Nov 18, 2014 - Sale 2366

Sale 2366 - Lot 144

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
KIPLING, RUDYARD. Plain Tales From the Hills. 8vo, original olive green pictorial cloth, spine gilt-titled, moderate rubbing, few stray marks, corners soft; few signatures slightly sprung, hinges starting, endpapers renewed; preserved in cloth chemise and full crimson morocco pull-off case, by Stikeman. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1888

Additional Details

first edition, presentation copy from kipling's father, to "J.M. Hooper from J. Kipling, April, 1888." With 24 page publisher's catalogue bound in at end dated December, 1887, and running head numerals of page 192 misplaced. Signed by John Lockwood Kipling in the year of publication. Richards A10.