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TITLE: Kim
AUTHOR: Rudyard Kipling
PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co., Limited
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1901
EDITION: First
NO.OF PAGES: [8]; 413; [1]; [2-page ad of other books by the author in the uniform edition of the works of Rudyard Kipling] and illustrated with a frontispiece and 9 photographic plates
BINDING: Publisher's red cloth covers. Gilt titles on the spine and gilt medallion with an elephant head and lotus flower in trunk vignette on the front cover with top edge gilt. Without the dust jacket.
SIZE:
Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 13.6 cm
Depth: 3.3 cm

INSCRIBED F. Gerlie Hepburn Bournemouth ON THE HALF TITLE

Stories of a group of friends at the United Services College, Devon. Partly autobiographical, Kipling recounts the intensity of the friendships and the enjoyment of the experiences, which mainly focus on triumphs over the petty minded masters.

Next to "The Jungle Book" series, "Just So Stories" is the Nobel Prize Winner???s best-known work. These celebrated invented origin stories, many of which he first told his daughter Effie, include "How the Camel got his Hump," "How the Rhinoceros got his Skin," "How the Leopard got his Spots" and "The Elephant's Child." The book was published simultaneously by Macmillan in London and The Century Co. in New York. This is the only book by Kipling books that was also illustrated by the author. When several of the stories were first serialised in The Ladies' Home Journal, they contained different pictures by Frank Ver Beck. [Richards A181; Stewart 260]

CONDITION:
This lot will be sold in "as is" condition.
There may be some minor tears/creases scratches, or holes commensurate with age that may not be visible in the images.

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