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Kim
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY: The Limited Editions Club. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1962. Limited Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Limited edition (No. 85 of 1500 copies). Signed by the illustrator on the Limitation Page. Quarter bound in publisher's brown leather over gilt embossed khaki boards, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, gilt mystic maze decoration on covers. Illustrated with 16 full-page, full-color plates (including two double-page spreads) hand-colored by Frank Hudec, as well as in-text drawings, historiated initials, and head and tail-pieces by Robin Jacques. Introduction by Charles Edmund Carrington. Printed on vellum-finished rag stock. The LEC monthly letter (August 1962, No. 344) and slip (Number Ten) are laid in.. The volume is in virtually perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. The light-brown slipcase is solid and whole with slight wear on the rear panel and one small hole on the spine, else fine. FINE.. The Limited Editions Club Series. Color Plates. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. ix, (iii), 283, (1-Limitation) pp .
Synopsis
Rudyard Kipling’s Kim tells the story of Kimball “Kim” O'Hara, an imperial orphan scavenging a hand-to-mouth existence in British India during the late 1890s. The novel functions as a fictionalization of Kipling’s own Indian childhood, but it is also a strong example of the adventure stories that became especially popular in the heyday of the British Empire. Kim has been noted for its detailed portrait of the people, culture, and varied religions of India. Kim was serialized in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901. It is ranked 34th on The Guardian’s list of the 100 best novels and 78th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel.”
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29148
- Title
- Kim
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Illustrator
- Robin Jacques
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- Limited Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- Fiction;, Literature, Poetry, Kipling, Jungle Books, Limited Editions Club, Literature, Collectible Books, Illustrated Books
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Palatine, Illinois
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