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Puck of Pook's Hill.
by KIPLING, Rudyard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited,, 1906. First edition, first impression, of one of Kipling's major books, very rare in the dust jacket. Puck of Pook's Hill brings together ten stories and 16 poems, which had previously appeared in journals. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt Ganesha device to front cover, top edge gilt. With dust jacket. Frontispiece and 19 full-page monochrome illustrations by H. R. Millar, 4 pp. of publisher's advertisements at end. Corners a touch bumped, the binding otherwise bright and firm, internally clean and fresh. A very good copy in good only jacket, small tape repairs to verso, slight wear to extremities, spine panel toned. Richards A205; Stewart 306.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 147583
- Title
- Puck of Pook's Hill.
- Author
- KIPLING, Rudyard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Macmillan and Co., Limited,
- Date Published
- 1906
Terms of Sale
Peter Harrington
All major credit cards are accepted. Both UK pounds and US dollars (exchange rate to be agreed) accepted. Books may be returned within 14 days of receipt for any reason, please notify first of returned goods.
About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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....
- First Edition
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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