Departmental Ditties and Other Verses.
Lahore: Civil and Military Press Gazette, 1886.
Price: $4,000.00
About the item
First Edition of Kipling's first published book. Tall narrow 4to. Bound original light brown printed wrappers in the form of an Indian civil service envelope, overlapping flap. Laid into red morocco spine and cloth slipcase and chemise. The George Ulizio copy. Richards A7; Stewart 8; Livingston 10.
Item #321985
The first edition of Kipling’s first published work. Kipling was made sub-editor of the Civil and Military Gazette, an Anglophone newspaper in Lahore, upon his return to India after his time at the United Service College; this volume collects his poetry printed therein.
