KIPLING RUDYARD Soldiers Three

Sale 2319 - Lot 186

Price Realized: $ 1,080

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

KIPLING, RUDYARD. Soldiers Three. 8vo, full tan polished calf, covers with triple-fillet gilt borders, cornerpieces and inner dentelles, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, by Morrell; original green-grey wrappers bound in (front wrapper separated neatly along gutter), joints rubbed; front hinge cracked, 6 pages of advertisements at end; Walter Thomas Wallace armorial bookplate; housed in chemise and matching green board slipcase. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co., 1888

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first edition, first issue. A scarce copy of this fragile book, and even more difficult to locate in the first state, unretouched wrappers, as found here. Issue No. 1 in the Indian Railway Library series; six of the seven stories herein first appeared in The Week's News in the same year. Livingston 28; Martindell 17.