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( John Lockhart KIPLING, illus. ) KIPLING, Rudyard
[With Illustrations by John Lockhart Kipling. First UK Edition.]
FRESH, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST UK ISSUE
Published: Macmillan, 1901
Stock code: 37365
Price: £685.00
8vo., First Edition, First Issue, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, and 9 plates, tiny neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original red cloth, upper board blocked with Ganesha elephant's head in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, backstrip very faintly faded at extreme head and tail else an unusally bright, clean, crisp copy.
With the nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of J. Chamberlain on front paste-down, and complete with 2pp. publisher's advertisement at end showing price of 6s. The illustrations are by Kipling's father. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Livingston, 250.