Life's Handicap
by Kipling, Rudyard
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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Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People
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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.… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: MacMillan. Very Good. 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edit, 1st imp, hbk, pub by Macmillan, vg book, no names or inscriptions, tightly bound, some minor foxing of eps, 55 page book catalogue bound in, rear board faded, slight cant, no DJ, this English first edition preceded its U. S. Counterpart, which was published one month… Read more about this item Item Price
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Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People.
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1891. First edition of Kipling's collection of short stories on the British in India. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In good condition. Ownership inscription. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Life's Handicap: Stories of Mine Own People
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page/Review of Reviews, 1915. Hardcover. Very Good. Authorized edition. Very good in red cloth, top edge gilt, some minor fadespots on the spine, top edge gilt has chips, endpapers are browned, lacking the dustwrapper. Item Price
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London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1891. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Red hardback with gilt lettered spine. Rubbed and slightly darkened. Nonetheless still in decent shape. Contents clean and tidy. No pen-marks save an old former owner name and date at the title-page. A few newspaper clippings and reviews tipped in at the endpapers. Not… Read more about this item Item Price
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LIFE'S HANDICAP: BEING STORIES OF MINE OWN PEOPLE
by Rudyard Kipling
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New York: Doubleday & McClure Company. 1899. Hardcover. Very Good+ in boards. Shelfwear on panel corners and panel top edges. . Item Price
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Life's Handicap
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London: Macmillan, 1925. No dust jacket. Hardcover. Macmillan Pocket Kipling. Red leather boards and spine. Gilt decoration and Hindu swastika emblem on front board. Gilt decoration, lettering and Hindu swastika emblem on spine. Several scores and marks on boards. One or two small abrasions on front board. Spine is cocked. Spine ends and leading corners are a little worn. Light… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lifes Handicap - Being Stories of Mine Own People
by Rudyard Kipling
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Macmillan & Co, 1891. Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Good+, Tight and square, couple heavy spots on front cover else very good. Red cloth with gilt imprint to cover and gilt lettering to spine, 1/2" tear at top edge of spine. Interior is clean and unmarked, light toning Item Price
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London: Macmillan, 1891. First. hardcover. near fine. 352pp., 55pp. ads. Thick 8vo, artfully bound in dark olive green morocco; gilt-lettered spine with raised bands & floral devices stamped in gilt and red on covers and spine; original wrappers bound-in at rear. Inner dentelles, uncut edges, t.e.g. London: Macmillan and Co., 1891. First edition. Near fine.<br/><br/> Item Price
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London: Macmillan & Co., 1899. Hardcover. Fair. First uniform edition of Kipling's collection of short stories. Top edge gilt. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Tanning and slight spotting to fore-edge. Binding sound and contents clean. Fair/good.
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Life's Handicap
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Macmillan, 1903. Hardcover. Good. 1903. 407 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking… Read more about this item Item Price
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Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People
by KIPLING, Rudyard
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New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. for Review of Reviews Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1913. Hardcover. Author's story collection of the British in India, published in 1891, in a nice reprint copy. In full red cloth covers with clean interior. Top edge in gilt. With bumped top corners. Bears author's symbol, a left-facing swastika,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lifes Handicap - Being Stories of Mine Own People
by KIPLING, Rudyard
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Macmillan & Co, London, 1891. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. Thick 8vo in blind and gilt embossed blue cloth, 351pp + 55pp publishers ads at rear dated May 1891 (making this the first issue) __CONDITION : VERY GOOD, a clean and tight copy (thin sliver of wear to bottom edge of spine, bottom cover corner tips bumped and a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People.
by Kipling, Rudyard
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1891. First edition of Kipling's collection of short stories on the British in India. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. In very good condition. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India, which inspired… Read more about this item Item Price
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Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People
by Kipling, Rudyard
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- 1912
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London: Macmillan & Co Ltd. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Endpapers browned. Previous owner's inscription to fep. Teg. 1912. Reprint. Red hardback cloth cover with gilt elephant emblem on front cover. 205mm x 135mm (8" x 5"). 408pp. . Item Price
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Life's Handicap: The World's Classics
by KIPLING, Rudyard
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- 1987
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Oxford: Oxford Press, 1987. Softcover. Very Good. Very good in wrappers, a paperback. Edited by A. O. J. Cockshut. Text clean. Top corner on front cover creased. Very small scratch on spine. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for… Read more about this item Item Price
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Life's Handicap
by Rudyard Kipling
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- 1987
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Oxford University Press, UK, 1987. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 324 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Oxford University Press, UK, 1987. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. Edgewear and creasing to covers. Tanned pages. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: This collection of 24 short stories and poems, an early one in Kipling's career, presages the full range… Read more about this item Item Price
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Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People.
by KIPLING, Rudyard.
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London:: Macmillan and Co.,, 1891.. First edition.. publisher's blue cloth.. Rear hinge cracked and front hinge half-cracked (underlying structure still sound); cloth a little rubbed at extremities; ole ink ownership signature.. 8vo,. Item Price
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Life's Handicap: Being Stories Of Mine Own People (Papermacs S.)
by Kipling, Rudyard
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- 1982
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- 9780333328019
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Liphook, Hampshire, GBR
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Macmillan, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. This Centenary Edition is in a near fine condition with a fine jacket. The pages are excellent, bright and clean free from any signs of wear.
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