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1899réf. 60443New York: The Century Company 1899. Early printing of the American edition. Octavo 19.75cm; original sage green cloth with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt black and blind on spine and covers; top edge gilt; x3242pp; illus. Hint of sunning to spine with a faint diagonal crease to upper right corner of first four leaves else a clean very Near Fine copy. The Century Company unknown books
1893réf. 589656London: C. Sheard & Co 1893. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Three nested bifolia making 12 pages. Outer bifolium separated along the fold but both leaves are present light edgewear "File Copy" and name stamp on the front cover still a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano. "Dedicated by kind permission to H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge K.G. Commander in Chief." OCLC locates only two holdings. C. Sheard & Co unknown books
1911réf. 608406London: Charles sheard & Co 1911. Softcover. Very Good. Unknown edition stamped "File Copy." Folio. three nested bifolia making 12 pages. Outer most and middle bifolia separating a bit at the ends of the folds light soiling and toning to the exterior and bumping to the corners still a complete and very good copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "Solider soldier come from the wars. E flat." Features short samples of several other songs. The front cover states "To that illustrious soldier Lt. General Sir Evelyn Wood these setting of Soldier Ballads are dedicated by his former schoolfellow." OCLC locates five holdings and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. Charles sheard & Co unknown books
1932réf. 7414Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Co 1932. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A very sharp copy of the 1932 stated 1st American edition. Clean and Near Fine with bright gilt-lettering at the front panel and spine in a crisp price-intact Near Fine dustjacket with very very lighty staining along the spine. Thick octavo 371 pgs. Housed in a custom-made quarter-morocco biox. Doubleday, Doran & Co unknown books
1912réf. 23779Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1912. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. The 1912 1st edition preceding the British edition by 1 year. Tight and VG in its dark cloth with bright gilt-titling and blindstamping along the front panel. And in a perfectly serviceable price-intact VG dustjacket with light creasing and wear along the spine ends light soiling to the panels including spotting at the spine and several tiny closed tears to the edges. Still though a presentable copy. Livingston 358. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
1896réf. ST13170bLondon and New York: Macmillan and Co 1896. FIRST EDITION. 190 x 122 mm. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4". viii 172 pp. with the half title. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt pictorial design on upper cover and on flat spine all edges gilt. Vignette headpieces and tailpieces frontispiece and 20 plates by A. S. Hartrick. Verso of front free endpaper with ink owner's inscription of Constance Reynolds dated 14 February 1898. Stewart 157. ◆Spine a bit cocked and faded with a little fraying at tail edge extremities lightly rubbed a couple of small stains to upper cover text slightly open at gutter at gathering D occasional mild marginal foxing or faint fore-edge dampstain to plates not affecting image but a very good copy clean and fresh with nothing approaching a fatal defect. Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 is most famous for his works portraying the lives of both natives and colonialists on the Indian subcontinent. An opponent of female suffrage and a staunch supporter of British imperialism Kipling nonetheless had great sympathy for the traditions of India as well as the literary ability and desire to present it as a land of beauty and enchantment. He was born in Bombay where his father ran a school of art and he lived in India until the age of six. He was sent to school in England but chose to return to the East at 18. His father had become director of the Lahore Museum in what is now Pakistan and Rudyard became a journalist for the "Lahore Civil and Military Gazette." His first two collections of stories "Plain Tales from the Hills" and "Soldiers Three" depict the lives of the British military in India; he proved to be a prolific author writing novels tales for children and adults and many poems. Kipling's wife was American and they lived for a time in Vermont but from 1896 the couple settled in England. Among his many honors are a Nobel Prize 1907 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature 1926 which had previously only been awarded to Scott Meredith and Hardy. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1923réf. 34337Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1923. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Cloth. An attractive set of first American editions in two volumes. Both volumes in Near Fine condition with minor rubbing to edges paper labels on spine lightly chipped. Top edges gilt. Lacking the rare dust-jackets. Richards A341 Livingston 483 Stewart 504; Kipling's history of the Irish Guards in World War I recounting details of various engagements. Meticulously researched from primary sources including several maps ; Vol. 1 & 2; 8vo; viii ix-xviii 334; xiv 307 1 pages . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1962réf. 59936New York: The Limited Editions Club 1962. Limited to 1500 copies this no. 113 signed by the artist Robin Jacques; 4to pp. ix 3 283 1; full-page illustrations in color introduction by Charles Edmund Carrington; book plate on front free endpaper verso small section of fore-edge stained bookplate of James Mead Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian on pastedown else very good or better in leather-backed beige cloth decorated in gilt on covers and spine publisher's slipcase worn and soiled. LEC monthly newsletter laid in. LEC Bibliography 337. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1898réf. 54774Boston: Privately Printed 1898. First Thus. Sextodecimo 15cm; sewn; issued in stiff paper wrappers lettered from the types of the title page; 4 leaves- title and text; frontispiece; vignette designed by E.J Clark printed in red is repeated throughout occupying half of each page; light rubbing; upper rear corner of back cover has tiny nick; Very Good lacking the envelope. Inspiration for the 1909 Broadway production A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne and subsequently the 1915 silent film "A Fool There Was" starring Theda Bara. LIVINGSTON 151; wikipedia. Privately Printed unknown books
1928réf. 52436London: Macmillan 1928. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo. 20cm.; red cloth w stamped elephant in gilt on cover /titles gilt on spine; top edge gilt; dustjacket; 299pp.; light wear only a Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped with a short closed tear at crown of spine; small spot of soiling to front panel; a Near Fine or better DJ. This collection has thirty-one speeches. Macmillan unknown books
1898réf. 307522London: Macmillan & Co 1898. Softcover. Very Good. First edition wrappered issue. Pictorial blue wrappers. Light wear at the extremities a very good or better copy. Stewart 191. Macmillan & Co unknown books
1909réf. 0019New York: B. W. Dodge & Co 1909. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. 360pp. Second issue bound in a blue pictorial cloth depicting a ship on the high sea; red lettering spine and front cover. A clean bright copy in very good dust jacket with repair to rear panel along bottom edge duplicating the jacket design. B. W. Dodge & Co hardcover books
1897réf. 2352703New York: The Century Co 1897. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First American edition. Crease on rear board corner causing minor split to rear endpaper spine slightly toned ink name and a few small spots on front endpapers rear hinge just beginning to weaken. 1897 Hard Cover. 323 pp. Olive cloth gilt titles and decorations with black and red borders and accents engraved frontispiece and plates. "First published in 1897 'Captains Courageous' follows the adventures of Harvey Cheyne a spoiled rich young man who is accidentally washed overboard from a luxury ocean liner and is rescued by the Portuguese captain of a fishing boat and his hard scrabble crew. Kipling drawing on his own experiences living in Vermont fills this classic coming of age story with period details of late nineteenth-century American fishing whaling and railroad travel. Forced to work for his place on the ship fifteen-year-old Harvey must overcome his own stubbornness and privileged up-bringing as he learns to survive and even thrive in the harsh demanding and often dangerous life at sea. Through hard work and discipline Harvey learns the values of self-reliance and friendship as he becomes a skilled fisherman and an accepted and equal member of the crew. The novel is both a thrilling test of Harvey's character and an examination of class and privilege in nineteenth-century America. Exhilarating and ultimately redemptive the novel was heralded by Theodore Roosevelt in his 1900 essay 'What We Can Expect of the American Boy' as describing in the 'liveliest way just what a boy should be and do. The Century Co hardcover books
1897réf. 1397627New York: The Century Co 1897. Early Edition. Hardcover. Octavo viii 323 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Sunning to spine. Spine cocked. General shelf wear primarily to head and tail of spine and to corners of boards. Mild soiling to rear board. Top edge of textblock gilt. Previous bookseller's stamp to front pastedown. Previous owner's signature to front free endpaper. Age toning throughout. Shelved in Case 14. 1397627. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Century Co hardcover books
1932réf. 001287Garden City NY: Doubleday & Doran 1932. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American Edition Stated. Beautiful clean copy with some light shelf-wear. Clean pages throughout. Unclipped wrapper with a 1" piece from rear cover. Still a superb collectible copy. Doubleday & Doran hardcover books
1926réf. 6653New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1926. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Donald Maxwell. Quarto. 94 pages 24 mounted color plates. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering in dust jacket with light wear at spine ends and slight age toning at spine. First edition stated. Internally clean and bright. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
1937réf. 016631London: Macmillan 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 237pp. Beautiful First Edition of this autobiography from the author of The Jungle Books Kim Captain's Courageous and so many more classic tales for children4 and adults. Bound in red cloth with titles in gilt on spine and elephant head motif stamped in gilt on the front board. Square tight and clean throughout with a little or no wear. Some mild off-setting to end-papers from the dust-jacket. Equally attractive unclipped though unpriced dust-jacket has some moderate toning but still fresh and bright with no creasing tears or chipping. A gorgeous collectable copy and though not uncommon much more so in such nice condition. Macmillan hardcover books
1918réf. 52415New York: doubleday 1918. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm.; green cloth over dark gray boards; paper title plate on cover and spine; dustjacket; 101pp.; A Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped with tears to the extremities; Very Good only. The book consists of four stories that read as letters home from soldiers from India and the North-West Frontier which take place in 1915 and 1916. "A Retired Gentleman" and "The Fumes of the Heart" are both fictionalized letters written from the perspective of wounded Indian soldiers a Rajput and a Sikh to their families. The second is cast as a dictated letter from a Sikh soldier to his brother and has dramatic asides and digressions from the injured soldier punctuating the text. As for the remaining two stories "The Private Account" is presented as a scene showing an Afghan family reading and responding to a letter from their son on the Western Front and the final story "A Trooper of Horse" takes the form of a letter from an unwounded Muslim soldier in France to his mother. doubleday unknown books
1904réf. 2222360Second edition. 4 ¾" x 4". Frontispiece drawing by E. B. Bird. Title page in red and black. Original dark green boards printed paper label on upper cover. No dust jacket. Very good. 10 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Printed by Fred & Bertha Goudy at The Village Press Hingham Mass. Livingston 293. Alfred Bartlett hardcover books
réf. 2343930New York: Century Co 1895. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12x10x0. Kipling John Lockwood. First American edition preceding the UK release by several days with a number of alterations to the text. One of two binding variants no priority. Spine toned edges rubbed ink name and pencil gift note dated Christmas 1895 on front endpaper. 324 pp. 8vo. A sequel to the children's classic The Jungle Book -- which inspired the classic Disney animated film as well as the 2016 live action motion picture -- with illustrations by the author's father John Lockwood Kipling. Century Co hardcover books
1919réf. 54835London: Methuen and Co. LTD 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Octavo. xiii 159 1 31 1pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering on spine in original illustrated dustjacket black lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated title page. A collection of poems written during the period from just after the Boer War until the aftermath of World War I with topics including war life death and God. Index of first lines at front. At rear a listing of Methuen titles on thirty-two pages. Inside flaps with publisher's Kipling titles. Minor sunning along edges of binding. Dustjacket with three-quarter inch chip. Methuen and Co. LTD hardcover books
1910réf. 526716London: The Frederick Harris Company 1910. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Composer's name stamp on the front cover some light toning to the exterior and bumping to the corners including a nick to the ends of the fold of the outer bifolium still a complete and very good copy. For voice or piano monologue with no vocal melody. Plate number "F.H. 810." The front cover features a black and white portrait of whom we assume to be the composer of the piece Frederic Dale. "These words are reprinted from Mr. Rudyard Kipling's The Seven Seas by permission of the author" printed above the music. OCLC locates only three physical holdings. The Frederick Harris Company unknown books
1926réf. 285606Garden City New York: Doubleday Page and Company 1926. Three Quarters Leather. Very Good binding. The Sea and Sussex with illustrations by Donald Maxwell and verses by Rudyard Kipling complete with 24 plates. Verse and illustration on opposite pages. No marks of any kind. Three quarters polished navy calf over blue cloth; gilt lettering and decoration on the spine. Very Good. Very Good binding. Doubleday, Page and Company unknown books
1906réf. 14266New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. Very Good. New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt top edge gilt; 10275pp.; color frontispiece and three plates by Rackham. Some light shelf wear to cloth extremities corners gently bumped minor soil spot to half title page a few leaves with small losses from having been clumsily opened not uncommon with this title else a Very Good still quite brilliant copy. The first appearance of Rackham's illustrations for this title absent from the first U.K. edition. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
2005réf. 300292London: Folio Society 2005. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Philip Bannister. Complete five volume set of large octavos; each in publishers red illustrated cloth; titling on the spines in gold; housed in the publishers slipcase; some wear to the slipcase~~Illustrations by Philip Bannister~~Introduction by Andrew Lycett. Near Fine binding. Folio Society unknown books
