Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses

Rudyard Kipling

Verlag: Metheun and Co., London, 1892

Beschreibung

A smart third edition of this collection of songs and poems by renowned author Rudyard Kipling. The third edition of this work in a half calf binding, with decorative gilt to the spine. Top edge gilt. Ink inscription to the front free end paper, dated 1909. Engraved vignette to the title page. The Barrack-Room Ballads are a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect. The series contains some of Kipling's best-known works, including the poems "Gunga Din", "Tommy", "Mandalay", and "Danny Deever", helping consolidate 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. In a half calf binding. Externally smart, with some very faint stains to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, though roughly cut with some spotting to the fore edge, affecting the occasional page. Very Good Indeed. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 843M24

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses

Verlag: Metheun and Co., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1892

Einband: Leather

Illustrator: Not Stated

Zustand: Very Good Indeed

Art des Buches: book