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Letters Of Travel (1892- 1913)
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1920. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. An attractive first edition in Near Fine condition, top edges gilt. Gift inscription dated July 7th 1920, the month after publication. In Very Good+ dust-wrapper, little chipping, mainly to spine ends. Richards A328. Livingston 454; Kipling's collection of three series of travel letters: "From Tideway to Tideway", "Letters to the Family", and "Egypt of the Magicians". The first and latter being published here for the first time, "Letters to the Family" being in its first English edition after the 1908 publication and 1910 reprint in Canada (Richards A215) ; 8vo; ii, vi, 284, 4 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22603
- Title
- Letters Of Travel (1892- 1913)
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Short Fiction; By Year Of Issue / 1920s; Theater;
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Reprint
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- Good+
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- Chipping
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- Jacket
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