Poems, 1886-1929 / 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

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 (autograph)

Physical Description:

3 volumes : facsimile ; 28 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Rudyard Kipling Poems 1886-1929

Place of Publication:

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930.

Contents:

v. 1. Departmental ditties. Barrack-room ballads. The seven seas

v. 2. The five nations. Songs from books

v. 3. Verses from "Sea warfare". "The years between". "The muse among the motors". Verses from "A history of England". Verses from "A diversity of creatures". Verses from "Land and sea tales". Verses from "Debits and credits". Verses from "Inclusive verse".

Notes:

"This edition, printed from type that has now been distributed, is limited to five hundred and thirty-seven sets. Twelve of these are for presentation. The first volume of each of the remaining five hundred and twenty-five numbered sets is signed by the author"--Unnumbered leaf at beginning of each volume.

"This American signed limited edition, printed on deckle-edged paper, has the same contents as the first (English) edition (1929), but the frontispiece portrait found there in the first volume is replaced here by a facsimile of the signed manuscript of 'The thousandth man'."--Cf. Richards.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 9 and signed by the author.

Culture Class Collection copy volumes have dust-jackets retained.

Culture Class Collection copy volumes have unopened leaves.

Cited in:

Richards, D.A. Kipling, A396

OCLC:

2626034