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The Seven Seas & The Five Nations
by Rudyard Kipling
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
£135.00£121.50
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About This Item
London: Methuen & Co. , 1897-1903. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. Two smartly bound volume of poetry from Rudyard Kipling, the first edition of The Five Nations. Two volumes. Written by Rudyard Kipling, an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist, best known for his novel The Jungle Book. This set includes: The Seven Seas, 1897. Third edition. Originally published in 1896. A collection of poetry, with titles including "Hymn Before Action", "In the Neolithic Age", "The Lost Legion", "The Mary Gloster", and "McAndrew's Hymn". The Five Nations, 1903. First edition. With the issue point of 'David' to page 56 line 9 (that was later changed to 'Saul'), but lacking the publisher's advertisements dated 'July 1903'. This work is split into two sections: the first covering a wide range of subjects and the second section entitled "Service Songs" containing poems about British soldiers at the turn of the twentieth century. Bound in half red calf with patterned boards. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and rubbing to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpapers dated 1904. Very Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 882T14
- Title
- The Seven Seas & The Five Nations
- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1897-1903
- Size
- 7.5" by 5"
- Keywords
- Seven Seas Five Nations Kipling Five Nations
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Shelf Wear
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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