Kipling, Rudyard.

8vo (189 x 127mm.), 2 leaves, unbound, first separate English edition, preserved in specially made quarter green morocco folding box

Richards A269; Stewart 343; Livingston Supplement p.157

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According to David Richards (Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliography, British Library, 2009), only one copy is recorded in any institution worldwide: that in the collects ion of one of Kipling's earlier bibliographers,  the Canadian barrister and industrialist James McG. Stewart, bequeathed by him to Dalhousie University Library, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

If had first been published in Rewards  and Fairies (1910) and then first appeared separately in an American editon, issued in various bindings, the same year. However it was the appearance of the first separate English edition in the month of the outbreak of the First World War which brought the poem to the attention of a wider public. A second separate English edition, in card stock of various shades of brown or gray, was printed around a month afterwards, with a number of typographical additions and differences. This was followed by the Waterloo Free Buffet edition in December 1916, issued as a Christmas and New Year card from the Ladies' Buffet staff to the soldiers embarking for the war front through Waterloo Station (Kipling waived his royalty for this edition). There was also a broadside "wall hanger edition".