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Kipling, Rudyard.. Under the Deodars.. Allahabad, India: A. H. Wheeler. [1888]., 1888.

Price: US$260.03 + shipping

Description: First Edition, 1st issue, (One Rupee), 8vo. (220x142mm), pp: viii,[1]-106,viii, 2pp advertisement leaf at front, 7pp. advertisements at end, occasional small burnhole to fore margins, some leaves with small insect predation to lower corners, in original green pictorial printed paper wrappers, spine toned with a few tears and small losses, marginal toning to rear wrapper, small wormhole at foot of front wrapper and loss at lower corner, light stain, otherwise very good. Martindell 29. Number 4 in the Indian Railway Library Series.

Seller: Offa's Dyke Books, LUDLOW, SALOP, United Kingdom

KIPLING, Rudyard.. Under the Deodars.. A. H. Wheeler. Allahabad. Sampson Low a.o. London. No date, 1888.

Price: US$357.55 + shipping

Description: pp. (vi), (7)-96. Original decorated green-grey paper wrappers from Wheeler & Co., Indian Railway Library, No.4, with the imprint now covered with the label for Neal's English Library, 248, Rue de Rivoli, Paris, the backstrip fraying, the tips of the lower corners worn, in an early cloth portfolio, a good copy. *MARTINDELL #31, the first English edition.

Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom

Rudyard Kipling. Under the Deodars. A. H. Wheeler & Co, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington Ltd., Allahabad & London, 1888.

Price: US$377.05 + shipping

Description: A scarce and well-preserved first edition of this early work by Rudyard Kipling. Most renowned for 'The Jungle Book', 'Kim' and 'Just so Stories', Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is seen as a pioneer for the short story form and a classic author of children's fiction. He was born in India, the inspiration behind a vast amount of his writings, which include 'The Jungle Book', 'Just So Stories' and 'Kim'.'Under the Deodars' is a short story collection, featuring six stories. This edition was first published for the Indian Railway Library in Allahabad and London. The Indian Railway Library was a series of pamphlets intended to offer cheap 'throwaway' reading material for travellers, and began as an idea of Kipling's to fund his return to England. 'Under the Deodars' was his fourth release of six for the Library.In the publisher's original paper wraps, with green-grey wraps illustrated by Kipling's father, John Lockwood Kipling. In paper wraps. Externally with some wear and minor loss to the paper at the edges. Internally firmly bound, pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

KIPLING, Rudyard.. Under the Deodars. Published by Messrs. A.H.Wheeler & Co., Allahabad, 1888.

Price: US$585.08 + shipping

Description: 8vo., pp. [8], 106, vii, [1]; a very good copy in the original grey-green illustrated wrappers (first issue); spine slightly chipped, small and unobstrusive stains to cover and signature of Najaf Ali Khan.First edition, 'reprinted in chief from the Week's News'. Under the Deodars, No. 4 in Wheeler's Indian Railway Library, contains six stories from Kipling's time as a journalist, dealing with 'things that are not pretty and uglinesses that hurt'. Adultery is a common theme, though Kipling assures his readers that 'India is not entirely inhabited by men and women playing tennis with the Seventh Commandment'.Stewart 46; Livingston 37.

Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom

Kipling, Rudyard. Set of Six: Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White, Under the Deodars, The Phantom Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales and Wee Willie Winkie & other Child Stories. Allahbad: Published By Messrs A H Wheeler & Co ,London: Sampson Low Marston & Company Ltd, London, United Kingdom, 1888.

Price: US$694.71 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First UK editions, 'Soldiers Three' is a 7th edition, 'The Story of the Gadsbys' is a 1st edition, 'In Black and White' is a 1st edition, ' Under the Deodars' is a 1st edition, ' The Phantom Rickshaw; is a 1st edition and 'Wee Willie Winkie & other Child Stories' is a 6th edition., four of the six are true first UK printings. All are in their original wrappers, 'The Story of the Gadsbys' and 'In Black and White' have loss to the front and rear of their wrappers, especially 'Gadsbys', the other four have some chipping and loss, some light spotting to pages but generally clean and all are complete.

Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland

KIPLING, Rudyard.Indian Railway Library, No. 4.. Under the Deodars. Indian Railway Library, No. 4. First Indian Edition, First Issue.. Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co., Allahabad, 1888,, 1888.

Price: US$760.87 + shipping

Description: KIPLING, Rudyard. Under the Deodars. Allahabad : Published by Messrs. A. H.Wheeler & Co., [1888]. First Indian Edition, First Issue (sparse shading around the "No. 4" and "One Rupee" on the front cover). Pp. (8),[1]-106,[i]-vii of ads,(1). 8vo, illustrated greenish-grey wraps with black lettering to front cover, blank spine, with illustration of a young woman covering herface with a fan 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. 4. Stewart, Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliographical Catalogue, 46; Martindell, A Bibliography of the Works of Rudyard Kipling, 1881-1923, 29. Front cover detached but present, corner crease to front cover, inch-long split to head of rear outer hinge, else very good in custom solander case. 1,000.00

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