Kipling, Rudyard

Plaint Tales from the Hills [Writing in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, Volume I]

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Later Printing. Hardcover. Fair / No Jacket. Item #652180

SIGNED BY RUDYARD KIPLING on title page, beneath his printed name which he has lined out. A fair copy in the original plum-red cloth stamped in gilt with white lozenge on front cover, top edge gilt (spine faded with chips, tears, wear, and old glue repairs and residue of old tape; tape repairs to inner hinges with some chipping to endpapers; printed bookplate with later owner's name in ink). A later owner has inscribed the title page at foot ink ink: 'Mr. Kipling made this an autographed copy in March 1925.' Issued as Writing in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, Volume I.

Price: $225.00