Kipling, The Light that Failed, 1913 Authorized Edition
"The Light that Failed" by Rudyard Kipling, published by Doubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Co., New York, 1913, Revised, April, 1899, copyright 1899 by Rudyard Kipling. Stated Authorized Edition.
Hard boards, original red, gilt stamped spine. Blind stamped on front with Hindu swastika symbol in circle with cursive author's name. Doubleday colophon blind stamped on spine. Raised ribs on spine (some cloth wear: see photos), 5" x 7.1/2"; 'Ralph A. Stoddard Dayton, O.' and '3-25-14' is ink-written inside front cover, Hindu swastika symbol in circle with cursive author's name frontispiece [Kipling's trademark prior to 1933]; 339 pages, gilt page top, very good condition.
"The Light That Failed," was initially published in 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Dick Heldar is a war correspondent and an artist, known for the drawings he sends home to the London papers from wars in exotic places like Sudan. When he returns to London, he attempts to make a career for himself as a serious artist, and encounters his childhood sweetheart, Maisie. They fall in love. Then he learns that a minor problem with his eyes is actually the onset of blindness, incurable--the result of a head wound he took during the war. As his vision fails, the light of everything around him--his life, his hopes, his dreams--fail with it. There are terrible choices to be made between the love of the woman he treasures & the love of the men who stood by him at the front.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a British author and poet, born in India. He is best known for the children's story "The Jungle Book" (1894), the Indian spy novel "Kim" (1901), the poems "Gunga Din" (1892), "IF" (1895), and his many short stories.
Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, still its youngest-ever recipient to date, and in 1934, he shared the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry with William Butler Yeats.In his own lifetime he was primarily regarded as a poet, and was offered a knighthood and the post of British poet laureate, though he turned them both down.
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"The Light that Failed" by Rudyard Kipling, published by Doubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Co., New York, 1913, Revised, April, 1899, copyright 1899 by Rudyard Kipling. Stated Authorized Edition.
Hard boards, original red, gilt stamped spine. Blind stamped on front with Hindu swastika symbol in circle with cursive author's name. Doubleday colophon blind stamped on spine. Raised ribs on spine (some cloth wear: see photos), 5" x 7.1/2"; 'Ralph A. Stoddard Dayton, O.' and '3-25-14' is ink-written inside front cover, Hindu swastika symbol in circle with cursive author's name frontispiece [Kipling's trademark prior to 1933]; 339 pages, gilt page top, very good condition.
"The Light That Failed," was initially published in 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Dick Heldar is a war correspondent and an artist, known for the drawings he sends home to the London papers from wars in exotic places like Sudan. When he returns to London, he attempts to make a career for himself as a serious artist, and encounters his childhood sweetheart, Maisie. They fall in love. Then he learns that a minor problem with his eyes is actually the onset of blindness, incurable--the result of a head wound he took during the war. As his vision fails, the light of everything around him--his life, his hopes, his dreams--fail with it. There are terrible choices to be made between the love of the woman he treasures & the love of the men who stood by him at the front.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a British author and poet, born in India. He is best known for the children's story "The Jungle Book" (1894), the Indian spy novel "Kim" (1901), the poems "Gunga Din" (1892), "IF" (1895), and his many short stories.
Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, still its youngest-ever recipient to date, and in 1934, he shared the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry with William Butler Yeats.In his own lifetime he was primarily regarded as a poet, and was offered a knighthood and the post of British poet laureate, though he turned them both down.
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US: Priority (c.2-4 days) ------------- $12.50
Canada: 1st Class (c.2-6 weeks) ------ $26.50
World: 1st Class (c.2-8 weeks) ------- $34.50
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