Actions and Reactions

Overview:

  • Title: Actions and Reactions
  • Author: Rudyard Kipling
  • Year: 1909
  • Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
  • Price: $1.50
  • Pages: 324
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Actions and Reactions
  • Notes:
      Only speculative contents have been listed. (probably identified by Reginald or Bleiler concerning the UK edition, simultaneous or nearly so)
    • Price from publisher advert NY Times 1909-10-09 pBR597 "(Just out)"; these two tales as "airship story [WtNM]" and "supernatural story [tHS]"
    • Same-day N-Y Tribune p8 "Literary News and Criticism" begins with a review (moderately positive) substantial and specific only concerning the non-genre lead story "An Habitation Enforced". It mentions the two spec-fic stories as 'his vivid "flying maching" tale of the future' and 'the ghost story'.
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of five copies, all apparently 1st printing, of which that from Cornell (recommended) and one from Harvard include the original cover -- front cover (Cornell copy) -- copyright page: "Published October, 1909" -- Contents, lists 16 (8 stories and 8 poems alternating) -- Illustrations, lists 8 (frontispiece and 7 plates not included in the pagination) --by 7 artists -- stories and verse span p3-324

      The seven interior plate artists are credited by title/caption and facing page number as George Gibbs, Clara Elsene Williams (also the frontispiece artist), F. X. Leyendecker (illustrating "With the Night Mail"), G. Wright, F. C. Yohn, C. B. Falls, and F. Walter Taylor (illustrating "The House Surgeon"). The Leyendecker illustration is a b/w version, with caption, of that reproduced in color as frontispiece of the 1909 chapbook and front cover of the 2012 Wildside edition.