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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie Twentieth Century Classics
Penguin Books Ltd 10/26/1989. Paperback. Used; Good. WE SHIP WITHIN 24 HRS FROM LONDON UK 98% OF OUR ORDERS ARE RECEIVED WITHIN 7-10 DAYS. We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books. Penguin Books Ltd paperback
Bookseller reference : 1543163 ISBN : 0140183809 9780140183801
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie and other Stories
Allahabad: Messrs. A.H. Wheeler and Co./London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington: no date A.H. Wheeler and Cos Indian Railway Library No. 6. Page 3 bears the advertisement that The first 7 numbers published are now procurable at all Railway Bookstalls or from A.H. Wheeler and Co. Allahabad. Pictorial wrappers that is paper covers plus pp. 96. Spine a little chipped and slanted; scattered foxing; a very good copy. unknown
Bookseller reference : 205337
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kipling, rudyard
WEE WILLIE WINKIE
penguin classics reprint 1988. near fine unread paperback penguin classics, paperback
Bookseller reference : 293458
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Kipling, Rudyard.
Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories.
Allahabad.: A. H. Wheeler & Co. Undated circa 1890s. 96pp. Indian Railway Library No. 6. Original printed pictorial pale green wrappers. Bound in modern plain grey boards. Wrappers are a lightly browned. Internally occasional light foxing. Fifth Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A. H. Wheeler & Co. Paperback
Bookseller reference : 40170
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkle and Other Stories; Under the Deodars; and The Story of the Gadsbys Three Volumes in One
Allahabad and London: A. H. Wheeler & Co.; Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington Ld. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. N.D. First Edition . 1. Leather. First UK editions of these three volumes beautifully bound. Contemporary half green leather over marbled boards spine in six compartments separated by raised bands gilt lettering in one red and one burgundy label in two compartments gilt borders and decoration in remainder; blind-stamped borders on covers all edges marbled marbled endpapers. nd c. 1890. Former owner's armorial bookplate Richard Henry Tidswell on fep otherwise unmarked. Covers and edges very lightly rubbed else fine; tight square and clean. A beautiful volume. NEAR FINE. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 96 96 vi 85 1 2-adverts pp . A. H. Wheeler & Co.; Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ld. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 26963
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie & Other Child Stories
Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co 1888. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Large octavo. 2 pgs. of ads 104pp. vii pages of ads at the rear. Custom full contemporary red morocco binding with a gilt-stamped motif likely owner's initials or personal insignia and tooling on the the front cover and spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers and gilt dentelles with owner's bookplate the same design as on the front cover measuring 1x1" on vellum at the interior front cover. Bound by Trow in New York with binder's signature at the top of the fornt free endpaper.<br /> <br /> This is the true first edition of this collection of children's stories by Kipling published in India. This is no.6 of the "Indian Railway Library" series published by A.H. Wheeler & Co with a cover price of "One Rupee." The original grey-green illustrated wrappers both front and back credited to the "Moto School of Art Lahore" have been bound into this beautiful hardcover signed binding by Brentano's. The front wrapper features three men and a boy while the back wrapper shows two flute-playing soldiers. The front and back of the book feature ads for and reviews of other works by Kipling. Binding with some minor rubbing to extremities and minor smudging to the covers. A faint horizontal scratch to the front cover. Interior with a small closed tear to the bottom of the gutter at the interior front cover. Light spotting along the edge of the book block the front free endpapers and the bound in front wrapper. Binding and interior in very good condition overall. No.6 of the "Indian Railway Library" series by AH Wheeler & Co. These where originally sold at railway stations in India in softcover editions. A.H. Wheeler & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 42461
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Kipling, Rudyard.
Wee Willie Winkie and other stories. Faksimile. Foreword by Philip Mason.
Allahabad India A. H. Wheeler 1988. . Publikation der R. S. Surtees Society. Die Surtees Society ist eine Gesellschaft zur Veröffentlichung von LITERAR: Texten und eine eingetragene Wohltätigkeitsorganisation mit Sitz in Durham in Nordengland. Die Gesellschaft wurde am 27. Mai 1834 von James Raine nach dem Tod des bekannten Antiquars Robert Surtees aus der Grafschaft Durham gegründet: - Enthält. Wee Willie Winkie. Baa baa black sheep. His Majesty the King. The drums of the fore and aft. - Leicht gebräunt; gutes Exemplar Allahabad, India, A. H. Wheeler, (1988). unknown
Bookseller reference : 81550
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Kipling, Rudyard.
Wee Willie Winkie City of the Dreadful Night American Notes.
New York; Philadelphia; Chicago: The Nottingham Society 1909. Olive cloth boards applied spine label. Good/No Dust Jacket. Volume VI. Bombay Edition Edition de Luxe. Printed for subscribers only limited to 1000 sets. Frontispiece with tissue. Wear and fraying to ends and corners. Uncut edges. 480 pages. Front hinge cracked. The Nottingham Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6793
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Kipling, R.
Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories Volume 2
Macmillan 1914. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item350grams ISBN: Macmillan hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5679140
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KIPLING, Rudyard.
Wee Willie Winkie and other child stories; American notes.
New York: R.F. Fenno & Co. 1899. Two works in one vol. 8vo. 156 1; 9-139 1 pp. Decorated title in tan & black frontisp. portrait. Green ribbed publisher’s cloth lozenge illust. of elephant mounted on front cover gilt decorated spine t.e.g. slight shelfwear very slight rubbing NF copy from the library of Donald Alexander Skene 1898-1938 reporter for the Portland Oregonian served as a United States Marine during World War I and graduated Yale University in 1920 w/ gift inscription dated 1901 on ffep. First American edition of these two works with the first containing four of Kipling’s short stories originally published as the sixth and final installment of Wheeler’s Indian Railway Series including Wee Willie Winkie Baa Baa Black Sheep His Majesty the King and The Drums of the Fore and Aft. The second volume of American notes includes Kipling’s travels through California a fascinating and excellent account of Salmon fishing on the Columbia River visiting a salmon cannery in The Dalles with only Chinese immigrants cleaning and packing the fish and fishing on the Clackamas River along with the authors travels to Yellowstone and Chicago. R.F. Fenno & Co., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 50757
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie Under the Deodars The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Stories
London: Macmillan & Co 1926 Copy in red cloth on boards with gilt decoration on cover and gilt title on spine. Slight wear to head/foot of spine. Spine lightly sunned with some carry over to board edges. Small booksellers label on front paste down. Occasional light foxing to folio fore-edges. Free of inscriptions. Clean text. Macmillan & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 030146
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories
Chicago and New York: Rand McNally. reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 37685 CF shelf. Gold-stamped deep red cloth gilt top edge. Light edgewear esp. spine ends. Ink splashes pg 16 17. Inked name FEP clean text. Title story & Baa baa blacksheep His Majesty the king The drums of the fore and aft. Solid attractive. <br/> <br/> Rand, McNally hardcover
Bookseller reference : 062131
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KIPLING, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie Under the Deodars The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Stories
Sampson Low Marston and Company 1892. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 314pp. First UK Combined Edition. Publisher's mid blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine. Hardly any wear at all. No marks to boards. Extremely bright gilt. Internally clean with no inscriptions. A Superior copy. . Sampson Low, Marston and Company Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 026698
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Fine copy. 1111. reprint. hardcover. 8vo 241 pp. . Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
Bookseller reference : BOOKS058965I
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Kipling, Rudyard
WEE WILLIE WINKIE
GB: Methuen 1918. 175 x 110 mm. Burgundy limp leather lettered and decorated in gold. Circular elephant vignette on front cover. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age but minor spine wear. Reprint. Hardback. VG/No DW. Methuen Hardcover
Bookseller reference : s703.041
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories
GB: Macmillan 1951. Book in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. Bit cocked. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good condition minus with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is price clipped. . Reprint. Hardback. nrFine/VG-Dw. Macmillan Hardcover
Bookseller reference : kb335.066
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Kipling, Rudyard.
Wee Willie Winkie under the Deodars The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Stories.
London: Macmillan 1905. 8vo. 372 6 pp. Very good in red cloth top edge gilt covers lightly soiled bookplate of John Woodroffe Garthwaite and ex-libris John Ruyle label within light foxing throughout. London: Macmillan, 1905. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 15-2458
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie Classics
Paperback. Very Good. paperback
Bookseller reference : GOR005276999 ISBN : 0140433031 9780140433036
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie
London: Macmillan and Co 1953. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Blue cloth with siver titles to the spine very nice copy. DJ some nicks and cuts. Macmillan and Co Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008824
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie
1989-04-01. First Edition. paperback. Used: Good. 7.00x1.00x5.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. paperback
Bookseller reference : SONG0140183809 ISBN : 0140183809 9780140183801
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie
New York: Standard Book Company Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. book is tight with no markings some tanning to front and back paste down and ffeb minor rubbing to boards punjab edition. Standard Book Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017894
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Yellow-stamped slightly stained red-orange cloth. Slightly age-toned paper. Lovely illus. endpapers. Chipped & stained dj is still attractive. Inked name half-title pg clean text. 14239 shelf <br/> <br/> Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
Bookseller reference : 039831
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories
London: MacMillan 1907. Hinge weak and pretty much broken at inside cover - easy enough to repair. Name penned on first blank. Page block remains tight. Full leather covers - red with gold enbossment on front elephant and swastika. Title on spine legible but rubbed. hardcover. Acceptable/No Dust Jacket. Used. MacMillan Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 204834
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie winkie and Other stories Vol. 1 Service edition
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd 1914. From the Service Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. Blue cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Light wear a couple of marks spine faded. COntents clean and sound throughout. First Thus. hardcover. Good/No dust jacket. Used. Macmillan & Co. Ltd Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 197421
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie
Sampson Low Marston Searle London 1890. First English. edition. Pictorial. Good. Some minor chipping binding rubbed and soiled. 8vo. Bound with "In Black and White" "The City of Dreadful Night" all First English editions in original wraps. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle London, 1890. paperback
Bookseller reference : 000242
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie Under The Deodars The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories
London: Macmillan and Co 1901 Good Copy in red cloth on boards with gilt illustration blind stamped on cover and gilt titles on spine. Some rubbing to head/foot of spine though outers are sound. Some foxing through end papers otherwise clean text Macmillan and Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 015089
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Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
Wee Willie Winkie -- Baa Baa Black Sheep -- His Majesty the King -- the Drums of the Fore and Aft
New York; Mershon 1915. 1st Edition in this form. Hardback. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight bright and clean impression. ; 144 pages; References: Livingston F. V. M. Kipling 43. Stewart J. M. Kipling 54. New York; Mershon hardcover
Bookseller reference : 63577
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkle and Other Stories
New York: Manhattan Press Hardcover with red boards from the uniform edition issued by Manhattan Press. No date. 177 pages. Owner's bookplate on the front endpaper. Slight wear to the ends of the spine and tips of the boards. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Jacket. Manhattan Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2-1398
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie & Other Stories; Lifes Handicap
Doubleday Page & Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1899. Hardcover. B015604; 364 pages; 364 pp corners bumped pages yellowing hardcover very good contents & covers no dustjacket . Doubleday, Page & Co. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 15604
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie and Other stories Volume II
London: Macmillan & Co. For The Mind Association 1914. The Service Edition of the Works of Kipling. Blue cloth cover a little worn and marked but generally good. Endpapers foxed. Rough cut page block. All contents clean tight and bright. First Thus. hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. Macmillan & Co. For The Mind Association Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 071955
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KIPLING, Rudyard.
Wee Willie Winkie and other Stories.
London:: Sampson Low MArston Searle & Rivington 1890. First English edition. original illustrated wrappers. Lacks initial blank; old ink ownership signature on title page; a few small chips closed tears and light wear to wrappers. . 8vo. Stewart 56. Sampson Low, MArston, Searle & Rivington, unknown
Bookseller reference : 17889
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories and American Notes
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co. 19-. Hardcover. Very good condition; grn cloth w/ red/gilt decorations . 394p. illus. <br/><br/> Rand McNally & Co. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 013941
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories Wee Willie Winkie Baa Baa Black Sheep His Majesty the King and The Drums of the Fore and Aft
New York: R. F. Fenno 1899 New York: R.F. Fenno 1899. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gold art nouveau decoration on spine. 149 pp. Contains Wee Willie Winkie Baa Baa Black Sheep His Majesty the King and The Drums of the Fore and Aft. Clean solid copy in very good condition. R. F. Fenno hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002602
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KIPLING, Rudyard
Wee Winkie Winkle and Other Stories
Allahabad / London: A. H. Wheeler & Co / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington Book. Good/Very Good. Board. 1st UK. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. pp 96 Undated but believed to be 1890 and the first English Edition - no indication of being an reprint. Bound in plain boards orignal wrapper bound in. Internally very good with slight browning - trimmed with impact to bottom line of title page. Bookplate of William Forbes Morgan on inside front cover. A. H. Wheeler & Co / Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1100496
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Kipling, Rudyard
When Earth's Last Picture is Painted Publisher series: Kipling's Verses Miniature Series.
Garden City: Doubleday Page 1921. Limp leather Very good plus no dust jacket. 5pp. gilt decorated cover marbled endpapers. Publisher series: Kipling's Verses Miniature Series. Poetry. Doubleday, Page Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 114530
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Kipling, Rudyard;
Wie das Kamel zu seinem Buckel kam
Zürich 1946. und andere Erzählungen W.a.V. Büchergilde 8°. Pbd. marm. Literatur unknown
Bookseller reference : 23943
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wie das Kamel zu seinem Höcker kam. Genau-so-Geschichten für Kinder: Mit den 57 Original-Illustrationen des Autors
Anaconda Verlag 2023. Hardcover. New. 160 pages. German language. 7.56x5.08x0.71 inches. Anaconda Verlag hardcover
Bookseller reference : __3730611445 ISBN : 3730611445 9783730611449
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Kipling, Rudyard/Scarpi, N. O. (Ubers.)
Wie das Kamel zu seinem Buckel kam und andere Erzählungen.
1946 . Zürich: Büchergilde Gutenberg 1946. 8°. 140 S. Illustrationen marmorierter Pappband mit Rückenschildchen Papier leicht gebräunt; gut erhalten unknown
Bookseller reference : 12291BB
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wie der Elefant seinen Rüssel bekam
Wabern Büchler-Verlag 1971 Auflage: 1. kartoniert; fester weisser farbig illustrierter Einband / Anz. Seiten: unpaginiert / 27 x 21 cm Querformat / mit 20 Farbillustrationen auf teils doppelseitigen Tafeln und im Text von Heinz Looser / Zustand: gut leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Einband leicht berieben oberes Kapital etwas bestossen Papier geringfügig gebräunt 1 Lage angelöst Wabern, Büchler-Verlag, 1971, Auflage: 1. unknown
Bookseller reference : 69646
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Kipling, Rudyard
Wie spricht der Hund.
Leipzig: List 1931. Hardcover. Einband etwas fleckig. 8°. mit s/w Illustrationen. Original-Leinwand Grossbritannien und Nordirland; 20. Jahrhundert; Tiere List, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 165316
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Kipling, Rudyard
William the Conqueror" final serialization part in Ladies' Home Journal January 1896
Philadelphia: Curtis 1896. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Complete original issue in very good wrappers. <br/> <br/> Curtis paperback
Bookseller reference : b24089
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Kipling, Rudyard
William the Conqueror" first part of serialization in Ladies' Home Journal December 1895
Philadelphia: Curtis 1895. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. Good in original wrappers. Wrappers loose and worn. <br/> <br/> Curtis paperback
Bookseller reference : b25151
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Kipling, Rudyard; Edited and with an Introduction by Craig Raine
Wish House and Other Stories
NY: The Modern Library 2002. Penciled numbers on half title page else textblock is very clean and tight. All page edges straight and sound. Several reading creases down the scuffed spine wear to the top edges and slightly creased corners. 448pp. 1st Printing. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback. The Modern Library Paperback
Bookseller reference : SB15397 ISBN : 0812966023 9780812966022
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Kipling, Rudyard
WITH NUMBER THREE Surgical & Medical and New Poems
1900. Also Letters from Julian Ralph Charles E. Hands and Douglas Story. Santiago de Chile: Hume & Co. 1900. Original printed fawn wrappers.<br/> <br/> First Edition unauthorized issued as a volume in the publisher's "Libreria Inglesa." This volume published in Chile includes three poems and two stories that Kipling wrote during the Boer War plus four poems written earlier; it is the first edition in book form anywhere of the poems "Pharaoh and the Sergeant" and "Kitchener's School" and of the Boer War tales "With Number Three" and "Surgical and Medical." "It has been said that this is the only case on record of a first edition of a book being published in a country never visited by the author and where people did not speak his language" Richards. Hume the proprietor of Santiago's main bookstore was a huge Kipling fan but it appears that he overestimated the Chilean Kipling market: he supposedly printed 400 copies but few sold and the remainder were either burned in 1906 or pulped at a paper mill in 1911 -- though some copies like this one apparently were neither read nor burned nor pulped. For this copy is as new -- no wear no soil leaves still unopened. Richards A166; Stewart 240. Housed in a cloth slipcase with inner chemise. unknown
Bookseller reference : 14944
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Kipling, Rudyard
With Number Three Surgical & Medical and New Poems. Also Letters from Julian Ralph Charles E. Hands and Douglas Story.
Santiago: Hume & Co 1900. First edition of this unauthorized collection of seven Kipling poems and two articles. Octavo original wrappers. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase. Rare. Published in 1900 this unauthorized collection of seven Kipling poems includes A Song of the White Men With Number Three Surgical and Medical Auld Lang Syne Pharaoh and the Sergeant Kitchener's School White Horses and The Absent-Minded Beggar. Hume & Co unknown
Bookseller reference : 120640
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Kipling, Rudyard
WITH NUMBER THREE SURGICAL & MEDICAL AND NEW POEMS; Also Letters from Julian Ralph Charles E. Hands and Douglas Story
Santiago De Chile: Hume & Co. 1900. First edition. An unauthorized collection of seven poems and two sketches previously printed in newspapers. First book appearances for the sketches and two of the poems Richards A166. Also includes journalists' articles. 12mo cream paperwraps lettered in black and red; 169 pages. Light stain on bottom page edge corner not extending to pages covers lightly rumpled and soiled otherwise near fine. Bookplate of Boston banker and bibliophile Frank Brewer Bemis inside front cover featuring an engraving by Sidney Lawton Smith of Bemis's library and the motto "three things to me god lends old place old books old friends." Housed in custom green cloth chemise and slipcase with gilt-stamped black leather spine label. Hume & Co. unknown
Bookseller reference : 54117
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Kipling, Rudyard
With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. Together with Extracts from the Contemporary Magazine in Which it Appeared
<p>New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. First thus. Hardback. Very Good. Leyendecker Frank X. Xavier; Reuterdahl H. Henry. A fascinating read and with remarkable cover art. Few people know that Rudyard Kipling briefly ventured into writing science fiction. This book With the Night Mail was his first enthusiastic attempt. It is a novella that originally appeared in magazines in 1905 before Doubleday Page and Company published it with some minor changes as a book unto itselfâ€"with an absolutely gorgeous gilt and silver cover--in 1909. The story imagines life in the 21st century when transport by airshipsâ€"later to be called “dirigibles†in real lifeâ€"was so commonplace that it was regulated by a trans-world agency known as the Aerial Board of Control which was in charge of traffic and rescues. Kipling tells the story of what happens when a postal airship on a typical transatlantic night run to Quebec encounters another airship in trouble and losing altitude just as a storm is whipping up. It’s an imaginative story with a creative new vocabulary but Kipling also obviously drew from the familiar. The Aerial Board of Control or the A.B.C. reminiscent of an international coast guard for instance similar to the one regulating shipping around Britain in the early 20th century; meanwhile airships were on the cusp of commercial viability at the time Kipling was writing and were being publicly tested over Paris. But as real as they may have been in 1905 they certainly fed Kipling’s imagination. He used them as the jumping-off point for world creation. Besides the text of the story itself Doubleday Page and Company collected other items Kipling created in connection with it--such as the “Aerial Board of Control Bulletin†and fictitious advertisements related to airships similar to those that frequently appeared in the back of books published during this era--and presented them as additional documentation to back up his story. Kipling became so enthralled with his own creation that he wrote a second longer story titled “As Easy as ABC†in 1907 though it was not published until 1912. Both works have been highly influential. Modern readers might be struck by how much they remind them of the steampunk genre close to a hundred years before steampunk became popular. Kipling anticipated a number of technologies in his A.B.C. stories that came into real-life use decades later. As a stylist science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein found Kipling’s use of indirect exposition in With the Night Mail very influential on his own work. There is even a series of computer role-playing games based on the A.B.C.<br /><br />Because the texts within this copy were first published in magazines Doubleday Page and Company did not officially label its 1909 release as a “first edition†so we are calling our copy a “First Edition Thus.†It is lovingly illustrated with color plates by Frank X. Leyendecker and H. for Henry Reuterdahl. One plate opposite the title page is fronted by a tipped-in sheet of tissue paper; it also has a small closed tear on its fore edge that is limited to the margin and does not affect the image itself in any way. A similar fore edge tear is on an unnumbered page in the back of the book. Page 18 is soiled in its margins and some of that has carried over to the blank facing page. Both front and rear endpapers are illustrated by two-page painting signed by Leyendecker. The front flysheet of this illustration has come looseâ€"apparently this is a common problem with this book--but is otherwise undamaged and is included in its appropriate place; someone has written “#50†in ink in small figures on the inside cover. The bottom back inside hinge is starting to tear but otherwise the binding is sound and tight. Pagination for this book is…odd. Only the recto pages are printed and not all of them are numbered. Several sellers have noted what appears to be a cut out page before the half-title page but our examination suggests that it is instead related to the binding process and not a flaw. The book is bound in dark blue cloth with gilt and silver foil lettering and decoration. The covers and spine show light shelf wear and bumping along the edges and corners but otherwise are in quite good condition. The decoration on the front cover is remarkable illustrating an airship floating in the stars and clouds with the title integrated in the picture and the author’s name below. The spine has gilt lettering for the title author and publisher’s name but also an illustration of people in the gondola of an airship also in gilt. Photos forthcoming or on request in the interim.</p> Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 545
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Kipling, Rudyard
With the Night Mail - A Story of 2000 A.D.
New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. 1st Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Small 8vo 77pp. plus 7 leaves of ads in rear. Sharp First Edition Bound in navy cloth with gilt lettering and gilt and white illustration on front board. Illustrated end-papers. Color frontispiece and three additional full-color plates. Square tight and clean throughout with little if any toning or foxing. Hinges starting but firm. Mild wear to spine ends tips. A very pleasing collectable copy at a great price. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
Bookseller reference : 017817
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Kipling, Rudyard
With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. and As Easy as A.B.C.
Hilobooks 2012. Paperback. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Hilobooks paperback
Bookseller reference : G1935869523I2N00 ISBN : 1935869523 9781935869528
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Kipling, Rudyard
With The Night Mail: A Story Of. By Rudyard Kipling Doubleday 1909 HC
Doubleday Page & Company 1909. Hardcover. Good. Good condition ex-libris copy with a sticker on the inside of the front cover. Name written on the first page. Tissue guard protection the illustration before the title page. One page may be clipped out before the book begins. Pages look free of notations but a few have light soiling. Exterior has wear with bumping along the edges. Spine feels a little loose. Front cover illustration looks clean and crisp. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 082125004
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