Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$78.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: On the top of the front cover is "Indian Tales - 1". The covers are edge worn, rubbed and have light soiling. The spine is worn around the edges, the head and heel, is darkened some with some fading. The binding is solid though the front hinge is cracked between pages 16 and 17. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Emily's Books, Brainerd, MN, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Plain Tales from the Hills. John W. Lovell Company; (1889), NY, 1889.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First US edition, very good with no dust jacket. "Indian Tales - 1" at the top of the front board. Just slight wear to the illustrated tan cloth; a small area of light reddish color in a few places on the front board; owner's bookplate on front pastedown. All four corners of boards turned slightly inward, and there is a contemporary news clipping by Thomas Nelson Page about Kipling affixed to the facing page of the title page, which has left an offsetting area of discoloration on the title page. Square and tight, and except for the flaws noted, internally clean. This was Kipling's first book published in the US.
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard.. Plain Tales from the Hills.. NY. John W. Lovell Co. 1889., 1889.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Authorized Edition with "Indian TalesÑ1" at top of front boards. VG- in lightly worn brown clothstamped in brown with cameo drawing of two marching musical soldiers. First Edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Octavo. Complete in Three Volumes. Original tan cloth over boards, brown lettering and pictoral stamp at front covers and spines, navy end papers. Kipling's first book published in the United States. Also a collection of military tales, Kipling's second book published in the United States. This is a collection of ghost stories. Very good, fading to brown lettering and pictorals, wear to edges and spine gutters, spine ends and and corners bumped, pages slightly agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.