KIPLING, RUDYARD. Plain Tales from the Hills. 8vo, original olive green pictorial cloth (second issue), spine gilt-titled, moderate rubbing, few stray marks, corners soft; rear joint reinforced, ownership signature, 32 page publisher's adverts at end dated December 1887, page number on p.192 misplaced as in most copies; custom full calf pull-off case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. First edition, with a friendly ALS ("The Elms, Rottingdean" [nd]), to "Dear Miss Hains" in which Kipling thanks his correspondent for some copying work she had done for him, laid in, backed on paper. Richards A10. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1888