NMLP P-039607 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

Kim

Rudyard Kipling · Doubleday, Page & Co. (New York) — true first; Macmillan & Co. (London) — first English · 1901

A 'Second American Edition' followed within 1901 per the Kipling Society, and later Doubleday, Page and Doubleday, Doran printings are common. The principal reprint traps are Macmillan's long-running Uniform and Pocket editions, published and frequently reprinted from 1899 into the 1950s: they carry the same Ganesha device and red or blue cloth but bear a series designation and a later date. Note carefully that the Ganesha/swastika device is a dating aid and not a first-edition point — use of the emblem ceased in the early 1930s once the symbol was appropriated in Germany, so its presence establishes only that a copy predates roughly 1933.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-039607 for "Kim" by Rudyard Kipling (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039607, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).