RECESSIONAL: A VICTORIAN ODE. With Illustrations by Blanche McManus.
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Published by M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, [1899]., [1899].. Good. - Small 4to, pictorial buff boards (rubbed, bumped & darkened); titled & elaborately illustrated in gilt & orange on front cover; t.e.g. Pictorial cream wraps bound in as endpapers, as issued (remnants of removed gift label on front endpaper). 16 leaves, including endpapers. Text printed in orange & black. Illustrated with 5 full-page plates, printed in orange, by Blanche McManus. Good. <p>Limited edition of 500 copies "printed on Windsor deckle edge paper in November of the year eighteen hundred ninety-nine". [Stewart p.620].<p>The plates by Blanche McManus depict armored knights readying for battle.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 471
- Title
- RECESSIONAL: A VICTORIAN ODE. With Illustrations by Blanche McManus.
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- NY: Published by M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, [1899].
- Date Published
- [1899].
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; VICTORIAN; ODE; MEDIEVAL; KNIGHTS; KNIGHTHOOD; BATTLE; RECESSIONAL; MIDDLE AGES; RUDYARD KIPLING; LIMITED EDITION; ILLUSTRATED; PLATES; ILLUSTRATIONS.
Terms of Sale
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Payment with order from individuals. Items are offered subject to prior sale. All purchases are subject to your approval, returnable within 10 days. New York State residents please add sales tax to your purchases. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described.
About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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