Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliography

If ever a bibliographer needed a challenge, Kipling could be guaranteed to supply it. If one includes posthumous first editions, his publishing career lasted 73 years, beginning in India with teenage journalism (often pseudonymous) and small books of poems published by his family, now extremely rare. Once he was an established author, the bibliographic record is complicated by pirated editions in the US before international copyright was accepted there in 1891, and also by unauthorised editions from private presses (sometimes suppressed by Kipling). Kipling himself issued many booklets around the turn of the century, and the text in these (and...