including three first editions by Rudyard Kipling, comprising: PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1888., first issue, with misplaced page number on p. 192 and 32pp of advertisements in the back dated December 1887, rebacked with original covers and red slipcase; THE COURTING OF DINAH SHADD AND OTHER STORIES, with a Biographical and Critical Sketch by Andrew Lang, New York: Harper & Brothers, September 1890, first edition, in the original paper wraps, bound in later cloth; and AMERICAN NOTES and THE BOTTLE IMP, two works in one volume, New York: Ivers and Co. [1891], 12mo, in the original wrappers; plus three other first edition books, including: MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE by Boooth Tarkington, illustrated by C.D. Williams, New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1900, first edition, first issue, with publisher's seal measuring one-half inch, red cloth with gilt lettering, the title page with inscription dated "June 1900"; THE LADY OR THE TIGER? AND OTHER STORIES by Frank Stockton, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884, first edition;

Provenance: Descent through the family of a late Greenwich, CT centenarian

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'American Notes' with many chips and the first few pages loose; 'Lady or the Tiger' with toned pages throughout