THE MANNER OF MEN
- 1930
1930. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. Original light yellow wrappers lettered in green.
First Edition of this short story, being the American copyright issue -- 75 copies printed and privately distributed in August 1930 in order to secure copyright protection in America. The main story is the voyage, generally reckoned to have taken place in or shortly after 60 AD, during which St. Paul was shipwrecked on the island of Malta, then called Melita -- the account of which, given in Acts 27-28, has been said to be the most vivid account of a voyage and shipwreck in the whole of Greek and Latin literature. In Kipling's story that voyage is described in the conversation of three reminiscing seamen whose meeting provides a typically Kiplingesque "frame" for the main story [kipling.org]. This tale then appeared in the September issue of London Magazine, and was subsequently collected in 1932 in LIMITS AND RENEWALS, the last collection published during Kipling's life. A fine copy. Richards A389; Stewart 592. Housed in a morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise.
First Edition of this short story, being the American copyright issue -- 75 copies printed and privately distributed in August 1930 in order to secure copyright protection in America. The main story is the voyage, generally reckoned to have taken place in or shortly after 60 AD, during which St. Paul was shipwrecked on the island of Malta, then called Melita -- the account of which, given in Acts 27-28, has been said to be the most vivid account of a voyage and shipwreck in the whole of Greek and Latin literature. In Kipling's story that voyage is described in the conversation of three reminiscing seamen whose meeting provides a typically Kiplingesque "frame" for the main story [kipling.org]. This tale then appeared in the September issue of London Magazine, and was subsequently collected in 1932 in LIMITS AND RENEWALS, the last collection published during Kipling's life. A fine copy. Richards A389; Stewart 592. Housed in a morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise.
Details
Title
THE MANNER OF MEN
Author
Kipling, Rudyard
Condition
Unknown
Date
1930