KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press, [1886].

8°. (Some heavy stains, contents leaf torn and repaired at inner corner.) Original fawn wrappers in the form of an envelope with flap, front cover with partly printed, partly lithographic wording (soiled and worn at extremities, lacking red tape tie); contemporay buff envelope with collector's label and title in manuscript; later red cloth solander case, backed in red morocco, spine titled in gilt. Provenance: George Burton, Calcutta (pencil inscription on sectional title to 'Departmental Ditties') -- Gilbert Elliot (book label on envelope).

FIRST EDITION OF APPROX. 350 COPIES, containing twenty-six poems. Kipling described this as his first book. Stewart affirms that it was 'certainly ... the first book written entirely by him and for the publication of which he had sole responsibility.' Long a collector
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KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press, [1886].8°. (Some heavy stains, contents leaf torn and repaired at inner corner.) Original fawn wrappers in the form of an envelope with flap, front cover with partly printed, partly lithographic wording (soiled and worn at extremities, lacking red tape tie); contemporay buff envelope with collector's label and title in manuscript; later red cloth solander case, backed in red morocco, spine titled in gilt. Provenance: George Burton, Calcutta (pencil inscription on sectional title to 'Departmental Ditties') -- Gilbert Elliot (book label on envelope).FIRST EDITION OF APPROX. 350 COPIES, containing twenty-six poems. Kipling described this as his first book. Stewart affirms that it was 'certainly ... the first book written entirely by him and for the publication of which he had sole responsibility.' Long a collector's item and very rare today. Stewart 8.

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KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press, [1886].

8°. (Some heavy stains, contents leaf torn and repaired at inner corner.) Original fawn wrappers in the form of an envelope with flap, front cover with partly printed, partly lithographic wording (soiled and worn at extremities, lacking red tape tie); contemporay buff envelope with collector's label and title in manuscript; later red cloth solander case, backed in red morocco, spine titled in gilt. Provenance: George Burton, Calcutta (pencil inscription on sectional title to 'Departmental Ditties') -- Gilbert Elliot (book label on envelope).

FIRST EDITION OF APPROX. 350 COPIES, containing twenty-six poems. Kipling described this as his first book. Stewart affirms that it was 'certainly ... the first book written entirely by him and for the publication of which he had sole responsibility.' Long a collector's item and very rare today. Stewart 8.
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