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Kipling, R. - BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS AND OTHER VERSES (INSCRIBED BY PERCY FITZPATRICK)
London: Methuen and Co., 1983 8vo (19.3 x 12.2 x 2.1cm) xix + 208pp. + 20pp. Publisher's catalogue. Original hardcover binding, with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Deckled edges. INSCRIBED BY PERCY FITZPATRICK (AUTHOR OF JOCK OF THE BUSHVELD), AND WITH HIS SIGNATURE TO FRONT PASTEDOWN. BOOKPLATE OF JULIUS JEPPE (MINING AND PROPERTY MAGNATE IN JOHANNESBURG DURING ITS EARLY YEARS) FIXED TO FRONT PASTEDOWN. The Barrack-Room Ballads are a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect. The series contains some of Kipling's most well-known work, including the poems "Gunga Din", "Tommy", "Mandalay", and "Danny Deever", helping consolidate his early fame as a poet. The first poems were published in the Scots Observer in the first half of 1890, and collected in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses in 1892. (Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrack-Room_Ballads) "The variety of form which Kipling manages to devise for his ballads is remarkable: each is distinct, and perfectly fitted to the content and the mood which the poem has to convey." (T. S. Eliot) Condition: Very good. The boards and spine have some rubbing. Minor stains to small sections of the boards. Small bumps to corners of the boards. Light sunning to the spine. Light browning to the front and rear free endpapers. A few very small stains to some pages, not affecting the text. Overall a well bound copy.
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