The ballad of Ahmed Shah
By: by Rudyard Kipling
Contributors: Colt Kipling Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed privately
Published: 1928
Place of publication: London, England?]
Language: eng
Other titles: Indian Planter's Gazette & Sporting News.
Notes: A poem.

Cover title.

"One of four copies printed privately".

Reprinted from The Indian Planter's Gazette & Sporting News.

Unauthorized Ballard/Martindell pamphlet, possibly printed only for Martindell, sometime between 1923 and 1937. Cf. Stewart, p. 633-637.

Manuscript was sold at Sothebys in April 1928, the text was copied and immediately reprinted in London without permission. Cf. Livingston.

Originally published ca. 1886. Cf. Rutherford.

Stewart, J.M.  Kipling, p. 637

Livingston, F.V.M.  Kipling supplement, p. 102

Rutherford, A. Early verse by Rudyard Kipling, 1879-1889, p. 353-356

LC copy part of the gift of Mrs. H. Dunscombe Colt, 1984-1987.