KIPLING RUDYARD Departmental Ditties

Sale 2319 - Lot 182

Price Realized: $ 480

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

KIPLING, RUDYARD. Departmental Ditties. Tall narrow 8vo, original envelope-style printed tan wrappers, browned, finger soiling and mild foxing to covers and initial and final leaves, light pencil signature on front wrapper, small loss at flap bottom not affecting Lahore stamp, lacking red tie; preserved in cloth chemise within custom straight-grain morocco pull-off case. an unrestored copy of the first edition, one of approximately 350 unnumbered copies. Livingston 10. Lahore: The Civil and Military Gazette Press, 1886

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

with-- De Vinne Press facsimile edition. Format follows the First Edition except for the title-page; small chips to wrapper edges and backstrip, wrappers partially detached. Identified as the Second Edition and one of 250 copies on the verso of title-page. Not listed in Livingston, who states that only a First Edition of this facsimile appeared. New York: 1899.