by Clement Shorter for distribution among his friends. London: July 9th, 1916."

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy 1 is no. 23 and signed by Clement Shorter.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has typed letter and envelope addressed to Paul Lemperly from Clement Shorter laid in.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has [1] leaf written in ms. by Paul Lemperly about this book laid in.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has catalog description of this book pasted to the front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 is not given a number.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 is inscribed to John Lane by Clement Shorter, July 25, 1916.

Culture Class Collection copies 1 & 2 are in a box with a leather label of the Ellis Ames Ballard Kipling Collection.

Cited in:

Stewart, J.M. Kipling, 398.

OCLC:

24401893