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First British edition, first impression. "Considered to be Kipling's greatest work, and the finest novel about the India of the British Empire, the text appeared serially in the United States in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 through October 1901... and in Great Britain in Cassell's Magazine from January through November 1901" (Richards). This edition was published on 17 October 1901, 16 days after its release in the US. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, gilt motif to front board and single rule to boards gilt, twin rule gilt to turn ins, green endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated with photographs of clay reliefs by John Lockwood Kipling. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy in a fine binding.

Kim is a novel by Rudyard Kipling. It is set against the backdrop of the Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia.