Kipling (Rudyard). Quartette, The Christmas Annual of the Civil & Military Gazette, by four Anglo-Indian writers, [i.e. John Lockwood Alice, Rudyard & Alice Macdonald Kipling], 1st edition, Lahore: The "Civil and Military Gazette" Press, 1885, title printed in red and black, closed tear repair to outer margin without loss, a little dust soiled, small closed tear repairs to outer margins of final two leaves not touching text, pencil markings to Contents leaf, top edge gilt, original printed wrappers discarded, engraved armorial bookplate of M.C.D. Borden, contemporary crushed brown half morocco over marbled boards, gilt-titled spine with five raised bands, rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 1) Livingston 5. One of Kipling's earliest publications, comprising 8 poems and 8 prose pieces by the Kipling family, including the first appearance of 'The Phantom 'Rickshaw'. Matthew Chaloner Durfee Borden (1842-1912) was a textile leader from Fall River, Massachusetts who in 1880 reorganised the failed American Print Works into the American Printing Company.
Kipling (Rudyard). Quartette, The Christmas Annual of the Civil & Military Gazette, by four Anglo-Indian writers, [i.e. John Lockwood Alice, Rudyard & Alice Macdonald Kipling], 1st edition, Lahore: The "Civil and Military Gazette" Press, 1885, title printed in red and black, closed tear repair to outer margin without loss, a little dust soiled, small closed tear repairs to outer margins of final two leaves not touching text, pencil markings to Contents leaf, top edge gilt, original printed wrappers discarded, engraved armorial bookplate of M.C.D. Borden, contemporary crushed brown half morocco over marbled boards, gilt-titled spine with five raised bands, rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 1) Livingston 5. One of Kipling's earliest publications, comprising 8 poems and 8 prose pieces by the Kipling family, including the first appearance of 'The Phantom 'Rickshaw'. Matthew Chaloner Durfee Borden (1842-1912) was a textile leader from Fall River, Massachusetts who in 1880 reorganised the failed American Print Works into the American Printing Company.
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