Barrack Room Ballads
by Kipling, Rudyard
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On Jul 24, 2011, feeney said
Rudyard Kipling's two-part (1892, 1896) BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS is holding up as a good read more than a century after its 38 poems first appeared in book form. *** These are soldier stories, Tommy stories, British GI in India Thomas Adkins stories. The points of view expressed usually come from rankers and non-coms in barracks in cantonments, from little people who put in their six years soldiering abroad for Queen Victoria and then go home to England, Ireland, Wales or Scotland. ***A half dozen of the ballads are still recited or sung today. -- (1) "Tommy": "We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,/ But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you"; -- (2) "Gunga Din": "'E'll be squattin' on the coals/Givin' drink to poor damned souls,/An' I'll get a swig in hell from Gunga Din!"; -- (3) "The Widow at Windsor"; -- (4) "Mandalay": "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,/Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"; -- (5) "Gentlemen-Rankers": "We're poor little lambs who've lost our way,/Baa! Baa! Baa!/We're little black sheep who've gone astray,/ Baa--aa--aa!/Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree,/Damned from here to Eternity,/God ha' mercy on such as we,/Baa! Yah! Bah!"; -- (6) "Cholera Camp": "We've got to die somewhere -- some way -- some'ow --/We might as well begin to do it now!.; *** Other things being equal, buy a scholarly edition of BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS. You will profit from some historical context on the 19th Century British Raj in India, also from a glossary of Hindustani or Anglo-Indian phrases as mauled by common soldiers and from a map or two as well. But even as stand-alone verses, BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS is a strong keeper. -OOO-
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Barrack-Room Ballads.
by Kipling, Rudyard
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1892. Scarce unauthorized edition of perhaps Kipling's most popular poetry collection. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. This collection was so popular upon publication in 1892 it was pirated in a small number of unauthorized editions which were sold on the streets of London and quickly suppressed. Housed in a custom chemise case. Scarce. In the short span… Read more about this item Item Price
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Chicago: The Henneberry Company WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No date, but a shoddily stereotyped reprint. Maroon cloth with gilt titles on spine and blind decoration on front board, top edge gilt, 211 pp. Boards somewhat rubbed, soiled & spotted, spine ends & corners frayed, shaken hinges reglued. Contains 58 poems.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Barrack-Room Ballads
by Kipling, Rudyard; illustrated by Nino Carbe
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New York: The Greystone Press, 1951. First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover in quarter-cloth boards and Florentined paper. An appealing tiny edition of Kipling ballads. Light wear at corner tips, else fine condition. 119 pp. 32mo.
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Barrack-Room Ballads; Recessional Etc.
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New York: Brentano's, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. New York: Brentano's, undated but circa 1905. 16mo, cloth covers illustrated in red, gold, green and white (see scans), gilt spine imprinting, 147 pp. Very Good; edge wear, corner tips worn, spine moderately darkened, rear hinge starting but strong, very early prior… Read more about this item Item Price
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Barrack Room Ballads
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Barrack-Room Ballads
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New York: H. M. Caldwell Co, n.d.. Hardcover. fair to good. 4" x 6.5", 96, slight foxing inside front board/flyleaf, some wear to board and spine edges and board corners, small stain on rear board. A collection of Kipling's martial songs and poems, including Gunga Din, Tommy, and Danny Deever. The book was originally published in two parts,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Barrack Room Ballads
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Red cloth bound boards with gold lettering to spine. Spine faded. Inscription to front - Yealering, West Australia 1929.
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Barrack-Room Ballads
by Rudyard Kipling
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Methuen and Co, Ltd, 1899. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1899. 15th Edition. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Newspaper clipping about author inserted to front free endpaper. Slight cracking to gutters with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards… Read more about this item Item Price
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Barrack-room ballads : and other verses / by Rudyard Kipling
by Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
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London : Methuen & Co., 1892. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xvii, 208p ; 21cm. Subjects; Poetry England 19th century. Soldiers ; Poetry. Poetry Male authors. Ballads, English. War poetry, English. Item Price
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NY: Thomas Y. Crowell. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1899. Reprint. Hardcover. Some smudges of soil on the decorated light blue cloth covers. Signed by Kipling on the title page. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 253 pages; Signed by Author . Item Price
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Barrack Room Ballads
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Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1946. Hardcover. Good. 1946. Sixty-eighth Edition. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Methuen, 1917 Book. VG+/Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. red cloth lettered and decorated gold on spine and upper board, top edge gilt, a near-Fine copy with faint tanning on the blank endpapers, in a scarce early unpriced d/w that has a spine sunned to almost white, with just the faint traces of the same spine decoaration as on the book =… Read more about this item Item Price
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A.L. Burt Company, 1900. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1900. No Edition Noted. 276 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with a photographic black and white frontis. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and visible tanning to text block edges. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks… Read more about this item Item Price
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Barrack-Room Ballads
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Folio Society, UK, 1991. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Illustrator: Ian Ribbons. Book Introduction by Sue Bradbury. Size: Large 8vo ( 9 to 11 inches). Item Type: Book. Previous owner's name in ink. Faint mark of a previous sticker at the bottom of the title page.Appears to be slightly mis-bound but is not un-attractive. Foreedges of a few… Read more about this item Item Price
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Barrack-Room Ballads
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Barrack-Room Ballads [Unknown Binding] Kipling Rudyard
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London; Folio Society, 1991., 1991. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION THUS. Narrow royal octavo, pp. 71, [1]. With fourteen integrated colour illustrations by Ian Ribbons. Quarter bound in dark brown cloth and mustard and sepia checkerboard patterned pape, designed by Ribbons. With gilt spine titles and top fore-edge. Near Fine without transparent acetate dust-jacket. Classic nineteenth century bawdy ballads… Read more about this item Item Price
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