Author: Kipling, Rudyard
Title: Poems 1886-1929 Volume 1: Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads, the Seven Seas
Description: New York, Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc, 1930. Limited to 537 copies, 525 of which are numbered and for sale. No covers, 6 exposed cords. xviii, (1-6), 7-393 pp. with facsimile frontis of Kipling's manuscript for "The Thousandth Man" printed as frontispiece to vol. I, with tissue guard. Title page printed in red and black. I have two of these copies of Volume 1, each numbered and signed (41 and 42). They were never bound, and both retain their untrimmed cords and temporary endpapers beyond those intended to be bound. They have spent the last 90+ years together in the stockroom of a venerable (but now closed) New York City bookstore. They both retain their limitation page, signed by Kipling and numbered. Please be aware you are buying an bound book as delivered by the publisher to the binders. Several possible uses for these volumes are evident, an explanation for why they were never bound and where the other two volumes for each of these is are more distant and hypothetical, bordering on fantasy. Beyonbd being lovely Kipling items, and complete in their own right, these volumes (sold by the piece) are a scarce representation of how books leave the printer's for the binder's. "First edition."/ "This edition, printed from type that has now been distributed, is limited to five hundred and thirty-seven sets. Twelve of these are for presentation. The first volume of each of the remaining five hundred and twenty-five numbered sets is signed by the author"--Front fly-leaf. Pictures upon request. The London printing of this set was accomplished in 1929 and included a signed etching of Kipling as the frontis. Good, See Comments .

Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; Kipling, Rudyard ; ;


See more books from our catalog: Literature Young and Old