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Kipling, Rudyard. The City Of Dreadful Night And Other Places. A. H. Wheeler & Co., Allahabad, ET AL, 1891.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Disbound, no covers. Slight bumping to outer corners. In folding hardboard covers. Private bookplate on inside of front cover, university library bookplate on inside of front cover. Catalog number on front cover and on inner pocket. ; Approx. 5 1/2" wide by 8 3/8". ; 96 pages

Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.

rudyard kipling:. The City of Dreadfull Night. A.h. Wheeler & Co Allahabad and Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1891.

Price: US$32.50 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: original wrappers,8vo,96pp,advetrs, front and rear covers edge chipped,front cover has marks at top right,publishers slip in place , good tight copy, first english edition,( martindell 43 )

Seller: Peter Sexton, arlington, United Kingdom

Kipling, Rudyard. The City of Dreadful Night and Other Places. Allahabad & London: A. H. Wheeler & Samson Low, Marston, 1891.

Price: US$65.01 + shipping

Description: First English Edition. 5 1/2" x 6 1/4" Approx 96 pages. printed at the Aberdeen University Press,Binding : Dark Blue, with(a good clear) impressed gilt title to spine , front has a rubbed Mudies Select Library(subscription ) lable, So rebound by Mudies with minor rubbing & minor corner dents, Contents title page detatched with rubbed edges, ( NO library marks within ,sign's of a removed library page at front,sign's of re- sowing at pages 94/5 otherwise generally clean & tight, with only a very few minor marks, NO signs of thumbing, front endpaper has sign's of part rubbed owners initials etc. undated belived to be 1891.

Seller: Malcolm Books, Thetford, United Kingdom

Kipling, Rudyard. City of Dreadful Night and Other Places. A.H. Wheeler & Co., Allahabad, 1891.

Price: US$85.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: No. XIV of the "Indian Railway Library". Grey pictorial wrappers, errata slip bound in, 96 pages. Wrappers chipped and missing several small pieces, back cover present but detached, some age darkening especially to front cover. Pictures available upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Black Sheep Books, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). The City of Dreadful Night, and Other Places. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co., and London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [1891], 1891.

Price: US$97.51 + shipping

Description: [Short Stories] FIRST UK COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.96. With the publisher's green paper covers, roughly re-backed in green card with the remains of the front cover taped over. With the errata slip to title page. A little toned and thumbed to title page, otherwise a nice clean copy. New card over spine and front sadly attached with tape, with the heavily chipped and torn original front cover also marginally attached with tape over the top. Good. As well as Kipling's eight chapters on his time in Calcutta, originally serialised in the Allahabad 'Pioneer' in 1888, this collection includes 'Among the Railway Folk,' 'The Giridih Coal Fields' and 'In an Opium Factory.'.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

Kipling, Rudyard. The Indian Railway Library Series: Story of the Gadsbys/Soldiers Three/City of the Dreadful Night. A. H. Wheeler & Co., Allahabad, India, 1891.

Price: US$195.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: This is 3 issues of the Indian Railway Series re-bound in early 20th Century plum cloth, edges slightly rubbed. First, third & first edition, 85; 93; 96 pages. Binder's stamp of Sim, Harvey & Co. Glasgow. Photos on request.

Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.

KIPLING, Rudyard. The City of Dreadful Night, and Other Places. Wheeler, Allahabad, 1891.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 96pp, thin 8vo, printed gray green wrappers; lightly edge-chipped. Allahabad & London: A.H. Wheeler & Sampson Low Marston, n.d. (1891). First English Edition. Volume XIV of the Indian Railway Library. Errata slip attached to title page.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

KIPLING, Rudyard. The City of Dreadful Night. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson,Low, Marston, Allahabad / London, 1891.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 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.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Kipling, Rudyard. THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT AND OTHER PLACES. A. H. Wheeler & Co., Allahabad, 1891.

Price: US$680.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Wraps a bit chipped and nicely tape repaired along edges. Errata sheet frail and with one tear. Else internally NF ; Including errata sheet bound-in. Very scarce ; 12mo; 96 pages

Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.

KIPLING, Rudyard. Indian Railway Library, No. 14.. City of Dreadful Night and other places. Indian Railway Library, No. 14. First Indian Edition.. A. H. Wheeler & Co., Allahabad, 1891,, 1891.

Price: US$1027.18 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: KIPLING, Rudyard. The City of Dreadful Night and other places. Depicted byRudyard Kipling. [Cover illustration by Brownlow Fforde]. Allahabad : A. H.Wheeler & Co., 1891. First Indian Edition. Pp. (8),[1]-106,(10). 8vo, illustrated greenish-grey wraps with black lettering to front cover, blank spine, with circular portrait illustration of a smiling young woman to rear cover; housed in a brick red cloth with morocco spine solander case, five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine of case. Indian Railway Library, No. 14. Stewart, Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliographical Catalogue, 93; Martindell, ABibliography of the Works of Rudyard Kipling, 1881-1923, 42. Reproductionof cover illustration found on [p.25] of Monkshood, The Less Familiar Kipling and Kiplingana. Front cover detached but present, horizontal tear to the"Opinions of the Press" leaf (the second leaf in the volume), two two-inchsplits to rear outer hinge, emanating from both ends, minor chipping to corners (though no loss to the letterpressed illustration or text), else verygood. 1,350.00

Seller: John W. Doull, Bookseller, Dartmouth, NS, Canada

Kipling, Rudyard. The city of dreadful night and other places. A.H. Wheeler & Co, Allahabad, 1891.

Price: US$1187.50 + shipping

Description: First published (and second Indian) edition, issued as no. 14 in Wheeler's Indian Railway Library series; 8vo, pp. [4] ads and opinions of the press, [4], 108, [10] ads and opinions of the press; original printed front wrapper a little chipped at edges (no loss of letterpress), bottom third of spine perished, and with a clean tear in the upper cover (no loss); the whole in a half red morocco slipcase. Stewart 93; Livingston 70.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Kipling, Rudyard. THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT AND OTHER PLACES. A. H. Wheeler & Co, Allahabad, 1891.

Price: US$1850.00 + shipping

Description: First (Indian) edition. 8vo. 4 leaves, 108p, 7 leaves of advertisements including "Opinions of the Press" (Both Livingston and Stewart list 5 leaves of ads). Original grey-green printed wrappers bound in; advertisements inside both covers. Bound by the Club Bindery in 1901 in full dark blue crushed morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the covers with panels formed of two sets of triple gilt rules with corner ornaments, the spine with gilt titles and densely gilt panels, fancy dentelles. "Indian Railway Library, No. XIV" with imprint at bottom of p. 108: "Printed at the 'Pioneer' Press, Allahabad." Livingston calls this the second edition, after the suppressed edition of which only three copies were to be kept after the remainder were destroyed. With a tipped-in SIGNATURE of Kipling. From the library of Rudolph August Witthaus (1846-1915 American toxicologist) with his leather bookplate; from the library of Henry William Poor (1844-1915, American book collector whose collection was sold at The Anderson galleries in 1909, Part IV. lot 288) with his leather bookplate; from the library of Jean Hersholt (1866-1956 whose Hans Christian Anderson collection is housed at the Library of Congress) with his bookplate signed in ink. Livingston 70; Stewart 93. Rare. Front flyleaf with two small chips, original wrappers with minor fading, binding about fine

Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.