Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$48.87 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First issue with publishers name at foot of spine and address on title page. Maroon cloth, beveled boards. Gilt top page edge. A bit of scuffing on covers. Top right corner of front cover is rubbed to boards and starting to fray. Pages 103-114 are detached but included. Binding is cracking at page 117. Some disclouration on rear endpapers.
Seller: ABC: Antiques, Books & Collectibles, Tantallon, NS, Canada
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Description: 270pp. Duodecimo in burgundy cloth with decorative gilt titles. Boards crisp and unworn; ink name else interior clean and crisp. Very Good+
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nice copy! Solid very good. Prior owner light pencil name and date (1892) on title page. Same name on bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Maroon cloth with gilt titles and decoration. Publisher name near base of spine and address of publisher printed on title page. Light edge wear to spine ends. Usual toning to paper and minor soiling.
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition. Maroon cloth on beveled boards.Previous owner's imprint plate. Portrait pasted on endpaper. . 1 lb 5.2 oz
Seller: Clio and Erato Books, Tarrytown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: vi, 270 pp. 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, t.e.g. First American edition. Richards A48. Armorial bookplate; front hinge starting to split (structure still sound); a bright, attractive copy with the tiniest areas of rubbing at the tips of the corners.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$112.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Maroon cloth over beveled edge boards, title and decorations stamped in gilt onto upper board and spine, top edge gilt, 12mo (7-3/8 inches tall), pp. vi, 270. Volume with minor wear to spine ends and corners and a couple of small cracks to hinges, spine gilt dulled. First printing of the first edition with "LOVELL" stamped in gilt at foot of spine. ". .There are thousands that do write; there are dozens that can write; but there is only one Rudyard Kipling." Rudyard Kipling - An Attempt at Appreciation, Monkshood, G. F. (pseud. W. J. Clarke), 1899. Printed on laid paper, this volume collects some of Kipling's best and most loved verses. Ref. Richards, A48.
Seller: Harropian Books, IOBA, Nelson, BC, Canada
Price: US$159.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This has the first issue binding with Lovell shown on spine. Internally fine , owners signature ( in an early neat hand) on inside front cover, slight markings on endpapers ( look to be from a protective wrapper), hinges professionally repaired. The cover ( first issue with Lovell shown on spine) is bright ; teg . A nice copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: LONGLAND BOOKS, Totteridge, LDN, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. Departmental Ditties Barrack Room Ballads and Other Verses. Lovell, New York, 1890.
Price: US$173.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dark red/burghendy bevelled cloth with gold design on front cover,( Lovell on spine as called for), United States Book Company, Successors to Lovell on title page. cloth a bit darkened from handling over the years otherwise very nice. 270 pages, book is clean, complete, and tight. Small blemish/fade spot top middle front cover. THIS IS THE FIRST AMEICAN EDITION
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 1st American Edition. 1st issue with Lovell on spine. Original marroon cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. No dust jacket. Light wear to cloth binding. Very good.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES | BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS | and Other Verses. , 1890.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: New York: United States Book Company. Successors to John W. Lovell Company, n.d. [1890]. Original maroon cloth, on beveled boards. First (though pirated) Edition of both the "Barrack-Room Ballads" and the "Other Verses" (not published in England until 1892); first American edition of "Departmental Ditties." The "Barrack-Room Ballads" include some of Kipling's best-loved verse, such as "Gunga Din," "Danny Deever," "Tommy," "Mandalay" and "Fuzzy-Wuzzy." This copy is in the first binding state, with "Lovell" at the foot of the spine (even though Lovell had been "succeeded" by United States Book Company). The volume is in very good-plus, perhaps near-fine condition (spine gilt less than bright, very light wear at the foot of the spine); the spine is not faded, which is atypical for maroon cloth. Richards A48; Stewart 79.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First American Edition, containing some of Kipling's most famous poems. Maroon cloth binding with titling and decorations in gilt on the spine and front cover; bevelled edges. The first state printing, with "Lovell" on the spine. Clean text; vi, 270 pages. Very bright and clear. Tiny touches of rub at the margins. A very nice copy. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling. First edition in publishers red cloth. Publisher: John W. Lovell Company, New York, (1890). Contains Gunga Din among other selections. Binding is in fine condition. Housed in custom box. Contents clean. Front pastedown and ffep toned as paper was stored there. 270 pages. 5 ¼ x 7 ¼ inches. Inventory #21-053. Price: $1500.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.