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1915ref. FB3015 /2BCream cloth binding with navy title and decoration on the front board and spine. British colonial propaganda. The illustrations by W. Heath Robinson are marvellous. But the poems are justifying genocide with religious slavery and colonisations with racial and justifying racism with lingual superiority. Rudyard is a white man's poet indeed. This book is like a nazi propaganda but for English people. I cringed so hard reading the poems. I wouldn't have completed reading if not for the gorgeous illustrations. This almost gave me Kipling depression Hodder & Stoughton. hardcover
1915ref. 79643Hoder & Stoughton 1915. Early Robinson edition. Hardcover. very good/good. Quarto. 11" x 9" 91pp. Cream cloth with blue design and lettering to covers and spine. In pictorial dust jacket. Some toning to pages. 16 mounted tipped in color illustrations and 58 black and white illustrations by W.Heath Robinson. Loosely laid in rear of book is a folded paper entiteld '"National Bands. A Speech by Rudyard Kipling delivered at the Mansikon House on January 27 1915". In original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket has some loss at spine and edges. Published on behalf of The Daily Telegraph National Bands Fund. Hoder & Stoughton hardcover
ref. 0267236034.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 0332979830.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 1331462843.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2017ref. x-1473334691Pook Press 2017. Paperback. New. 172 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.41 inches. Pook Press paperback
1912ref. 841B85Toronto: The Musson Book Company Limited 1912. Cloth. Good. 11" by 9". W. Heath Robinson. A smart copy of Song of The English by Rudyard Kipling with lovely colour plates. A Canadian edition. A Song of the English was first published in the English Illustrated Magazine in May 1893. The theme that underlies this collection of poetry is that the English are chosen under the lord so long as they obey the law. This volume is beautifully illustrated with thirty colour tipped in plates by W. Heath Robinson.Collated complete. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. Externally very smart with some bumping to the extremities and head and tail of the spine and fading and rubbing to the rear joint. Previous owner inscription to the front free endpaper dated 1909. Front hinge is starting and is generally firm. Internally firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Good The Musson Book Company Limited hardcover
ref. B9783752383690Hardback. New. hardcover
1909ref. 170521146Hodder & Stoughton 1909-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
1915ref. 15565London: Hodder and Stoughton 1915 91pp of Kipling poetry illustrated by W.Heath Robinson 1872-1944 Sixteen mounted colour plates with decorative borders. Squared up line illustrations to each page well crafted and thoughtfully composed. Published on behalf of the Daily Telegraph for the National Bands Fund. Spine head lightly frayed. Ivory coloured cloth very clean with blue printed design to upper board and spine. Loose enclosure of speech by Kipling at the Mansion House January 1915. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
1913ref. ABE-2652504562Hodder & Stoughton 1913 Excellent edition of The Song of the English which was extracted from 'The Seven Seas' and made into this lovely edition with stunning illustrations by William Heath Robinson. Original decorated navy blue cloth cover and darkened spine. 16 masterly color plates on art paper and tipped in including frontispiece with captioned pages opposite each one. Binding with some wear contents pretty clean and complete no colouring in of the many black and white drawings no bent corners. Former owner's neat signature and blind stamp to prelims. Still firm binding text block trimmed on top and untrimmed on the leading edge and base. A large book may require extra postage according to destination. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
1890ref. 1019E015Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1890. 4th Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 93 3 8 85 3 96 104 96. Very Good Minus. 5.5 x 8.5 inches 14 x 21.5 cm. Quarter red cloth with marbled boards rubbing to board edges light wear to corners. Light foxing to endpapers previous owner's name to front pastedown endpaper. Some light patches of foxing to text outside margin of two pages in Soldiers Three have slight damage from a label appears to be an original binding flaw. Original wraps priced at 1 Rupee are bound in with all issues and have varying degrees of damage - most have small sections of loss to edges and/or corners rear cover of Soldiers Three has a large section of loss rear cover of Wee Willie Winkie has a hole to the centre. All issues are the fourth Indian edition published in 1890 this includes Soldiers Three despite it stating Second Indian Edition to the title page. This edition used the same sheets as the first English Edition pagination is the same as the English edition but some of the ads are omitted. Each of these titles had a total Indian issue of 3000 copies. Roberts notes that the fourth Indian edition did not sell well and some copies are known to be stamped to the cover margin in purple ink: 'To still further popularize this Celebrated Series the price is reduced to Eight Annas per volume.' This is stamp is present to front wrappers of all issues in this collection. A rare group of Indian editions including the sought after 'Phantom Rickshaw' a collection of supernatural tales. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches 14 x 21.5 cm. A.H. Wheeler & Co. hardcover
ref. B9781016756327Hardback. New. hardcover
ref. 0265588707.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 1331006988.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1909ref. 29353New York: B.W. Dodge & Company 1909. Hardcover. True First Edition: predating the authorized edition by Doubleday Page and Company. 5 x 7.5in. viii. 360pp. Publisher's decorative cloth boards. NEAR FINE in Near Fine dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows extremely light toning of the endpapers a small spot of discoloration at the fore-edge else Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows just a hint of shelf rubbing along the edges spine ever so slightly darkened else Fine/As New. As pictured. B.W. Dodge & Company hardcover
ref. 6131443830Wildside Press . Hardback. New. pp. 372 Wildside Press hardcover
1910ref. 001787NEW YORK: DOUBLEDAY PAGE AND COMPANY 1910 1675 TOTAL Pp. COPYRIGHT 1910-1920. ABAFT THE FUNNEL; 323 p. ACTION AND REACTION; 324 p. REWARDS AND FAIRIES; 344 p. STALKY AND COMPANY; 310 p. THE NAULAHKA; 374 p. BOOK DESCRIPTION: RED LEATHER HARDBOUND WITH PLAIN BOARDS GILT GOLD STAMP/EMBOSSED CIRCULAR ELEPHANT DESIGN ON FRONT WITH SWASTIKA AT UPPER LEFT & SPINE COVER WITH FLORAL DECORATED MOTIF & TITLE GILT UPPER LEAF EDGE BROWN INNER BOARD PAPER. DIMENSIONS: 7 1/4" x 5 3/4" x 3/4" each volume. CONDITION: VERY GOOD-GOOD; CHIPPED SPINE CROWN/HEEL TO LEAF EDGE MOST VOLUMES LEATHER BRITTLE AT EDGES/WORN INNER BOARD EXPOSED IN AREAS 2 BOARDS DETACHED ACTION & REACTION; FRONT BOARD THE NAULAHKA; REAR BOARD 2 VERTICAL CRACKS EFFECT LEATHER ON SPINE OF REWARDS AND FAIRIES CHIPS EFFECT SPINE EXTREMITIES OF ABAFT THE FUNNEL STRONG SQUARE SPINES CLEAN AGE TONED PAGES. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. Very Good. DOUBLEDAY, PAGE AND COMPANY paperback
1909ref. mon0001003021MacMillan 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Reprinted November 1909. Pages clean no markings wear to edges. MacMillan hardcover
1909ref. 982H9London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1909. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". None. A smart first edition of Rudyard Kipling"s work containing eight stories and eight poems written at the height of his career. In the publisher's original red cloth binding with Kipling's gilt elephant insignia. First edition.This work is comprised of eight short stories and eight poems by Kipling including 'With the Night Mail' and 'The House Surgeon'. The majority of these were written between 1905 and 1909 appearing initially in newspapers individually. Kipling creates many characters who are there for the sole purpose to listen to a narrator telling his story.Rudyard Kipling 18651936 was an English novelist short story writer and poet best known for The Jungle Book Kim and his evocative tales of British India he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. In the publisher's original red cloth binding. Externally very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight fading to spine with one minor ink mark. Slight offsetting to endpapers. internally firmly bound. pages bright and clean with one or two spots to first and last few leaves an fore edge. Very Good Indeed Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
ref. 0483970638.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 0484788469.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 1331819032.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. 1528081765.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1909ref. 895Q14New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Various. The first edition of this collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling with charming illustrations to accompany the text. First edition. Bound in the publisher's pictorial green cloth. Written by English novelist poet and short story writer Rudyard Kipling who was born in India a country which inspired much of his work. This work is comprised of eight short stories and eight poems by Kipling including 'With the Night Mail' and 'The House Surgeon'. The majority of these were written between 1905 and 1909 appearing initially in newspapers individually. Kipling creates many characters who are there for the sole purpose to listen to a narrator telling his story. Illustrated with seven plates and a frontispiece collated complete. With a number of different artists including Clara Elsene Williams George Gibbs and C. B. Falls among others. Contemporary ink inscription to the front paste down dated 1909. With nine pages of advertisements between page 173 and 181.From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son literary agent of Rudyard Kipling. In the publisher's pictorial green cloth binding. Externally very good with light bumping and a little rubbing to the extremities. Small tears to cloth at the head and tail of the spine. The odd mark to cloth. Ink inscription to the front paste down. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with a touch of age toning. Very Good Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover