Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses.
First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses
Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses.
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Item Number: 123949
London: Methuen and Co, 1892.
First British edition of perhaps Kipling’s most popular poetry collection. Octavo, original cloth, top edge gilt with others untrimmed. In very good condition. Uncommon. Bookplate.
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".
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