KIM

Rudyard Kipling, Reader’s Digest 1994.

Rudyard Kipling’s last story, about a boy (Kimball O’ Hara, or Kim) who is orphaned in India and has to find his own way. He becomes the disciple of a Lama from Tibet and roams India searching for Immortality and the pair are ‘taken in’ by many different people who feed and shelter them. Eventually he is discovered by the British Army Regiment in which his father was a colour-sergeant and is educated in a Catholic college, eventually ending up in the British Secret Service. An excellent book. This copy has a green spine and beige cover boards.

Apart from a tiny bump at the front base close to the spine and a slight diagonal indent, 2-3 cm long above and to the right of this, the book is in very good condition.

There is an excellent set of illustrations by the award-winning artist Gary Agaard, and a lovely embossed picture of a figure on an elephant on the front cover