Featured is a c 1930 copy of Rudyard Kipling's The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Mysteries published by the Int'l Fiction Library.
Includes, in addition to The Phantom Rickshaw, My Own True Ghost Story; The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes; The Man Who Would Be King; and "The Finest Story in the World".
Kipling described the collection of stories thus: "This is not exactly a book of down-right ghost stories, as the cover makes belief. It is rather a collection of facts that never quite explained themselves."
Overall book in fair-good condition. The DJ however, is Rare (while the edition in and of itself is scarce-rare), and while it does have some wear issues, the fact it exists at all is remarkable. ALERT: Since the taking of the picture, the "P" on the DJ in Kipling has become detached and is missing. It is one fragile DJ and it will benefit from an archival cover.
Book itself has blue boards with green print/decor. Bumping at spine tips. Age-yellowed interior. There is a 1931 gift inscription on front fixed endpaper.
The art for the dust jacket was drawn by noted and prolific pulp artist Wesley Neff, a Canadian native. At the time of this piece he was living in Detroit, MI and was, as a freelancer, doing much of the illustrative work for the pulp magazines at the time, including Adventure, Crime Busters, and Western Story. He even did cover art for the Saturday Evening Post. This art is important in that it is not a specifically documented piece. The DJ is signed. If you are into pulp artists of the 20th Century, this is a must have.
Kipling could tell a whopping good story and he was a skeptic ... so here he combined those two dynamics and this was the result. Most folks don't even know it exists, although the title was also included in a set of his collected works.
If you like Kipling or collect pulp fiction art ... this is a must-have.
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