1950Best.-Nr. 5544ROWOHLT ERNST 05/1950. 1. softcover. Dschungelbücher Die Ungekürzte Ausgabe! ROWOHLT, ERNST paperback
1989Best.-Nr. 23194KIEPENHEUER & WITSCH 1989. 4. softcover. Dschungelbücher Die KIEPENHEUER & WITSCH paperback
1930Best.-Nr. wq860Paul Hartmann Broché 1930 "Rare volume broché (20 x 27cm) 295 pages paginées sous chemise et emboîtage ; Puck, lutin de la colline (titre anglais original : Puck of Pook's Hill) est un texte en 10 chapitres assimilable au genre « fantasy », Puck est un conte pour enfants qui est constitué de courtes histoires entrecoupées de poèmes, nombreuses illustrations protégées sous serpente, dont une en frontispice, il a entre autres été tiré de cet ouvrage 22 exemplaires sur Hollande Van Gelder avec une suite en noir avec remarques avant la lettre, numérotés de 28 à 49, celui-ci est le numéro 29, bien complet de sa suite en noir sous papier cristal. Jean Bruller est le véritable de nom du résistant ""Vercors"" qui publia en 1942 ""le silence de la mer"" ; plat de support inférieur de la boite partiellement détaché, livre en très bon état, frais, rousseurs sur les tranches, très bon état général boite omise. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande."
1938Best.-Nr. 72066Paul Hartmann | Paris 1938 | 12 x 19 cm | broché
1930Best.-Nr. 2455KNAUR THEODOR 1930. 1. hardcover. KNAUR, THEODOR hardcover
1910Best.-Nr. 6rsirMacmillan and Co 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Name of the previous owner written on the front free end paper page. Colonial edition. Complete with all Illustrations. Deckle edges. There is gilt on the spine of the book and front cover. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and scuffed marks. There are age related marks. Repaired pages that were torn. All pages remain accessible. Some repairs to the top and bottom edges of the spine. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Macmillan and Co hardcover
1901Best.-Nr. 906Q18London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1901 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5". Not Stated. The first edition first impression of this classic novel from Rudyard Kipling with illustrations. First edition first impression. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with a gilt elephant to the front cover. This intriguing spy novel was written by prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling who is known as a pioneer for the short story form and a classic author of children's fiction. He was born in India providing the inspiration behind a vast amount of his writings. 'Kim' was originally published as a serial in McClure's Magazine between 1900 and 1901; the story takes place against the backdrop of the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. Illustrated with nine plates and a frontispiece. Collated complete. Contains a leaf of publisher's advertisements to the rear. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth. Externally very good with light rubbing to the extremities and spine. Slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine with the odd mark to cloth. Very small tears to the tail of the rear joint and spine tail. Scattered spotting to endpapers. Front hinge is a little strained but holding firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright with the occasional light scattered spotting. Blue pencil marks to the advertising page. Very Good Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1920Best.-Nr. GEN19-I-4London : Macmillan and Co 1920-1932. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". None. Two works by Rudyard Kipling of travel writing and short stories. First editions. Rather uncommon in the original dustwrappers. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and to date he remains its youngest recipient. In cloth covered bindings with original unclipped dustwrappers. Externally very smart with just slight bumping to head and tail of spines. Dustwrappers are generally smart with slight chipping and the odd small closed tear. One very small hole to the spine panel of one dustwrapper. Internally firmly bound bright and clean. Near Fine Macmillan and Co hardcover
1932Best.-Nr. 950P57London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1932. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8" by 5". None. A superb first edition copy of this entertaining anthology of short stories by Rudyard Kipling in the original dust wrapper. The first edition first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A collection of short stories and poems by Rudyard Kipling.Including the stories and poems 'Dayspring Mishandled' 'The Church That Was at Antioch' 'Akbar's Bridge' 'Fairy-Kist' 'Dinah in Heaven' 'Naaman's Song' 'Azrael's Court' 'Song of Seventy Horses' and many more.Many of these stories had previously appeared in various periodicals however three of these stories are for the first time here published being 'The Tie' 'Aunt Ellen' and 'Uncovenanted Mercies'. In the original publisher's cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally smart. Very light shelf wear to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is smart very lightly edge worn. Spine is a little age-toned. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 18570Paris Paul Hartmann 1930 Traduction de Jacques Vallette. Introduction par André MAUROIS. Trente eaux-fortes de Jean BRULLER. Paris, Paul Hartmann éditeur, 1930, in-4, broché, couverture rempliée imprimée.
1912Best.-Nr. 21521London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Cover ties are missing. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Else a very handsome copy.; Deluxe Edition # 490 of 500 copies printed on English handmade paper. SIGNED by the publisher and printer. Bound in limp vellum with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; xix 468 pages . 1912. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
1914Best.-Nr. BIBLIO-51284n.p. n.d. but Garden City New York first edition 1914. Limited edition of perhaps 50 copies - Richards. Broadside in quarter-morocco and cloth maroon slipcase with gilt spine-title and limp cloth chemise. 1 leaf. Kipling's memorial ode for his friend and hero Lord Roberts one of Britain's greatest generals whom he had earlier celebrated in "Bobs". "Lord Roberts" was written soon after Roberts' death in November 1914 - shortly before that Roberts had helped Kipling's son John secure a commission in his own regiment the Irish Guards to fight in France. Kipling had known and admired Roberts since his days as a young journalist in India in the 1880's and at the end of his own life Kipling wrote in "Something of Myself" that "the proudest moment of my young life was riding up Simla Mall besides Lord Roberts who asked me what the men were thinking. Fine in slightly rubbed slipcase. n.p., n.d., but Garden City, New York, first edition, 1914 hardcover
1906Best.-Nr. 006313New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1906. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Arthur Rackham. 8vo 8 277 1pp. Beautiful First Printing of the First American Edition published two months prior to the English Edition. Bound in original pictorial green cloth with titles and viking ship vignette stamped in black gilt on the front board and spine. t.e.g. Four colored plates by Arthur Rackham present which were not present in the English Edition. Housed in a red cloth-covered chemise and matching quarter red morocco and red cloth slipcase. Bookplate on front paste-down.of popular American Author George Barr McCutcheon best known for the "Graustark" novels as well as"Brewster's Millions" made into several films of the same name. Bookseller ticket of Lauriat's of Boston on ffep. Square tight and clean throughout. Mild rubbing to hinges edges and tips. A hint of off-setting on the ffep from the bookplate but quite minor. Very well-preserved. A most handsome collectable copy. Doubleday Page & Co hardcover
1914Best.-Nr. BIBLIO-51283n.p. n.d. but Garden City New York 1914. 50 copies printed. Broadside 27.2 cm in green cloth slipcase with gilt spine-title and limp cloth chemise. 1 leaf. Richards A273. Kipling's powerful poem "The Outlaws" was his response to the German invasion of Belgium and the many reported atrocities. Kipling had long warned of the German threat and the poem makes clear his belief that Germany had been planning the war cold-bloodedly and hypocritically for many years. Very minor creasing Very Good in slightly rubbed slipcase. n.p., n.d., but Garden City, New York, 1914 hardcover
1925Best.-Nr. BIBLIO-51299Privately printed New York first unauthorized edition 1925. Limited edition of 66 numbered copies. Thin gray boards black cover-title 8vo 20 cm. 16 leaves on handmade paper. A scarce unauthorized first separate edition the story having first appeared in St. Nicholas Magazine for January 1893. The publisher has never been identified but was also responsinble for a similar unauthorized printing in the same year of 'Collah-Wallah and the Poison Stick'. Richards A357. John McGivering summarized the content for the Kipling Society website as follows: "This is an amusing little trifle that might well entertain adults as well as the children for whom it was intended being a fairy-tale with echoes of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves from The Arabian Nights with a message indicating that the simplest way of doing something is probably the best. Fine copy in rubbed quarter-morocco slipcase with gilt spine-title and cloth chemise. Privately printed, New York, first (unauthorized) edition, 1925 hardcover
1906Best.-Nr. 006313New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1906. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Arthur Rackham. 8vo 8 277 1pp. Beautiful First Printing of the First American Edition published two months prior to the English Edition. Bound in original pictorial green cloth with titles and viking ship vignette stamped in black gilt on the front board and spine. t.e.g. Four colored plates by Arthur Rackham present which were not present in the English Edition. Housed in a red cloth-covered chemise and matching quarter red morocco and red cloth slipcase. Bookplate on front paste-down.of popular American Author George Barr McCutcheon best known for the "Graustark" novels as well as"Brewster's Millions" made into several films of the same name. Bookseller ticket of Lauriat's of Boston on ffep. Square tight and clean throughout. Mild rubbing to hinges edges and tips. A hint of off-setting on the ffep from the bookplate but quite minor. Very well-preserved. A most handsome collectable copy. Doubleday Page & Co hardcover books
1985Best.-Nr. 23220KIEPENHEUER & WITSCH 1985. 3. softcover. Dschungelbücher Die KIEPENHEUER & WITSCH paperback
1901Best.-Nr. 103824Macmillan 1901. First edition first printing with 2pp of ads at rear. 8vo. Publisher's red boards with gilt titles & elephant motif to front board. Topedge gilt. A near fine copy with clean & fresh boards with none of the usual fading to spine. No marks to boards. Light wear to extremities. No nicking & no splitting to cloth. Internally clean and complete with no inscriptions. A lovely copy with very attractive unmarked/unfaded boards. Considered one of the author's greatest works and one of the finest novels of India and the British Empire. Macmillan unknown
1913Best.-Nr. 016764London: Macmillan 1913. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Good. Reprint. Hardback original red cloth binding gilt titling to spine and gilt elephant roundel to upper board. Top edge gilt. 20.5 × 13cm 407pp 1. This copy has a quite remarkable maritime history. It was owned by architect Arthur J. Davis with his bookplate to the front pastedown and the rear endpapers contain two architectural pencil plans/sketches believed to relate to the smoking rooms of RMS Aquitania. The left-hand drawing is more detailed and appears to show the funnel casing at the base of the plan with a swirl in the middle suggesting the outline of a skylight; the tapering of the deck plan is consistent with the aft position of the smoking room. The right-hand drawing is a similar plan possibly representing a secondary smoking room. The presence of Davis's bookplate together with the subject matter of the sketches and his documented role in designing the public interiors of Aquitania during this period strongly suggests these drawings were executed by Davis in association with his own copy of the book. Arthur Joseph Davis 1878-1951 was an English architect trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and co-founder of the firm Mewès & Davis responsible for the interior design of the London Ritz Hotel notable country houses and the public rooms of RMS Aquitania in 1911-1914 - a period that coincides with the date of this book 1913. While no external authentication is offered the attribution is made in good faith on the basis of ownership evidence and contextual consistency. Kipling's selection of short stories first published in 1891 set in colonial India. Most had previously been published in periodicals. Condition: The pencil sketches are in good condition there is a little offsetting from each when the books has been closed and they've faced each other and some light age-toning to the endpapers. The red cloth is good but a little darkened and there is light scattered foxing to the pages throughout. However the bookplate and sketches make this a unique item of Aquitania history. Macmillan hardcover
1954Features. Coronation-sized crowds meet Billy Graham at Waterloo Station in England (article by Beverley Baxter; Can Hees revitalize the Tories?; Let's Stop Monopoly Television - Scott Young challenges the decree that TV competition isn't allowed in Canada; Kitimat, B.C. - how to start a city from scratch, with photos; 24 Hours in the Old Quarter of Montreal - with photos; The Exalted deaths of the Midland Martyrs - part four of a series by Thomas B. Costain; The Men who can't stand Marriage - Sidney Katz; A Hill of Solid Gold - Prince Obermuller; Wawanesa, Manitoba - the one-horse town that spawned a Giant - the Wawanesa Insurance Company; Down the Yukon in an open boat - Part 2 of 'I Married the Klondike' by Laura Beatrice Berton; He's Made a liar out of Kipling - Canada's Colombo Plan chief, Nik Cavell; The most successful fraud in show business - Gerald Peters and his radio show Memory Music Hall. Lovely colour photo Wabasso Cottons ad inside back cover. Average wear. Moisture stains along all fore-edges. Address label. Half of page1/2 removed, affecting a Royal Bank add, most of the editorial, and most of the table of contents. Portion of page 41, 57 and 61 clipped, removing a portions of mundane ads. Book
1916Pages 65-80 (16 pages in this issue). Features: Leaves from a Lost Portfolio - papers purporting to be the report of an English Secret Service Agent designated by the cipher L.P. 33, to Sir Edward Grey - the document suggests an uncanny familiarity with the aims and methods of the British Intelligence Service in the United States; The Armed Merchantman "Baralong", by Herbert B. Mayer (formerly Editor of the New Orleans American); The Dual Monarchy in War-Time - By Dr. Adolph von Schierbrand; Behind the Scenes at the Capital; Germans to Honor Shakespeare's Memory; Great Britain Bars Christianity - Lutheran Missionaries Vilely Persecuted by Latest English Ruling; Thoughts of a "Gently Hazed" American; The Triumph of Representative Government; Verdun; American Rights Under the Wilson Regime; Is Rudyard Kipling Insane?; Hall Caine's Indictment of England; Honor the Irish; The Financial Forum; War Bond Ads; Back cover ad shows home and lot donated by Deutsches Journal; and more. Openings along coverfold. Unmarked. Average wear. A worthy copy. Magazine
1906Best.-Nr. 1497New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1906. First American Edition. Cloth. Good. Arthur Rackham. Green cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine imagine of ship embossed on cover wear to extremities top gilt page edge deckled pages edge and bottom. Signature of previous owner on front free endpaper. Frontispiece with heavily foxed tissue guard title page also foxed. 4 illustrations including frontispiece by Arthur Rackham. Pages 165 and 166 have open tear edges of ten lines of text obscured by tear. Some age toning throughout. 277 pp. First American Edition published two months before British Edition. Doubleday, Page & Co unknown
1907Best.-Nr. R260173235SOCIETE DU MERCURE DE FRANCE / COLLECTION D'AUTEURS ETRANGERS. 1907. In-12. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 327 pages. Dos de toile verte, pièce de titres marron, titres, un fleuron et filets dorés. Papier tons beiges et roses sur les plats. Plats d'origine conservés.. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
1975Best.-Nr. 004238Nottingham: Lonsdale & Bartholemew Ltd. 1975. Single sided printed poster approximately 1015mm x 755mm in size 40" x 30". Lightly creased from old folds one or two hints of foxing but generally quite bright and clean. Based on the 1888 novella by Rudyard Kipling. The film was directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery and Michael Caine. First Edition. Unbound. Good. UK Quad. Poster. Lonsdale & Bartholemew Ltd. Paperback
1902Best.-Nr. AQ34790London: Macmillan and Co. 1902. 7 249pp 2. With half-title and 22 engraved plates by the author. Original publisher's decorated red cloth boards. Rubbed and marked with spine dulled and chipped some soiling to boards corners bumped. Light browning and soiling to endpapers. The first edition second issue in original boards of Kipling's most popular collection of children's stories centring around the unique adaptations of numerous anthropomorphised animals. . First edition second issue. Quarto. Macmillan and Co. hardcover