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Kipling, R.. Destroyers at Jutland [4 vols, complete set ]. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, first editions, 1916, 1916.

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Description: Editions of 70 copies. A complete set of the true first editions of these four articles, these American copyright issues preceding the newspaper publication in The Daily Telegraph and The New York Times in October 1916. Here the articles are simply titled Destroyers at Jutland I [-IV]; in the newspapers they were given titles as follows: ‘Stories of the Battle"; ‘The Night Hunt’, ‘The Meaning of 'Joss’', and ‘The Minds of Men’. Kipling's accounts are chiefly concerned with "destroyer actions on the 31st May and 1st June: mostly, but not entirely, of the confused night-fighting after the engagements between the two main battle-fleets" (Alastair Wilson on the Kipling Society website). He opens: "THERE was much destroyer-work in the Battle of Jutland. The actual battle field may not have been more than twenty thousand square miles, but the incidental patrols, from first to last, must have covered many times that area. Doubtless the next generation will comb out every detail of it. All we need remember is there were many squadrons of battleships and cruisers engaged over the face of the North Sea, and that they were accompanied in their dread comings and goings by multitudes of destroyers, who attacked the enemy both by day and by night from the afternoon of May 31 to the morning of June 1, 1916." Three of the pamphlets contain one of Kipling's poems, the first being the very poignant "‘Have you news of my boy Jack". Near Fine set in a chemise and somewhat worn leather-backed slipcase.

Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom

Kipling, Rudyard. DESTROYERS AT JUTLAND [complete in four volumes]. , 1916.

Price: US$525.00 + shipping

Description: Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. [Together, four volumes.] Original light yellow wrappers lettered in green. First Editions, being the American copyright issues -- consisting of only 70 copies each, published separately between October 18th and 30th, 1916. Each volume consists of Kipling's account of specific sea warfare, preceded by an original poem written for the occasion (including Vol I's "Have you news of my boy Jack?"). As with THE FRINGES OF THE FLEET, Kipling wrote these articles with the permission of the British Admiralty, for appearance in British and American newspapers; he ceded copyright so that they could be used for propaganda purposes. Two months later they were all collected in Kipling's book SEA WARFARE. All four volumes are in fine, clean condition (the usual minor rusting of the staples). Richards A287; Stewart 402.

Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.

KIPLING(Rudyard). Destroyers at Jutland. Parts I, II, III, And IV (all Published, and complete).. Doubleday, Page, Garden City, 1916.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: Octavos, the four parts complete in original cream yellow glazed printed paper wrappers, very fine indeed and preserved in quarter morocco gilt slip case. This is one of the special copyright editions and preceded the English publication. In the case of this present work, the later English printing contained textual changes, which only serve to highlight the importance of these elusive copyright issues in establishing priority of the original text. Stewart Kipling 402; Livingston Kipling 406. The exceedingly rare first edition. This set will require extra postalge, with the exact amount depending upon the destination.

Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.