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Kipling, Rudyard, 1865–1936

Kipling's American catches : epic story of heroic size about exploits in salmon fishing

1980

  • Creator

    Kipling, Rudyard, 1865–1936

  • Title(s)

    Kipling's American catches : epic story of heroic size about exploits in salmon fishing / foreword by J.R. Adams.

  • Additional Title(s)

    American catches

  • Published/Created

    Berkeley, Calif. : Poole Press, 1980.

  • Physical Description

    [8], 38 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 68 mm

  • Holdings

    Rare Books and Manuscripts
    Folio A 2022 7
    Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert
    Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
    Host bibliographic record [Library Catalog]

    Rare Books and Manuscripts
    SH456 .A3 1979
    Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert
    Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
    Host bibliographic record [Library Catalog]

  • Copyright Status

    Copyright Not Evaluated

  • Classification

    Books

  • Notes

    BEIN Richards Kipling 568: Copy number 121. Autographs of J.R. Adams and Maryline P. Adams. Bound in orange and green marbled boards with green linen spine printed in gilt. From the David Alan Richards Collection of Rudyard Kipling.
    BEIN Richards Kipling 570: Copy number 37. Autographs of J.R. Adams and Maryline P. Adams. Bound in variant tan and green marbled boards with black leather spine printed in gilt. In matching slipcase. From the David Alan Richards Collection of Rudyard Kipling.
    First leaf blank.
    "The fish, called 'salmon' by Kipling, were actually steelhead trout, as established by E.H. Ely ..."--Page ii.
    Photographs: frontispiece portrait and text ill., mounted on blank pages; included in pagination.
    "Designed, handset, printed, and bound by Maryline P. Adams at Poole Press in the summer of 1980 ... Of 150 copies printed, numbers 1-50 are specially bound. This is copy number [blank]"--Colophon.
    Title, page numbers, colophon printed in green.
    "This account of a June 1889 visit later appeared as 'American Notes' in vol. III of Selected Works of Rudyard Kipling, (New York: P.F. Collier, N.D., pp. 254-263)."--Foreword.
    Collection of minature books; 3d ser., no. 73.
    Richards, D.A. Rudyard Kipling: a bibliography, A463
    BAC: British Art Center copy is unnumbered. Bound by S.A. Neff Jr. and housed with Aelian on fly flishing (Poole Press, 1979), also bound by Neff. The two miniature volumes are housed in a custom slipcase with decorative binding by Neff. Accompanied by a small collection of Neff's drawings, tooling templates, stamping dies, papers, etc. for the present binding and slipcase (see Folio A 2022 7).
  • Subject Terms

    Adams, J. R. -- Autograph. |
    Adams, Maryline Poole -- Autograph. |
    Fly fishing. |
    Kipling, Rudyard, 1865–1936 -- Travel -- Oregon. |
    Richards, David Alan, 1945– -- Ownership. |
    Steelhead fishing.

  • Form/Genre

    Essays. | Fine bindings. | Miniature books. | Photographs.

  • Contributors

    Adams, J. R. 1932– | Adams, Maryline Poole | Kipling, Rudyard, 1865–1936 | Neff, S. A. | Poole Press (Berkeley, Calif.)

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