KIPLING, RUDYARD — Kim

NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1962. Limited Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Robin Jacques. Limited edition (No. 85 of 1500 copies). Signed by the illustrator on the Limitation Page. Quarter bound in publisher's brown leather over gilt embossed khaki boards, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, gilt mystic maze decoration on covers. Illustrated with 16 full-page, full-color plates (including two double-page spreads) hand-colored by Frank Hudec, as well as in-text drawings, historiated initials, and head and tail-pieces by Robin Jacques. Introduction by Charles Edmund Carrington. Printed on vellum-finished rag stock. The LEC monthly letter (August 1962, No. 344) and slip (Number Ten) are laid in.. The volume is in virtually perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. The light-brown slipcase is solid and whole with slight wear on the rear panel and one small hole on the spine, else fine. FINE.. The Limited Editions Club Series. Color Plates. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. ix, (iii), 283, (1-Limitation) pp. Fine with No dust jacket as issued .