A Diversity of Creatures

Overview:

• Title: A Diversity of Creatures
• Author: Rudyard Kipling
• Year: 1917
• Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
• Price: $1.50
• Pages: viii+443
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Collection
• Title Reference: A Diversity of Creatures
• Notes:
  • 1st US ed.
  • Speculative fiction content only (see Container Title)
  • Publication date from notice in "What Authors and Publishers are Doing" NY Times 1917-04-22 pBR5 (Sunday); "will be published next Friday" interpreted as five days hence (The next item supports 5 days rather than 12 days hence.)
  • Price from publisher advert Chi. Tribune -04-29 p2, which notes two formats for this new book, if not its "Other books by Kipling" (all caps, quote):   Green cloth, net $1.50   [same line flushright] Red limp leather, net $1.75   [next line centered] At all bookstores
  • One of the many WorldCat library records that report Doubleday, Page, 1917 (OCLC 561613051, below) notes "[Another ed.]" (red leather?)
  • HathiTrust Digital Library (catalog record) provides full view of five copies, all apparently 1st printing -- Preface, p[v] (differs from 1st ed.; see Container Title) -- Contents, p.vii-viii, lists 28 including 14 stories (each story as beginning two pages later than in the 1st ed.) -- text spans p3-443; p[444] displays printer colophon, "The Country Life Press // Garden City, N. Y." The copy from Cornell U most clearly shows the front cover, gold lettering and black decoration on dark green cloth (design identical to others in a uniform edition, evidently). But the Cornell book lacks the first and last printed leaves.