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Rudyard Kipling: The Long-Suppressed Biography
by Lord Birkenhead
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394503155
- ISBN 13
- 9780394503158
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£11.94£8.36
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About This Item
New York, NY: Random House, 1978 Random House, New York. 1978. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O blind stamp on the FFFP. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips, and board bottom edges. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($15.00); light wear to head, tail, and tips; several small closed tears; small missing piece at head. Black cloth boards and spine with gilt and copper lettering on the spine; gilt elephant on the front board. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 421 pp 8vo. This book was originally written in the 1940s and was based on th author's access to Kipling's letters, diaries, papers, and interviews with friends and family. When the first draft was shown to Kipling's Daughter (Elsie Bambridge), she refused permission to print it. The author updated his original draft over the years and after his death in 1975 and Elsie's in 1976, the draft was brought to light and printed. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014994
- Title
- Rudyard Kipling: The Long-Suppressed Biography
- Author
- Lord Birkenhead
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394503155
- ISBN 13
- 9780394503158
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1978
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Rudyard Kipling, Kipling biography, poetry, poet, writer, English Writer, 19th Century English Writer,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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