The Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling by Harry Ricketts - Signed First Edition
$69.00
The Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling is Harry Ricketts’ acclaimed biography of Rudyard Kipling, tracing the writer’s childhood, years in India, literary career, public reputation and increasingly private later life.
This copy is especially collectible as it is a 1999 first UK edition signed by Harry Ricketts on the title page.
Edition details:
- Author: Harry Ricketts
- Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
- First published in the United Kingdom in 1999
- First edition, first printing
- Hardcover with dust jacket
- ISBN-10: 0701137444
- ISBN-13: 9780701137441
- Printed and bound in Great Britain by Mackays of Chatham PLC
- Language: English
Condition: Very good used condition. The dust jacket shows light shelf wear, rubbing and minor creasing, particularly around the spine ends and edges. The hardcover and binding remain sound, and the internal pages appear clean. Signed by the author on the title page.
Collections: ALL BOOKS, ALL PRODUCTS, BIOGRAPHY, FIRST EDITIONS, NON-FICTION BOOKS
Type: NON FICTION
Category: A002, BIOGRAPHY, BOOKS, FIRST EDITION, HARDCOVER, HARRY RICKETTS, LITERARY BIOGRAPHY, NON FICTION, RUDYARD KIPLING, SIGNED, SIGNED COPY
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