Collectanea: Being Certain Reprinted Verses as Written by Rudyard Kipling.

KIPLING, Rudyard.

Collectanea: Being Certain Reprinted Verses as Written by Rudyard Kipling.

New York: M. F. Mansfield , 1898.

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"Ship me somewhere east of Suez where the best is like the worst, where there aren't no Ten Commandments and a man can raise a thirst": First edition of Collectanea: Being Certain Reprinted Verses as Written by Rudyard Kipling

First edition of this collection of Kipling's verse. 12 mo, original cloth. One of 500 copies printed on Enfield deckl edge paper in July 1898. In very good condition.

English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India, which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Collectanea contains: The Explanation, The Vampire, Mandalay, Recessional, and The Three Captains.