Lot 187
  • 187

Kipling, Rudyard

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
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Description

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Barrack-room Ballads and Other Verses. London: [T.& A. Constable in Edinburgh for] Methuen & Co., 1892



8vo (9 x 5 1/2 in.; 228 x 140 mm, largely unopened). Limitation leaf, half-title, title printed in red and black. Publisher's half vellum and cream cloth, gilt-ruled, in a maroon half-morocco slipcase; covers soiled, a few small rust spots.

Literature

Martindell no. 55; Stewart p. 112

Condition

covers soiled, a few small rust spots.
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Catalogue Note

Edition Deluxe of the First English edition, number 24 of 30 copies on Japanese vellum paper in half-vellum covers. This edition contains the dedication to Wolcott Balestier, seventeen poems from Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses (1890), and twenty-four other poems, most of which appeared first in The National Observer, Macmillan's Magazine, and elsewhere.