On heavy buff paper with artificial deckle edge; text, heading, price and tail-piece printed in black; embossed floral design with nymph and birds in darker buff on left and upper margins.
Description:
Written by Kipling for the concert. The verses fit the traditional tune, of Auld lang syne. It is sometines referred to as Auld lang syne or A new auld lang syne. At top of sheet: Price one shilling.
BEIN Depew Ip K628 906p: Advertising matter, final leaf dated 15.8.06, on [4] p. at end, not noted in pagination., BEIN 2000 2003: Advertising matter on [10] p. at end, not noted in pagination. Bookplate: Henry C. Taylor., BEIN Richards Kipling 881: Advertising matter, final leaf dated 15.8.06, on [4] p. at end, not noted in pagination. Armorial bookplate of Sir Charles Oman. Autograph and presentation inscription from the author to Oman. Ms. poem "The coin speaks" in the hand of Kipling on half-title p. Kipling's fingerprint on t.p. Additional ms. stanzas added in Kipling's hand to "Puck's song" and "Rimini." From the David Alan Richards Collection of Rudyard Kipling. In case with card and envelope addressed by Kipling to Omar and envelope and TLS from Geoffrey Dawson to Oman., BEIN Richards Kipling 806: Bound in red cloth with raised Ganesha device in gilt on front cover; pale yellow dust jacket with lettering in red; housed in black morocco slipcase. Advertising matter, final leaf dated 15.8.06, on [4] p. at end, not noted in pagination. From the David Alan Richards Collection of Rudyard Kipling., and BEIN Richards Kipling 1024: Bound in red cloth with raised Ganesha device in gilt on front cover. Advertising matter, final leaf dated 15.8.06, on [4] p. at end, not noted in pagination. From the David Alan Richards Collection of Rudyard Kipling.