Lot Details
Lot 79
KIPLING, RUDYARD White Horses.
London: printed for Private Circulation (but a Thomas J. Wise piracy), 1899, Original printed bluish-gray wrappers in leather-backed chemise and slipcase. 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches (18.5 x 12.5 cm); 10, [2] pp. Minute toning, but an exceptionally fresh example overall; together with The White Man's Burden. London: printed for Private Circulation (but a Thomas J. Wise piracy), 1899. Original printed bluish-gray wrappers in leather-backed chemise and slipcase. 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches (18.5 x 12.5 cm); 10, [2] pp. Minute toning, but an exceptionally fresh example overall
A pair of rare Kipling piracies, both purporting to be copyright issues, but in reality productions of the infamous forger Thomas. J. Wise. See Carter and Pollard An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, 1934. Stewart 207; Stewart 242. (2)
C Estate of Joan Twigg
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