Departmental Ditties and Other Verses
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1892. Hardcover. Boards clean and bright. 3/8" tear to cloth at head of spine. Several 1/8" chips to cloth at tail of spine. Corners rubbed. Some splitting to gutters at hinges. ; Seventh edition. The author's first book. vi, [2], 125, [3] pages + 24 pages advertisements. Blue cloth boards with gilt illustration on front board. Floral pattern endpapers. Page dimensions: 187 x 135mm.; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6766
- Title
- Departmental Ditties and Other Verses
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Thacker, Spink and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Calcutta
- Date Published
- 1892
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Cloth
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...