Puck of Pook's Hill

Overview:

  • Title: Puck of Pook's Hill
  • Author: Rudyard Kipling
  • Year: 1906
  • Publisher: Macmillan of Canada
  • Price: C$1.75
  • Pages: x+306
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Puck of Pook's Hill
  • Notes:
      Canadian edition (simultaneous, printed in the UK)
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy (from 1995 microfiche, interior only) -- half-title page header: "Canadian edition" -- p306 closes "THE END", footer "Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh" -- p[307-08], "Books by Rudyard Kipling" gives UK editions and prices
    • Illustrations not credited, b/w drawings clearly signed "H R Millar"
    • Price from notice by the Shopping Department Toronto Daily Star 1906-12-17 p9 "In Toronto Shops", a capsule review longest of about 20 items in the short column. It may be a special price offered by one retailer or a few.
    • Published November or earlier, presumably October. Three other hits found in this newspaper promote the book as one initial offering by The Tabard Inn Library (commercial), earliest -11-27.