[Rarebooks] FS: 1st authorized ed. of Kipling's "City of Dreadful Night". Allahabad: 1891

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Kipling, Rudyard. THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT and Other Places Depicted
by Rudyard Kipling. Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co. 1891.
(8),108,(10)pp. Including 14pp. of ads & reviews. Finely bound by
Zaehnsdorf (circa 1920) in 1/2 brown morocco, gilt, over marbled
boards, original gray pictorial wrappers bound in. T.e.g. Bookplate on
front pastedown.    $500.00 (trade discount allowed)
“A. H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library No. XIV.” The second
edition after an unauthorized first edition was suppressed by Kipling.
Efforts were also made to suppress this second edition and it is quite
scarce. Livingston, “Bibliography of the Works of Kipling” #70.

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