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London, UK: Methuen and Co. , 1892 Methuen and Co., London, UK. 1892. Hardcover. Stated 4th Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O bookplate on the front pastedown. Book Condition: Good; wear to head, tail, and tips; toning to endpapers; slight fading to spine; moisture spots on front board; rubbing to boards. No DJ. Red smooth buckram boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Clean internals. Internal hinges are sound and not split. Rough cut edges on bottom and fore edge. Gilt textblock top. 208 pp + 16 pp of Methuen's listings dated October 1892. This is a book of a series of songs and poems dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect. The series contains some of Kipling's most well-known work, including the poems "Gunga Din", "Tommy", "Mandalay", and "Danny Deever", which helped consolidate Kiplings early fame as a poet. A clean very presentable copy.

E-083: Methuen and Co. Very Good. 1892. Leather. Leather. 12mo. United States Book Company, New York, No Date (1890). Vi, 270 pgs. Possibly the first edition of the US edition (address present to the title page) but unfortunately not in the original boards. Bound in limp brown leather by Palmer Howe & Co, Manchester, UK with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (light scuffing and wear present to the boards). Top edge gilt.. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A collection of 42 poems, all but eight of which had appeared previously in The Scots Observer and other periodicals, with sixteen also having been included in Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses in 1890. It contains several of Kipling’s most famous poems, such as “Gunga Din, ” “Fuzzy- Wuzzy, ” “Mandalay, ” and “The Ballad of East and West. ” E-083; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 270 pages .

Methuen & Co. Ltd. Acceptable. 0x0x0. 1899 used hardcover copy, age wear to covers, leatherbound, tanning to pages with age.

London: Methuen and Co. and George Newnes, 1899. Finely bound early printings of Kipling's collections of songs and poems regarding the late-Victorian British Army and voyages on the high seas. Octavo, three volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in 6 compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. Bookplate to each pastedown. Written in vernacular dialect, Kipling's The Barrack Room Ballads contains some of Kipling's most well-known work, including the poems "Gunga Din", "Tommy", "Mandalay", and "Danny Deever" which established his early fame as a poet. The first poems were published in the Scots Observer in the first half of 1890, and collected in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses in 1892. Kipling later returned to the theme in a group of poems collected in The Seven Seas under the same title. A third group of vernacular Army poems from the Boer War, titled… Read More

London: Methuen And Co.. 1892. first edition without limitation statement on copyright page. VG++, bottom corner tips are a little rubbed, otherwise book is clean, tight. A very handsome copy. ; 8vo, finely bound in 3/4 red leather with marbled boards, top edges gilt, others uncut. Raised bands, marbled endpapers, LIMITED TO 225 LARGE PAPER COPIES, this was the variant issue which was handsomely rebound in 3/4 leather. On the front endpaper is a mounted limitation statement which reads: "Of this Edition on Dutch Paper 225 Copies have been printed, of which 200 are for sale. No. 11" This statement appears to have been added later. A scarce issue. .