Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$6.40 + shipping
Description: hardback, 8vo, vi,125pp, 24pp cactlogue, owner's name on half-title, edges slightly browned, text clean and sound, blue cloth, gilt pictorial decs and titles, slightly rubbed, Very Good / no dustwrapper
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. Thacker, Spink and Co, Calcutta, 1892.
Price: US$12.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 125 pages. 24-page publisher's catalogue. Includes a glossary for English readers. A pretty edition. Maroon boards; bevelled edges; black ruling; gold decoration on front cover depicts lawyer's brief with wording giving title, edition, author and publisher; patterned endpapers. Some rubbing to extremities of cloth and end pastedown has smallish split over hinge but very good condition for year of publication.
Seller: beckfarmbooks, HOLT, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Price: US$17.93 + shipping
Description: 125pp + 24pp of publisher's advertisments. In original red cloth. With a gilt embossed design of a manuscript tied with a ribbon with handwritten title and publisher with the inscription `A New Edition with a glossary for English readers' in Kipling's han
Seller: Verandah Books, Sherborne, United Kingdom
Price: US$25.62 + 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. Ink name dated 1894 to the half-title page and in Very Good clean and solid condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936)
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Description: Seventh Edition ; Very Good/ No Dw; 125pp with 24pp Pub. Catalogue; Maroon bevelled covers with bright gilt device on front with " A New Edition with a Glossary for English Readers. Rudyard Kipling" in the middle; Publishers device on back board ; Decorated endpapers; Internall hinge cracked but firm.
Seller: Wheen O' Books, Selkirk, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta, 1892.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boards clean and bright. 3/8" tear to cloth at head of spine. Several 1/8" chips to cloth at tail of spine. Corners rubbed. Some splitting to gutters at hinges. ; Seventh edition. The author's first book. vi, [2], 125, [3] pages + 24 pages advertisements. Blue cloth boards with gilt illustration on front board. Floral pattern endpapers. Page dimensions: 187 x 135mm.; 8vo
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Price: US$41.14 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: original blue publisher's cloth; lettering in gilt on spine and blocked in gilt on front cover; elaborate design stamped in gilt on front cover; single rule borders on both front and rear covers; design stamped in black on rear cover; hinges are tight; spine is square; rubbing and wear at extremities; 125 pp followed by 24 pp of ads; no foxing; no browning of pages; affixed to front paste-down is a note stating "With the Authors Compliments" in ink but without a date or signature; gilt lettering on spine is reasonably bright.
Seller: Reeve & Clarke Books (ABAC / ILAB), South River, ON, Canada
Kipling, Rudyard. Departmental Ditties and Other Verses.. Thacker, Spink and Co, Calcutta, 1892.
Price: US$44.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Seventh edition. Octavo. Original burgundy buckram covers with large gilt device of manuscript papers to front. Bevelled edges. Patterned endpapers. 24-page publisher's catalogue at rear, dated July 1892. The book is square and very tight. The boards are bright. The gilt on the front board is bold. The corners are very slightly rubbed. sharp. The spine ends are gently bruised. The gilt on the spine is sharp. The pages are clean. No dog-eared pages. The binding is solid. There are two contemporary ownership inscriptions on the ffep - one dated 1895. A well preserved copy. Paypal accepted.
Seller: Cheltenham Rare Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta, 1892.
Price: US$67.89 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: vi, 125pp; maroon bevelled boards, gilt decoration to front, spine slightly faded and light edgewear, spine-ends worn, foxing to eps.; previous owner's name to half title, few spots to front board. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Baggins Book Bazaar Ltd, Rochester, KENT, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES and Other Verses. Thacker, Spink and Co, Calcutta, 1892.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Description: 125, 24 pp. [pub. cat. No 51 dated July 1892]. Blue buckram, gilt embossed picture on front cover and small black crest on back cover. Floral end-papers[cracked but sound] and neat owners name to f.f.e.p. 7th Indian Edition of Kipling's first book. A lovely copy with no fading and internally very clean. Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, London. Please Email for photos Size: small 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom