Kipling, Under the Deodars, 1889

From the Library of Christian Heuer

KIPLING, RUDYARD

Under The Deodars. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler, 1889

8vo, FIRST EDITION, advertisements at the beginning and end, Standard Life Insurance advertisement slip tipped-in at the beginning, original light greenish grey pictorial wrappers, upper cover depicting deodars (East Indian cedar trees), rickshaw carrying female passenger etc on diamond-shaped canvas, lower wrapper depicting woman with fan, preserved in black cloth chemise and quarter black morocco slipcase, crack along upper joint of backstrip, some minor foxing BUT STILL A NEAR FINE COPY

A lovely copy of this fragile early work collects ing for the first t.mes six stories previously published in The Week's News in 1888. This is no.4 of the Indian Railway Library, a series of the author's books which were meant to be "illustrative of the four main features of Anglo-Indian life. viz: THE MILITARY, DOMESTIC, NATIVE & SOCIAL" (publisher's advertisements).

PROVENANCE:

Frank Brewer Bemis, bookplate; Replica Shoes 's, 18 December 1995, lot 335

Please see shipping calculator link: click here.