1914réf. 157803Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1914. First US copyright edition of Kipling's series of articles written after visiting army training camps during the First World War. The publisher's archives note that 50 copies of each pamphlet were printed. Complete sets in this condition are rare. In his after-dinner speech at the Kipling Society annual lunch in May 1999 David Alan Richards noted that Kipling's "London literary agent A. P. Watt and his New York publisher Frank N. Doubleday made extensive use of limited printings. to establish copyright in each country". Richards in his bibliography notes that it was reported that "most of the few copies printed" of this title "were mailed to newspapers and destroyed being separated into leaves for the convenience of linotype operators". The present pamphlets represent the true first editions and provide slightly edited versions removing colloquialisms for an American audience of articles simultaneously published within The Daily Telegraph on 7 10 14 19 21 and 24 December 1914. The sub-titles of the pamphlets comprise: "The Men at Work" "The Quality of the Machine" "Guns and Supply" "Canadians in Camp" "Indian Troops" "A Territorial Battalion and a Conclusion". 6 vols octavo. Original pale yellow wrappers lettered on front covers in light green. Housed in a custom red cloth chemise and red morocco-backed slipcase. Occasional light dust-soiling to wrappers minor indentation to front cover of volume 2 else near-fine and crisp copies. Martindell 137; Livingston 390; Stewart 382; Grolier 452; Ballard CLXXI; Ashley Vol. III p. 36-7; Richards A275. hardcover

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The New Army in Training.

1915réf. 121084London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1915. First collected edition first issue of this anthology which first appeared in 6 separate pamphlets in America of which only a few of each were printed. 16mo original wrappers. With The Service Kipling on the rear panel. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. 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. The New Army contains the short tales The Men at Work The Quality of the Machine Guns and Supply Canadians in Cap Indian Troops A Territorial Battalion and A Conclusion. Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown

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THE NEW ARMY.

1914réf. 000016850Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co. 1914. First American Edition 1st Printing. softcover. Fine. Six pamphlets octavo uniformly bound in paper wrappers the front covers lettered in green. Copyright issues-- just a few copies of each were printed. Precedes the British edition. Livingston 390. The titles are: infantry The Men At Work; II: The Quality of the Machine; III: Guns and Supply; IV: Canadians in Camp; V: Indian Troops; VI: A Territorial Battalion and a Conclusion. In a custom red chemise and slipcase with leather spine and gilt spine titles that is a bit sunned at the top edge of rear panel. 042407B Doubleday, Page & Co. paperback

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The New Army In Training - 1st Edition/1st Printing

1915réf. 14454London: MacMillan & Company Ltd. Fine. 1915. First Edition; First Printing. Original Wraps. A most handsome clean first edition/first printing with only limited signs of wear. "Collected edition" versus the pamphlets pusblished separately. Issued in yellow wrappers the front cover lettered in red list of the Service Kipling on the back. This book was not published in America. Livingston 391. Contains separate advertisement sheet for the Collections of all the Books on the War; Rudyard Kipling winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1907 issued this collection with the previously separately issued stories of The New Army The Men at Work The Quality of the Machine Guns and Supply Canadians in Cap Indian Troops A Territorial Battalion and A Conclusion ; 8vo . MacMillan & Company , Ltd. paperback