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Lot 73
KIPLING, RUDYARD Letters of Marque.
Allahabad, A. H. Wheeler and Co., 1891. First Indian edition, one of about 100 surviving copies from the edition of 1,000 suppressed by the author. Publisher's blue and red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and front board, housed in a morocco backed slipcase and chemise. 8 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches (21.5 x 13.5 cm), [5] ff., 154 pp., [3] ff. , with the publisher's rubber-stamp on the front free endpaper giving the price Rs. 2. 8. 0 and date of issue 5. Oct. '91. An exceptionally bright, fresh copy.
"The Indian edition ... was in the process of being bound when publication was suppressed by Kipling, who ordered the entire stock be destroyed ... fine copies of this work are seldom found." Stewart 95.
C Estate of Joan Twigg
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