A Fleet in Being Notes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron

Rudyard Kipling

Published by Macmillan and Co., London, 1898

About this Item

The first edition of this collection of articles by Rudyard Kipling on his time with the navy. The first edition.In the publisher's original cloth.Cover illustration by Norman Wilkinson, the president of the 'Royal Institute if Painters in Water Colours'.This work was written by the Nobel Prize winning author Rudyard Kipling and provides an account of the author's time upon a fleet on Naval ships. This work was originally published as a series of six articles in the 'Morning Post'.From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son, literary agent of Rudyard Kipling. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with fading to the spine and extremities, slight shelf wear to the spine and marks to the rear board. Light age toning and spotting to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned and clean pages with only the odd very minor spot. Very Good.

Seller Inventory # 895Z24

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Fleet in Being Notes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron
• Publisher: Macmillan and Co., London
• Publication Date: 1898
• Binding: Cloth
• Illustrator: Norman Wilkinson [cover]
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: book