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A Centurion of the Thirtieth

Rudyard Kipling

First published 1906
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

  • Published May 1906 in The Strand Magazine 31:5, pp. 588-95, with 5 illustrations by Claude A. Shepperson, R.I. (credited in the volume index); under the heading:   Puck of Pook's Hill   [byline]   V.   A Centurion of the Thirtieth.
  • Published May 1906 in McClure's Magazine 27:1, following one illustration as frontispiece page 2 and a two-page prologue, jointly as pp. 2-13, with illustrations by André Castaigne (3 full-page); under the two headings:   "Robin Goodfellow---His Friends" [p3, with two bylines]   I [page 5]   A Centurion of the Thirtieth
  • The US monthly McClure's promoted this story alone on its front cover (quote): A New Series by Rudyard Kipling "Robin Goodfellow, His Friends" Begins in This Number. The first four Puck of Pook's Hill stories, as styled in the 10-part Strand Magazine serial, had been published in the US monthly Ladies' Home Journal 23:2-5, each with foretitle "Puck of Pook's Hill".
  • The copy of McClure's 27:1 viewed at HathiTrust, from a bound volume at U Michigan, shows the stamped date "APR 28 1906" on its front cover.
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Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1906 Puck of Pook's Hill Macmillan of Canada Collection 141
May 1906 McClure's, May 1906 MAGAZINE 5
October 1906 Puck of Pook's Hill Macmillan and Co. Collection 141
October 1906 Cover Puck of Pook's Hill Doubleday, Page & Company Collection 125
October 1906 Cover Puck of Pook's Hill Charles Scribner's Sons Collection 139
1913 Puck of Pook's Hill Charles Scribner's Sons Collection 139
1935 Cover All the Puck Stories Macmillan and Co. Collection 141
1986 Cover Puck of Pook's Hill Piccolo Collection 92
May 1987 Cover Puck vom Buchsberg Fischer Taschenbuch Collection |10
June 2005 Puck of Pook's Hill Project Gutenberg Collection |141
February 2008 Cover Puck of Pook's Hill Wildside Press Collection |5.1
July 2008 Puck of Pook's Hill Project Gutenberg Collection |141