Buy this book on-line KIPLING**, RUDYARD: : A FLEET IN BEING: NOTES ON TWO TRIPS WITH THE CHANNEL SQUADRONLONDON.MACMILLAN & CO.,LIMITED,1898. ISBN NISBN.
UK,12mo HB,no dw/dj as issued,1st edn.VG+. No owner inscrptn and no dw/dj - as issued. Publisher's original pale blue cloth boards with,black ink blocked,printed illustrated front board (3 battleships/cruisers in line procession) with bright,crisp,stamped black ink lettering.Cloth boards inevitably but slightly grubbed and marked,spine/backstrip browned/ darkened but black lettering still crisp and discernible; with negligible shelf-wear,creasing or bumping and little or no fraying to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Plain white eps with ubiquitous off-set foxing to both front and rear free endpapers.Top+fore-edges though slightly aged/toned are foxing free and otherwise generally clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any of the pages' - of antique chain-laid paper without a discernible watermark - corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,slim 12mo HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn,2-84pp [paginated] includes VI (6) chapters and notes to chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages.
A highly collected and prolific author and a highly unusual and very scarce item in Kipling's jingoistic style and will be an important and welcome addition to the Kipling canon.
A Fleet in Being refers to the naval fleet in port,which extends it's control of the surrounding seas just by its presence without leaving port.The appeal of the book will be to those interested in British naval warfare and in particular the development of the British fleet at the late Victorian end of the 19thC and the turn of the 20th Century.
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