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1917rif. 333373London: Macmillan 1917. First edition. viii 442 4 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket in red cloth slipcase and chemise. First edition. viii 442 4 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stewart 408 Macmillan unknown books
1890rif. 530764New York: United States Book Company 1890. Hardcover. Fine. First American edition boards issue. Red beveled cloth gilt. Attractive early bookplate a touch rubbing on the boards else fine. United States Book Company hardcover books
1892rif. 157451892. London: William Heinemann 1892. 8 pp undated ads. Original salmon cloth decorated in brown. First Edition of Kipling's only serious attempt at literary collaboration. A Vermonter Wolcott Balestier was an American author and publisher's agent in London; in fact in 1890 he and Heinemann had founded the Heinemann & Balestier publishing house in Leipzig books in English for the Continental market. He had written about the American "Wild West" and Kipling of course had written about India. THE NAULAHKA a misspelling of "naulakha" which in Hindu means nine lakhs i.e. 900000 rupees is an odd tale that combines these two environments into "A Story of East and West" -- a man from a Western boom-town attempts to get possession of a fabulous jewel in India. In December 1891 six months before this was published Balestier suddenly died at age 29 of typhoid fever in Dresden. Kipling had met Wolcott's sister Carrie and just a month after Wolcott died she became Kipling's wife; the Kiplings built their first home in Vermont and in memory of her brother named it "Naulakha" -- spelled correctly. The newlywed Kiplings lived in Vermont for four years toward the end of which Kipling wrote CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS about the Massachusetts fishing fleet; but it all came crashing down when Wolcott's brother Beatty was arrested for assaulting Kipling -- there was an altercation after Kipling had created a little garden on land he owned but had allowed Beatty to hay: the Kiplings fled to England. This is an unusually clean copy just about fine a hint of rubbing at the spine ends; such condition is scarce for this book in view of its soil-prone salmon-colored binding. Richards A66; Stewart 105; Livingston 85. unknown books
1891rif. 369677New York: M.J. Ivers & Co 1891. First edition first issue wrappers with Nassau Street address. Ads for Cushings Manual on verso of front page rear wrapper with ad for Walter Baker & Co's Breakfast Cocoa on recto and Standard Recitations by Best Authors No. 4 on verso a variant of this verso not mentioned in Richards. 160 pp. In printed wrappers. Some wear to front wrapper loss to foot of spine some spots of loss to title page where pieces have stuck to half title likely when wet. First edition first issue wrappers with Nassau Street address. Ads for Cushings Manual on verso of front page rear wrapper with ad for Walter Baker & Co's Breakfast Cocoa on recto and Standard Recitations by Best Authors No. 4 on verso a variant of this verso not mentioned in Richards. 160 pp. Uncommon as such. Richards A54; Prideaux III 10 M.J. Ivers & Co unknown books
rif. 67981Np. nd. The photograph is a reprint of the 1892 Bourne & Shepherd portrait of Kipling in formal pose with cigar in his left hand. Original signature in ink on 4.5 x 8 cm slip of cream paper. Matted with a 12 x 11 cm glossy copy print of a portrait of Kipling. Fine. unknown books
1889rif. 49958Allahabad India: Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co 1889. Good. Allahabad India: Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1889. First Indian Edition. Slim octavo 21.5cm; publisher's white pictorial wrappers illustrated by the Mayo School of Art Lahore; 4iiii106viipp. Wrappers toned and chipped along spine edge with some glue repair to the latter though top half of wrapper split along spine edge. Good overall internally clean and sound. Issued as A.H. Wheeler & Co.'s Indian Railway Library no. 3. Collection of eight short stories all relating to the lives of native Indians rather than their colonizers. All but one of these stories first appeared in 1888 in the periodical The Week's News. Livingston 34. Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co unknown books
1888rif. 49973V.p.: v.i. 1888. Very Good. V.p.: v.i. 1888-1890. Mixed Editions see below. Four volumes bound in one. Octavos 21.5cm; contemporary parchment over marbled paper-covered boards crimson gilt spine piece top edge gilt marbled endpapers original pictorial wrappers of each volume bound in. Parchment dust-soiled light wear to boards else Very Good and sound. Contemporary armorial ownership ex libris of an Elizabeth Armitage to front pastedown. Contents as follows: 1. Soldiers Three. London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1890. Fifth Edition. 93pp. 2. Wee Willie Winkie. Allahabad / London: Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1890. First UK Edition with slightly reduced wrapper design to fit in the UK price one shilling. 96pp. Richards A36 3. In Black and White. Allahabad / London: Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1890. First UK Edition with slightly reduced wrapper design to fit in the UK price one shilling. 96pp. Richards A35 4. The Story of the Gadsbys: A Tale without a Plot. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler 1888. First Edition. 85pp. Issued as A.H. Wheeler & Co.'s Indian Railway Library no. 2. Richards A15. v.i. unknown books
1891rif. 49457London: A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston & Company 1891. Very Good. London: A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston & Company 1891. First English Edition. Slim octavo 21.5cm; publisher's green-grey pictorial wrappers; 96pp. A few small shallow chips to wrapper margins foxing to final few leaves else Very Good and sound nicer than often encountered. Kipling's oppressive novella of a man's sleepless night spent walking the streets of Lahore. This edition part of A.H. Wheeler & Co's Indian Railway Library No. XIV preceded by an Allahabad printing. Livingston 71. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low, Marston & Company unknown books
1939rif. 156674Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1939. Vintage studio still photograph of director William Wellman and a camera crew filming on location in New Mexico for the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1891 novel by Rudyard Kipling. An artist whose sight is failing struggles to complete his final painting while also grieving his broken relationship with his childhood sweetheart. Shot on location in Abiquiu Santa Fe and Espanola New Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1912rif. 2354Garden City: Doubleday Page and Company 1912. First Edition. Fine/Very Good . A Fine copy of the book that has been exquisitely preserved in its original dust jacket. Dust jacket is Very Good with a large chip at the base of the spine and price-clipped but otherwise in excellent condition. A rare survivor. Kipling's compilation of songs from his various children's books. This is the authoritative guide to Kipling's charming poetic works; and it provides an opportunity for readers to indulge in nursery rhymes and songs outside of their narrative contexts. Songs from Books has become a perennial family bedtime favorite. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Doubleday, Page and Company unknown books
1901rif. 158791901. From The Times March 15 1900. Published by the Imperial South African Association. London: Printed by George Edward Wright The Times Office 1901. First Edition following its appearance in March 1900 both in The Times of London and in The Mail of Cape Town. The Imperial South African Association was founded "to uphold British supremacy and to promote the interests of British subjects in South Africa."; specifically this piece "inveighs against the supposedly friendly or neutral Boers and their liberal sympathizers as 'traitors' to the Cape and the Orange Free State quotes by Richards. It was never collected in any other Kipling book. This is a near-fine copy slight discoloration around the sole rusted staple. Richards A167. Housed in a morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. unknown books
1902rif. 1409498London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1902. First Edition First State Binding. Hardcover. Octavo 249 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's decorated red cloth First State binding with flaking to white pigment completely flaked off of spine. Sunning to spine. General shelf wear with fraying to cloth at head and tail of spine. Previous bookseller's sticker adhered to front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers with minor foxing and smudging scattered throughout. Tearing to fore edge from front free endpaper to title page. Black-and-white illustrations and plates throughout. Shelved in Case 14. 1409498. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1891rif. 378678Allahabad and London: A. H. Wheeler & Co. Sampson Low Marston & Company Ltd. London 1891. First English Edition. 96 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original grey-green printed illustration by Brownlow Fforde Indian Railway Library No. XIV advertisements on inside and back covers. Minor chipping. Very good. First English Edition. 96 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With the printed slip regarding the title tipped into the front. Stewart 94; Richards A60 A. H. Wheeler & Co., Sampson Low, Marston & Company Ltd., London unknown books
1897rif. 19618London: Macmillan and Co 1897. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19cm; royal blue cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; all edges gilt; 245pp 1 2 ads. Previous owner's name and date opposite half-title; edges lightly rubbed gilt has dulled bit of sunning to spine with a tiny patch of sticker-pull at front pastedown 2 small glue spots on rear endpaper and a 2" crack at lower rear hinge; Very Good. One of the great 19th century adventure stories basis for Victor Fleming's Oscar-winning adaptation in 1937 starring Spencer Tracy Lionel Barrymore and Freddie Bartholomew. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1927rif. 159111927. Illustrated by Donald Maxwell. Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1927. Original light blue-grey paper-covered boards with vellum spine. First American Edition of which this is one of 150 large-paper copies signed by Kipling this being copy #6; there was also a UK signed edition but it consisted of 500 un-numbered copies. This is a collection of previously-published Kipling poems plus a previously-UNpublished concluding poem "The Scholars" accompanied by twelve color plates by Donald Maxwell plus 22 monotone head- and tail-pieces. As Richards points out Maxwell -- related to Kipling by marriage -- had been an accomplished naval artist/correspondent during the Great War and was a frequent visitor at the Kiplings' "Bateman's." This is a near-fine copy slight browning at the edges of the boards; there is no jacket but the only jacket issued with this large-paper issue was a glassine one. Richards A370. unknown books
1890rif. 52434New York: Lovell 1890. First Edition. Octavo. First Authorized Edition; 19.5cm; blue cloth covered boards titled in gilt on spine; top textblock in gilt; 771pp.; a Near Fine or better copy. A classic collection of 36 short stories. Lovell unknown books
1897rif. 2358London and New York: Macmillan and Co. and The Macmillan Company 1897. I.W. TABER. FICTION. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited and New York: The Macmillan Company 1897. I.W. TABER illustrator. R. & R. Clark Limited Edinburgh printer. First British edition. 12mo 7 7/16" x 5"; viii 1-245pp; red goat over board double gilt fillet with corner flower ornaments 6 spine compartments with gilt ornaments and date "1897" onlaid gilt-lettered labels; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles with marbled boards owners bookplate "Josephine B. Crane / Sugar Hill / Dalton Mass." on front pastedown; binder's stamp on verso ffep "Bound by Zaehnsdorf"; engraved fp 20 plates and one illustration in text; light shelf wear to edges spine sunned a few spots; very good plus. A beautifully bound copy of Rudyard Kipling's 1865-1936 exciting tale about a 15-year-old boy Harvey Cheyne Jr. who is washed overboard from a trans-Atlantic steamship and picked up by a fishing schooner off the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. First published in McClure's magazine from November 1896 to May 1897 it was published as a book first in the U.S. by Doubleday and then by Macmillan in London. Bound by Joseph Zaehnsdorf 1816-1886 an Austrian Hungarian binder who moved to London by 1837. Macmillan and Co. and The Macmillan Company unknown books
1912rif. 219685London: Hodder & Stoughton 1912. Limited edition Number 95 of 500 copies on handmade paper signed by Hodder & Stoughton. Title page printed in green and black. xix 476 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original limp vellum t.e.g. Ties perished else fine. Bookplate. Cloth slipcase. Limited edition Number 95 of 500 copies on handmade paper signed by Hodder & Stoughton. Title page printed in green and black. xix 476 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Finely printed compendium of Kipling's verse including many favorite poems. Richards A258 Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
1891rif. 343404Allahabad / London: A.H. Wheeler & Co. / SampsonLow Marston 1891. Softcover. Good. First English edition. 12mo. Illustrated green wrappers. 96pp. Errata slip bound-in. Small owner's name and small chip on front wrap a couple of modest chips on rear wrap spine somewhat eroded another small embossed stamp of an American author on title-page a good copy in custom cloth chemise and slipcase. Scarce. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson,Low, Marston unknown books
1920rif. 374461Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Comapny 1920. Limited Edition. No. 117 of 377 copies numbered and signed by Kipling. Photographically Illustrated by Lewis R. Freeman. pp. xxiv 44 unnumberred leaves. 8vo. Vellum spine ansd boards. Very good. Limited Edition. No. 117 of 377 copies numbered and signed by Kipling. Photographically Illustrated by Lewis R. Freeman. pp. xxiv 44 unnumberred leaves. 8vo. Livingston 449; Richards A331 Doubleday, Page & Comapny unknown books
1909rif. 157971909. One page on Kipling's "Bateman's Burwash Sussex" stationery. 14th Aug. 1909. This letter addressed to "Dear Sir" but with the recipient's name and address "9 King's Cross Road W.C." typed below reads: I have received your letter of the 12th together with the file of correspondence which I return herewith. I am only sorry that as I know nothing about the business side of inventions it is out of my power to assist you. Yours truly signed: Rudyard Kipling. We do not know who John Proctor was; nor did Kipling -- but Proctor had apparently sent a whole file regarding some invention he was working on. Perhaps he contacted Kipling because he knew the famous author had written an 1893 book titled MANY INVENTIONS The letter is in very good condition a couple of small holes and tape-marks not affecting print. Basic content but a fine example of Kipling's signature. unknown books
1898rif. 201207London: William Heinemann 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Features words by Rudyard Kipling the author of "Captains Courageous" and "The Jungle Book." Includes 12 color lithographic plates by William Nicholson. A very good plus copy in paper covered boards with cloth spine but with some splitting to the front and rear internal hinges some other minor wear and with a vintage bookstore stocker to the rear pastedown. Plates in fine condition with some slight offsetting to the facing pages. No dust jacket. A very nice copy of this classic. William Heinemann unknown books
1937rif. 151560Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1937. Vintage reference photograph of director Victor Fleming and script clerk Bill Lewis on the set of the 1937 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel. The spoiled young son of a business tycoon falls overboard on a steamship trip to Europe and is picked up by a fishing schooner where he is made to earn his keep. Shot on location in Massachusetts and California in the US and Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1896rif. ST19567-086London: Methuen and Co 1896. First British Edition. 185 x 120 mm. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4". xv iii 230 pp. VERY ATTRACTIVE SCARLET POLISHED CALF GILT BY FROST stamp-signed on front flyleaf covers with double fillet border raised bands spine compartments with antique scrolling cornerpieces and centerpiece green and maroon morocco labels richly gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Engraved title page. Stewart 140; Livingston 131; Martindell 59. A group of seven leaves lightly foxed otherwise a virtually mint copy inside and out the decorative binding exceptionally bright. This is a very pleasing copy in quite an attractive leather binding of a collection of 51 Kipling poems including "Song of the English" "The Rhyme of the Three Sealers" and "The Story of Ung." Day writes that "people uninterested in poetry 'qua' poetry were thrilled by the splendor and spread of empire as glorified in this work. Kipling's Toryism made the mediocre Alfred Austin the poet laureate in 1896 but Kipling was the unofficial laureate of the British empire." One of Britain's best-known writers Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 is most famous for his works portraying the lives of the native population and colonialists on the Indian subcontinent. He was born in Bombay where his father ran an art school 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. 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. Copies of the present book are easy to find but they are not so readily available in reasonably priced pretty bindings like the one offered here. Methuen and Co unknown books
1903rif. 224704First edition first issue p. 56. Octavo. Original maroon gilt stamped cloth t.e.g. 38 publishers catalogue at end dated July 1903. Very good. Bookplate of Edward F. Burke on the front pastedown. Enclosed in a 1/2 red morocco slipcase with folding chemise. Methuen & Co. hardcover books