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Title: A Centurion of the Thirtieth Title Record # 1880335
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Date: 1906-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [juvenile]
Length: short story
Webpages: kiplingsociety.co.uk
Language: English
Note:
  • Published May 1906 in The Strand Magazine 31:5, pp. 588-95, with 5 illustrations by Claude A. Shepperson, R.I. (credited in the volume index); under the heading:   Puck of Pook's Hill   [byline]   V.   A Centurion of the Thirtieth.
  • Published May 1906 in McClure's Magazine 27:1, following one illustration as frontispiece page 2 and a two-page prologue, jointly as pp. 2-13, with illustrations by André Castaigne (3 full-page); under the two headings:   "Robin Goodfellow---His Friends" [p3, with two bylines]   I [page 5]   A Centurion of the Thirtieth
  • The US monthly McClure's promoted this story alone on its front cover (quote): A New Series by Rudyard Kipling "Robin Goodfellow, His Friends" Begins in This Number. The first four Puck of Pook's Hill stories, as styled in the 10-part Strand Magazine serial, had been published in the US monthly Ladies' Home Journal 23:2-5, each with foretitle "Puck of Pook's Hill".
  • The copy of McClure's 27:1 viewed at HathiTrust, from a bound volume at U Michigan, shows the stamped date "APR 28 1906" on its front cover.
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Translations
Year Language Title
1987Translated by Ernst Hardt.
German Ein Centurio der dreißigsten Legion

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Puck of Pook's Hill 1906-00-00 Rudyard Kipling Macmillan of Canada  
C$1.75?C$: Canadian dollar
x+
306
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
McClure's, May 1906 1906-05-00 ed. Editors of McClure's    
$0.10?$: US dollar
112
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
Puck of Pook's Hill 1906-10-00 Rudyard Kipling Macmillan and Co.  
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).
x+
306
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Puck of Pook's Hill 1906-10-02 Rudyard Kipling Doubleday, Page & Company  
$1.50?$: US dollar
277
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Puck of Pook's Hill 1906-10-02 Rudyard Kipling Charles Scribner's Sons     vi+
305
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Puck of Pook's Hill 1913-00-00 Rudyard Kipling Charles Scribner's Sons (The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling #23)     vi+
305
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
All the Puck Stories 1935-00-00 Rudyard Kipling Macmillan and Co.  
10/6?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).
x+
670
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Puck of Pook's Hill 1986-00-00 Rudyard Kipling Piccolo (Piccolo Classics) 0-330-24259-8
£2.50?£: UK pound
192
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Shirley Felts Checkmark
Puck vom Buchsberg 1987-05-00 Rudyard Kipling Fischer Taschenbuch (Bibliothek der phantastischen Abenteuer #2724) 3-596-22724-0
DM 9.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
210
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Claus-Dietrich Hentschel  
Puck of Pook's Hill 2005-06-03 Rudyard Kipling Project Gutenberg 15976    
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
Puck of Pook's Hill 2008-02-15 Rudyard Kipling Wildside Press 978-1-4344-6114-8
$24.95?$: US dollar
264
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Puck of Pook's Hill 2008-07-11 Rudyard Kipling Project Gutenberg 26027
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
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