Soldiers Three and Other Stories

Rudyard Kipling

Published by Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924

About this Item

A lovely near fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust jacket, of this volume from the Macmillan Pocket Edition. The blue cloth binding clean and unworn, with strong gilt lettering and decoration to the spine and a lovely gilt representation of Ganesh to the front board. The binding is square, uncracked, and tight with sharp unbumped corners. Gilt top edges and clean white fore-edges. The contents are clean and bright with no ownership inscriptions or other markings of any kind. The very scarce dust jacket is unclipped (no flap price) and is substantially complete, showing only very minor edgewear and small losses and browning to the spine. A handsome copy of this important Kipling work. "The first publication of a collection of seven stories called Soldiers Three was as No 1 of A.H. Wheeler & Co. s Indian Railway Library, a slim volume of 97 pages printed at the "Pioneer" Press, Allahabad in 1888 called Soldiers Three: a collection of stories setting forth certain passages in the lives and adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney, Stanley Ortheris and John Learoyd, done into type and edited by Rudyard Kipling. In 1899, it became part of the book Soldiers Three and Other Stories, known to most people by the simpler title Soldiers Three. To the original Soldiers Three were added nos 2 and 3 of the Indian Railway Library, The Story of the Gadsbys, which is written in dramatic form, and In Black and White, looking more at the native Indians than the British. Both of these were also published in 1888".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Soldiers Three and Other Stories
• Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Limited
• Publication Date: 1924
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good