Kipling published more than sixteen different editions of "Ditties", adding new content as the years elapsed. The first edition, not present here, was published in 1886 with 11 Departmental Ditties and 15 Other Verses. Over the next several years, he added poems additional poems to most of the new editions – making this collection one a rather intriguing bibliographic oddity and a prize for the completist. This lot consists of ten titles, all first thus of the editions with added content.#####-----. 2d edition. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Company, 1886. 8vo; issued in gray boards but this co... View More...
