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Departmental Ditties and Other Verses
by Rudyard Kipling
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Fine
- Seller
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1890. 4th Edition (1st UK Edition) . Very Good Plus/Fine. 5.75 x 7.75 inches (15 x 20 cm). Slipcase: Custom made maroon cloth slip case with gilt lettering to end panel. Overall case condition is Fine. Book: Fourth edition and the first edition to be printed in England. Ads at rear dated February 1890. This edition includes 10 additional poems. Maroon cloth binding with bevelled board edges. Gilt sheaf of documents to front board, gilt lettering to spine. Decorated endpapers. Very slight fading to spine. Very slight rubbing to corners. Good solid binding. A few light spots of foxing to page edges, otherwise in very clean condition throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown endpaper. An excellent example (Richards A31). Overall book condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 5.75 x 7.75 inches (15 x 20 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: vi, 120, 24
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tarrington Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1219E009
- Title
- Departmental Ditties and Other Verses
- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 4th Edition (1st UK Edition)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thacker, Spink and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Calcutta
- Date Published
- 1890
- Size
- 5.75 x 7.75 inches (15 x 20 cm)
- Keywords
- Poetry, Poems, Verse, Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Tarrington Books
Biblio member since 2015
Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
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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...
- Spine
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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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...
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