Departmental Ditties and other Verses
KIPLING, Rudyard
[Newnes Edition].
NEWNES 'DITTIES'
Published: Newnes, 1899
Stock code: 24818
Price: £60.00
8vo., Newnes Edition; strongly bound in contemporary red buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, backstrip and lower board mildly and unevenly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy.
The sole Newnes edition. Newnes secured rights of publication from Thacker and issued the only cheap editions in the UK. Kipling himself purchased the rights from Newnes and thereafter appointed as his publishers Methuen in the UK and Doubleday in the US. Livingston 19.