Kipling's Works: The Jungle Book, Second Jungle Book, Barrack Room Ballads etc. (fourteen volumes)
by Rudyard Kipling
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Leigh-On-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co., 1899. Hardcover. Good. Handsome leather bound selection of Kipling's work, featuring almost all his key works prior to 1899. All reprints published by Macmillan unless otherwise stated. Contains The Jungle Book (1899); The Second Jungle Book (1899); The Naulahka (William Heinemann 1899); The Seven Seas (Methuen, 1899); The Light that Failed (1898); Soldiers Three, In Black and White & The Story of the Gadsbys (1899); Many Inventions (1899); Captains Courageous (1897) & a Fleet in Being (1899); Barrack Room Ballads (Methuen, 1899); Departmental Ditties (George Newnes, 1899); The Day's Work (1899); Life's Handicap (1899); Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories, The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales & Under the Deodars (1898); Plain Tales from the Hills (1899). Many with b/w illustrations. Bound in half red leather with marbled boards, matching marbling to end-papers. Top edges gilt. Some rubbing to leather. Mild cracking to joints on the two Jungle books. Contents clean and bindings tight. Good+ overall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- AJ Scruffles (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008132
- Title
- Kipling's Works: The Jungle Book, Second Jungle Book, Barrack Room Ballads etc. (fourteen volumes)
- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- leather_binding, tale, india, poetry, poems, verse, mowgli, baloo, empire,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Leather Bindings;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
AJ Scruffles
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Leigh-On-Sea, Essex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.