Soldiers Three, A Collection of Stories Setting forth certain Passages in the Lives and Adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney, Stanley Ortheris, and John Learoyd

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First edition, first state. Bound by Club Bindery (1901, stamped on front turn-down) in midnight blue crushed morocco with triple-gilt rules, corner fleurons and triple-gilt-ruled central panel. Double-gilt rules on edges of covers, gilt inside dentelle. On the spine, five raised bands with single-gilt rules. Double-gilt-ruled panels with floral decorations. Title single-gilt ruled in second panel. Publication at tail. Three pairs of gilt strokes to head- and tail-piece. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Original blue pictorial wraps bound in, with some tanning to peripheries. With bookplate of Henry William Poor, the stockbroker who lent his name to Standard & Poor s, on front paste-down. First state points: without cross-hatching on the barrack doors on the cover, and without a period after "No" in "Indian Railway Library No 1". These seven stories chronicle the adventures and misadventures of the "Three Musketeers" (introduced in Kipling s story of the same name in 1887), three soldiers in a British regiment in India. The Club Bindery was established in 1890 by members of the Grolier Club in New York, seeking to produce in America bindings to rival the finest European examples (largely by bringing European binders to America). It was dissolved in 1909. Ahearn 332, Catalogue of the Library of Henry W. Poor 723. Seller Inventory # 85520

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