Kipling, Rudyard. Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses. Thacker, Spink & Co, Calcutta, 1892.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 208pp. Brick cloth boards, gilt titles on spine. Binding secure, spine straight, corners a bit bumped. FFEP loose but still attached. Slight foxing to pages prior to body of text. Clean, unmarked text block apart from the expected age toning. Deckle edged pages. 16pp of publisher's ads in back. Rear hinge just showing. Variously credited as first Indian edition, printed from the English sheets and third edition. Either way an early Kipling edition, hailing from Calcutta. Scarce.
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses. Thacker. Spink and Co., Calcutta, 1892.
Price: US$170.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, Indian issue. Probably printed from the ordinary English sheets, with a new title page. xix, 208pp, 16pp publishers catalog at rear. Generally clean interior with a a little soiling here and there. Front free endpaper very cleanly removed [?]. A second free endpaper has signature and two lines of ink notes, as does the fpde. Front edge and bottom edge, uncut. Top edge square with faint gilding. Original brown cloth boards faded and somewhat 'blotchy'. Spine a golden-brown tone with clear gilt titles. Binding tight and square, front hinge a trifle loose. Scarce edition. Scans/info available. Weight, 310g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Antiquarius Booksellers, Falkland, BC, Canada