Re: Rick Brindell's request for information about 'Plain Tales from the
Hills', Arlington edition.
The Stewart/Yeats 'Bibliography of Rudyard Kipling' mentions an 'Arlington
Series' published in 1899 by Hurst & Co of New York. This was a pirate
(unauthorised) edition of eleven of Kipling's titles. Hurst & Co issued the
same titles printed from the same plates using a number of different bindings
and series titles, including the Laurelhurst Series, the Emerson Series and
the Hawthorne Library. If Rick's copy is from the Arlington Series, then
similar pirated editions can be picked up for $5 to $20 depending on
condition and quality of paper and binding.
The greatest value of the book is likely to be the stories inside it, some of
which are very good indeed.
Roger Ayers,
Membership Secretary, The Kipling Society.
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