Item #249895 The Courting of Dinah Shadd and Other Stories … with a Biographical and Critical Sketch by Andrew Lang. Rudyard Kipling.

The Courting of Dinah Shadd and Other Stories … with a Biographical and Critical Sketch by Andrew Lang.

New York: Harper & Brothers, [September], 1890.

Price: $300.00


About the item

First edition. Portrait. xii, 182, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Light blue green printed wrappers, spine worn, back cover separating, else a Very Good copy of this rare fragile book. In half blue morocco slipcase and chemise. Richards A 43; Ballard XXXIII; Stewart 76; Livingston 57.

Item #249895

Collection of six stories previously published in various Harper serials, the last story (The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney) being a piracy.
No. 680 in Harper’s Franklin Square Library series.
This publication is the first time a portrait of Kipling appears in one of his books.
This copy retains the front and back wrappers; the inside front wrapper here lists series titles from 680 to 589 where Richards reports 681-590.