Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People
by Kipling, Rudyard
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Very Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Co., 1917. Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 356 pp. Light scuffing to the cover edges; the spine titles are faded. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. Gilt upper page edges. "Authorized Edition.
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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- Persephone's Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 079481
- Title
- Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1917
- Pages
- 356
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Fiction - Short stories Short Stories (single author)
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Edges
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