first edition
1899
by Kipling, Rudyard
1899. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. Original dark green cloth with caravel design in black.
First Edition, published about three weeks before Macmillan's London edition -- and with the eight illustrations by L. Raven Hill that were not in that UK edition. "Rudyard Kipling went to the United Services College at Westward Ho!, near Bideford, North Devon, as a small capering twelve-year old in January 1878, and left in the autumn of 1882, a precociously sophisticated teenager, to take ship for journalism in India. It had been a formative experience" [Kipling Society]. These nine hilarious tales of school life (of the mischievous Stalky, Beetle and McTurk) look back on those school days. This is a bright, just-about-fine copy (a touch of rubbing at the tips, a couple of short tears in the front endpaper, title page blind-stamp of a Connecticut collector). Roberts A144; Stewart 196; Livingston 215. Provenance: small bookplate of the same collector as the blind-stamp. (Inventory #: 15643)
First Edition, published about three weeks before Macmillan's London edition -- and with the eight illustrations by L. Raven Hill that were not in that UK edition. "Rudyard Kipling went to the United Services College at Westward Ho!, near Bideford, North Devon, as a small capering twelve-year old in January 1878, and left in the autumn of 1882, a precociously sophisticated teenager, to take ship for journalism in India. It had been a formative experience" [Kipling Society]. These nine hilarious tales of school life (of the mischievous Stalky, Beetle and McTurk) look back on those school days. This is a bright, just-about-fine copy (a touch of rubbing at the tips, a couple of short tears in the front endpaper, title page blind-stamp of a Connecticut collector). Roberts A144; Stewart 196; Livingston 215. Provenance: small bookplate of the same collector as the blind-stamp. (Inventory #: 15643)
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