"My great and only."

Accession number: 
PML 37073
Author: 
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
Published: 
[Lahore, 1890]
Description: 
4 p. ; 22 cm
Credit: 
Purchased in 1942.
Notes: 

Caption title.
Only known copy.
According to Stewart, this is the first separate printing of a story that had appeared in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore on January 11 and 15, 1890. He has identified it as being printed from those types.

Binding: 
Green wrapper, upper cover printed with ornamental rule frame surrounding title within quotation marks and author's name within parentheses. In red half morocco slipcase.
Variant Title: 

"My great & only"

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Signed in ink below title and at foot of p. 4.
Inscription on front wrapper: "SB [within circle] Patiala".

Provenance: 
Bookplate of Ellis Ames Ballard; purchased from the Ballard sale, Jan. 21, 1942, lot 73, via Rosenbach.
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