Author: KIPLING, RUDYARD
Title: The light that failed
Description: New York/Boston : H.M. Caldwell Co., Publishers, 1899.. Illusrated by L.J. Bridgeman. Title page in red and black lettering. 10 + 340 p., frontisp. and other full-page illustrations HARDCOVER: (Orig. cl. with, gilt decoration gilt lettering to spine; top edge gilt. Front and back cover spotted. First two pages pencil annot. VERY GOOD) ¶ VERY RARE No other copy known of this edition with its embossed golden torch on the front cover. The Light That Failed is the first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling, first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 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.

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