The Light That Failed

Kipling, Rudyard

Published by Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co., London, 1891

About this Item

True first English edition (Ward, Lock & Bowden); 12 chapters with happy ending. Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Undated [1891] Deep green/black cloth (mock leather) with gilt title/author to spine; Full page portrait of Kipling as frontispiece. Other contributors are Eben Rexford 'In An Old Garden', Julian Hawthorne 'The New Spanish Inquisition', Ruth Stuart 'Christmas Gifts', Francis Wilson 'I Remember', Charlotte Bates 'Perversity', Moses Handy 'The State of Washington', Daniel Dawson 'Anacreontic', Lewis Haupt 'The Road Movement' and Frederic Bird 'Friend Olivia'. Please contact me for further details or pictures/photographs. Slight shelf wear with minor wear to head and tail. Minor spotting to frontis and title pages. Previous owner's name in pencil top of title page with blind stamped address (St. Jean de Luz, S. France).

Seller Inventory # 000554

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Light That Failed
• Publisher: Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co., London
• Publication Date: 1891
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Classic Fiction