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1920Best.-Nr. 310435New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1920. 28 vols. 8vo. Bound in half blue morocco t.e.g. rubbed 5 heads chipped. 28 vols. 8vo. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1903Best.-Nr. 66181London: Meuthen and Co. 1903. 8vo. xviii 230 pp. Dark green morocco with binders device 'Wr. S' and an owl in gilt on the with gilt lettering to spine and decoration to boards. Top edge gilt but faded. Fading and marking to the spine rubbing around edges. Some light spotting throughout. Binding firm. . Very Good. Full Morocco. 1903. Meuthen and Co. 1903 unknown
1939Best.-Nr. 541941939 Paris, Tallandier, 1939, in 12 broché, 349 pages.
1909Best.-Nr. 1309776Published by Hodder & Stoughton 1909. 1st edition. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Robinson W. Heath. Very good condition with no wrapper. Deluxe limited to 500 copies. Large format 32 x 26cm. White vellum binding with gilt titles and vignettes. 30 lovely tipped-in colour plates mounted on cream card with green decorative borders and captioned paper guards. Top edge gilt others untrimmed. SIGNED by the artist this is copy no. 304. Spine and corners are slightly bumped and slightly grubby. Ties missing. Name plate to front pastedown. There is slight bookworm or silverfish damage to the front endpaper and some slight foxing to contents but generally a very nice copy. Published by Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
1902Best.-Nr. KIPLINGR000583Macmillan London. 1902. First edition. First state: the lettering on the spine has flaked off entirely. Quarto. pp vi 249. Full-page illustrations by the author. Pictorial red cloth blocked in white and black. The white blocking on these first state bindings was severely flaking even as the books were being produced and the publishers quickly switched to a more stable white pigment. One often sees copies described as having the pigment flaking much less than usual without mention that this therefore precludes them from being first state.Spine pigment completely gone also flaking on front and rear boards. Head and tail of spine slightly pushed. Bottom corner of front cover bumped. Very good. Scarce in the first state. Macmillan, London. hardcover
1910Best.-Nr. 11861Doubleday Page and Company. New York. 1910. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION U. S. Precedes the first U.K separate edition by 4 years. Oblong 8vo. 4.4 x 6.4 inches. 8 double leaves uncut at the top of the pages. Each double leaf has a dark green rule and dot border the text printed in black with green initial letters. Half title has "IF" printed in green within an ornamental black panel the same printed onto the front board but in red with the addition of the author's name. This version with the green colour printing is Richards' variant a. The text pages are clean and fresh and have been professionally re-cased into the binding but without the blank endpapers otherwise a very good copy in the publishers original light brown paper covered boards; - Richards' binding variant iii a- with a couple of small chips and some rubbing and bumping to the spine and a little minor marking to the rear board but overall is a very good example. The Publishers note on page 5 appears in four different variants with priority unknown and this copy has variant ii. Despite being re-cased this is an attractive and clean bright copy of this uncommon little book. Published probably November 1910 very shortly after the Poem first appeared in the book Rewards and Fairies October 1910 this separate publication was issued to capitalise on the huge and instant popularity of what has become Kipling's most enduring work of verse. A poll taken by the BBC in the UK in 2005 voted it as Britain's favourite Poem polling twice as many votes as the number 2 choice Lord Tennyson's The Lady of Shallot. Originally written in 1895 IF was inspired by the actions of Dr. Leander Starr Jameson a British Officer whose forces were defeated by the Boers in 1895 but who was portrayed as a victorious hero by the British press the poem is a powerful masterclass in maintaining the British stiff upper lip. --- David Alan Richards; Rudyard Kipling. A Bibliography A244. Doubleday, Page and Company. New York. 1910 hardcover
1902Best.-Nr. 032371UK: Macmillan 1902. First Edition 1st Printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. R Kipling. 1st Edition 1st state 1902. Tipped in Kipling Burwash Letter to endpaper. Quite a bright book. A collection of Kipling's well-known animal stories including "How the Whale Got his Throat" "The Elephant's Child" and "The Butterfly That Stamped." With author's illustrations throughout. Book is very good with bright boards and spine. Spine tips/corners lightly rubbed. White printing is bright and much better than normal. Spine slightly faded. Contents good with foxing marking and thumbing to some pages. Much better example than normally appears. Ref Macmillan hardcover
1932Best.-Nr. feb576331932: First Slovakian Edition of Jungle Book Kniha džungle Academia
1904Best.-Nr. feb597351904: First Spanish Edition of Jungle Book El libro de las tierras vírgenes Gustavo Gili
1902Best.-Nr. feb1322141902: First Japanese Edition of Jungle Book 狼太郎 Fuzanbo
1929Best.-Nr. 299029London.: Macmillan. 1929. Limited edition #255 of 525 copies. Full red leather raised bands gilt spine titles top edges gilt marbled endpapers.untrimmed foredges gilt decorated turn-ins. Very good spines moderately worn and darkened. 4to. 27x20 cm. Signed by Kipling on the limitation page of volume 1. Bookplate of Southern California philanthropists Frank and Blanche Seaver on the versos of the ffeps. Heavy set will require extra shipping. weight: 11.5 lb. Portrait frontis signed by Francis Dodd. Macmillan. hardcover
1929Best.-Nr. 299029London.: Macmillan. 1929. Limited edition #255 of 525 copies. Full red leather raised bands gilt spine titles top edges gilt marbled endpapers.untrimmed foredges gilt decorated turn-ins. Very good spines moderately worn and darkened. 4to. 27x20 cm. Signed by Kipling on the limitation page of volume 1. Bookplate of Southern California philanthropists Frank and Blanche Seaver on the versos of the ffeps. Heavy set will require extra shipping. weight: 11.5 lb. Portrait frontis signed by Francis Dodd. Macmillan. hardcover books
1968Best.-Nr. 49502DELPHIN 1968. 1. hardcover. Dschungelbücher Die DELPHIN hardcover
1902Best.-Nr. 8119London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1902. First edition. Fine. A Fine copy. Finely bound in full red crushed morocco possibly by Asprey though unsigned with pictorial gilt elephant. Complete with twenty-two plates and text illustrations throughout. Spine in compartments with raised bands and elephant motif. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Original cloth cover bound in at rear. A very attractive example clean and bright throughout in a charming binding. A classic work of children's literature and one of Kipling's most beloved titles Just So Stories compiles origin tales like "How the Leopard Got its Spots" and "How the Elephant Got his Trunk" and "How the Camel Got His Hump." The book was charmingly illustrated by Kipling himself who reported that the stories were born of out the bedtime tales that he told his daughter. Kipling is of course best known for The Jungle Book and its sequel which earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 and secured his place in the canon of English storytelling. Based on folktales and legends that Kipling learned during his childhood in India the Jungle Books were met with huge success upon publication and continue to enthrall readers of all ages to this day. According to Professor Edwin L. Miller their publication "caused even severe critics of Kipling's previous work to admit that he is a writer of inspired genius." Largely focused on man's relationship to nature the Jungle Books in part narrate the tales of Mowgli a human "man-cub" raised by wolves as he tries to find his proper place in the world. For contributions like these Kipling became the first English-language writer and the youngest ever to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Fine. Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown
1902Best.-Nr. 8119London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1902. First edition. Fine. A Fine copy. Finely bound in full red crushed morocco possibly by Asprey though unsigned with pictorial gilt elephant. Complete with twenty-two plates and text illustrations throughout. Spine in compartments with raised bands and elephant motif. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Original cloth cover bound in at rear. A very attractive example clean and bright throughout in a charming binding. A classic work of children's literature and one of Kipling's most beloved titles Just So Stories compiles origin tales like "How the Leopard Got its Spots" and "How the Elephant Got his Trunk" and "How the Camel Got His Hump." The book was charmingly illustrated by Kipling himself who reported that the stories were born of out the bedtime tales that he told his daughter. Kipling is of course best known for The Jungle Book and its sequel which earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 and secured his place in the canon of English storytelling. Based on folktales and legends that Kipling learned during his childhood in India the Jungle Books were met with huge success upon publication and continue to enthrall readers of all ages to this day. According to Professor Edwin L. Miller their publication "caused even severe critics of Kipling's previous work to admit that he is a writer of inspired genius." Largely focused on man's relationship to nature the Jungle Books in part narrate the tales of Mowgli a human "man-cub" raised by wolves as he tries to find his proper place in the world. For contributions like these Kipling became the first English-language writer and the youngest ever to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Fine. Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown books
1931Best.-Nr. 5241Sq Quarto 22.5x19.5 cm. wrappers 22pp. With superb wood engravings by David Petrovich Shterenberg 1881-1948 Ukrainian painter and graphic artist who held high positions in arts of the early Soviet era. This was the only book he illustrated with gravures. Shterenberg taught at VKhUTEMAS co-founded INKhUK and left a body of fine work which was suppressed by party pressure and died a forgotten figure. He is a major figure of Russian modernism and its avant-garde legacy. Kipling's work here is liberally translated by Samuil Marshak from Just So Stories. OCLC traces one holding worldwide NYPL. This is a wonderful visual work. OGIZ Molodaia Gvardiia paperback
1902Best.-Nr. ST19567-092London: Macmillan and Co 1902. FIRST EDITION. 236 x 182 mm. 9 1/4 x 7 1/8". 4 p.l. first leaf blank 249 3 pp. Pleasing later deep red morocco with gilt-ruled border raised bands gilt-ruled compartments gilt lettering new endpapers. With many black & white illustrations by Kipling 22 of which are full-page. Grolier Children's 57; Stewart 260. Covers and spine very slightly faded leather with a few faint marks and dings a number of small defects internally none remotely serious. An attractive copy. This collection of imaginative fables is the only book in Kipling's corpus to have been illustrated by the author himself. Originally conceived as bedtime stories for the author's daughter the tales and poems included here tell how the first letter and alphabet came to be the origin of animals such as the armadillo and how several animals came to look the way they do the camel for example was sanctioned with a hump for his laziness. Written in a playful and rhythmic style the stories have enchanted generations of young people and earned a place among the classics of children's literature. Macmillan and Co unknown
1902Best.-Nr. ST19567-092London: Macmillan and Co 1902. FIRST EDITION. 236 x 182 mm. 9 1/4 x 7 1/8". 4 p.l. first leaf blank 249 3 pp. Pleasing later deep red morocco with gilt-ruled border raised bands gilt-ruled compartments gilt lettering new endpapers. With many black & white illustrations by Kipling 22 of which are full-page. Grolier Children's 57; Stewart 260. Covers and spine very slightly faded leather with a few faint marks and dings a number of small defects internally none remotely serious. An attractive copy. This collection of imaginative fables is the only book in Kipling's corpus to have been illustrated by the author himself. Originally conceived as bedtime stories for the author's daughter the tales and poems included here tell how the first letter and alphabet came to be the origin of animals such as the armadillo and how several animals came to look the way they do the camel for example was sanctioned with a hump for his laziness. Written in a playful and rhythmic style the stories have enchanted generations of young people and earned a place among the classics of children's literature. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1907Best.-Nr. 365406New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1907. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good. An illustrated edition of Kipling's poetry published in an edition of 125 signed and numbered copies printed on handmade paper. Robinson contributes seventeen plates eight of which are full color tipped to mounts with gilt borders. xx 392 pages. 7-3/4 by 10 inches. First illustrated edition. A very good to near fine copy in original half vellum-style paper over light gray-green paper. There are olive green morocco spine labels; the top edge is gilt; the other edges are untrimmed. The spine ends are somewhat bumped and the vellum has darkened as usual. This is copy 35 of 125 signed by Kipling on the limitation page. Doubleday, Page & Co hardcover
1902Best.-Nr. 59901E-253: MacMillan & Co. Limited. Very Good-. 1902. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. Small 4to. Macmillan and Company London UK. 1902. 251 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White illustrations. First Edition/First Printing/Variant Binding with the white embossing corrected; the lettering of the binding of the first printing had a tendency to flake off so the later state with the more resilient white ink is preferred by collectors. Issued in a half morocco leather slipcase. Bound in moderate red crisscross pictorial cloth boards lettered in white and illustrated in white and black Boards have shelf-wear present present to the extremities boards edges rubbed and worn. Top edge lightly spotted. Previous owner's inscription present to the FFEP. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Just So Stories for Little Children are a collection written by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Highly fantasized origin stories especially for differences among animals they are among Kipling's best known works. The stories first published in 1902 are pourquoi French for "why" or origin stories fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is Kipling's "How Fear Came" included in his The Second Jungle Book 1895. In it Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . MacMillan & Co. , Limited hardcover
1929Best.-Nr. 152336London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1929. Signed limited first edition of this classic work. Quarto three volumes bound in original full red polished morocco with gilt titles and numbers to the spine in six compartments within raised bands top edges gilt gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers tissue-guarded frontispiece to volume one. One of 525 numbered copies this is number 4. Boldly signed by Kipling on the limitations page. In near fine condition with light sunning. Illustrated frontispiece signed in pencil by Francis Dodd. Printed on hand-made paper by the Chiswick Press. “As a virtuoso in verse Kipling had more than one style at his command” Baugh et al. 1505 from earnest cockney dialect to soaring prophetic proclamation. This handsome three-volume collection presents all of Kipling’s poetry—including such memorable works as “Mandalay” “Gunga Din” and “If”—set in Baskerville type and printed on handmade paper at the Chiswick Press. With frontispiece portrait of Kipling in Volume I signed in pencil by the artist Francis Dodd. Livingston 545. Macmillan and Co. Limited hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 149539New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1930. Signed limited edition of the definitive collection of Kipling's poetry. Quarto three volumes original japon-backed boards with red paper labels to spines lettered gilt gilt motifs to front covers top edges gilt tissue-guarded frontispiece to volume one of a "The Thousandth Man" in Kipling's hand specially reproduced for this edition in facsimile. One of 525 copies signed by Kipling on the limitation page this is number 96. In good condition. One of the finest editions of Kipling's verse. “As a virtuoso in verse Kipling had more than one style at his command” Baugh et al. 1505 from earnest cockney dialect to soaring prophetic proclamation. This handsome three-volume collection presents all of Kipling’s poetry—including such memorable works as “Mandalay” “Gunga Din” and “If”—set in Baskerville type and printed on handmade paper at the Chiswick Press. With frontispiece portrait of Kipling in Volume I signed in pencil by the artist Francis Dodd. Livingston 545. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover
1920Best.-Nr. 1519001920. Rare typed letter signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling. Dated July 20th 1920 on Kipling's Bateman's Burwash Sussex letterhead the letter reads: Dear Sir I am in receipt of you letter of July 13th. asking me to give you a date to speak at Christ's Hospital some time during the term from Sept 14th. to December 17th. I very much regret that it is not possible for me to give you a date. My plans are very uncertain for the time covering this period and I do not find it possible to make any appointments so far ahead. With many regrets Believe me Yours faithfully "Rudyard Kipling." In near fine condition. Double matted and framed with a portrait of Kipling. The entire piece measures 20.5 inches by 16 inches. Rare and desirable. 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. unknown
1919Best.-Nr. 319432London: Methuen & Co 1919. First edition one of 30 printed on Japan vellum. Title printed in red and black. xiii 159 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in white linen boards and a vellum spine gilt stamped t.e.g.Moderate soiling to vellum a few spots along top edges otherwise fine. First edition one of 30 printed on Japan vellum. Title printed in red and black. xiii 159 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Deluxe limited issue of the first edition one of 30 copies on Japanese vellum. The title refers to the period between the South African War and the Armistice in 1918. The book's forty-five poems and series of epitaphs is considered by some Kipling scholars as his darkest work. The trade edition was printed in an enormous run of 10000 copies and there were 200 copies on hand-made paper. This very limited issue of 30 copies on Japanese vellum is scarce in the market. Richards A320; Stewart 434; Livingston 442; Martindell 164; Grolier 502; Ballard CXCII; Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 957; Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature p.170. Provenance: Edward B. King bookplate Methuen & Co unknown
1911Best.-Nr. 020095Bateman's 19 August 1911. Letter. Folds from mailing. Near Fine. Superb handwritten unpublished two-page letter on both sides of a 9" x 7" sheet of paper folded in half so that the writing is not back to back. Written to John Fleming the husband of Kipling's sister Alice "Trix" about Trix's mental health following her mental breakdown after the deaths of their parents which occurred the previous year. In part: "We are just back from a trip abroad and I find the enclosed letter for Trix waiting for me here. It is some time since I have had news and I have not cared to trouble you because I knew that if there was any news to tell you would have written it but I should like to know how Trix is progressing. Mr Macdonald has written me that Trix would like to have the painted fire screen from the dining room at The Gables Kipling's parents' home. I sent the . entrée dishes . to be put with her other things & I sent at the same time an 'Outward Bound' edition which you said you thought she would like to have." SIGNED in full. In the same month this letter was written Kipling wrote "In the Same Boat" a short story about psychological healing which was published in both HARPER'S MAGAZINE and later in the collection of tales A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES. With a printed description from Maggs Bros. This was part of a Kipling family archive that came down through Helen MacDonald a great niece of Rudyard Kipling's mother Alice MacDonald. Alice's three sisters were married to Edward Burne Jones Edward Poynter and Alfred Baldwin father of 20th century British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. unknown books