[Bound in a single volume]: Soldiers Three: A Collection of Stories [with]: The Story of the Gadsbys: A Tale Without a Plot [with]: In Black and White [with]: Under the Deodars

Allahabad and London: A.H. Wheeler & Co. and Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, (1889), 1890.

Price: $800.00

Hardcover. First English editions, except for *Soldiers Three*, which lacks the Allahabad imprint, and is the fourth English edition. Bound in red silk over boards, with all wrappers, and at least some of the ads bound in at the rear. Top corners bumped, a bit of rubbing at the spine ends, very good, internally near fine. Bookplate of Wilfred Sheridan, direct descendent of dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan (and husband of Clare Frewen Sheridan, the artist, writer, adventurer, gadfly, and cousin of Winston Churchill) on the front pastedown. Signature of Clare Sheridan's brother on the front fly: "Oswald Frewen, H.M.S. Comus 1916." Later signature of an American novelist. Four separate Kipling works, published as numbers 1-4 in the Indian Railway Library.

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Item #86272 [Bound in a single volume]: Soldiers Three: A Collection of Stories [with]: The Story of the Gadsbys: A Tale Without a Plot [with]: In Black and White [with]: Under the Deodars. Rudyard KIPLING.

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

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Biography

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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