• Publication: The Day's WorkPublication Record # 38115
• Author: Rudyard Kipling
• Date: 1898-09-00
• Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
• Price:
  6/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 381
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • 1st ed., 1st printing (one of simultaneous UK and US eds. maybe) 2nd printing, 1898-10
  • HathiTrust Digital Library (see Collection Title) provides full view of the 2nd printing, two copies with matching covers, presumably original: -- front cover dark blue cloth with gold design along top -- t.p. verso (quote in full):   First Edition September 1898   Reprinted October 1898 -- Contents lists 13 including "William the Conqueror--Part I." and "[...]--Part II." -- text spans p1-381; p381 ends, "Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh." -- p[383-400], publisher advertisements
  • Price from publisher listing among "New Six Shilling Novels" Manchester Guardian 1898-10-11 p4
  • Some data from Bleiler78 (redundant 2017; if Bleiler lists any story contents they were not entered)
  • Contents lists only those 6 of 12 titles already in the database 2017-10-01, perhaps those identified by someone as speculative fiction. See the collection record.
• External IDs:
  • BL: 001972746
  • LCCN: 50-42048

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • The Bridge-Builders • (1893) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• 73 • The Ship That Found Herself • (1895) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 96 • The Tomb of His Ancestors • (1897) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• 139 • The Devil and the Deep Sea • non-genre • (1895) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 215 • .007 • (1897) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 338 • The Brushwood Boy • (1895) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling