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The Day's Work
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good++/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1929. Book. Very Good++. Hardcover. Later printing.. Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1929. Later Printing. Very Good++/No Dustjacket. Very clean dark green ribbed cloth boards with stamped gilt lettering and black illustration of sailing ship on cover and spine. Lettering on spine is slightly faded, still clearly legible. No bumping, fading to cloth or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names or bookplates. Frontis illustration of a train crossing a trestle. 1929 on title page, seven additional black & white plates. "Copyright 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1905" on copyright page. 431 pgs. 8vo. Literature..
Synopsis
The Day's Work contains twelve of Kipling's tales that focus on work, employment, and labor from different perspectives. Some of the stories include: "A Walking Delegate," "The Bridge-Builders," "The Tomb of His Ancestors," and "William the Conquerer," among others.
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017381
- Title
- The Day's Work
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good++
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Edition
- Later printing.
- Publisher
- Doubleday Doran
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- LITERATURE RUDYARD KIPLING ANTIQUARIAN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian;
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- Gilt
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- Title Page
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
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