Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses

Description

First edition of Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1892.

This specific copy was published in India by Thacker, Spink and Co. (Calcutta) and Thacker and Co., Lim.(Bombay). While the collection was famously published by Methuen in London during the same year, Thacker & Spink simultaneously handled the Indian publication, making this a highly collectible early colonial edition.

Barrack-Room Ballads remains one of Kipling’s most celebrated poetry collections. Written largely in a vernacular Cockney dialect, it captures the raw experiences, humor, and tragedies of the late-Victorian British Army. This volume includes several of his most enduring and quoted poems, such as “Gunga Din,” “Mandalay,” “Danny Deever,” and “Tommy.”

Now available at Sunset Books.