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Price: US$6.44 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Blue cloth bevel edged boards with gilt titles and decs. 190 x 140 mm approx. viii + 122 pp + 24 pp publisher's catalogue. 4th Edition with additional poems. Poor - heavy rubbing to cloth with loss at head and tail . Front end paper cracked and mull failing. Original owner name - The Buffs and A H Wheeler & Co Allahabad and indian price to half title. A project for re-backing by a student/ hobbyist book binder). Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale.
Seller: booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
Price: US$23.19 + shipping
Description: 121pp + 23pp publisher's catalogue. In original red cloth. With a gilt embossed design of a manuscript tied with a ribbon with handwritten title and publisher with the inscription `The Fifth Edition Containing Several New Ditties and Verses'. Includes 49
Seller: Verandah Books, Sherborne, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. Thacker, Spink, & Co., London, 1890.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardbound, no dust jacket. 5th UK edition. Minor wear to spine edges & age toning to papers, otherwise very good.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. Thacker, Spink, & Co., London, 1890.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardbound, no dust jacket. 4th UK edition. Some age toning to papers, & minor wear to board edges, otherwise very good.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$28.34 + shipping
Description: 121pp. In original red cloth. With a gilt embossed design of a manuscript tied with a ribbon with handwritten title and publisher with the inscription `The Fifth Edition Containing Several New Ditties and Verses'. Includes 49 poems. Very good. Bookplates.
Seller: Verandah Books, Sherborne, United Kingdom
Price: US$28.99 + shipping
Description: Hard back binding in publisher's original decorated dark red cloth covers with gilt scroll effect illustration to the front cover containing the title and author, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [vi] 121 [xxiv Thacker, Spink & Co. catalogue] printed pages of text. Small rubs to the spine ends and corners, damaged tear to the fore edge of the pages 51 -121 continuous, pencilled name dated 1890 to the title page and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936)
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. Thacker, Spink and Co., London, 1890.
Price: US$33.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Rudyard Kipling's first collection of verses, originally published in 1886. Containing poems such as The Plea of the Simla Dancers, One Viceroy Resigns, and To The Unknown Goddess. Fifth edition, with additional poems. With publisher's catalogue to rear. In original pictorial cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine. Externally, lightly rubbed, with fading, and shelfwear to the spine. Internally, generally firmly bound, bright, and generally clean, but with spotting to the first and last pages. Ink stamp to endpaper. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
KIPLING, Rudyard. Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. Thacker, Spink and Co, Calcutta, 1890.
Price: US$45.09 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Internally fine sbject to very slight browning, binding firm, cover bright with very slight wear to extremities of spine ; an attractive copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: LONGLAND BOOKS, Totteridge, LDN, United Kingdom
Kipling Rudyard. Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. Thacker Spink and Co, 1890.
Price: US$51.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: All books outside UK sent airmail and over £30 tracked and inside UK signed for. PayPal accepted. Fourth Edition, First UK edition, with additional poems. Original bright blue cloth, gilt design to front. A little dulled at spine and slight wear to head of spine patterned end papers with contemporary name and bookplate on paste down. Paste down is also slightly spotted.
Seller: Lavender Fields Books PBFA, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Price: US$55.40 + shipping
Description: 121pp + 23pp publisher's catalogue. In original red cloth. With a gilt embossed design of a manuscript tied with a ribbon with handwritten title and publisher with the inscription `The Fourth Edition Containing Several New Ditties and Verses'. The first
Seller: Verandah Books, Sherborne, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. Departmental Ditties and other Verses. Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta, 1890.
Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The fourth edition in the original cloth of Rudyard Kipling's anthology of verses. The fourth edition of this work. A collection of poems by the renowned author Rudyard Kipling. Seen in both blue and maroon variant cloth binding.This work originally appeared in 1886 on the 'Civil & Military Gazette Press' in Lahore, and was reprinted in Calcutte in the same year, with multiple further editions following. Kipling tended to add poems with each new edition both to the 'Ditties' and the 'Other Verses.'Twenty-four leaves of publisher's catalogue to rear. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally generally smart with light bumping and chipping to head and tail of spine and extremities, back strip darkened. Front free endpaper was pasted to front pastedown. Library stamp to half title, with library marks to front and rear title page and no further marking. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$63.12 + shipping
Description: 121pp + 23pp publisher's catalogue. In original blue cloth. With a gilt embossed design of a manuscript tied with a ribbon with handwritten title and publisher with the inscription `The Fourth Edition Containing Several New Ditties and Verses'. The first
Seller: Verandah Books, Sherborne, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. Departmental Ditties. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1890.
Price: US$70.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rudyard Kipling. Departmental Ditties. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1890. Fourth edition with additional poems. VG. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 121; [24] publisher's catalogue. Publisher's burgundy cloth titled in gilt to spine, gilt illustration to upper board, black monogram to lower board, floral patterned endpapers. Cloth slightly rubbed to extremities, some buffing to spine ends. First published in 1886, this fourth edition contains new ditties and verses.
Seller: RightWayUp Books, Woodbridge, SUFFO, United Kingdom
KIPLING, Rudyard. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES AND OTHER VERSES. Thacker, Spink and Co, Calcutta, 1890.
Price: US$73.90 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The Fourth edition containing Several New Dittie's and Verses. Brown boards and gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Covers well rubbed and stained. Some wear to central insignia on front cover (see image) and spine. Head and tail bumped and worn, so too are corners. Binding is neat, yet spine is slightly cocked. Split at rear free andpaper. Pages are lightly foxed and discoloured due to age. Edges thumbed and lightly scuffed. Previous owner's inscription, dated 1944 and 1945 on title page. Also some pencil and ink markings on front free endpaper, including a previous price tag of 5c., Otherwise this book is in fair condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously; they usually present better than they sound.
Seller: Uncle Peter's Books, Clunes, NSW, Australia
Kipling, Rudyard. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES: And other verses. Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta, 1890.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Fourth edition, but the first edition printed in the UK. The adverts at the end are dated February 1890. This edition includes ten poems in addition to those included in the 1888 3rd edition, and features revisions to others. Deep blue cloth, with elaborate gilt device on upper board replicating a note from Kipling. About good with rubbing on edges, bumping to corners, tears on spine edges, and tiny open tears on bottom edges of boards, spine is shaken, textblock has age toned edges, price stamp by previous bookstore and previous owner's name on half title page, cracked gutter between p.80 and 81, cracking on inner hinges, end papers are olive green colored patters of leaves and oranges. Lacking dust jacket.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta, 1890.
Price: US$128.83 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Fourth edition, first English edition. Last edition publisher with additional poems. Includes February 1890 catalogue at end.
Seller: Broadhursts of Southport Ltd ABA ILAB BA, Southport, United Kingdom
KIPLING, Rudyard.. Departmental Ditties and Other Verses.. Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta, 1890.
Price: US$150.81 + shipping
Description: Fifth edition. 8vo., orig. blue cloth, 121, 23pp. ads dated "September 1890." Some minor wear to the foot of the spine o/w near fine. See Stewart p. 24.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Rudyard Kipling. Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta, 1890.
Price: US$154.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Slipcase: Custom made maroon cloth slip case with gilt lettering to end panel. Overall case condition is Fine. Book: Fourth edition and the first edition to be printed in England. Ads at rear dated February 1890. This edition includes 10 additional poems. Maroon cloth binding with bevelled board edges. Gilt sheaf of documents to front board, gilt lettering to spine. Decorated endpapers. Very slight fading to spine. Very slight rubbing to corners. Good solid binding. A few light spots of foxing to page edges, otherwise in very clean condition throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown endpaper. An excellent example (Richards A31). Overall book condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 5.75 x 7.75 inches (15 x 20 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: vi, 120, 24
Seller: Tarrington Books, Tarrington, HEF, United Kingdom