Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses (Fine Binding By Chivers)
by Kipling, Rudyard (Cedric Chivers Binding )
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: United States Book Company, 1890. 1st . Three-Quarter Leather. Very Good. Chivers, Cedric. First issue with publisher's address on title page. Vi, 270 pp., 12mo, top-edge gilt, custom binding by Cedric Chivers, Bath, UK (blind-stamped to top-corner of second free endpaper). Three-quarters navy leather with gilt spine titles and decorations, over beige buckram boards, marbled endpapers. Original owner's name "Evelyn Cochrane" and original Calgary, AB bookstore stamp on half-title page. Mrs. Cochrane was the wife of prominent Albertan rancher William Cochrane. Binding and contents are Nearly Fine: tight and fresh, with slight wear, nicks and minor bumping to the edges of a few leaves. Gilt is very bright. A superb copy in a masterful Chivers binding.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inno Dubelaar Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 788125
- Title
- Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses (Fine Binding By Chivers)
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard (Cedric Chivers Binding )
- Illustrator
- Chivers, Cedric
- Format/Binding
- Three-Quarter Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- United States Book Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
- CEDRIC CHIVERS BOOKBINDER FINE BINDING
- Bookseller catalogs
- Old Stuff;
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About the Seller
Inno Dubelaar Books
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Toronto, Ontario
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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