Kipling's Verses, Miniature Series; in Nine Volumes
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. Very Good+. 1921. Leather bound set. 48mo 3½" - 4" tall; 78 pages; 1921 Doubleday, Page & Co. Nine slim, near miniature volumes bound in suppled red leather, with ornate gilt borders and titles blocked to covers. Externally bright and fresh, the pages are printed on doubled leaves and vary from 5 to 10 numbered pages. Text blocks saddle stapled inside marbled endpapers over which the leather is placed. A few of the volumes with the staples pulling throuh the endage or with an endpage split in the gutter. Contents bright and fresh; trace shelf evidence to leather externals. Presumably these volumes were issued with a slipcase or box which is not present in this instance. 1921 with 9 volumes; presumably 'If" was also included as a 10th volume, not present here. VG or better thus .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48283
- Title
- Kipling's Verses, Miniature Series; in Nine Volumes
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Format/Binding
- Leather bound set
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1921
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Decorative bindings;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Miniature
- A book that is less then 3 inches in width and ...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.