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1892045599New York: Macmillan & Co. 1892 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. A series of songs and poems expressing a popular view of the common soldiers and sailors of the British imperial forces in late Victorian times. Written in popular dialects with memorable verses and cadencies Danny Deever Gunga Din Mandalay they appealed to all levels of the pubic and were recited and sung everywhere with patriotic enthusiasm. First American edition of this anthology The UK edition was issued a few days later under the shorter title of "Barrack Room Ballads' Neat dark blue binding with gilding on spine on top of text block and on the horse motif on the front cover. 207p 8p of Ads.Crisp tight unmarked text.The leaf before the half title is missing else fine Richards A68; Stewart 109 . Macmillan & Co. hardcover
1892000037New York: Macmillan and Co 1892. Hardcover. Very Good/No jacket as issued. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 207 pp. with 8 pages of ads. Blue cloth decorated in gilt. Light edge wear particularly at crown and foot of spine. Very Good. Macmillan and Co hardcover
189211979New York: Macmillan 1892 First American Edition. Dark blue cloth stamped in gold. 8vo. 207 8 pages ads. Pictorial gilt decoration on upper part of front cover - Indian holding a saddled horse. Includes a nice collection of very old newspaper articles relating to Kiping originally in envelope glued to back board. Front hinge split and rear hinge weak. Cover has a little wear at corners. no jacket. Good minus condition. Macmillan hardcover
189718811New York: The MacMillan Company. 1897. Hardcover. Good. Blue cloth cover with gilt blind stamped decor is worn at corners and caps with bumped corners but clean and in good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Former owner's name on front end sheet dated 1898 and a newer bookplate affixed. Pages are lightly toned but clean and very good. . The MacMillan Company hardcover
1893003865New York: Macmillan Company 1893. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads" by Rudyard Kipling. New edition stated on title page. Published by Macmillan Company New York 1893. Measures 5" x 7.25" 217 pages. The book is in very good condition. Top edge gilt. The boards are well preserved with light shelf wear. The spine is sun faded. Gilt illustration on front board and lettering on the spine are still bright and vibrant. The book is slightly cocked with an overbite. Previous owner's inscription dated 1894 on the front endpaper. The interior is fresh and well preserved. The binding is solid. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #K1-27. Macmillan Company hardcover
1892ABE-1562616657770MacMillan and Co. 1892 New York Ist US edition spine faded. general wear. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. MacMillan and Co., hardcover
1892147361892. New York: Macmillan and Co. 1892. 8 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth with front cover vignette in gilt.<br/><br/> First American Edition published nine days before the English edition which was titled BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS and Other Verses. Included in "Barrack-Room Ballads" are such well-known verses as "Danny Deever" "Tommy" "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" "Gunga Din" and "Mandalay"; these had appeared in the 1890 pirated volume DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES. published by New York Book Co. Leading off "Ballads" and the whole book is "The Ballad of East and West" ". and never the twain shall meet"; this is its first appearance in a Kipling book as it had appeared only in the 1891 poetry anthology LYRA HEROICA. Condition is near-fine with light rubbing at the extremities. This American volume is considerably scarcer than its British counterpart. Richards A68; Stewart 110. unknown books
1892WRCLIT72127New York & London: Macmillan and Co. 1892. Gilt decorated blue cloth t.e.g. The free endsheets have caused offset tanning to facing blank a trace of rubbing otherwise a very good copy. First US edition preceding the comparable UK edition by a few days. RICHARDS A68. LIVINGSTON 91. STEWART 109. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
189225093New York & London: Macmillan 1892. First American edition 12mo pp. xvi 207 8 ads; endpapers browning else a very good copy in orig. blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Includes the poems "Danny Deever" "Gunga Din" "The Ballad of East and West" and "Mandalay." <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover books
1892724161892. KIPLING Rudyard. BALLADS AND BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS. New York & London: Macmillan & Co. 1892. First American edition. 12mo. blue cloth stamped and decorated in gilt teg. Bookplate to ffep bookseller's label to rear pastedown. One leaf of rear advertisements has a torn corner. Titles of a few poems written in pencil on the final blank page. Shelfwear and light soil to boards with very slightly bumped bottom opening corners. Very good plus. Stewart 109. unknown books
1893122034New York: Macmillan and Co 1893. First American edition of the new edition with four additional poems of perhaps Kipling's most popular poetry collection. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles to the spine gilt vignette to the front panel top edge gilt. In very good condition. Written in vernacular dialect Kipling's The Barrack Room Ballads contains some of Kipling's most well-known work including the poems "Gunga Din" "Tommy" "Mandalay" and "Danny Deever" which established his early fame as a poet. The first poems were published in the Scots Observer in the first half of 1890 and collected in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses in 1892. Kipling later returned to the theme in a group of poems collected in The Seven Seas under the same title. A third group of vernacular Army poems from the Boer War titled "Service Songs" and published in The Five Nations 1903 can be considered part of the Ballads as can a number of other uncollected pieces. Macmillan and Co hardcover books
189226751New York: Macmillan & Co. 1892. 12mo. xvi 207 8adv. pp. <br><br>First American edition. Includes the poems "Gunga Din" "The Ballad of East and West" "Mandalay" and "Gentlemen Rankers" to mention only four. Publisher's blue cloth front cover stamped in gilt with an image of a an Indian and a horse. Small area of discoloration on spine. Exsocial club library: call number on endpaper rubber-stamp on title-page no other markings. Macmillan & Co. hardcover books
18992130<p>Cover is in very good condition with the exception of a stain on the rear. There is a book plate inside front cover and a dedication inside on frontice page. See Photos. </p> Thomas Y Crowell & Co hardcover
1899010944Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1899. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Full leather . Marbled endpapers . First American Edition . An excellent copy . The leather is well preserved . The graphics are bright on the fronf board . The interior is bright and clean no marks of any kind . This is one of Kipling's most interesting works and is now very scarce . Thomas Y. Crowell Company hardcover
1899020391Alex Grosset and Company. Publisher's green cloth with bright gilt titles on front and spine. No DJ. . Fine. Hardcover. 1899. Alex Grosset and Company hardcover
189942031New York Crowell 1899 hardcover. Includes four color plates by W.William St John Harper. Extra title-page decoration and presumably the gilt cover decoration by TBH Theodore Brown Hapgood. -- Hardcover bright gilt cover art 253 pages. Condition: very good minus lavender cloth cover is lightly and irregularly sunned; foxing to outer pages including the Hapgood woodcut margins; no jacket issued. Crowell hardcover
19000101492<p>Red cloth bound boards with gold lettering to spine. Spine faded. Inscription to front - Yealering West Australia 1929.<br />Some small signs of age spotting.</p> A.L.Burt and Company hardcover
1892ABE-1562616554532Metheun 1892 London Iast UK edition boards faded and worn contents good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Metheun hardcover
189843153London 1898. 8vo. 208pp. FROM THE LIBRARY OF CHARLES BUTLER GRACE son of W.G. Grace WITH HIS SIGNATURE OF OWNERSHIP on the front endpaper: "Charles Butler Grace March 26th 1899." Charles Butler Grace 1882-1938 played some matches for London County in 1900. His final first-class match was for W.G. Grace's XI in 1906. unknown
1892033583Calcutta: Thacker Spink & Co 1892. Book. Very Good-. Hardcover. 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. Thacker, Spink & Co Hardcover
1898019357M.F. Mansfield & Co. Spine lightly sunned. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1898. M.F. Mansfield & Co. hardcover
189201AIR0182.<p>Original boards rubbed lightly stained and faded especially on spine. Top page edges gilt other edges untrimmed. Some tanning and foxing most notably of edges and end-papers. Personal <em>ex libris</em> book plate paasted onto front end-paper. Title page vignette. 16 page booklist appended at rear.</p> Methuen & Co. hardcover
1898blb06142New York: M.F. Mansfield & Co. 1898. Hardcover. Near Fine. Red cloth with bright gilt lettering rulings and swords to front and titling to spine. Small book is tight square sharp-cornered and free of markings or flaws inside and out. Book is Near Fine. Nicely illustarted with one-color plates and tissue guards. Top edge gilt. Matching volume is available with us as well - Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. M.F. Mansfield & Co. hardcover
189823606M.F. Mansfield 1898. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. M.F. Mansfieldcirca 1898 no date stated. Hard Cover. Top edge gilt. Red boards with gilt decoration and titles.Frontipieces to both collections are present. Cover has mild shelfwear spine is faded. Pages are clean and unmarked slightly toned. Binding is tight. Hinges are perfect. Very nice copy. This collection captures the voices of common British soldiers 'Tommies' during the height of the British Empire using accessible rhythms vivid vernacular and a deeply ironic sense of patriotism and service.His work raises uncomfortable questions about empire class and race. For readers interested in British history colonial literature or the evolution of poetic voice this remains an essential if challenging read. M.F. Mansfield hardcover
1892119266New York: United States Book Company 1892. Scarce early printing of perhaps Kipling’s most popular poetry collection. Octavo original wrappers as issued. In near fine condition. Exceptionally rare. Written in vernacular dialect Kipling's The Barrack Room Ballads contains some of Kipling's most well-known work including the poems "Gunga Din" "Tommy" "Mandalay" and "Danny Deever" which established his early fame as a poet. The first poems were published in the Scots Observer in the first half of 1890 and collected in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses in 1892. Kipling later returned to the theme in a group of poems collected in The Seven Seas under the same title. A third group of vernacular Army poems from the Boer War titled "Service Songs" and published in The Five Nations 1903 can be considered part of the Ballads as can a number of other uncollected pieces. United States Book Company unknown
