NMLP P-035027 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

Stalky & Co.

Rudyard Kipling · Macmillan and Co. (London) · 1899

The first-edition binding is red cloth with a gilt medallion on the front cover showing Kipling's 'elephant head' device, designed by his father Lockwood Kipling, depicting an elephant's head bearing a lotus in its trunk together with a fylfot (swastika), then used by Kipling as a traditional Indian emblem of good fortune

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035027 for "Stalky & Co." by Rudyard Kipling (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035027, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).