Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses
by Rudyard Kipling
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-083: Methuen and Co. Very Good. 1892. Leather. Leather. 12mo. United States Book Company, New York, No Date (1890). Vi, 270 pgs. Possibly the first edition of the US edition (address present to the title page) but unfortunately not in the original boards. Bound in limp brown leather by Palmer Howe & Co, Manchester, UK with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (light scuffing and wear present to the boards). Top edge gilt.. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A collection of 42 poems, all but eight of which had appeared previously in The Scots Observer and other periodicals, with sixteen also having been included in Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses in 1890. It contains several of Kiplings most famous poems, such as Gunga Din, Fuzzy- Wuzzy, Mandalay, and The Ballad of East and West. E-083; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 270 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59074
- Title
- Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses
- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen and Co
- Place of Publication
- E-083
- Date Published
- 1892
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