The Naulahka: A Story of West and East.
"Nicholas Tarvin sat in the moonlight on the unrailed bridge that crossed the irrigating ditch above Topaz, dangling his feet over the stream": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Naulahka
The Naulahka: A Story of West and East.
KIPLING, Rudyard with Wolcott Balestier.
$600.00
Item Number: 120549
London: William Heinemann, 1892.
First British edition of Kipling’s ambitious narrative. Octavo, original publisher’s decorative cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase.
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.
