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Soldier Tales. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
by KIPLING Rudyard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Macmillan,, 1896. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 20 plates and numerous wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces by A. S. Hartwick, preliminaries very lightly spotted, frontispiece guard moderately spotted and offset to title, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original pictorial blue cloth gilt, fife and drummer boys from plate facing p.58 elaborately blocked in gilt on upper board, pictorial back gilt, all edges gilt, a very bright, crisp, clean copy. Collects seven stories first published between 1888 and 1890. Livingston, 133; Martindale 67; Stewart 157.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36191
- Title
- Soldier Tales. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
- Author
- KIPLING Rudyard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan,
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- mstock, modern firsts, kipling, anglo-india, raj, rudyard kipling, modern first editions, soldier, tales
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Island Books
Biblio member since 2004
Thakeham, West Sussex
About Island Books
Fine and Rare Books at the foot of the South Downs
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- Edges
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
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