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Price: US$564.64 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New Copyright Works especially written for A. H. Wheeler & Co.'s Indian Railway Library. A soft back edition containing 3 other stories: Baa Baa Black Sheep, His Majesty the King and The Drums of the Fore and Aft. Undated and makes no mention of a later date. Title page lists both Wheeler and Sampson Low as publisher. The front cover lists only Sampson Low. Original illustrated light grey card wrappers. Chipping to the edges with slight loss in places. Small hole in the spine of the cover. Front wrapper has been professionally reattached to the book. Light foxing within the book and overall a clean copy. Page of advertisements at the front of the book.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$601.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FULL TITLE: WEE WILLIE WINKIE AND OTHER STORIES (1st UK Edition) Free Worldwide Shipping Language English Written by Rudyard Kipling Published by A.H. Wheeler Indian Railway Library, Allahabad; Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London, 1888. DESCRIPTION: An incredibly preserved and very rare copy, of the Indian Railway Library paperback, with original illustrated grey-green paper covers. 1st UK edition printed in 1888, by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London. A. H. Wheeler & Co's Indian Railway Library Series No. 6, is a 96 page booklet containing the stories of Wee Willie Winkie, BAA, BAA Black Sheep, His Majesty the King, and The Drums of the Fore and Aft. Printed with "H" unpunctuated in A.H Wheeler on the front cover. Same collation as the 3rd printing of the 1st Indian Railway Allahabad edition. Title page printed with the word "child" omitted. This is 1 of 10,000 printed copies issued. (3000 were the 3rd Indian Railway Allahabad edition, and 7,000 had the covers re-engraved and were published as the 1st English edition); Front cover without "Mufid I Am Press, Lahore," and with re-engraved front-cover of a small boy confronting bemused onlookers. Reverse cover shows a detailed engraving of two Englishmen, one of them blowing a fife. CONDITION: Very good condition; a few small chips, closed tears, and light wear to wrappers; 0.5 inch closed tear of front edge; small chip of bottom front corner, and very small chip of top front and bottom back corners; small 2 inch tear of front seam, covers otherwise securely attached to paper spine; text complete and intact, overall in excellent condition, unmarked, no stains or rips and unfoxed, with a wrinkled crease of p.71-72 (as pictured). BOOK MEASUREMENTS: 21.2 cm X 13.8 cm TOTAL LENGTH : (2 pages of advertisements), 96 pages
Seller: McClosky's Antiquarian Books & Cards, Georgina, ON, Canada
Price: US$688.79 + 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
Price: US$735.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gray-green pictorial wraps. No. 6 of the Indian railway Library. This is the second issue of the first edition without the period after the H (i.e. A.H Wheeler) on the cover. In very nice condition, 96 pages with the stories Wee Willie Winkie, BAA,BAA Black Sheep, His Majesty the King, and The Drums of the Fore and Aft. Some minor edge chips and small piece missing from bottom of spine, otherwise nice.
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Wee Willie Winkie & Other Child Stories. A.H. Wheeler & Co, Allahabad, 1888.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large octavo. (2 pgs. of ads) 104pp. (+ vii pages of ads at the rear). Full contemporary red morocco binding, with a gilt-stamped motif and tooling on the the front cover and spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers and gilt dentelles, with an ex-libris (the same design as on the front cover) measuring 1x1" on vellum, at the interior front cover. This is the true first edition of this collection of children's stories by Kipling, published in India. This is no.6 of the "Indian Railway Library" series, published by A.H. Wheeler & Co, with a cover price of "One Rupee." The original grey-green illustrated wrappers (both front and back) credited to the "Moto School of Art, Lahore" have been bound into this beautiful hardcover signed binding by Brentano's. The front wrapper features three men and a boy, while the back wrapper shows two flute-playing soldiers. The front and back of the book feature ads for and reviews of other works by Kipling. Binding with some minor rubbing to extremities, and minor smudging to the covers. A faint horizontal scratch to the front cover. Interior with a small closed tear to the bottom of the gutter at the interior front cover. Light spotting along the edge of the book block, the front free endpapers, and the bound in front wrapper. Binding and interior in very good+ condition overall. No.6 of the "Indian Railway Library" series, by AH Wheeler & Co. These where originally sold at railway stations in India, in softcover editions.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1026.61 + shipping
Description: True first Indian edition. 8vo, [vii], 104pp, vii. Original green-grey paper wrappers. The wrappers are detached (but present), the backstrip is lightly chipped, there is a tear to the first page of advertisements, and there are small chips to the leading edge of pp 19-24. Nonetheless the contents are in good to very good condition, and this is a good copy overall of a fragile book. The book is now housed in a red cloth and morocco case, with a red cloth chemise (wear to the top edge of the case). The true first edition, first issue, with "Mufid I am Press, Lahore" on the front wrapper (Martindell, pp27/28).
Seller: Cornell Books Limited, Tewkesbury, United Kingdom