Traffics and Discoveries

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Front cover of the US first edition (Doubleday, Page & Co., October 1904) Traffics and Discoveries.PNG
Front cover of the US first edition (Doubleday, Page & Co., October 1904)

Traffics and Discoveries is a collection of poems and short stories by Rudyard Kipling, published by Macmillan and Co. of London and Doubleday, Page of New York in 1904. [1] [2]

Stories (11):

One poem precedes each story, as in many Kipling collections:

The use of italic font for all poem titles only follows the Contents list in the first edition (London: Macmillan and Co., 1904). The use of quotation marks follows that list, and also the story headings and running heads, except that the first edition uses single quotation marks throughout. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 HathiTrust Digital Library (record 000591784) holds four copies of the US first edition including one from Harvard University with the original cover. As point of entry see pp. iv-v: title page verso, with copyright and publication dates, and the Contents list. Story and poem titles match the UK, except by use of double quotation marks. Pagination differs. Retrieved 2019-08-29.
  2. 1 2 Internet Archive (archive.org) holds one intact copy of the first edition, full view including the original cover except spine. As points of entry see page v, Contents, and pp. 104–05, The Wet Litany and the first page of "Their Lawful Occasions" (with single quotation marks). Retrieved 2019-08-29.