With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D.: (Together with Extracts from the Contemporary Magazine in Which It Appeared)

Overview:

  • Title: With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D.: (Together with Extracts from the Contemporary Magazine in Which It Appeared)
  • Author: Rudyard Kipling
  • Year: 1909
  • Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
  • Price: $1.00
  • Pages: 77+[10]
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Chapter Book
  • Title Reference: With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D.: (Together with Extracts from the Contemporary Magazine in Which It Appeared)
  • Notes:
    • First American ed. [1st ed. per SFE3]
    • Illustrated chapbook printed on single-sided pages, consisting of the story (59 pages) and "extracts from the contemporary magazine in which it appeared;" articles, letters, advertisements, etc.
    • Some data from PBA Galleries.
    • The "extracts" span numbered pages/leaves 60-77 and 9 unnumbered pages, the latter for the mock advertisements. All leaves are printed on one side only, except that the 9 pages of mock ads are appear on 8 leaves with the final mock ad a two-page spread (verso and recto).
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of 4 copies, all apparently complete including the original illustrated cover, under three catalog records (one record, cf. records 004481654, 007123278).
    • Illustrations uncredited • front cover illus. by Leyendecker per SFE3 • front/back endpapers illus. by Leyendecker, signed "Frank X. Leyendecker" • frontispiece and two interior plates, similarly • one plate (following p30) illus. by Reuterdahl, signed "Reuterdahl 05" The latter signature is illegible here, but see a high-quality image of the painting illustration is (here in color) one of those credited to "H. Reuterdahl" in McClure's for November 1905, p23, where the narrative "With the Night Mail" was first published (viewed atHathiTrust).
    • "Published, March, 1909" --copyright page Reported forthcoming 1909-03-25, Cincinnati Enquirer -03-13 Promoted with excerpts of the content new since 2005, NY Times -03-14 pSM11 Price from publisher advert NY Times -03-27 pBR181, as "Now Ready", $1.00, postage 10c