The Day's Work
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine. Item #002474
First edition in which this collection of stories appears together. [vii], 431p.p. Green cloth boards with gilt titling and black stamped vignette of a ship to front board and spine. Corners and spine ends bumped. T.E.G., roughly cut edges. Ink ownership inscription to FFEP. Eight B&W plates. A collection of 13 short stories, which were mainly written between 1893 and 1896 while Kipling was living in Vermont. The stories are: The Bridge-Builders, A Walking Delegate, The Ship that Found Herself, The Tomb of His Ancestors, The Devil and the Deep Sea, William the Conqueror - part I, William the Conqueror - part II, .007, The Maltese Cat, Bread upon the Waters, An Error in the Fourth Dimension, My Sunday at Home, and The Brushwood Boy.
Price (CAD): $50.00