Kim

Kipling, Rudyard

Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1901

About this Item

Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1901. First State (rhyming chapter headings only at Ch. VIII and XIII), of the First (1st) Printing of the First Edition. NOTE: The U.S. edition preceded the U.K. edition by over two weeks. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, creamy white, tight, straight and square, with gilt top-edge, deckled fore-edges, and no markings of any kind other than a small, marginal water stain to the bottom of the first 100 pages. The Binding is full green cloth with debossed image in black of sailing vessel on water to the front board, along with bright gilt title and author also to the front board, gilt title, etc., and smaller debossed image to a somewhat sunned spine, with wear to head and heel of the spine, unmarked off-white endpapers, and corners lightly bumped. No Jacket. See the photos. 460 pages plus 10 unnumbered pages of semi-gloss black and white illustrations. 5 1/2" x 8". The Modern Library ranked Kim No. 78 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. This picaresque spy novel follows Kim, an orphan in India, after the Second Anglo-Afghan War, as he encounters various segments of Indian society, through his education and training in espionage, to his interaction with Russian intelligence agents, an aspect of the Great Game.

Seller Inventory # 001122

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kim
• Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1901
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket