KIPLING RUDYARD Kim

Sale 2319 - Lot 183

Price Realized: $ 960

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Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

KIPLING, RUDYARD. Kim. Illustrated. 2 pages of advertisements at end. 8vo, publisher's red cloth gilt, light rubbing to spine tips, top edges gilt; small spot of foxing to upper fore-edges, hinges starting; tipped-in Typed Letter Signed by book agent to early owner Paul Lemperly at front with same owner's bookplate on front pastedown; housed in maroon cloth chemise within matching 1/4 morocco slipcase. London: Macmillan & Co., 1901

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first english edition, with kipling's signature on bookplate. With the extremely scarce original printed dust jacket, though unconscionably trimmed, folded, and laid-in at end. The TLS to Mr. Lemperly (Nov. 19, 1901) thanks him for his contribution to Kipling's Boys' Club and acknowledges returning the aforementioned bookplate as having been signed in gratitude by Kipling. With "gain" for "again" on page 210, line 2, and page 320 with "Munsoorie" for "Mussoorie." Livingston 250.