Light Failed by Joseph Rudyard Kipling (2 results)

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good. Early. New York: Scribner's, 1897. First edition. 8vo. Three-quarter brown morocco over marble boards (gilt in the marble). Six compartments, raised ridges, floppy art nouveau-style flowers with curvy gilt framing, gilt titles. Top edge gilt. Marble endpapers with previous owner bookplate. Frontispiece plate, protective tissue. Rough-cut, thick laid paper. 329 pp. Frontispiece, protective tissue, plus two illustrations. Light edgwear to spine at hinges and ridges. Very good plus condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. first U. K. Edition. Copyright date is 1892, The Light That Failed is a novel by the English author Rudyard Kipling that was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said. It follows the life of Dick Heldar, an artist and painter who goes blind, and his unrequited love for his childhood playmate, Maisie. Very Rare The Light That Failed by Joseph Rudyard Kipling 1892. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 41, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.