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Departmental ditties, and other verses / by Rudyard Kipling.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Foreign Imprints 1888 Kipling
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--19th century.
- English poetry.
- Humorous poetry, English.
- Genre:
- Publishers' catalogs -- India -- Kolkata -- 1889.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 85 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Calcutta : Thacker, Spink & Co. ; London : W. Thacker & Co., 1888.
- Contents:
- Departmental ditties: General summary
- Army head-quarters
- Study of an elevation, in Indian ink
- A legend of the F.O.
- The story of Uriah
- The post that fitted
- Public waste
- Delilah
- Pink dominoes
- The man who could write
- Municipal
- A code of morals
- The last department
- Other verses: To the unknown Goddess
- The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal'vin
- La nuit blanche
- My rival
- The lovers' litany
- A ballad of burial
- Divided destinies
- Diana of Ephesus
- The mare's nest
- Possibilities
- Christmas Day in India
- Pagett, M.P.
- A ballade of Jakko Hill
- The plea of the Simla dancers
- As the bell clinks
- Certain maxims of Hafiz
- The moon of other days
- The overland mail
- What the people said
- The undertaker's horse
- The fall of Jock Gillespie
- Arithmetic on the frontier
- Two months
- A tale of two cities
- Giffen's debt
- In spring time
- L'envoi.
- Notes:
- "Varying numbers of leaves of advertisements bearing various dates are bound in at the end"--Stewart.
- Athenaeum copy has "Departmental ditties, opinions of the press on the first edition": p. [1]-3 and additional advertisement on p. [4] at end. Also has publisher's advertisement: "Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta. Illustrated Catalogue, January, 1889": 40 p. at end.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Inscription on title page.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Anne-Taylor Cahill.
- Cited in:
- Stewart, J.M. Kipling, 10
- Livingston, F.V.M. Kipling, 13
- NUC pre-1956 NK 0155549
- OCLC:
- 1003783
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