Kipling (Rudyard)
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£225
London, Macmillan, 1901.
The first edition of Kipling’s final and most famous novel. Set against the backdrop of ‘The Great Game’, the political conflict between Britain and Russia in Central Asia, it is described by T.S. Eliot as Kipling’s “maturest work on India, and his greatest work.”.
Frontispiece (with tissue guard as issued) and 9 plates after J. Lockwood Kipling. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Title ruled in red. Original red cloth with gilt roundel to upper cover, top edge gilt. Contemporary pencil inscription and bookseller’s small label to front endpapers, internally very good; cloth very slightly darkened at spine, very minor mottling to bottom edge of upper cover, otherwise a very good copy.
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