Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$20.48 + shipping
Description: 391pp. Scarce first US edition of 'The Phantom Rickshaw' and 'Wee Willie Winkie', bound together as issued. In plain red/brown cloth of the period. A little rubbed and faded but a sound copy.
Seller: Verandah Books, Sherborne, United Kingdom
Price: US$25.61 + shipping
Description: 391pp. Scarce first US edition of 'The Phantom Rickshaw' and 'Wee Willie Winkie', bound together as issued. In plain rblue cloth of the period. Very good.
Seller: Verandah Books, Sherborne, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. Indian Tales. John W. Lovell, 1890.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Presumed first American edition hardcover. Cover wear to spine ends, also to corners. Front hinge cracked. Pages clean. Binding tight. Scarce.
Seller: Blue Leaf Books, Winona, MN, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Soldiers Three [Indian Tales -- II]. New York: John W. Lovell, 1890, 1890.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated brown cloth. Very Good. First American Edition. 12mo. [xii] + [9]-409] + 3 leaves. Bookplate to endpaper. Textblock clean and tight. Corners bumped and spine a little darkened, otherwise an attractive copy of an uncommon edition.
Seller: Wild Hills Books, Largo, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: United States Book Company Successor to John W. Lovell Company, 1890. First published in 1888; this is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition (Second Issue). An uncommon to scarce edition. Brown cloth binding; ruled, titled, and with decoration of two musicians on the front cover in maroon. Noted as "Indian Tales - I." Titling, decoration, and reproduced Kipling signature on the spine. Clean text; vi, continues from 7 to 287 pages; dark blue endpapers. Title Page notes as "Authorized Edition." There is no publication date, but 1890. Light rubbing around the margins; decorations on spine diminished so. Some spotting to prelims and TP. Cracked at the TP but holding nicely. Basically a sound copy of this uncommon book. In an arcvhival plastic protector. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good (Minus)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Indian Tales Authorized Edition. John W. Lovell, c.1890,, 1890.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: U.S.Book Co., John W. Lovell, NY, c.1890, small 8vo., blue cloth, 770pp., chipped spine caps, badly cracked inner hinges, text itself seems sound so reader, poor, $
Seller: Harry Alter, Sylva, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition, octavo, original blue cloth over boards, gilt stamped lettering on spine, gilt top edge. Livingston #47; authorized edition of this early Kipling title; a collection of short stories set in Colonial India, including "The Three Musketeers," "The Daughter of The Regiment," and many others. Very Good; rear hinge cracked but holding, spine ends bumped, rubbing to corners.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 12mo. 771 pages, [2]. Blue cloth hardcover with title on the spine. Cloth binding is edge worn with tears to the bottom of the spine. Front hinge is cracked and rear hinge is broken with exposed webbing. Page edges are fragile and lightly edge toned. Previous owner lengthy light pencil note regarding this book is written on the right front flyleaf. A fair copy.
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard.. Indian Tales.. New York: John W. Lovell, nd. (1890)., 1890.
Price: US$298.12 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., orig. blue cloth, 771pp. Some wear to the head and foot of the spine o/w better than very good but not near fine copy. Stewart 63.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First authorized edition, Octavo, original blue cloth over boards, gilt stamped lettering on spine. A collection of stories set in colonial India, including, "The Man Who Would Be King," "The Phantom 'Rickshaw," "Wee Willie Winkie" and many others. Very good, light shelf wear, slight bubbling to cloth at bottom rear corner of front cover, previous owner's signature in front free endpaper.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Indian Tales.. John W. Lovell Company, New York, 1890.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First authorized edition of this classic collection by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrations by L.J. Bridgman. In near fine condition. Tanselle #99.17. A very sharp example. Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907. His books include The Jungle Book and the Just So Stories.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 771 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Stewart 63
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.