Kim / Rudyard Kipling
Book
460 pages. Illustrated with 10 plates from photographs of bas-reliefs by John Lockwood Kipling (Rudyard's father). First edition, first issue.
The American edition is generally accepted as having preceded the English edition. This is the first issue of the American edition, with rhymed chapter headings for chapters VIII and XIII only.
Kim is an orphan, living from hand to mouth in the teeming streets of Lahore. One day he meets a man quite unlike anything in his wide experience, a Tibetan lama on a quest. Kim's life suddenly acquires meaning and purpose as he becomes the lama's guide and protector--his chela. Other forces are at work as Kim is sucked into the intrigue of the Great Game and travels the Grand Trunk Road with his lama. How Kim and the lama meet their respective destinies on the road and in the mountains of India forms one of the most compelling adventure tales of all time.

2015.7.251
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Adventure storiesJuvenile fiction1900s
8-1/4 in
Rudyard Kipling
John Lockwood Kipling
First
Doubleday, Page & Company
New York
New York
United States
North America
1901
Publisher's Binding
Bound in dark green cloth with an Asian sailing ship stamped in black to the front cover. Motif repeated to spine. Titles in gilt. Top edge gilt. Deckled edges. One of a series of uniform bindings for Kipling titles issued by the publisher.
India