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Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People
by KIPLING, Rudyard
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Macmillan & CO., 1891. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 20th-century burgundy calf by Bayntun, Bath, five raised bands to spine, titles to orange and green spine labels, gilt tooling in compartments, covers bordered with a double gilt fillet, elaborate decoration to board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Small sticker to front endpaper. Cover minor rubbed. A near fine copy..
Synopsis
Life's Handicap contains twenty-seven stories about the experience of the British in India. Contents: The Lang Men O' Larut, Reingelder and the German Flag, The Wandering Jew, Through the Fire, The Finances Of the Gods, The Amir's Homily, Jews In Shushan, The Limitations of Pambe Serang, Little Tobrah, Bubbling Well Road, 'The City of Dreadful Night', Georgie Porgie, Naboth, The Dream of Duncan Parrenness, The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney, The Courting of Dinah Shadd, On Greenhow Hill, The Man Who Was, The Head of the District, Without Benefit of Clergy, At the End of the Passage, The Mutiny of the Mavericks, The Mark of the Beast, The Return of Imray, Namgay Doola, Bertran And Bimi, Moti Guj--Mutineer, L'envoi.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michal Sawka Rare & Collectable
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001260
- Title
- Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People
- Author
- KIPLING, Rudyard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan & CO.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1891
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michal Sawka Rare & Collectable
Biblio member since 2016
London, Greater London
About Michal Sawka Rare & Collectable
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- Spine
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- Fine
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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...
- Octavo
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Edges
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- Calf
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