[Fine Binding | Kipling] The City of Dreadful Night Drop 3 Spine lightly faded

Spine lightly faded

Bound in full brown calf with a modeled leather design of two flowering plants in pots--subtly colored with green & red--below the title of the book in Olde English script

and accented with small gilt dots

James Russell

[Fine Binding | Kipling] The City of Dreadful Night Drop 3 Spine lightly fadedKipling, Rudyard. The City of Dreadful Night and Other Places. Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co., 1891. First published (and second Indian) edition. (The first Indian edition was suppressed, and only three copies were kept, with the remainder destroyed.) Original grey green printed wrappers bound in (with writing in pen to front wrapper); advertisements inside both covers bound in, as well. "Indian Railway Library, No. XIV" with imprint at bottom of p.