Charles Scribner's Sons 1926. Hard cover. Very good/No jacket. 31 volumes rebound in Red leather by the Stikeman Bindery. Minor edgewear. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
Charles Scribner's Sons 1899. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding with general signs of previous use. The fore-edge of the text block has deckled edges. The binding suffers moderate loosening due to age and wear but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1907. Decorative Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Books are brown cloth with gilt decorations and lettering. An embossed picture of Ganesh decorates the front covers. All volumes are very good except Volume 1 which has a cracked front hinge. Extra shipping will apply. <br/> <br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. Fine Binding with interesting provenance: Paul Mellon's Copy 32 volume set. Bound in fine 3/4 navy morocco over marbled boards. Gilt decorated spine compartments. 6 raised spine bands. Top edges gilt Marbled end pages. Hardcover. Some bindings weakened with cracked hinges. Four volumes with one board nearly detached. Plain Tales from the Hills The Phantom Rickshaw In Black and White; and The Jungle Book. Clean unmarked pages. Frontispiece illustration with tissue guard. Printed 1920-1937. A complete set of the edition published within Kipling's lifetime 4 volumes were added to the set posthumously. <br> Contents: v. 1. Plain tales from the hills --v. 2. Soldiers three --v. 3. In black and white --v. 4. The phantom rickshaw --v. 5. Under the deoders --v. 6. The jungle book --v. 7. The second jungle book --v. 8. The light that failed --v. 9. The naulahka; a story of West and East written in collaboration with Wolcott Balestier --v. 10. Verses --v. 11. "Captains courageous" a story of the Grand banks --v. 12. The day's work --v. 13-14. From sea to sea --v. 15. Stalky & co --v. 16. Kim --v. 17. Just so stories for little children --v. 18. Traffics and discoveries --v. 19. Puck of Pook's hill --v. 20. Actions and reactions --v. 21. Rewards and fairies --v. 22. A diversity of creatures --v. 23. Five Nations ; The years between --v. 24. Letters of travel 1892-1913 --v. 25-26. The Irish guards in the Great War; edited and compiled from their diaries and papers --v. 27. Debts and credits --v. 28. A book of words --v. 29. Limits and renewals --v. 30. War writings and poems --v. 31. Land and sea tales --v. 32. Something of myself; index. <br> Paul Mellon 1907-1999 was an American philanthropist and breeder/owner of thoroughbred racehorses. His fortune derived from the Mellon Bank created by his grandfather Thomas Mellon his father Andrew W. Mellon and his uncle Richard Mellon. His father was the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury 1921-1932. Mellon's Rokeby Stables owned many successful racehorses including Kentucky Derby Winner Sea Hero. He was a trustee of the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame. He was created an Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and was awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities in 1997. <br> This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1909 1911 1917 1919 1920. Lacks Part One of “From Sea to Sea†Volume XV otherwise a very fine set text and plates are clean and crisp and bound in handsome period binding. . Edition: New York Binding: Original publisher’s black ½ morocco with light blue marble boards spine in six compartments of raised bands and gilt floral motifs gilt text in two and three top edges gilt edges uncut occasionally unopened endpapers marbled. Notes: The later volumes vols XXVI XXVII & XXVIII are published in purple and dark blue boards.<br>The “Outward Bound†edition was published in installments between 1897 until the end of Kipling’s life in 1936. The complete set eventually included 36 volumes; however variations appeared in the printing over the years. Text published in two volumes in earlier printings was combined into single volumes to save money on the part of the publishers. The published letters of Rudyard Kipling 2004 indicate that Kipling often disapproved of the cost-saving measures of Scribner’s preferring that later printings kept the same numeration of the volumes as the earlier ones. <br> Size: 8vo. Illustration: Each volume with a frontispiece several illustrative plates throughout. Volume: 27 volumes of 36. Category: Book Literature; Book Bindings Sets; Charles Scribner’s Sons hardcover
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 9 in. Brick red cloth boards with elephant on cover. Condition is VERY GOOD ; some wear to spine ends minor shelf wear. Covers clean but spine sunned to a paler brown shade. Binding tight inner hinge has a little bit of preliminary cracking. Title page foxed endpapers toned. Fic. Stax. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 9 in. Brick red cloth boards with elephant on cover. Condition is VERY GOOD ; some wear to spine ends minor shelf wear. A few light marks on rear cover spine sunned to a paler brown shade. Binding tight. Fic. Stax. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 9 in. Brick red cloth boards with elephant on cover. Condition is VERY GOOD ; some wear to spine ends minor shelf wear. Covers clean but spine sunned to a paler brown shade. Binding tight inner hinge has a little bit of preliminary cracking. Title page foxed. Fic. Stax. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 9 in. Brick red cloth boards with elephant on cover. Condition is VERY GOOD ; some wear to spine ends minor shelf wear. Spine cloth has a split vetically. Covers clean but spine sunned to a paler brown shade. Binding tight inner hinge has a little bit of preliminary cracking. Text has foxing to the first 5 pgs rear endpapers and edges. Fic. Stax. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 9 in. Brick red cloth boards with elephant on cover. Condition is VERY GOOD ; some wear to spine ends minor shelf wear. Covers clean but spine sunned to a paler brown shade. Binding tight inner hinge has a little bit of preliminary cracking. Title pagr foxed. Fic. Stax. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1897. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 9 in. Brick red cloth boards with elephant on cover. Condition is VERY GOOD ; some wear to spine ends minor shelf wear. Covers clean but spine sunned to a paler brown shade. Binding tight inner hinge has a little bit of preliminary cracking. Text has foxing to the first 5 pgs rear endpapers and edges. Fic. Stax. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1897. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 9 in. Brick red cloth boards with elephant on cover. Condition is VERY GOOD ; some wear to spine ends minor shelf wear. Covers clean but spine sunned to a paler brown shade. Binding tight inner hinge has a little bit of preliminary cracking. Text has foxing to the first 5 pgs rear endpapers and edges. Fic. Stax. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
London England: Macmillan & Co 1899. Hardback. Limited Edition. 1899. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling Volume XIV. The Day's Work. Part II. This Edition Consists of Ten Hundred and Fifty Copies. Slight foxing to end inside covers and some pages. Mark to back cloth. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contents: '007. The Bold 'Prentice. The Maltese Cat. 'Bread Upon the Waters'. The Lang Men O' Larut. An Error in the Fourth Dimension. The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot. My Sunday at Home. The Brushwood Boy. 252 pp. Hand cut pages. We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts Theology History Politics Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions Reference books and all types of Academic Literature. Edition De Luxe. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback. Macmillan & Co Hardcover
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1899. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Illustrated. Beautiful leather covered spine and corners of marbled boards rough edges. Clean interior hinges loosening overall a lovely collectible copy of the antique book. <br/> <br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
London: Methuen and Co. Ltd. 1919. First edition. Vellum. Good. 9" by 6". None. A very scarce limited first large paper edition of this poignant collection providing Kipling"s somber and reflective poetic response to the experience and aftermath of war. In the publisher's original quarter paper vellum with light blue paper boards.This is copy is a limited edition being one of two hundred large paper copies. A collection of poetry written during the period from the end of the Boer War until the end of the First World War. The poems include: The Choice The Dead King A Death-Bed The Declaration of London The Female of the Species and many others. Written by Rudyard Kipling an English novelist poet and journalist best known for his work The Jungle Book. In the publisher's original quarter paper vellum with paper boards. Externally generally smart. Spotting to boards with slight damp staining to perimeter of rear board. One or two slight handling marks to boards. Spine slightly age toned. Two small chips to spine label not obscuring text. Slight rubbing to spine boards and extremities. Offsetting to endpapers. Slight damp staining to front paste down. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots to rough cut fore edge. Lower fore edge slightly cockled. Good Methuen and Co. Ltd. hardcover
New York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1919. Hardcover. Very Good. . Scarce Seven Seas edition printed in June 1919. Fine full morocco lavishly gilt covers with gilt borders comprising eight plain and stippled rules and a decorative gilt roll spines densely gilt in compartments raised bands turn-ins with gilt dentelle decorative endpapers. Cover with minor wear and rubbing the panel at the foot of the spine is partially detached at the rear joint. Top edges gilt. Pages are clean. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. hardcover
Methuen & Co. Ltd 1919. Hardcover. Good. 1919. First Edition. 159 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white illustration to title page. Rough cut page edges. Binding remains firm. Pages are moderately tanned throughout. Moderate tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with pencil mark to front endpaper. Boards have heavy edge wear with rubbing to surfaces. Moderate fading to spine and board edges. Moderate crushing to spine ends. Moderate tanning and foxing to textblock. Methuen & Co. Ltd hardcover
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1919. 1st Edition . Very Good Minus/Very Good. 5 x 7.75 inches 13 x 19.5 cm. Dust jacket: Original jacket with a little light foxing and very slight edge wear. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good Plus. Book: Red buckram binding. Top page edge gilt other edges untrimmed. Fading to spine. Marking to spine and rear board. Foxing to page edges a few small spots to text. Richards A320. Overall book condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 5 x 7.75 inches 13 x 19.5 cm. Hardback. Printed pages: ix 159 31 Methuen & Co. Ltd. hardcover