The Light That Failed Antique Book by Rudyard Kipling Swastica Embossed C1912
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Antique book "The Light That Failed" by Rudyard Kipling, Doubleday Page & Company for Review of Reviews Co, copyright 1912.
Swastica embossed on red cover. Please note that the swastica and elephant was used as a popular symbol for good luck in the past. Rudyard Kipling used the symbol throughout his work. After the Nazi Party adopted the swastica symbol in 1920, Rudyard Kipling ordered it removed from further editions of his work.
Name written inside, some separation of the first few pages, especially on the dedication page, a few smudges and may have a small tear or two.
From Goodreads:
Dick Heldar is a war correspondent & an artist, known for the drawings he sends home to the London papers from wars in exotic places like Sudan. When he returns to London, he attempts to make a career for himself as a serious artist & encounters his childhood sweetheart, Maisie. They fall in love. Then he learns that a minor problem with his eyes is actually the onset of blindness, incurable--the result of a head wound he took during the war. As his vision fails, the light of everything around him--his life, his hopes, his dreams--fail with it. There are terrible choices to be made between the love of the woman he treasures & the love of the men who stood by him at the front.
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