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Kipling, Rudyard

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901.

First edition, first printing of Rudyard Kipling's picaresque novel about an orphaned Irish boy adrift in India. [vi], 413 pp. + 2 advertising pages. Bound in publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and gilt embossed device to front board, top edge gilt; lacking dust jacket. Near Fine with light rubbing and tanning to spine and extremities, foxing to textblock edges, and dust-soiling to upper edge. Contents lightly toned, foxing to endpapers and prelims. Publisher's advertisement slip laid in. A fantastic copy. Item #140947705

Price: $1,250