KIPLING (Rudyard).
Soldiers Three, A Collection of Stories Setting forth certain Passages in the Lives and Adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney, Stanley Ortheris, and John Learoyd.
The first number of the Indian Railway Library series
KIPLING (Rudyard).
Soldiers Three, A Collection of Stories Setting forth certain Passages in the Lives and Adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney, Stanley Ortheris, and John Learoyd.
The first issue of the first number of the Indian Railway Library, a bold venture by A.H. Wheeler, who held a monopoly on the bookstalls on the Indian Railway network. They became iconic books, and were reprinted in the same format in London, creating “the first Kipling boom; they were carried by travellers and tourists, all over Asia and all over the world, getting the notice in London and New York that Departmental Ditties and Plan Tales failed to get.” (Charles Carrington, quoted by Richards).
A seemingly unrecorded variant, not in Richards or Livingston, of the advertisements with small letterpiece from the publishers, glued to page ii of advertisements for Plain Tales From the Hills, reading “from A.H. Wheeler (…) and All Railway Bookstalls.”, pasted over the publishers imprint Thacker, Spink & Co.
Printed in an edition of 1500 copies. Spine slightly fragile with some chipping, but overall an excellent copy.
Richards, A14.
