RUDYARD KIPLING BIOGRAPHY
by MARTIN FIDO
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670610267
- ISBN 13
- 9780670610266
- Seller
-
West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
This is a first edition of the illustrated biography of the famed British writer and journalist Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). It was simultaneously published in 1974 by Hamlyn (UK), Viking (US) and MacMillan (Canada). This is one of the Viking copies. It was written by the English academic and broadcaster Martin Fido (1939-2019).
It goes right through his life and the text is accompanied by loads of photos and drawings, cartoons and newspaper clippings.
It's a large book--9" x 12".144 pages.
The dust jacket was laminated and the laminating is pulling away from the paper.There is a bookplate on the inside front cover (you can steam it off, or cover it).
The book itself is perfect--pristine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Louise Aird (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1163
- Title
- RUDYARD KIPLING BIOGRAPHY
- Author
- MARTIN FIDO
- Format/Binding
- Perfect
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670610267
- ISBN 13
- 9780670610266
- Publisher
- Hamlyn, Viking, MacMillan
- Place of Publication
- United States
- Date Published
- 1974
- Pages
- 144
- Size
- 9" x 12"
- Keywords
- Raj, British Colony, India, Jungle Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- British History; World History; Biography, Autobiography, True Stories;
Terms of Sale
Louise Aird
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