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1976Best.-Nr. TB28072Avon Conn.: The Limited Editions Club 1976. Limited Edition. Fine in green and purple cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt decorations around the author's initials on the front board. A small quarto measuring 10 1/2" by 8". Without a dust jacket as issued; however the book is contained within a fine paper covered slip case. One of only 2000 copies printed with this copy identified as number 435 and signed by the illustrator Charles Raymond. Selections by Bernard Bergonzi. 375 pages of text and illustrated with line drawings and color lithographs by Charles Raymond. A very tight clean and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
1973Best.-Nr. 022785Avon Connecticut: Limited Editions Club 1973. Book. Illus. by Charles Raymond Illustrator. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Thus. Avon Connecticut: Limited Editions Club 1973. First Thus. Near Fine. Charles Raymond Illustrator. Limited Editions Club copy signed by illustrator Charles Raymond in clean original slipcase. Selected by Bernard Bergonzi. Clean blue and green cloth with gold Kipling initials and decoration on cover gold lettering and decoration on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers. Illustrated in color and black and white by Charles Raymond. 375 pages. Limited to 2000 copies this copy not numbered. Slipcase is clean no cracking no edge wear very small closed tear to paper covering at one corner. Limited Editions Club Hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. 009889New York: Rand McNally & Company 1937 1935 1937. Black cloth titled in silver full color pastedown previous owner's name pages age-toned; illustrated dust jacket is worn with tears and small losses. Illustrated with a color frontis and 4 other color plates. Later Edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Paul Strayer. Tall 8vo. Rand McNally & Company hardcover
1905Best.-Nr. 30765NY: Doubleday Page and Co 1905. Lovely part leather/part marbleized board edition green leather and gilt/grey marbleized paper on cover and end papers in Very Good condition despite some wear at extremities and at crease between front cover and spine. Ex libris plate inside front cover. Facing title page two-color illustration with tissue overlay and cover page also in two colors. Many balck and white illustrations from the pen of Orson Lowell inside. A real treat!. Leather. Very Good/None. Illus. by Orson Lowell. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Doubleday Page and Co Hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 026850New York NY: Alex. Grosset & Co. 1899. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Farrand Charles D. We are all backwoodsmen and barbarians together" writes Kipling as he chronicles a trip to Calcutta a city that "holds out false hopes of some return" one that is "not wholly foreign.say rather too familiar." In 92 deckle-edged pages with pictorial frontispiece of the author & 2 interior plates. Orig. published in London in 1891 this is the First American Edition First Printing from 1899. With orange cloth-covered boards decorated in stark black & lettered in red to front & spine the latter of which is severely faded this slim hardcover is in Good condition: very clean sewn binding strong & straight pages mildly tanned but completely save for a gift inscription dated 1902 to ffep. The lower-outer page edges show a very faint dampstain barely evident save for on the plates. Light exterior soil & mild rubbing to extremities; no DJ. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive never "stock" images of books we don't actually have Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Pacific time; later orders weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Alex. Grosset & Co. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 0728386N.Y.: George Munro's Sons 1896. Fair. 1st thus edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Used Fair in wraps some browning; up wrap/1st leaf detached. Sm 8vo 98 Contai ns 5 short stories in all omitting only "The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvan ey" from the regular issue. Series: Munro's Library of Popular Novels No. 191 issued May 14 1896. See Livingston #60 and Supplement p113. Keywords: Fiction KIPLING RUDYARD ENGLISH LITERATURE 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH FICTION LI VINGSTON #60 SHORT STORY MUNRO GEORGE. George Munro\'s Sons [1896] paperback
Best.-Nr. 69-2060Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran. 1932. 8vo. Dust Jacket Good Clipped Abrasions $2.00 list price on DJ. Dust Jacket Only Book Not Included! Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran. 1932. unknown
1898Best.-Nr. 39719London: Macmillan and Co. 1898. First UK edition preceded by the U.S. 8vo gilt-stamped cloth boards; 381 pp 18 pages of ads dated "15-9-98." Good or better with spine shaken endpapers foxed scattered staining and edges of boards somewhat scuffed but color still good and gilt still bright. Macmillan and Co. unknown
Best.-Nr. BN259Macmillan 1960. hbk 336pp very light rubbing to dj otherwise an unread copy excellent clean tight unmarked in sleeve-protected dj Macmillan, 1960 unknown
Best.-Nr. 15-3638New York: Doubleday 1899. 16mo. 114 pp. Very Good Decorative Cloth with sun-fading rubbing edge wear shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle. New York: Doubleday, 1899. hardcover
1903Best.-Nr. 121348New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1903. First American edition of Kipling’s notable poetry collection. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel black stamped vignette to the front panel. In very good condition. First published in 1903 Kipling's The Five Nations included a number of new poems as well as several that had been previously published notably Recessional of 1897. In 1903 the United Kingdom consisted of four nations: England Ireland Scotland and Wales. It was soon suggested that Kipling's "five nations" were the "five free nations of Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa i.e. Cape Colony and 'the islands of the sea' i.e. the British Isles" - all dominated by Britons; and except in the last case by recent settlers. That suggestion was endorsed some one hundred years later. Doubleday, Page & Co hardcover
1903Best.-Nr. TB30767New York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1903. First Edition. Very good in dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text and a black design of a Viking ship under sail on the spine with a larger version of the same repeated on the front board together with embossed black borders. A small octavo of 7 7/8 by 5 1/4 inches with light rubbing and wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and with a tiny prior owner's signature and date of "1903" on the front paste down. Without a dust jacket. 215 pages containing a collection of 53 poems. David Alan Richards Rudyard Kipling A Bibliography A191 Doubleday, Page & Co. hardcover
Best.-Nr. FWW39Sarpedon 1997. hbk 320pp illustrated in b/w excellent in sleeve protected dj almost as new Sarpedon, 1997 unknown
1929Best.-Nr. 142979ZDoubleday Doran & Co. Inc 1929. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/NONE . 305 clean unmarked tight pages; a little writing on upper corner of front flyleaf; light soiling on outer edges of textblock; cover is sturdy with bright gilt lettering light wear at corners and ends of spine and fading on spine; no dust jacket Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 86678Century. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1899. Reprint. Hardcover. Green cloth gilt spine titles design in blind on the front board. Both with rubbing toning slight lean brief fray spine tears small bookplates a few small creases tender and shaky. Uncommon together. Photos upon request. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . Century hardcover
1929Best.-Nr. 006756Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company 1929. Book. Illus. by Illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Bound in dark grey cloth with blind stamped drawing of a ship on the front cover; gold lettering on front cover is bright but gold lettering on spine is faded; edge wear to boards particularly at top and bottom of spine and at corners; otherwise a solid clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with thirty-five black and white line drawings by John Lockwood Kipling Rudyard's father. Doubleday, Doran & Company Hardcover
Best.-Nr. 160149New York: Manhattan Press. Good. N.D. Hardcover. An edition in good condition with normal shelfwear and slight discoloration. There is a previous owner's pencil signature on the front flyleaf; The Light That Failed is a story of love loss and redemption. The novel follows the journey of two families the Mee family and the Chough family as they are both affected by the Great War. The Mee family is a wealthy family that is struggling to keep their business afloat while their son Rudyard is away fighting in the war. The Chough family is a family of coal miners who are struggling to make ends meet while their son Willie is away fighting in the war. Rudyard and Willie meet each other while they are both in the trenches and become friends. Willie tells Rudyard about the horrors of the war and Rudyard tells Willie about his dreams of becoming a writer. The two families are able to connect through their shared experiences of the war and they are able to heal their wounds. The Light That Failed is a story of hope and redemption.; 32mo; 313 pages . Manhattan Press hardcover
1936Best.-Nr. 15100Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co 1936. Octavo red cloth gilt titling to spine 91 pp. 1936 reprint of Kipling's 1895 work about the sport of polo from the perspective of the horses. Bookplate to front pastedown foxing to endpapers and first few pages lacking front endpaper bit of staining to covers along edges fading to spine a good sound copy. Doubleday, Doran & Co hardcover
1892Best.-Nr. 2222012First edition. Octavo. Half title. Original gilt and blind stamped salmon cloth. 8 page publisher's ads at end. No dust jacket. Good inner joints starting; slight lean. 276 pages. Printed by Ballantyne and Hanson & Co. Stewart 105. William Heinemann hardcover
1892Best.-Nr. 038620New York & London: Macmillan 1892. Second Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: vi 379 12publisher's ads. Bound in terracotta cloth decorated in gilt and brown. 7.5" x 5" Livingston Kipling Bibliography 86: "Kipling evidently wrote a libretto from the story. The headings to Chapters V VI VIII and XX are from 'Libretto of Naulahka'.". Macmillan unknown
1892Best.-Nr. 19476London: William Heinemann 1892. 1892. Good. - Octavo brick red cloth titled in gilt on the spine and titled & decorated in black on the front cover. The binding is bumped & rubbed. The head & tail of the spine are lightly chipped. Half-title title & 276 pages plus 8-page publisher's catalog. There is a contemporary owner's name & a bookseller's blind stamp on the front endpaper. The book is cracked at page 144. Good. First edition. London: William Heinemann, 1892. hardcover
1892Best.-Nr. 9201London : Macmillan 1892 . First Edition . VG . 8VO . Kipling's only serious attempt at literary collaboration. Originally appeared in the Century Magazine from November 1891 to July 1892 without the rhymed chapter headings. A very nice copy bound in salmon cloth with some marks on the covers and the gilt faded on the spine. Stewart p. 106. Macmillan hardcover
1890Best.-Nr. 615157New York: National Publishing Co 1890. Softcover. Good. The Red Letter Series edition issued August 23 1890 with a stamp on the front cover that reads "Special Edition." Publisher's catalog in back. Illustrated wrappers. Three pages of the catalog have a chunk torn out wrappers worn and soiled a good or better copy. Features a number of advertisements some with illustrations. One ad is for Burnette's Cocoaine sic claiming that it cures dandruff and "promotes the growth and preserves the beauty of the human hair." OCLC locates only seven holdings of this Red Letter Series edition. National Publishing Co unknown
Best.-Nr. 160154New York: Manhattan Press. Good. N.D. Hardcover. An edition in good condition that has general shelfwear and some mild discoloration. A previous owner's signature is inkeGd on the front flyleaf ; This is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Some of the stories are set in India and others in London but all of them are dark and suspenseful.; 32mo; 76 pages . Manhattan Press hardcover
1982Best.-Nr. 124503New York: The Viking Press 1982. Rare unrevised proof of The Portable Kipling. Octavo original wrappers with the publisher's date and price inscribed on the front panel. In fine condition. Rare. 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. The Viking Press unknown