Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses

No book-club edition — the book predates book-club publishing. The reprint risk is instead sheer volume: the book ran through many Methuen impressions and editions from the 1890s onward, most in broadly similar bindings, and later printings are common while the first is not. Check the title page and its verso for the 1892 date and for the absence of any edition or impression statement, and confirm the 16-page rear advertisement catalogue. Note also that the large-paper limitation is signed by the publishers, so a signature on the limitation leaf is not a Kipling autograph and should not be described as one.