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Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 12mo. 409 pages, plus publisher's adverts. Beige paper wraps, red and black titles. Rear wrap missing, chipping and loss to front, text not affected, spine cover missing; age-toning to cover and interior, binding opens flat in multiple places. A poor copy.
Seller: Gold Beach Books & Art Gallery LLC, Gold Beach, OR, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Soldiers Three. John W. Lovell Company, New York, 1890.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Brown cloth, 12 mo, 409 pp + ads. The "Authorized Edition" with Kipling's letter as frontis. Black endpapers. No marks in book, 1/2" tear half title page. Covers show fading, lettering quite faint, some edge wear, especially at corners. Binding tight. Full title "A Collection of Stories Setting Forth Certain Passages in the Lives and Adventures of Privates Terrence, Mulvaney, Stanley Ortheris, and John Learoyd." Book condition VG-. Edition: First American Edition Binding: HB
Seller: Parker's Rare Books, Ontario, WI, 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$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Illustrated pale brown boards. Owner's name on first blank, some rubbing and modest soiling, spine lettering dull, else very good copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Illustrated pale brown boards. Some rubbing and modest soiling, a nice, very good copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard.. SOLDIERS THREE.. NY: JOHN W. LOVELL. 1890, 1890.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. The so-called authorized edition with a facsimile of Rudyard Kipling's letter admonishing rampant copyright infringements on his works while authorizing them to all in a spirit of helplessness opposite title, which bears the "Authorized Edition" statement. This is the trade paperback International Series issue which was published simultaneously with the cloth issue. (Preface ends on page 6. Ads on page 210) This copy was rebound in contemporary grey cloth, with a black & gold title label at head of spine. (Cloth corners & spine ends rubbed. Soiling & traces of faint dam ping to covers. Text in excellent condition, but for an erasure on the half-title page) A Kipling classic. (GC)
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling (Publisher's Sample Volume). Soldiers Three. John W. Lovell Company, 1890.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. An interesting edition, being a salesman's sample volume with applique applied to paste down describing the other titles in the set, the prices of each and so on. As is the case with many such early prospectuses, the binding is subject to poor workmanship; this specific case including two rear boards bound together, effectively sandwiching the rear paste down. Book is near fine minus, showing rubbing, mostly to edges and with some minor internal issues. Octavo, 409 pages, burgundy boards with gold titles. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.
Seller: The Great Catsby's Rare Books, Edmonton, AB, Canada