NMLP P-028513 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Plain Tales from the Hills

Rudyard Kipling · Thacker, Spink and Co. (Calcutta) / W. Thacker & Co. (London) · 1888

The Calcutta Thacker, Spink 1888 issue is the true first, to be distinguished from the 1890 Macmillan (London) edition. The 32-page December 1887 catalogue and the page-192 page-number placement are the practical bibliographic points.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-028513 for "Plain Tales from the Hills" by Rudyard Kipling (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-028513, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).