The Day's Work

8vo., 381pp.+ads with date: 15, 9, 98 at end. Dark blue cloth, title & border gilt on spine, gilt border on front cover, teg. Gilt on spine & blue cloth (spine) has darkened slightly with age, 1/8' split at middle top of spine. Bookplate of Cleveland, Ohio based author & (Kipling) book collector Munson Havens. Overall, condition is VG+ (almost NF). First publication in book form of 'The Brushwood Boy', the 'supernatural' story by Kipling that contains the reference to the mahseer (fish) of the Poonch: 'beside whom the tarpon is as a herring, and he who lands him can say that he is a fisherman.' (p.354)- (a PBS sequence about this rare Indian fish has led several customers to ask where this reference was). A tight, clean copy. Livingston 170; I, p. 190-1.