Barrack Room Ballads and Other Verses de Rudyard Kipling - 1898

Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1953. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1953. Reprinted. 208 pages. Brown dust jacket over blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as inscriptions, mild crinkling and light tanning. Boards have mild edge wear with light rubbing and crushing. Some light marking and tanning. There is bumping to corners. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Tanning to spine and edges causing discolouration. Ring marks to front.

Methuen & Co, 1956. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1956. Reprinted. 208 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Moderate tanning and creasing, with rubbing and marking. Large ring marks to front.

Methuen & Co Ltd., 1893. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1893. 6th Edition. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout, with exposed netting. Noticeable tanning to rough-cut text block edges. Heavy tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Binding remains firm with ring mark to front surface.

Methuen and Co., 1892. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1892. No Edition Stated. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Pages are rough cut. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with large splits to joint ends. Notable sunning to spine and board edges, with scuffing and marking to boards. Some loss to spine ends.

Methuen and Co., 1892. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1892. No Edition Remarks. 208 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Black ink marks to text block edges. Pages are mildly tanned throughout. Contains deckled text block edges. Text is clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing & sunning to spine ends and rub wear all over. Gilt lettering darkened. Visible splits to rear spine joints, spine remains firm.

Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1953. Hardcover. Good. 1953. Reprinted. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Colour illustrated frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is darkened.

Methuen and Co., 1965. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1965. Reprinted. 208 pages. White dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Light creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges. Minor marks to boards. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Visible tanning to spine. Brown marks to panels. Sticker to rear panel.

New York; Philadelphia; Chicago: The Nottingham Society, 1909. Olive cloth boards, applied spine label. Good/No Dust Jacket. Volume VIII. Bombay Edition, Edition de Luxe. Printed for subscribers only, limited to 1000 sets. Frontispiece with tissue. Wear and fraying to ends and corners. Uncut edges. 332 pages.

Methuen & Co, 1895. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1895. 8th Edition. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

Methuen & Co, 1919. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1919. 117 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Rough cut pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.