Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses.

KIPLING, Rudyard.

Item Number: 121549

London: Methuen and Co, 1892.

First British trade edition of perhaps Kipling’s most popular poetry collection. Octavo, original cloth, top edge gilt with others untrimmed. One of 225 numbered copies printed on Dutch paper and signed by the publisher, this is number 91. In very good condition. Uncommon.

In the short span of four years, English author Rudyard Kipling produced, in addition to the Jungle Books, a collection of short stories (The Day's Work), a novel (Captains Courageous), and a profusion of poetry, including the volume The Seven Seas. The collection of Barrack-Room Ballads was issued in March 1892, first published individually for the most part in 1890, and containing his poems "Mandalay" and "Gunga Din".