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Departmental Ditties and Other Verses
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1891. Kipling's first book. First published in 1886; this is a Near Fine copy of the Sixth Indian Edition. Maroon cloth binding, ruled, with bevelled edges; titling in gilt on the spine. The front cover has a decorative version of the title in gilt - sheaves of paper bound with a ribbon. Rear cover has the publisher's device in black. Clean text; 125 pages, with a Glossary (for non-Colonials) and a 24 page publisher's catalog in the rear. Close to a Fine copy; just some hints of rub at the margins. In an archival plastic protector. A really lovely copy.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005046
- Title
- Departmental Ditties and Other Verses
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- Thacker, Spink and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Calcutta
- Date Published
- 1891
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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