Kipling's poems / edited, with an introductory essay, by Wallace Rice ; fully annotated.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.

Contributor:

Rice, Wallace, 1859-1939, editor.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Ballard, Ellis Ames, 1861-1938 (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Bonner, Paul Hyde (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxvi, 249 pages : portrait ; 19 cm

Edition:

First (unauthorized) edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Star Publishing Company, 1899.

Contents:

Departmental ditties

Barrack-room ballads

Other verses

Verses from the prose works

Later verses.

Notes:

Includes index.

On t.p.: Pine bough ornament and initials R.K. in red and white.

"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.

The decoration on both covers, in gold, consists of the profile of an elephant's head facing left with raised trunk surmounting a shield made up of stars, stripes, lions and an Irish harp.

"The Star Publishing Company took over the [Hill] plates in the year of publication, using the same two varieties of animal head crests [elephant and tiger] in gilt on the covers; later Star editions were lettered and ornamented in white. In terms of publisher/crest designation, then, the first issue is the Hill/elephant, the second Hill/tiger, the third Star/elephant and the fourth Star/tiger."--Cf. Richards.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has leather label of the Ellis Ames Ballard Kipling Collection.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Paul Hyde Bonner.

Cited in:

Stewart, J.McG. Kipling, 193

Richards, D.A. Kipling, A128

OCLC:

6852621