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Departmental Ditties and Other Verses & Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses
by Rudyard Kipling
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Indeed
- Seller
-
BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
A$319.80A$287.82
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About This Item
London: George Newnes, Limited; Methuen and Co., 1899-1900. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. A smartly bound set of volumes from English writer, Rudyard Kipling, with illustrations. Two volumes. Written by Rudyard Kipling, an English novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and poet, known for his works the Jungle Book and Just So Stories. This set includes: Departmental Ditties and Other Verses, 1899. Eleventh edition. Illustrated with frontispiece, and seven plates. Collated complete. Includes poems such as: Delilah, A Code of Morals, To the Unknown Goddess, The Lovers' Litany, Possibilities, and many others. Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, 1900. A collection of verses, including: Danny Deever, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, Soldier Soldier, Mandalay, The Widow's Party, Ford o' Kabul River, and many others. Bound in half blue calf with blue cloth boards. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and minor rubbing to the extremities. Light fading to the spine and the odd mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark or pencil mark. The odd spot to the endpapers. Prize bookplate to the front endpaper. Very Good Indeed
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 880T21
- Title
- Departmental Ditties and Other Verses & Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses
- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- Illustrator
- Not Stated
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Indeed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Newnes, Limited; Methuen and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1899-1900
- Size
- 7.5" by 5"
- Keywords
- Departmental Ditties Barrack-Room Ballads Ditties Kipling
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Rooke Books
Books are sent on approval and may be returned in like condition for any reason within 14 days of receipt. Responsibility of return to be with the purchaser.
About the Seller
Rooke Books
Biblio member since 2007
BATH, Somerset
About Rooke Books
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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