Kipling, RudyardBiblio.com
1895réf. 1397515New York: The Century Co 1895. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 324 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Spine and extremities faded to black. Fraying with some material loss to cloth at head and tail of spine. General shelf wear to edges and corners of boards. Top edge of textblock gilt. Previous bookseller's sticker adhered to front pastedown. Minor staining to front free endpaper and pastedown. Shelved in Case 14. 1397515. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Century Co hardcover
1909réf. 545New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. First thus. Hardback. Very Good. Leyendecker Frank X. Xavier; Reuterdahl H. Henry. A fascinating read and with remarkable cover art. Few people know that Rudyard Kipling briefly ventured into writing science fiction. This book With the Night Mail was his first enthusiastic attempt. It is a novella that originally appeared in magazines in 1905 before Doubleday Page and Company published it with some minor changes as a book unto itself-with an absolutely gorgeous gilt and silver cover--in 1909. The story imagines life in the 21st century when transport by airships-later to be called "dirigibles" in real life-was so commonplace that it was regulated by a trans-world agency known as the Aerial Board of Control which was in charge of traffic and rescues. Kipling tells the story of what happens when a postal airship on a typical transatlantic night run to Quebec encounters another airship in trouble and losing altitude just as a storm is whipping up. It's an imaginative story with a creative new vocabulary but Kipling also obviously drew from the familiar. The Aerial Board of Control or the A.B.C. reminiscent of an international coast guard for instance similar to the one regulating shipping around Britain in the early 20th century; meanwhile airships were on the cusp of commercial viability at the time Kipling was writing and were being publicly tested over Paris. But as real as they may have been in 1905 they certainly fed Kipling's imagination. He used them as the jumping-off point for world creation. Besides the text of the story itself Doubleday Page and Company collected other items Kipling created in connection with it--such as the "Aerial Board of Control Bulletin" and fictitious advertisements related to airships similar to those that frequently appeared in the back of books published during this era--and presented them as additional documentation to back up his story. Kipling became so enthralled with his own creation that he wrote a second longer story titled "As Easy as ABC" in 1907 though it was not published until 1912. Both works have been highly influential. Modern readers might be struck by how much they remind them of the steampunk genre close to a hundred years before steampunk became popular. Kipling anticipated a number of technologies in his A.B.C. stories that came into real-life use decades later. As a stylist science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein found Kipling's use of indirect exposition in With the Night Mail very influential on his own work. There is even a series of computer role-playing games based on the A.B.C. Because the texts within this copy were first published in magazines Doubleday Page and Company did not officially label its 1909 release as a "first edition" so we are calling our copy a "First Edition Thus." It is lovingly illustrated with color plates by Frank X. Leyendecker and H. for Henry Reuterdahl. One plate opposite the title page is fronted by a tipped-in sheet of tissue paper; it also has a small closed tear on its fore edge that is limited to the margin and does not affect the image itself in any way. A similar fore edge tear is on an unnumbered page in the back of the book. Page 18 is soiled in its margins and some of that has carried over to the blank facing page. Both front and rear endpapers are illustrated by two-page painting with a production/facsimile signature by Leyendecker. The front flysheet of this illustration has come loose-apparently this is a common problem with this book--but is otherwise undamaged and is included in its appropriate place; someone has written "#50" in ink in small figures on the inside cover. The bottom back inside hinge is starting to tear but otherwise the binding is sound and tight. Pagination for this book is.odd. Only the recto pages are printed and not all of them are numbered. Several sellers have noted what appears to be a cut out page before the half-title page but our examination suggests that it is instead related to the binding process and not a flaw. The book is bound in dark blue cloth with gilt and silver foil lettering and decoration. The covers and spine show light shelf wear and bumping along the edges and corners but otherwise are in quite good condition. The decoration on the front cover is remarkable illustrating an airship floating in the stars and clouds with the title integrated in the picture and the author's name below. The spine has gilt lettering for the title author and publisher's name but also an illustration of people in the gondola of an airship also in gilt. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
1900réf. 1599Ten volumns in excellent condition. No DJ ever. F. Collier & Son hardcover
1969réf. 49612Chicago: Follett Publishing Company 1969. Very Good/Good. Chicago IL: Follett Publishing Company 1969. First Kampmann Edition First Printing. Slim oblong quarto 21x26cm; publisher's boards in green pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 48pp.; full color illus. throughout. Dust jacket rather worn and soiled with soiling faintly bleeding through to boards contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper else a Good example textblock clean and sound in the scarce dust jacket. Follett Publishing Company unknown
1899réf. 709A very good copy of the First authorized Edition of this novella. Pictorial cover. Issued without dust jacket. Slight darekening to a few small areas of the rear cover. Doubleday and McClure Company hardcover
1896réf. cfe17645USA: Appletons 1896. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A very good copy in green cloth with gold gilt lettering and giltdecorations to the front board and spine--in addition there is gold gilt to the top edge. Very good condition--tight binding with moderate foxing throughout and some moderate edgewear to the exterior edges and tips. There is a gift inscription from 1897 to the front free endpaper and a previous owner name to the front pastedown. A nice copy of Kipling's verse from an early Appleton's edition. 209 pp with 6 pp of advertising at the verso. Appletons hardcover
1925réf. 10750Doubleday Page & Company 1925. The Mandalay Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Eleven volumes of a thirteen volume set missing two books containing vol 13-16. All are in their original dust jackets which are soiled shelf and edge wear corners worn spine on Vol 19-20 2-4 7-8 11-12 have holes Vol 17 has significant tears and chips it's just good. Burgundy/purple cloth boards are clean and bright minimal rubbing at extremities Vol 9 has a small hole in the spine text block. All orders packed with care most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve independent bookseller since 2011 Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1890réf. 51815Longman's Magazine 1890. 8vo. First Edition Sole Publication; modern grey boards upper board with printed paper label a near fine copy. The short story was never collected. Livingston 67. Longman's Magazine, hardcover
1915réf. 9917Macmillan 1915. 12mo. First UK Edition on laid paper; handsomely bound in full red morocco gilt back an attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Collects six articles originally published in two newspapers the Daily Telegraph London and the Sun New York. They were subsequently published as individual pamphlets in the US; this is their first appearance in book form. Livingston 397. Macmillan, unknown
1896réf. 36191Macmillan 1896. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece original tissue guard present 20 plates and numerous wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces by A. S. Hartwick preliminaries very lightly spotted frontispiece guard moderately spotted and offset to title small neat signature on front free endpaper; original pictorial blue cloth gilt fife and drummer boys from plate facing p.58 elaborately blocked in gilt on upper board pictorial back gilt all edges gilt a very bright crisp clean copy. Collects seven stories first published between 1888 and 1890. Livingston 133; Martindale 67; Stewart 157. Macmillan, hardcover
réf. 0368670562.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. Q-0416781403Methuen young books. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Methuen young books hardcover
1995réf. 216981London: Folio Society 1995. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by I. W. Taber. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Folio Society hardcover
1988réf. Q-0140586105Penguin UK 1988-04-05. Mass Market Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin UK paperback
1973réf. 163127Avon Connecticut: Heritage Press 1973. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. Sandglass neatly laid in. Illustrations by Charles Raymond. Heritage Press hardcover
1899réf. 194200Boston: Desmond Publishing Co 1899. Vintage Copy; Early Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Owner personalization on FEP. Front hinge cracked. Desmond Publishing Co hardcover
1911réf. LTH18-F-5London: Macmillan and Co 1911. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". None. A smart copy of this anthology by Rudyard Kipling. Puck of Pook's Hill is a historical fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling published in 1906 containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. The stories are all narrated to two children living near Burwash in the area of Kipling's own house Bateman's by people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck or told by Puck himself. Puck who refers to himself as "the oldest Old Thing in England" is better known as a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. The genres of particular stories range from authentic historical novella A Centurion of the Thirtieth On the Great Wall to children's fantasy Dymchurch Flit. Each story is bracketed by a poem which relates in some manner to the theme or subject of the story. In a half-calf binding. Externally smart though with some sunning to the spine and some light rubbing. Internally firmly bound. Ink signature to recto of front free-endpaper. Pages are mainly bright and clean. Very Good Indeed Macmillan and Co hardcover
1920réf. 86986Paris: Mercure de France 1920. Fine. Mercure de France Paris 1920 13 x 19 cm broché First edition in French one of 525 numbered copies on laid paper the only deluxe copies announced along with 25 hors commerce copies. Handsome copy. Mercure de France unknown
1990réf. DADAX0333360869MACMILLAN 1990-11-01. 1990. hardcover. New. 5.50x1.06x8.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. MACMILLAN hardcover
1950réf. 30291HBDJ 1950 1ST EDITION THUS MCML on Title PG VG/GOOD AS-IS DJ Small Extremities chips rub wear EDGE TEARS Publisher's Yellow top stain to top edge of text block. 300 pages with a colored frontispiece and 17 additional full-page drawings by Kurt Wiese. Illustrated endpapers Book is sound: clean unmarked undamaged. . Dustjacket with chipping and small tears all around. Rear of DJ is Soiled. Original price was clipped BUT 643 CODE INTACT Green Embossed cloth Gold Gilt on spine Cvr Back of Yellow DJ SMALL CHIP & MENDED TEAR ADS for 6 of kipling's Books end with Captains Courageous Tiger Shere Khan all long Tail & Loud Talk. Bagheera the Black Panther as Cunning as Tabaqui as Bold as the Wild Buffalo & as Wreckless as the Wounded Elephant. Old Baloo the Sleepy Brown Bear who teaches the Wolf's Cubs the Law of the Jungle. Bander-log the Monkey Folk. who Boast & Chatter . Kaa the Black Snake Very Old & Very Cunning Alway HUNGRY. Garden City New York: Double Day & Company, doubleday hardcover
réf. A9780521445276Hardback. New. Kipling always denied he was a critic but this collection of letters and papers many published for the first time establishes his engagement with critical issues. Kipling profoundly influenced our understanding of English literature and national character and this book offers access to the private and public history of a still fiercely controversial writer. hardcover
réf. 0824965981.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1947réf. mon0000064582Pan MacMillan Books 1947T. paperback. Good. . 1947 mass market trade paperback in good condition. All inside pages are in good shape. There is some shelf wear and some small tears along the red spine and cover. The cover is red and black and shows a drawing of a man with two women on a balcony. Published by Pan Books LTD. 254 pages. Pan MacMillan Books paperback
