Rudyard Kipling — Kim

London, Macmillan and Co. 1901. Cloth. The second impression of Kipling's acclaimed masterpiece which coined the 'Great Game' in this spy novel on tensions between imperial Britain and Russian The second impression of Kim, the acclaimed picarsque novel and espionage thriller, written by prolific British author Rudyard Kipling. Published in November 1901, with the first impression in October. In the publisher's original red cloth, with original glit decoration to the front board. An ex-libris bookplate to front pastedown. Contains a frontispiece, and all nine other photographic plates by Kipling's father John Lockwood. Considered to be his masterpiece, Kim follows Kimball O'Hara as he grows from the orphan of an Irish soldier into a spy during the Great Game of which the novel coined, the colonial contest between Britain and Russia over influence in Central Asia.  Set in the north of India's subcontinent, the novel is particularly praised for its capturing of colonial childhood in the British Raj and ranked no.78 on the Modern Library's list of the One Hundred Best Novels of the Twentieth Century. In the publisher's original red cloth, with original glit decoration to the front board. An ex-libris bookplate to front pastedown. Externally, mostly smart, with a couple of faint marks to boards. Fading to the spine, and slight rubbing to the joints. A couple of fading marks to the spine. Slight offsetting to end papers. Ex-libris bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are mostly bright and clean, with faint spotting to the extremities of the rare leaf. Very Good . Ill.: J. Lockwood Kipling. Very Good .