Echoes

Published by Lahore: "The "Civil and Military Gazette" Press, 1884

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First Edition of Kipling's Very Rare Second Book "Echoes" KIPLING, Rudyard and Alice. Echoes. By Two Writers. Lahore: "The "Civil and Military Gazette" Press, [1884] First edition. Small square octavo ( 6 x 4 1/2 inches; 154 x 115 mm.). [2, blank], [2, title, verso blank], [2, index], [1]-72, [2, blank] pp. Some light foxing throughout, first blank leaf with early ink signature. Publisher's light brown wrappers, front wrapper with tile design printed in black. lower corner (1 1/8 x 3/4 inch; 28 x 19 mm.) torn away, spine expertly and invisibly restored, still a near fine copy. Housed in a red cloth chemise within a full red morocco, velvet lined 'jewel-case'. Spine with five raised bands lettered in gilt in compartments, brass lock. First edition of Kipling's very rare second book; the "two writers" of the title were Kipling and his sister Alice ("Trix"). Of the 39 poems, mostly "echoes" or imitations of well-known poets, 32 are ascribed to Kipling and 7 to his sister. First published in Lahore in August 1884, the volume appeared when Kipling, then 18 years old, had been living in India for nearly two years. It was printed by the Civil and Military Gazette Press, where Kipling served as sub-editor, and he personally oversaw its production. In December 1883, Kipling's mother brought his 15-year-old sister, Trix, from England to join him. Together, they engaged in a series of literary experiments and playful compositions, producing a substantial collection of poems-primarily parodies of well-known poets-by the spring of 1884. Encouraged by their efforts, Rudyard published a selection of these works in August of that year under the title Echoes, by Two Writers. The Poems: Echoes: Introduction 1. A Vision of India (Rudyard Kipling) 2. The City of the Heart (Rudyard Kipling) 3. The Raiyat at Home (Rudyard Kipling) 4. Children of Nature (Alice MacDonald Fleming, 1884) 5. The Bearing of the Vine (Alice MacDonald Fleming, 1884) 6. Hope Deferred (Alice MacDonald Fleming, 1884) 7. The Flight of the Bucket (Rudyard Kipling) 8. Laocoon (Rudyard Kipling) 9. Nursery Rhymes for Little Anglo-Indians (Rudyard Kipling) 10. Tobacco (Rudyard Kipling) 11. Appropriate Verses on an Elegant Landscape (Rudyard Kipling) 12. His Consolation (Rudyard Kipling) 13. Egoism (Alice MacDonald Fleming, 1884) 14. The Cursing of Stephen (Rudyard Kipling) 15. On Sorrow (Alice MacDonald Fleming) 16. Jane Smith (Rudyard Kipling/Alice MacDonald Fleming, 1884) 17. Nursery Idyls (Rudyard Kipling) 18. Sonnet (On Being Rejected of One's Horse) (Rudyard Kipling) 19. Kopra Brahm (Rudyard Kipling) 20. The Sudder Bazár (Rudyard Kipling) 21. Commonplaces (Rudyard Kipling) 22. To You, Love (Alice MacDonald Fleming, 1884) 23. On True Friendship (Alice MacDonald Fleming, 1884) 24. Quæritur (Rudyard Kipling) 25. London Town (Rudyard Kipling) 26. Himalayan (Rudyard Kipling) 27. Our Lady of Many Dreams (Rudyard Kipling) 28. A Murder in the Compound (Rudyard Kipling) 29. " 'Way Down the Ravee River" (Rudyard Kipling) 30. Amour de Voyage (Rudyard Kipling) 31. Failure (Rudyard Kipling) 32. How the Day Broke (The Drawing Room Song) (Rudyard Kipling) 33. A Locked Way (Rudyard Kipling) 34. Land Bound (Rudyard Kipling) 35. The Ballad of the King's Daughter (Old Ballad) (Rudyard Kipling) 36. How the Goddess Awaketh (Rudyard Kipling) 37. The Maid of the Meerschaum (Rudyard Kipling) 38. Estunt the Griff (Rudyard Kipling) 39. Cavaliere Servente (Rudyard Kipling) Livingston 14; Stewart 5.…

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Title
Echoes
Author
KIPLING, Rudyard; KIPLING, Beatrice; KIPLING, Alice
Publisher
Lahore: "The "Civil and Military Gazette" Press, 1884
Edition
First Edition.
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