A Fleet in Being: Notes on Two Trips with the Channel Squadron.
"We were then strung out in a six-mile line, thirty ships, all heading westwards": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's A Fleet in Being
A Fleet in Being: Notes on Two Trips with the Channel Squadron.
KIPLING, Rudyard.
$75.00
Item Number: 121444
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1898.
First edition of this collection of articles written by Kipling when he joined the fleet of the Royal Navy at sea in 1898. Octavo, original illustrated cloth. In very good condition. Cover illustration by Norman Wilkinson.
Kipling's account of the recently strengthened fleet of the British Royal Navy at the turn of the 20th century first appeared as a group of five articles in the Morning Post in November 1898. Allowed to join the Fleet at sea, Kipling here offers an intimate portrait of the ships and their crew.
