The City of Dreadful Night

Allahabad / London: A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson,Low, Marston, 1891.

Price: $450.00

Softcover. First English edition. 12mo. Illustrated green wrappers. 96pp. Errata slip bound-in. Small owner's name and small chip on front wrap, a couple of modest chips on rear wrap, spine somewhat eroded, another small embossed stamp of an American author on title-page, a good copy in custom cloth chemise and slipcase. Scarce.

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Item #343404 The City of Dreadful Night. Rudyard KIPLING.
The City of Dreadful Night

Rudyard Kipling
birth name: Joseph Rudyard Kipling
born: 12/30/1865
died: 1/18/1936
nationality: Great Britain

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English novelist, short-story writer, and poet chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and Burma, and his excellent tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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