Kipling RudyardABAA
Kipling RudyardABAA
A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES .
191775586London: Macmillan and Co. 1917. Octavo pp. i-iv v vi vii-viii 1-441 442 443-444: blank 445-448: ads title page printed in red and black original red cloth Ganesha device stamped in gold on front panel spine panel lettered in gold t.e.g. First edition. A mixed collection of fourteen stories and fourteen poems. Includes the first book appearance of the long tale of the future "As Easy as A.B.C." the sequel to "With the Night Mail" first published in FAMILY MAGAZINE in 1912. "The future world is dominated by the Ariel Board of Control which regulates the movements of massive dirigible airships . This story set in 2065 offers a more elaborate account of a society anxiously preoccupied with Malthusian problems and Marxian class conflict . In this story the dictatorial A.B.C. sends a new aircraft to sort out a rebellion in Illinois" Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-603. Also collects "In the Same Boat" 1911 a tale "of psychic horrors which becomes rationalized fantasy" and "Swept and Garnished" 1915 "Kipling's grimmest supernatural fiction" Clute and Grant. Anatomy of Wonder 1981 1-110; 1987 1-55; 1995 1-55 and2004 II-603. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1235. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 46. Clute and Grant eds The Encyclopedia of Fantasy p. 541. Clute and Nicholls eds The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction p. 670. Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 p. 146. Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 641. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 152. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V pp. 2053-54. Bleiler 1978 p. 115. Stewart 408. Hairline crack along inner front hinge repaired else a fine bright copy. Bookplate of Indiana novelist George Barr McCutcheon 1866-1928 affixed to front paste-down. #75586 Macmillan and Co. unknown books
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