Destroyers at Jutland [4 vols, complete set ]

Kipling, R.

Verlag: Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, first editions, 1916, 1916

Editions of 70 copies. A complete set of the true first editions of these four articles, these American copyright issues preceding the newspaper publication in The Daily Telegraph and The New York Times in October 1916. Here the articles are simply titled Destroyers at Jutland I [-IV]; in the newspapers they were given titles as follows: Stories of the Battle"; The Night Hunt , The Meaning of 'Joss ', and The Minds of Men . Kipling's accounts are chiefly concerned with "destroyer actions on the 31st May and 1st June: mostly, but not entirely, of the confused night-fighting after the engagements between the two main battle-fleets" (Alastair Wilson on the Kipling Society website). He opens: "THERE was much destroyer-work in the Battle of Jutland. The actual battle field may not have been more than twenty thousand square miles, but the incidental patrols, from first to last, must have covered many times that area. Doubtless the next generation will comb out every detail of it. All we need remember is there were many squadrons of battleships and cruisers engaged over the face of the North Sea, and that they were accompanied in their dread comings and goings by multitudes of destroyers, who attacked the enemy both by day and by night from the afternoon of May 31 to the morning of June 1, 1916." Three of the pamphlets contain one of Kipling's poems, the first being the very poignant " Have you news of my boy Jack". Near Fine set in a chemise and somewhat worn leather-backed slipcase. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-58769

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Destroyers at Jutland [4 vols, complete set ]
Verlag: Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, first editions, 1916
Erscheinungsdatum: 1916
Einband: Softcover
Auflage: 1. Auflage