THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT and Other Places Depicted by Rudyard Kipling
1891 · Allahabad
by Kipling, Rudyard
Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co, 1891. Second edition. (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 of M. C. D. Borden whose valuable library was sold at auction in 1913. "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. (Inventory #: 3647)