The War in the Mountains. [5 vols, complete set ]

Kipling, R.

Verlag: Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, first editions, 1917, 1917

Editions of 89. 89, 88, 93, and 121 copies, respectively, for private distribution. 5 vols, printed wrappers, various paginations. A complete set of the true first editions of these five articles, these American copyright issues being published simultaneously with the first newspaper publication in The Daily Telegraph and The New York Tribune. The articles were prompted by the British Ambassador to Rome asking Kipling to visit and write about the Italian front in the First World War, finding it "maddening" that the British seemed to think that Italy was "not pulling her weight". The articles are: The Roads of an Army; Podgora; A Pass, a King, and a Mountain; Only a few steps higher up; and The Trentino Front. The Kipling Society website records that "anecdotal evidence claims that an Alpini general described it as one of the best accounts of alpine warfare ever written ". A Near Fine set preserved in a somewhat used chemise and leather-backed slipcase. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-58770

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Titel: The War in the Mountains. [5 vols, complete ...
Verlag: Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, first editions, 1917
Erscheinungsdatum: 1917
Einband: Softcover
Auflage: 1. Auflage