The Naulahka: A Story of West and East.
"The flowers knew it, the tender-leaved trees overhead were aware, the shining sky had word": First edition of Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott Balestier's The Naulahka
The Naulahka: A Story of West and East.
KIPLING, Rudyard with Wolcott Balestier.
$125.00
Item Number: 194285
New York: Macmillan and Co, 1892.
First American edition of Kipling and Balestier’s ambitious narrative. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel. In very good condition.
The Naulahka: A Story of West and East was originally serialized in Century Magazine from November 1891 to July 1892. Written in by Kipling in collaboration with American writer and publishing agent, Wolcott Balestier, and set in the fictional state of "Rahore", believed to be based on Rajputana, it is an intriguing story of ambition, love and royal court trappings. Kipling would later name his historic Shingle Style house in Dummerston Vermont Naulakha, where he resided from 1893 to 1896 and wrote Captains Courageous, The Jungle Book, The Day's Work, and The Seven Seas, and did work on Kim and The Just So Stories.
