Nov 18, 2014 - Sale 2366

Sale 2366 - Lot 145

Price Realized: $ 422
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
KIPLING, RUDYARD. Soldiers Three. 8vo, original green-grey wrappers printed in black, cloth tape rebacking, front wrapper with light scattered foxing, rear wrapper soiled with small chip to upper corner; 6 pages of advertisements at end (closed marginal tear to one leaf); bookplates, housed in 1/4 morocco pull-off case. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co., 1888
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first edition, first issue, in the first state, unretouched wrappers. This copy with penciled marginalia giving the English equivalents of the pidgin Hindi Kipling employs throughout. Accomplished, according to tipped-in catalog slip to back wrapper, by an unnamed Colonel in the English Army. A scarce copy of this fragile book. Issue No. 1 in the Indian Railway Library series. Richards A14.