New York: Doubleday Page and Company 1908 Gilt edge to top of text block. Clean text and interior. Gilt title on spine and front cover; Decorative cover. Part of a uniform edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Doubleday Page and Company hardcover
New York: The Jefferson Press 1910. Scarce dust jacket. Measuring approximately 7.5" x 5" with 355 numbered pages. <br /> <br /> This book is in good plus condition. Moderate bumping to both ends of spine. Minor staining to both boards. Minor staining to all edges of textblock. Rear hinge is cracked exposing mesh and leaving a few rear pages loose from binding. Dust jacket is in good minus condition. Moderate chipping to both ends of spine. Heavy sunning to spine. Heavy staining to both panels. <br /> <br /> Kipling wrote the novel when he was 26 years old and it is semi-autobiographical being based upon his own unrequited love for Florence Garrard.<br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory #N8-18. The Jefferson Press unknown
Macmillan UK 1981. Centenary Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover. 292 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Macmillan UK 1981. Centenary Edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Edges of boards have superficial wear. Spine has slight fading. Edges of dust jacket have moderate wear and minor chips and/or tears. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear plastic sleeve. Pages are lightly tanned. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Novel by Rudyard Kipling published in 1890. The book which includes autobiographical elements describes the youth and manhood of Dick Heldar and traces his efforts as a war correspondent and artist whose sketches of British battles in the Sudan become popular. When he returns to London he begins painting his masterpiece racing against time because a battle wound has caused his eyesight to progressively fail. Kipling wrote two separate endings to The Light That Failed a happy ending for the version published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in January 1890 and an unhappy ending for the version published in book form a few months later. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0333328035. ISBN/EAN: 9780333328033. Inventory No: 23080179. 9780333328033 Macmillan hardcover
Bookseller reference : 23080179 ISBN : 0333328035 9780333328033
Macmillan London 1898. Hardcover. Good. Bound in publisher's blue cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Name on fep. Scattered marks. 339 pages ; 20 cm. First ed. was published in 1891. Macmillan, London hardcover
R.F. Fenno & Co n.d. Hard cover. Good/No jacket. Illustrated with photographs from the stage play. Covers edgeworn. Mild foxing throughout. A couple pages water damaged.<br /> <br /> An unusual printing of Kipling's first book. R.F. Fenno & Co unknown
New York: Books Inc. Hardcover. Very Good. 254p. Undated; circa 1950. A cloth hardcover book in very good condition with a red decorated spine meant to simulate the look of a leather binding. Text on title plate starting to wear off. Edges and corners a bit worn. Text clean and binding tight. Art- Type edition; from the World's Popular Classics series. Books, Inc hardcover
<b>First American edition; presumed first printing. Stated "Authorized edition". </b><br /><b>The book is in excellent condition for its age. Linen-like cover over hard boards has shelf wear at top and bottom of spine and lighter wear at corners. Some marks and a signature inked at top of first fly-leaf page and at top of the first title page. </b><b>Binding except for some loosening at the lower section of the inside back cover and text is clear. </b><b> Pages are in excellent condition. We could not find any tears marks or foxing. Five pages comprising a list of other books for sale follows the story text. </b>Book will be priority mailed to any domestic address. United States Book Company hardcover
Doubleday Doran and Company inc 1915. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x1. 1915 printing. Kipling's first novel. Bound in red cloth. Top edge gilt. Hardcover. Shelf wear. Tears to spine ends. Gutters starting. Doubleday, Doran and Company, inc hardcover
Macmillain 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Macmillian & Co 1899 reprint part of the collected works of Rudyard Kipling set. Pages clean and bright binding firm minor shelf wear to cover no dust jacket bookplate on inner cover. Macmillain 1899 hardcover
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