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CHESTERTON, G K; CHURCHILL, Winston; DULAC, Edmund; ELGAR, Edward; FAWCETT, Millicent; HAGGARD, Rider; HARDY, Thomas; KIPLING, R
PRESENTED BY KING GEORGE V; KING ALBERT'S BOOK:
London: The Daily Telegraph in conjunction with The Daily Sketch The Glasgow Herald and Hodder and Stoughton. 1914. First edition. Presented by King George V to S. Lawes of the 1st Royal Berkshire Regiment at the 4th London General Hospital Denmark Hill on Christmas Day 1914 inscribed to front free endpaper. Quarto. Publisher's original cream cloth with decorative titles in green to the upper board and spine. Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece 16 tipped-in colour plates 1 further colour plate and 10 black and white plates. Additional printed presentation plate to front pastedown: "King Albert's Book with Sir Francis Trippel's Best Wishes for a Happy Xmas a Speedy Recovery and a Victorious New Year Xmas 1914". 188pp. A very good copy the binding square and firm with marking and darkening to the boards. The contents with toning to the endpapers scattered foxing and creasing to the corners of some of the tipped-in plates are otherwise in very good order. Inscribed in black ink to the front free endpaper: "S. Lawes. 1st Royal Berkshire. / December 25th - IH. / 4th London Genera Hospital / Denmark Hill. / Presented by His Majesty King George V" not in the King's hand.</p><p>Published in aid of the Belgium Fund the work includes contributions from over 250 figures from the worlds of literature art politics music and science.</p><p>Certainly not an uncommon book but an evocative copy presented by King George V to a wounded soldier on Christmas Day 1914 just five months in to the First World War. London: The Daily Telegraph in conjunction with The Daily Sketch, The Glasgow Herald, and Hodder and Stoughton. hardcover
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Chesterton, G. K.; Et al
The Illustrated London News, January (Jan.) 18, 1936: Passing of Rudyard Kipling
Pages 73-112. Features: Cover illustration of Rudyard Kipling - veteran of English letters, Port of Empire, and a master of fiction; Photo of FDR's neutrality declaration; Six photos illustrate widespread havoc left in the wake of recent 90 mph winds, including the wrecked scenic railway at Ramsgate; Two pages of prominent photos document the diamond Jubilee of His Highness the Maharaja Gaekwar - a prince brought from obscurity to rule Baroda; Two pages of photos illustrate the Union Jack flying on the Abyssinian frontier - The Somaliland Camel Corps in British Somaliland; Page of reproductions of paintings hitherto unknown in Tibet - the art of Ajanta; A path along which Buddhism spread from India - page of photos illustrating Signor Tucci's latest expedition to Tibet; Six photos describe modern life and ancient legend in Tibet - a complicated exploration; Five photos of a Bull "Derby" in the island of Madura - Malay cattle breeders who drive their beasts in races; Book review of "Miracles and Adventures", by M. A. St. Clair Stobart; Article on the discovery of oscillating electrical circuits; Page of illustrations explain how electric oscillation is used in wireless and medical work; One page photo portrait of H.R.H. Prince Edward of Kent returning to London from Sandringham; Photo of the latest addition to the German Navy, the "Admiral Graf Von Spee"; Photo of HMS "Apollo"; The Italo-Abyssinian War - six photos; Page of photos of British and French warships in port and at sea; Centrefold aerial photo of Kenilworth Castle; Photo of grand birthday party for general Goering in the Berlin State Opera House; Photo of new high-speed German airliner, the "He.111" adopted by Lufthansa; The abbey's Chatham effigy cleaned - the "Eagle Face" modelled from life by Mrs. Wright; Photos of personalities of the week include Samuel Begg, Hugh Ruttledge, Samuel Rothafel ("Roxy"), Percy Thomas, John Gilbert, the Aga Khan, Malcolm Macdonald, Ramsay MacDonald, coal industry negotiators, and the "retirement" of Yehudi Menuhin at tea with members of his family; Light on the "Dark Age" of the northern Sudan - Nubian tombs containing art relics and signs of slave-sacrifice at a master's burial - remarkable discoveries at Firka; Page of photos of Wilhelm Backhaus in concert; one page Johnnie Walker ad shows three people at bar; Halfpage photo- illustrated ad for the Rover "Fourteen" Streamline Coupe; Colourful Dewar's ad on back cover features flu bugs cowering at sight of man in busy rainy street holding bottle of whisky; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
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CHEVRILLON, André
Etudes Anglaises - Sommaire : La peinture anglaise - Les Etats-Unis et la vie américaine - la nature dans la poésie de Shelley - Rudyard Kipling - L'opinion anglaise et la guerre du Transvaal
PARIS, Lib. Hachette - 1910 - In-8 - Broché - En partie non coupé - 357 pages - Très propre
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Coats, John
Kipling the trickster : knowingness, practical jokes and the use of superior knowledge in Kipling's short stories.
Oxford ; Bern ; Berlin ; Wien : Peter Lang, 2021. 281 p. ; ill. Paperback.
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Coats, John:
Kipling the trickster : knowingness, practical jokes and the use of superior knowledge in Kipling's short stories.
In very good condition. - Introduction -- Knowingness, Practical Jokes and the Use of Superior Knowledge in Kiplings Short Stories -- A useful consideration of this subjecc, one of the most unavoidable and intriguing in any examination of Kiplings work, should deai wich two tnattets. First, it is necessary to showwfiat thc existing frame of refer-ence is in which scholars and critics have discussed the topic and how current ways of understandingKipling's use of superior knowledge have taken shape. Second, it is essential to define the position and emphases of rhe present study in order to show how its approach differs from recenr and contemporary scholarship. For the lattcr purpose, it would be helpful to summarise rhe contents of the book, and to indicate its argument. -- Those who have explored Kiplings intcrest in and employment of superior knowledge have differed in the terminologies they have employed. Yet, in spite of changes down ehe years, there has been continuity in the direction, cone and attitude many critics have displayed. One of the pur-poses of the present study is to question these underlying, persistent as-sumptions and what they imply. -- The present State of the question, regarding the topic of this study, results from an unfolding of concerns present in the earliest responses to Kipling as a writer. Those who reviewed his eariiest produetions were de-lighted by the new kinds of experience they offered readers, by the pres-entation ofpreviously little-known Indian and army life. Yet, many critics were troubled or repelled by ehe tone the new author adopted when offering or commencing upon his discoveries. From the beginning, those who discussed Kipling's work Struck a note ofmoral disapproval that continued to so und. The commentators aecused the young writer of brutality, brashness and cynicism. They reproached him for his precocious worldiiness, which questioned that one so young should have had such experiences, or that he possessed a pretence of knowledge that could only be a tiresome mannerism. Given the outmoded moralistic tone and language of many of diese com-plaints, they inevitably sound naive, evcn foolish. Yet, it would be wrong to ignore diis revulsion where it oecurred, or to dismiss as merely siüy the energy with which diese writers expressed it. AJthough subsequent crities found more sophisticated and, for a while, fashionable formulae in which to show their suspicion or disgust, their complaints were often cognate widi those expressed in die 1890s and in the years immcdiately following. -- Hostile views of Kiplings tone often grew from a dislike of the pretence, or die reality of the worldly wisdom the young man displayed. It would be tempting to dismiss Robert Buchanan's notorious artack as apiece of fos-sihsed spite, or ignorant and dated polemic, if, in more restrained forms, ks complaints had not gone on sounding in Kiplingerideism. Buchanan's diatribe against thedrunken, bragging, boastful hooiiganisin1 of Kiplings fiction and his assertion that the new writer represented all that was ignorant, selfish, base and brutal [140] in human nature reappeared, in more temperate forms, in die discussions of later writers. -- Most of the early attacks on Kiplings work are pertinent to a con-sideration of his knowingness. Impiicit in die aecusations of brutal inso-lence, vulgarity or cynicism was the rage ofthose whosc liberal values, and sensitive humane attitude^s, or wha.t they wished to sec as such, Kipling dismissed as sentiment and illusion. In these critics' eyes, it compounded the offence that Kipling rejeeted dieir views and pereeptions on the ba.sis of his superior knowledge. He not only asserted, but often demonstrated, that he was better informed than diey were about the nature of die British common soldier; die inner workings and convoluted, hidden praetkes of the Imperial Administration; the society life of hill scations, and, most ob-jectionable of all, the motives of men and women, considered both apart from and in relation to cach other. After such knowledge, what forgivencss ? -- The problem posed by Kiplings superior knowledge and his knowing tone would have been less vexing for some of his critics but for an intractable fact. Where it could be chccked, his knowledge proved to be accurace and, for many rcaders, his understanding of hiiman characcer was overwhelm-ingly convincing, as well as refreshingly honest. The reviewer of Kim, in 1901, expressed a common view when he spoke of the 'patient industry, the protracted observacion, the thorough knowledge' [271] that informed ehe three pages describing die wayfarers on ehe Grand Trimk Road. The same wrirer's view that the traics and motives of the novels characters, a 'portrait-gaüery of unusual extent and intcresc' [270], were uteerly convincing commanded an equaily wide assent. The reviewer makes thepointwith the confidence ofone who knows that his readers will agree with him: 'You do not stop to inquire whether' Kipling's characcers are 'true to life. You know they are; you acetpt them all without questkm or reservation'.2 -- Given that k was not easy to dismiss the aecuraey of Kiplings in-formation or, in many areas, his understanding of motive or characters, critics who objeeted to his knowingness initially adopted moral disap-proval as their weapon of attack. However, terms like vulgarity, cynicism, brutal insolcnee and hooligan viciousness had limited long-rerm use. It was impossible, in such phrascology, to make a discriminacing point about a writer, who, like him or not, was a considerable figure, clearly talented and widely read. In any case, such abusive language soon began to seem dated. It drew its force from a politically quite understandable revulsion against [he South African War and against Kipling seen, rightly or wrongly, as die embodiment and spokesman of forces that had driven Britain into an Bgly and degrading conflict. Whether such an attitude to Kipling was fair "i not, the political hears of 1899 to 1902 which had fed it began tocool. I hose wbom, for various reasons, Kipling ofFended required orher more snphisticated tools to sap the power he exerted on his readers. From an culy point in Kiplingscareer, critics began tomovefrorastraightforward moral outrage at the young writer 's knowingness, towards varied psycho-logii ,il speculations about theorigins, meaningandeffectsofthis feature ¦ i( 111 s wricing. In the long run, this has proved more effective and damaging than the angry criesofrfie eariiermoralists. ISBN 9781800793415
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Cohen, Morton (Editor).
RUDYARD KIPLING TO RIDER HAGGARD. The Record of a Friendship.
pp. xvi, 196 + Portrait Frontis and Photographs. Tall 8vo. 240mm. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket soiled. Hardbound. Very good. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist who is now chiefly remembered for: his celebration of British imperialism; tales and poems of British soldiers in India; and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. KIP BX 3
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Collectif Mommsen Carducci Echegaray Kipling Eucken Heyse Pontoppidan Spitteler France Reymont Undset
11 volumes collection des prix nobel de littérature: 1902-Mommsen + 1906Carducci + 1904-Echegaray + 1907-Kipling + 1908-Eucken + 1910-Heyse + 1917-Pontoppidan + 1919-Spitteler + 1921-France + 1924-Rey
Rombaldi / les prix nobel de littérature 1963 in8. 1963. cartonné. 11 volume(s). 11 volumes collection des prix nobel de littérature: 1902-Mommsen: Histoire de Rome 1906Carducci: Oeuvres poétiques 1904-Echegaray: L'affront lavé; La mort sur les lèvres 1907-Kipling: La lumière qui s'éteint 1908-Eucken: Le sens et la valeur de la vie 1910-Heyse: L'arrabbiata Le garde-vignes; Résurrection 1917-Pontoppidan: Le visiteur royal 1919-Spitteler: Prométhée et Epimethée 1921-France: Le crime de Sylvestre Bonnard 1924-Reymont: L'apostolat du Knout; Nouvelles 1928-Unset: Printemps
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 100051598
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Colette / Curwood / London / Kipling / Conan-Doyle....
15 histoires de chiens
Gautier-Languereau 1979, relié toile éditeur avec sa jaquette illustrée et son rhodoïde, 222pp avec des illustrations de Jacques Pecnard; collection série 15 - très bon état
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 24040
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collectif
Contes et images
d’après shmid, lichtenberger Ch.Nodier, G.Sand,Hoffamann ,Kipling… Petit in 8 carré cartonné couverture illustrée en couleurs,54 pages,61 dessins en couleurs dans le texte plus la couverture et les pages de garde,de Marie Madeleine FRANC-NOHAIN(coloris très frais)Mame éditeur 1946,avec sa jaquette illustrée en couleurs.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1350
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COLLECTIF (revue)
Europe - Rudyard Kipling,
Revue Europe, n° 817, mai 1997, 222 p., broché, bon état.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 8043
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Collectif, Giraudoux, Jacob, Valéry, Cocteau, Hemingway, Anouilh, Jouvet, Genet, Kipling, Maulnier, Brisson, Toynbee, Proust, Mauriac, Eliott, Faulkner, Focillon, etc
La Table Ronde
1944 1944-1946 La Table Ronde, Paris, 1944 - 1945 - 1946. Collectif dont Giraudoux, Jacob, Valéry, Cocteau, Hemingway, Anouilh, Jouvet, Genet, Kipling, Maulnier, Brisson, Toynbee, Proust, Mauriac, Eliott, Faulkner, Focillon, etc. Ensemble comprenant, le numéro 1 de 1944 (ex. n°419), le numéro 2 d'avril 1945 (ex. n°537), le numéro 3 de juillet 1945 (ex. n°538), le numéro 4 de novembre 1945 (ex. n°525), le numéro 5 de janvier 1946 (ex. n°539) et enfin le numéro 6 de juin 1946 (ex. n°528). Soit six forts volumes in-4 demi chagrin vert, dos lisse titre doré, têtes dorées, parfait état.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 961
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Collectif
Rudyard Kipling
Mm 130x215 Europe: revue littéraire mensuelle, 75 année, n° 817, Mai 1997. Brossura editoriale di 222 pagine. Esemplare in ottime condizioni. Testo in lingua francese - french text. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
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Collectif Mommsen Carducci Echegaray Kipling Eucken Heyse Pontoppidan Spitteler France Reymont Undset
11 volumes collection des prix nobel de littérature: 1902-Mommsen 1906Carducci 1904-Echegaray 1907-Kipling 1908-Eucken 1910-Heyse 1917-Pontoppidan 1919-Spitteler 1921-France 1924-Rey
Rombaldi / les prix nobel de littérature 1963. Bon état cependant couvertures ternies intérieurs frais bonne tenue des reliures. in8. 1963. cartonné. 11 volumes. 11 volumes collection des prix nobel de littérature: 1902-Mommsen: Histoire de Rome 1906Carducci: Oeuvres poétiques 1904-Echegaray: L'affront lavé; La mort sur les lèvres 1907-Kipling: La lumière qui s'éteint 1908-Eucken: Le sens et la valeur de la vie 1910-Heyse: L'arrabbiata Le garde-vignes; Résurrection 1917-Pontoppidan: Le visiteur royal 1919-Spitteler: Prométhée et Epimethée 1921-France: Le crime de Sylvestre Bonnard 1924-Reymont: L'apostolat du Knout; Nouvelles 1928-Unset: Printemps Rombaldi / les prix nobel de littérature unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 100051598
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COLLECTIF (revue)
Europe - Rudyard Kipling
Revue Europe, n° 817, mai 1997, 222 p., broché, bon état.
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Conetti Lidia
Introduzione a Kipling.
pp. 102, cm 18x11, brossura, Gli Scrittori, 57.
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Crane Stephen; Peck Annie Smith; Kipling Rudyard et al.
McClure's Magazine Volume VII June 1896 to October 1896
New York and London: S.S. McClure Co 1896. Hardcover. Very good. Bound volume. Three-quarter leather over marbled boards; spine gilt with raised bands. Some scuffing to the leather; internals sound and clean. Includes among other things Stephen Crane's "The Veteran" and "The Little Regiment" two poems by Kipling "The 'eathen" "Cholera Camp"; "A Woman's Ascent of the Matterhorn" by Peck; several articles on Abraham Lincoln by Ida Tarbell; and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' reminiscences of Harriet Beecher Stowe Longfellow Whitter and Oliver Wendell Holmes. There is also a very interesting illustrated article entitled "The Edge of the Future" regarding horseless carriages and the advent of motor travel. S.S. McClure Co hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 18878
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Crispin Jackson (editor)
Book and Magazine Collector : No 179 February 1999
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 147p. This issue includes Rudyard Kipling novels and stories, CS Forester's Hornblower, Basil Copper crime and horror stories, EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady, Michael Sadleir novels and biographies, Florence Upton's Golliwogg books, the golden age of Broadway Musicals, index and letters and classified..
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CRL Fletcher and Rudyard Kipling C R L
A History of England
Clarendon. Hardcover. Fair. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Board covers scratched and bumped. Spine has gilt lettering is scuffed and has a small tear at the top. Text edges a little rough and a few loose pages. Clarendon hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 452323
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CROSLAND A. , MOLLET G., KIPLING R. et FORESTIER D
Les portes de la vie. Grande-Bretagne
"Mercure de France et Stalky et Cie. 1967. In-4. Cartonnage d'éditeurs. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 312 pages. Ouvrage illustré d'illustrations de Grau Sala gravées sur bois par Jacques Hérouard. Illustrations en noir et blanc et couleurs, dans et hors-texte. Reliure d""diteur moderne en carton rigide et richement décorée sur le 1er plat ainsi que sur le dos (nombreux blasons).. . . . Classification Dewey : 942-Angleterre"
Referenz des Buchhändlers : ROD0021941
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Crosland T. W. H. Rudyard Kipling
The Five Notions.
London: Grant Richards 1903. First edition of Crosland's collection of Kipling parodies. Octavo original cloth. In good condition. Written as a parody to Kipling's previously published stories in addition to its title story The Five Notions contains M.C. Books South Africa. and The White Man's Burden. Grant Richards hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 121094
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CYRIL RAY - Plus Sayers, Bradbury, Kipling, Roald Dahl, Poe, Maugham, Stevenson
BEST MURDER STORIES
Faber & Faber London 1965 First edition. Collects fifteen stories by John Collier Roald Dahl William Sansom Elizabeth Bowen Robert Louis Stevenson Rudyard Kipling Somerset Maugham Mann Rubin H. G. Wells Dorothy Sayers Aldous Huxley Davis Grubb Edgar Allan Poe Ray Bradbury and more. These are all excellent mostly macabre tales or dark suspense. A first edition hardback in a protected unclipped jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Faber & Faber London hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : ABE-1679921906321
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D'ANNUNZIO Gabriele , KIPLING , Lemaître , LEMONNIER , MIKSZATH Kalman De , MISTRAL Frédéric , TOLSTOÏ , TWAIN , ROD Edouard , SIENKIEWICZ Henryk
Les Mille Nouvelles Nouvelles . n° 1 . Février 1910 : Tous Les Écrivains Célèbres De tous Les Pays Du Monde
Paris La Renaissance Du Livre 1910 In 12 En frontispice , une photographie de Mireille par Cot et le portrait de Mistral avec sa soie protectrice . - 144 p. , 250 gr.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 007661
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Daily Mail; Kipling, Rudyard; Sullivan, Arthur:
The Absent Minded-Beggar
London c. 1900. Second Anglo-Boer War souvenir handkerchief 45 x 45 cm printed in blue ink on fine linen a couple of trivial spots blank verso. Set in the borders of a map showing the contested regions of South Africa chiefly Orange Free State and Transvaal is the text of Rudyard Kipling's poem 'The Absent-Minded Beggar' with the music of Arthur Sullivan. The map is further adorned with portraits of Queen Victoria and Field Marshal Lord Roberts who was commander of British forces in the field between December 1899 and December 1900. It was published by the Daily Mail then a relatively new but highly successful British newspaper: established in 1896 its circulation had soared to over a million - the largest in the world - by the war's end in 1902. Kipling presented his poem to the Mail which established a charitable fund soon known as the Absent Minded Beggar Fund to provide comforts for British troops on campaign and support for their families at home. Sullivan was prevailed upon to set it to music and it was first sung in public in November 1899. It caught the public mood and was reproduced in many forms. The handkerchiefs were in circulation by March 1900. Local newspapers carry advertisements from wholesalers and retailers around the country all promising to donate a portion of the profits to the fund. Advertising in the Bradford Daily Telegraph 8 March 1900 one vendor described them as the latest novelty a work of art further suggesting that they could make a useful present everybody pleased with them. An Exeter draper excitedly advertised another delivery in the March 28 issue of the Western Echo. They seem to have sold for between twopence and threepence each. Map unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 9720
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Damrosch, Joseph Conrad; Rudyard Kipling; David,
Heart Of Darkness the Man Who Would Be King and Other Works On Empire a Longman Cultural Edition
new. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4157532-n ISBN : 0321364678 9780321364678
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Damrosch, Joseph Conrad; Rudyard Kipling; David,
Heart Of Darkness the Man Who Would Be King and Other Works On Empire a Longman Cultural Edition
like new. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4157532 ISBN : 0321364678 9780321364678
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Daniel Defoe, Robert Bridges, Rudyard Kipling, William Wordsworth, T S Eliot, and others
Twenty Volumes of Literature in Vintage Hardcover Editions - Defoe Bridges Kipling and others
Hardcover. Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Twenty volumes of literature - novels poetry and plays - in twentieth century hardcover editions as shown. The books are a bit worn in places in line with age. If you would like to browse the other books our shop has available online please click on our shop's name. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 413112
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Daniel Defoe, George Mac Donald John Bennett, Rudyard Kipling, Blanche Winder (Aesop's retold), Anna Sewell
Young Reader's Series Display Case with Lot of Six 6 Airmont Paperback Classics including: Robinson Crusoe; At the Back of the North Wind Illustrated; Master Skylark; Just So Stories; Aesop's Fables Illustrated and; Black Beauty
Airmont. Soft cover. See Description. uncredited. The graphic cardboard display case is still sealed and in Near Fine to Fine condition. All six of the paperbacks are in As New Very Fine and unread condition! Various printings. These Airmont Classics display cases are extremely uncommon. A wonderful set. The Airmont paperback Classic Series have interesting and generally very well done new cover art for each title usually with an insightful introduction. <br/> <br/> Airmont paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 004196
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DE BUFFON A KIPLING
120 histoires de bêtes d'ici et d'ailleurs
LIBRAIRIE GRUND PARIS Sans date.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 500282941
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Defoe Daniel, Kipling Rudyard, Verne Jean-Jacques (ill.):
Robinson Crusoé / Le livre de la jungle.
Noyelles, collection Les indispensables de la littérature en BD, 2015. In-4, cartonnage couleurs. A l'état de neuf. Avec un dossier historique suivant chaque histoire.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 18241
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Deluxe Illustrated Children's Book - Kipling, Rudyard
All the Puck Stories.
1935. First Deluxe Edition Published simultaneously with the trade edition. London MacMillan and Co. 1935. Octavo. Frontispiece-Illustration X 670 2 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover / Decorative full red leather with gilt lettering and gilt illustration of Puck on the front board. In its original rare dustjacket. The dustjacket frayed with some loss. The Volume itself in excellent condition with some minor signs of wear to upper and lower hinge only. "This volume contains all the stories included in "Puck of Pook's Hill" and "Rewards and Fairies". The stories which present episodes of English History in a dramatic form have always been favourites among the works of Mr.Kipling; and the publishers believe that their issue in one volume will be much appreciated". "All the Puck Stories" forms a companion volume to "The Two Jungle Books" and "The Complete Stalky & Co." - Advertising from the Front Flap of the Dustjacket hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 29810AB
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DETMOLD, Maurice & Edward J, illustrators; KIPLING, Rudyard
Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's "Jungle Book
London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903. Beauty That Hath Terror in It"<br /> The Detmold Brothers' Sublime and Unsettling Vision of The Jungle Book<br /> <br /> KIPLING Rudyard. DETMOLD Maurice & Edward J. illustrators. Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's "Jungle Book" by Messrs. Maurice & Edward Detmold. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903.<br /> <br /> First edition. Folio 21 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches; 543 x 394 mm. Title page contents leaf and sixteen fine colored prints tipped onto white board with gray window mounts each with a cover sheet providing the title and a short extract from the text. Title-page and list of illustrations expertly repaired at fold second plate description with short marginal tear some light foxing to text and mounts only - the plates clean and fresh.<br /> <br /> Housed in the publisher's green cloth portfolio front cover lettered and with illustration in gilt one of two original green silk ties. An excellent example of the Detmold's finest work.<br /> <br /> Rendered in the rich colors characteristic of the Detmolds' artwork the plates in this portfolio far surpass the later small book edition published five years later whose reproductions appear comparatively muted. Considered among the finest book illustrations of all time R. Dalby notes: "These paintings were praised for their realistic detail and decorative arrangement" while Diana Johnson intriguingly observes: "The end result of this incongruous joining together of the quasi-scientific and the ornamental is an image which is both fanciful and often rather disturbing." <br /> <br /> Published when the Detmold twins were only twenty years old this portfolio was their final collaboration before Maurice's tragic suicide in 1908. Because the illustrations closely resemble original artwork when framed many individual plates were separated from their sets making a complete portfolio a rare find today.<br /> <br /> The sixteen plates in Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's Jungle Book represent the Detmold brothers at the absolute height of their early powers combining natural history accuracy with a highly personal imaginative symbolism. Executed when Maurice Detmold and Edward J. Detmold were only twenty the images reveal an astonishing maturity of design color harmony and psychological insight.<br /> <br /> Across the series animals are rendered with an almost zoological precision - musculature fur scale and movement observed with scientific care - yet the compositions are unmistakably poetic and stylized. Wolves stand with hieratic gravity; panthers and tigers possess an elegance that borders on the mythic; serpents coil with hypnotic inevitability. <br /> <br /> These are not merely illustrations of stories by Rudyard Kipling but visual interpretations that deepen and at times darken the emotional tenor of the text.<br /> <br /> Several plates focus on Mowgli himself depicted as a lithe vulnerable yet resolute figure often isolated against vast spare landscapes. His nudity is treated without sentimentality: the Detmolds emphasize his animal belonging rather than childhood innocence reinforcing the central tension of The Jungle Book - the precarious boundary between human and beast. In scenes with Bagheera Baloo and Akela the animals are endowed with a quiet authority their gazes expressive and morally charged suggesting intellect and memory rather than simple instinct.<br /> <br /> The Monkey People shown amid cold stone lairs and architectural fragments are among the most unsettling inventions in the set: simian forms twisted into almost grotesque attitudes animated by restless purposeless energy. By contrast the great predators - Shere Khan especially - are portrayed with a terrible beauty: powerful controlled and ominously calm embodying what the Manchester Guardian aptly described as "that beauty which hath terror in it."<br /> <br /> Color plays a central role throughout. The Detmolds employ a restrained but sumptuous palette - burnished browns smoky grays deep greens and muted ochres - heightened by subtle tonal transitions rather than overt brilliance. This lends the plates a painterly richness and a unity of mood that far surpasses the later reduced-format book edition whose reproductions inevitably dull these effects.<br /> <br /> Decorative framing carefully balanced negative space and rhythmic patterning of foliage fur and stone give each composition an architectural coherence. The result is a body of work that stands apart from conventional Edwardian illustration: neither merely narrative nor purely ornamental but a rare fusion of naturalism symbolism and psychological depth.<br /> <br /> Taken as a whole the portfolio reads as a visual cycle - grave hypnotic and occasionally disturbing -confirming the contemporary judgment that the Detmolds "prevent their work from ever sinking to the level of mere illustration." <br /> <br /> Complete portfolios are now scarce as many plates were long ago removed for framing making intact examples such as this especially prized.<br /> <br /> A report on the publication in the New York Times for 5 December 1903 stated that "the edition is strictly limited to 500 copies for England and America". This portfolio is a magnificent presentation of the Detmold brothers' celebrated book illustrations. Reviewing the London exhibition of the original artwork the Manchester Guardian commented that the Detmolds "are able to prevent their work from ever sinking to the level of mere illustration". The reviewer enthused that "the drawing of the Monkey People in the Cold Lairs who 'were not thinking of Mowgli's friends at all' is full of character subtle observation and invention. The figure of Bagheera in 'Mowgli and the Red Flower' has something of that beauty which hath terror in it. Baloo and Nag Kaa and Akela the lone wolf are brought before our eyes in a singularly convincing and engaging form". Manchester Guardian 5 November 1903. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1903 unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 06188
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Detmold, Maurice and Detmold, Edward; Kipling, Rudyard
Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's 'Jungle Book'
London: Macmillan and Co. 1903. Sixteen finely executed illustrations mounted and protected by part-printed paper overlays contained in a later half-calf silk lined portfolio. The portfolio has raised bands spine in four panels panels bordered with gilt single rule volute corner pieces title in gilt to second panel illustrators to third place and date to fourth silk ties to each edge. Rubbed to extremities spine very slightly faded. Title page chipped and quite heavily repaired slightly grubby with several small closed tears the list of illustrations leaf is again chipped with repairs to edges. The part-printed overlays are lightly foxed and browned to edges chipped to top edges one or two spots of foxing to the mounts the illustrations are all bright and clean. For the Detmolds see Houfe page 115. First Edition. Plates Loose in Folder. Good. Illus. by Detmold Maurice and Detmold Edward. Elephant Folio. Macmillan and Co. Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 000134
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Dickens, Fielding, Kipling, Stevenson, Thackery & Partington, Wilfred
SMOKE RINGS AND ROUNDELAYS
SMOKE RINGS AND ROUNDELAYS Castle 1924 first edition near fine copy in pictorial stamped leather binding. Contributions by Dickens Fielding Kipling Stevenson Thackery and many others. A twenty page bibliographical guide to the authors tobacco literature is included. Castle 1924 hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : NF0076
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Dickens, Rudyard and Kipling (Author)
A Tale of two Cities and The Jungle Book
Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd 2021. Paperback. New. 564 pages. 5.50x1.26x8.50 inches. Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : x-8195012191 ISBN : 8195012191 9788195012190
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Dickens, Rudyard And Kipling
A Tale of two Cities and The Jungle Book
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 8195012191.G ISBN : 8195012191 9788195012190
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DISNEY WALT (D'APRES RUDYARD KIPLING)
LE LIVRE DE LA JUNGLE - BANDES DESSINEE DU FILM
WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS. 1982. In-4. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 36 pages - nombreuses illustrations couleur dans le texte. . . . Classification Dewey : 843.0692-Livres d'enfants
Referenz des Buchhändlers : R240121078
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Disney Walt,Kipling Rudyard
Le livre de la jungle
Hachette Cartonné 1968 In-4 (26x18.5 cm), cartonnage illustré en couleurs, 186 pages, illustrations en noir et en couleurs ; menus défauts au cartonnage, bon état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : kk1542
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Disney Walt,Kipling Rudyard
Le Livre de la Jungle
La Galaxie Cartonné 1972 In-4 (18,5 x 25,5 cm), cartonné, 186 pages, illustrations en noir et en couleur ; mors frottés aux coiffes, bord supérieur du quatrième plat légèrement jauni, par ailleurs intérieur frais, bon état général. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : re310
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Disney Walt Kipling Ruyard
Le livre de la jungle
Hachette Bibiolthèque verte 1968 185 pages poche. 1968. cartonnage editeur. 185 pages.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 44169
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Disney / Rudyard Kipling
livre disque microsillon 33t // Le livre de la jungle
Le petit Ménestrel / Adès / Disneyland record. 1969. In-12. Broché. Etat passable, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Pochette cartonnée ouvrante en couleur, renforts adhésifs en marge, déchirures au dos, coins frottés - 1 livret 20 pages illustrées en couleurs - cahier détaché. . . . Classification : 410-33 Tours
Referenz des Buchhändlers : RO70244391
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Dobree, Bonamy [Rudyard Kipling]
Rudyard Kipling.
London: Published for The British Council and the National Book League by Longmans Green & Co. 1951. First edition of Dobree's work on Kipling the man and the writer. Octavo original wrappers frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In near fine condition. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book 1894 Kim 1901 and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Published for The British Council and the National Book League by Longmans, Green & Co. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 126348
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Dobree, Bonamy
Rudyard Kipling
1st edition. Near VG pbk. Ex public library copy. (Supplements to British Book News). 14895. eng
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Dorothy Kipling Farthing
Understanding the Latin Americans
Paperback / softback. New. paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : B9781494089122 ISBN : 1494089122 9781494089122
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Doyle, Arthur Conan & Kipling, Rudyard
LIFE ON A GREENLAND WHALER & CAPTAIN'S COURAGEOUS
LIFE ON A GREENLAND WHALER in McClure's Magazine for March 1897 first American edition some light wear and tear to the covers some chipping to the spine extremities else vg in wraps. Also contains chapters 8 & 9 of CAPTAIN'S COURAGEOUS by Kipling. McClure paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 03204
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Druon M., Holesch D., Kessel, Kipling, La Varende
"Belles histoires de chevaux (Collection ""Nouveaux Bibliophiles"")"
Gautier-Languereau. 1976. In-8. Relié toilé. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 187 pages. Nombreuses illustrations en couleurs, hors texte. Rhodoïd légèrement abîmé.. . . . Classification Dewey : 809-Histoire, littérature
Referenz des Buchhändlers : RO30315317
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DRUON, HOLESCH, KESSEL, KIPLING & COLLECTIF
Belles histoires de chevaux.
GAUTIER-LANGUEREAU. 1978. In-8. Relié toilé. Très bon état, Couv. fraîche, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 187 pages. Quelques doubles-planches illustrées en couleurs. Couverture de protection plastifiée.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840-Littératures des langues romanes. Littérature française
Referenz des Buchhändlers : RO80159459
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Druon Holesch Kessel Kipling La Varende Morrand Tolstoi vialar
Belles Histoires De Chevaux
Gautier Languereau Jaquette Transparente Claire Rigide Illustrée 1968 188 pages en grand format -8 - Nombreuses illustrations couleur
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 002014
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Druon Holesch Kessel Kipling Varende MORAND VIALAR Tolstoi Léon
Belles histoires de chevaux
Gautier-Languereau 1968 in8. 1968. Broché.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 100102442
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Durand, Ralph [Rudyard Kipling]
A Handbook of the Poetry of Rudyard Kipling.
London: Hodder & Stoughton 1914. First edition of Durand's definitive handbook to Kipling's poetry. Royal octavo original quarter buckram over paper-covered boards paper spine label top edge gilt. In very good condition. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book 1894 Kim 1901 and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 126349
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During, W E (Editor)/ Oakey, Ray P (Editor)/ Kipling, Michelle (Editor)
New Technology based Firms New Technology-Based Firms
Emerald Group Pub Ltd 2000. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 202 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.75 inches. Emerald Group Pub Ltd hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : x-0080437915 ISBN : 0080437915 9780080437910
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