![]() ![]() Housed in a custom red cloth chemise and red morocco-backed slipcase. Original orange wrappers lettered and illustrated in black (22 volumes in "Lovell's Westminster Series" listed on inside of rear wrapper). The 14-chapter "sad ending" version (in which the hero dies in battle) was deposited in the Library of Congress on 26 November. Although Kipling originally wrote the novel with a "sad ending", the "happy ending" was the first to appear in print. ![]() This edition prints the 12-chapter version with the "happy ending". It was not sold, however, until Lippincott's had been published. On 12 November 1890, a copy of the present book, the first US edition, was deposited in the Library of Congress. The true first edition comprises a copyright edition which was filed for copyright in the US on 7 November 1890 and the serial rights were acquired by Lippincott's Monthly Magazine for its January 1891 issue (appearing in Australia, the UK, and the US). ![]() This semi-autobiographical work deals with the theme of unrequited love the elusive character Maisie is based on the Slade artist Flo Garrard, who Kipling was unsuccessful in courting following the breakdown of his engagement to Caroline Taylor in 1890. First US edition, first printing, of the first trade book edition of Kipling's novel. ![]()
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