NMLP P-035161 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09
The Light That Failed
Rudyard Kipling · United States Book Co., successor to John W. Lovell Co. (New York) · 1890
The earliest commercially available book printing was issued by the United States Book Company (successor to John W. Lovell Co.), New York, in the pictorial wrappers of its Westminster Series; a copy was deposited for copyright at the Library of Congress on 12 November 1890, and the wrapper is cover-dated 5 December 1890, appearing shortly before Lippincott's Monthly Magazine carried the same text in its January 1891 number
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035161 for "The Light That Failed" by Rudyard Kipling (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035161, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).