Recessional

Kipling, Rudyard

Published by R.F. Fenno & Company, New York, 1900

About this Item

[66pp, last leaf blank]: foliated [iv], 57/8, 123-180, [2]; sewn & glued into die-cut card covers with yapp edges; 187 x 112 x 4 mm. A very attractively designed undated 'piracy' (while the author had declined copyright to the title poem, this is a collection of 20 poems). As Kipling began legal proceedings against Fenno in 1899 (with the Fenno plates passing to Caldwell), the present pamphlet may be dated no later than 1900 (though curiously remained unnoted by Stewart in the list of 26 Fenno titles, pp611/2). The publisher's address is given as 18 East 17 St, NYC (to which they removed from 9/11 East 16 St, in 1900). Upper tip has a corner-fold affecting front cover & first three leaves. Ink name on flyleaf. A remarkably fresh copy of an exceedingly fragile & elaborate production.

Seller Inventory # 001376

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Recessional
• Publisher: R.F. Fenno & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1900
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • imprints: paperback originals
  • literature: poetry
  • literature (national): British