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1923réf. 99110Garden City:: Doubleday Page & Company. Good in Good dust jacket. 1923. Hardcover. A later printing. Foxing to edges and endpapers else good in a good edge worn with several chips age darkened dust jacket. . Doubleday, Page & Company, hardcover books
1900réf. 422040New York: A.L. Burt 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. 339pp. 6pp. of advertisements. Original red cloth gilt-stamped spine title. Hinges cracked cloth soiled spine ends and corners rubbed and bumped about very good being R.L. Rusk's copy with his name and his daughter's name penned on the front endpapers lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Rusk taught English at the University of the Philippines 1912-1914. Ralph Leslie Rusk was a Professor Emeritus of American Literature at Columbia University New York New York. In 1950 he was the first winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction for The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1949. A.L. Burt hardcover books
1909réf. 612780New York: Barse & Hopkins 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Figured blue cloth stamped and decorated in gilt. Owner name on front fly some rubbing on the front boards very good or better. Barse & Hopkins hardcover books
1922réf. 554153Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company 1922. Softcover. Near Fine. Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius. 32mo. measuring approximately 3 1/2" x 5". 56pp. iii 2pp. Stapled wrappers. Pages lightly age-toned spine and edges lightly toned near fine. Haldeman-Julius Company unknown books
1919réf. 611024London: Methuen and Co 1919. Hardcover. Near Fine. First trade edition. Bookplate of Archibald Firestone modestly sunned spine else near fine lacking the dust jacket. Methuen and Co hardcover books
1935réf. 001531Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a worn Very Good slipcase. Limited to 950 copies bound in cloth-backed marbled boards. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. hardcover books
1973réf. 2345215Avon Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club 1973. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 0x0x0. Raymond Charles. Signed by illustrator. Limited edition #920 of 2000 copies. Signed by illustrator on limitation page. Includes publisher's slipcase. A few scuffs to slipcase. 1973 Hard Cover. xiii 1 375 3 pp. Color and black-and-white illustrations by Charles Raymond. A selection of short stories by the author of The Jungle Book who was also known for his poetry with an introduction by editor Bernard Bergonzi. Includes: Lispeth; The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case; The Madness of Private Ortheris; The Phantom 'Rickshaw; Baa Baa Black Sheep; On Greenhow Hill; The Man Who Was; Without Benefit of Clergy; The City of Dreadful Night; At the End of the Passage; The Finest Story in the World; Love-o'-Women; The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot; The Bridge-Builders; The Ship That Found Herself; Wireless; They; Mrs. Bathhurst; Mary Postgate; The Wish House; The Gardener; The Eye of Allah; Dayspring Mishandled. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1926réf. 005219London: J. A. Allen & Co. 1926. Book. Near Fine. Stapled Wrappers. First Issue. Near Fine wrappers lightly soiled. Originally appeared in "The Times" of London on July 8 1926. 8 pgs. with frontis portrait illustration. J. A. Allen & Co. Paperback books
1926réf. 009831New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1926. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine/Near Fine. 8mo. One Volume. 60pp. & 73pp. Solid First Edition Thus of these two classic short tales from Kipling originally published separately. Bound in red cloth with titles and decoration in gilt on front board and spine. Square and tight with very little wear save some quite gentle bumping to spine ends. Some foxing to bottom and fore-edge some of which scatters to interior pages but infrequently. . Beautiful unclipped pictorial dust-jacket $3.50 has very mild wear and toning to edges. Fresh and bright with no creases chipping or tears. Very well-preserved. A pretty collectable copy of a surprisingly uncommon item particularly in dust-jacket. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
réf. 160152New York: Manhattan Press. Fair. N.D. Hardcover. An edition in fair condition. The spine is loose and there is normal shelfwear to the exterior. A signature from a previous owner is inked on the front flyleaf; Kipling's Departmental Ditties Ballads Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses are poems about life in the military. They are full of humor and are often about the simple things in life.; 32mo; 255 pages . Manhattan Press hardcover books
1986réf. 25299Oxford: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 019812323X . Edited by Andrew Rutherford. First edition. Faint impression from a removed sticker on front paste-down else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Oxford University Press hardcover books
1909réf. 139777Boston: Alfred Bartlett 1909. stiff paper wrappers. Dwiggins W.A. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 11 french fold pages. Third edition cited by Stewart but the first with the frontispiece by William Addison Dwiggins not listed in Agner. A fine copy. Alfred Bartlett unknown books
1928réf. 124505Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. Very Good. 1928. Hardcover. A Very Good edition that has bumping to the very corners and general shelfwear to the board surfaces ; Kim is a young man who is kidnapped by the British and taken to India to become a fighting soldier. He is mistreated and is forced to do things he doesn't want to do. He escapes and makes his way back home.; 8vo; 284 pages . Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc. hardcover books
réf. 160153New York: Manhattan Press. Good. N.D. Hardcover. An edition in good condition with normal shelfwear and slight discoloration. A previous owner's ink signature is on the front flyleaf; Soldiers Three is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. In these tales Kipling explores the themes of patriotism duty and honor. Each story is told from a different point of view giving the reader a broad glimpse into the lives of Kipling's characters.; 32mo; 165 pages . Manhattan Press hardcover books
1905réf. 26615London: Macmillan Company 1905. First English edition. Paper wrappers lettered in red paperback. Thin crease to front wrapper else a near fine crisp copy. 62 pp. adv. 2. 12mo. Livingston 284. Stewart 301. Macmillan Company paperback books
1909réf. 142449Boston: Alfred Bartlett 1909. Softcover. Very Good. Third edition. 16mo. 11pp. Brown printed wrapper over unprinted white card covers sewn-bound. Frontispiece by William Addison Dwiggins. Spine starting to split contemporary owner's name penned on frontispiece verso top edge of frontispiece roughly opened else very good lacking the scarce envelope. Alfred Bartlett unknown books
réf. 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 books
réf. 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 books
1900réf. 602540New York: Barse & Hopkins 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo. Owner label on front pastedown small chips and tiny tears at the margin of a few pages light foxing on pages very good. Barse & Hopkins hardcover books
1919réf. 323752London: Methuen and Co 1919. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Good in full leather with gold and black stamping top edge gilt spine is missing leather is worn around the edges. Methuen and Co hardcover books
1904réf. 565642London: Macmillan 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Neat owner name on front fly. Spine sunned modest wear including a tiny rubbed spot at the upper shoulder foredge a bit spotted very good. Macmillan hardcover books
1904réf. 427683New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. First American Edition. Green cloth boards with gilt titles and top edge. Faint dampstain on top page edges in the gutters penned price on the front fly lightly rubbed very good lacking the dustwrapper. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1904réf. 324349London: Macmillan 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good with top edge gilt some fraying at the spine ends light wear to the corners a bookplate on the front pastedown lacking the dustwrapper. Macmillan hardcover books
1935réf. 12690Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. marbled boards andcloth. Near fine. 31 pages. A Christmas memento for the year 1935. Some pages roughly opened at head. Limited edition one of 950 copies. Owner inscription. Doubleday, Doran hardcover books
1926réf. 596826Boston: Oliver Ditson Company 1926. Softcover. Very Good. First edition stated Advertising Copy. Cover design by R.I.P. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert. Dampstaining to the bottom of the front cover affecting throughout a small tear at the bottom of the fold of the bifolium name stamp and "Advertising Copy" stamp on the front cover and some light edgewear still a very good and complete copy. For low voice and piano. Plate number 75126 - 4. The name stamp is that of Fay Foster a prolific American composer and pianist who took first place in the American Composers Competition of 1913. OCLC locates only four holdings. Oliver Ditson Company unknown books