Departmental Ditties; Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses; The Five Nations; The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling

One volume of the 1927 Mandalay Edition, bringing together Rudyard Kipling's Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, The Five Nations and The Seven Seas. Offered as a worn ex-library reading/reference copy, not a complete set.

Book details

  • Author: Rudyard Kipling
  • Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
  • Publication: 1927
  • Edition / printing: The Mandalay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling, 1927
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Language: English

Condition

Heavily worn ex-library cloth hardcover without dust jacket. Cloth is faded, spotted and rubbed; spine ends and corners are frayed and worn. Paper spine title label is cracked, darkened and chipped, and a library label remains at the foot. Title page has a Cambridge Library, Halifax stamp, accession number 2495 and shelf label. Foxing and age-toning are visible; the front inner hinge shows wear.

Book details

Title
Departmental Ditties; Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses; The Five Nations; The Seven Seas
Authors
Rudyard Kipling
Publisher
Doubleday, Page & Company
Published
1927
Language
English
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
The Mandalay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling, 1927
Subjects
POETRY, RUDYARD KIPLING, ENGLISH LITERATURE, MANDALAY EDITION, EX LIBRARY, VINTAGE BOOKS

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