first edition Hardcover
1909 · New York
by KIPLING, Rudyard
New York: Dodge, 1909. Hardcover. Fair. First American (pirated) edition, third variant binding with printed seascape in black, and printed red lettering stamped on blue cloth. Tidemark on front board and pages edges, owner's bookplate and initials penned on front endpapers, extremities worn and chipped, loss on spine head, thus fair only, lacking the dustwrapper. A collection of short stories. (Inventory #: 293556)