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Best.-Nr. 121617London: Daily Express. paperback. very good. The Famous Speech at Tunbridge Wells on May 16th 1914. Photograph of Kipling by E.A. Hoppe. 2 leaves small 4to. London: The Daily Express 1914. Stewart 379. Daily Express unknown
1906Best.-Nr. 616857London: Charles Sheard & Co 1906. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Folio. Three nested bifolia making 12 pages. Publisher's stamp on the front cover some minor edgewear and corners bumped a complete and very good or better copy. The front cover states this piece is "Dedicated to the Royal Marines." For voice and piano. OCLC locates only a single holding and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. Charles Sheard & Co unknown
1911Best.-Nr. 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
1893Best.-Nr. 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
1920Best.-Nr. 19259Little Rock: The Incunabula Bookshop 1920. First edition. Gray paper wrappers. Bump to lower spine else a near fine copy. Unpaged 12 pp. 8vo. 8 1/2 x 6 in. Number 44 of a limited edition of 100 copies. Originally published in "The Author" London July 1 1891. A satire directed at the American copyright bill. Livingston 458. Stewart 477. The Incunabula Bookshop unknown
1937Best.-Nr. 79911Garden City: : Doubleday Doran & Company 1937. First American edition. publisher's red gilt cloth in dust jacket. A bright fine copy in a jacket with a 1" closed tear at the top edge of the front panel and slightest of use at corners. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait and two plates. Doubleday, Doran & Company, hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 330761London: Macmillan 1899. First. hardcover. near fine. 8vo red cloth stamped in gilt. London: Macmillan 1899. First Edition. Near fine copy with bookplate. Macmillan unknown
1900Best.-Nr. b32486Philadelphia: Henry Altemus n.d. circa 1900 1900. First printing of this edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Near fine in cloth-covered boards with green and gilt decorations. Light rubbing at the tips and the spine a bit dulled. Small bookplate on the front pastedown with the date 1900. Henry Altemus, n.d. [circa 1900] hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 038617New York: Doubleday and McClure 1899. First US Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: v119; frontispiece printed in orange and black 16 plates on text stock others in the text. Bound in pictorial blue cloth stamped in black gilt and silver top edges gilt decorated endpapers; prior owner's book ticket and bookplate else clean and bright. 7.75" x 5" Livingston Kipling Bibliography 209. Bleiler Checklist of Fantastic Literature 170. Doubleday and McClure unknown
1914Best.-Nr. 26603London: Macmillan Company 1914. First edition. Paper wrappers. A fine copy. 3 pp. 16mo. Livingston 300 note p. 285. Stewart 308. Macmillan Company unknown
1898Best.-Nr. 324697London: Macmillan 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in blue cloth with gold decorative stamping top edge gilt light wear at the spine ends and corners a little scuffing along the edges of the spine spine cracked in the center. Macmillan hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 8813East Aurora NY: The Roycrofters 1899. First edition thus. Very Good. 8 1/4'' x 5''. 92pp. Edition limited to 950 copies printed on unmarked handmade paper and bound in decorated suede. This is copy number 856 signed Elbert Hubbard. General light wear. Inner front hinge starting. The Roycrofters unknown
1970Best.-Nr. 22146New York: Walker 1970. Hardcover. First American edition first printing. A nice copy: Near Fine clothbound hardcover with a light bump/rubbing to one tip light rubbing to the spine ends and a slight roll to the spine in a Very Good dust jacket with spots of rubbing to the extremities one tiny tear and a touch of shelf wear; the dj is clipped at the bottom fore edge of the front flap but not price-clipped; the reinforced edition. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. Note that the white line along the spine in our photo is the reflection of the flash. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY WRAPPED IN PADDING IN A BOX. Rudyard Kipling's delightful tale from his "Just So Stories" series telling how the elephant got his trunk illustrated by Caldecott Medal winner Leonard Weisgard. Unpaginated 32 pages; color illustrations throughout; 9 x 10.5 inches. Walker hardcover
1912Best.-Nr. 308658Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Co 1912. First trade edition preceded by a broadside printing. 9 leaves printed recto only within green border. oblong 12mo. Original decorative printed boards. Cloth chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. Covers detached spine separating internally fine and mostly unopened. First trade edition preceded by a broadside printing. 9 leaves printed recto only within green border. oblong 12mo. Doubleday, Page & Co hardcover
1903Best.-Nr. 7226London: Methuen and Co. 1903. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Brown cloth over boards with gilt lettering stamped direct on spine top edge gilt; pp. xiii 3 215 1 38 ads. Spine and edges of boards sunned; spine tips gently rubbed; scattered foxing throughout as expected. VG overall. A handsome volume. London: Methuen and Co. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 2167Fine. Rudyard Kipling. David Gentleman illustrator. The Jungle Books. Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 1980. Collector's edition. Quarto. 383pp. Illustrated by David Gentleman. Publisher's green decorative leather spine and boards lettered and decorated in gilt four raised bands all edges gilt silk moire endleaves ribbon bookmark. . unknown
1990Best.-Nr. 76140Iowa City: University of Iowa Press 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Each volume is inscribed by editor Thomas Pinney to Gordon Van De Water past president of the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles on the title page. The first two of six volumes in this "annotated edition based on the more than six thousand letters preserved in public and private collections all over the world." Octavo two volumes: xxxviii 386 p. with 8 illustrations vi 390 p. with 8 illustrations. Original black cloth bindings with gilt titles. Remainder mark to the bottom edges. Light bumping to the corners and tips with a bit of mild wear to the dust jackets; otherwise very good. University of Iowa Press hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 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
1898Best.-Nr. 51120NY: D. Appleton and Company 1898. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Reprint. Heavily foxed throughout else a very good hardback in publisher's orange cloth and a jacket that is largely intact but is in three pieces and lacking the front flap. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 1215New York: D. Appleton and Company 1899. Cloth. Very good. 12mo; 209 1 6pp publisher's ads; gilt-stamped green-grey metallic thread cloth; upper edge gilt fore-edge and bottom deckle; gift inscription to ffep; sunning to rear board age-toning to paper; very good. Collection of Kipling's poetry including 18 Barrack-Room Ballads. D. Appleton and Company unknown
1896Best.-Nr. 324351London: Methuen and Co 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good top edge gilt with a faded spine boards are scuffed a bookplate on the front pastedown. Methuen and Co hardcover
1932Best.-Nr. 135221London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1932. Later printing of Kipling's Two Jungle Books in one volume. Octavo original red cloth decorated in gilt with illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling and W.H. Drake. In very good condition. Bookplate and small ownership inscription. Kipling's Jungle Books center on the story of Mowgli an orphaned 'man-cub' who is raised in the jungle of India by wolves where he comes to learn the Laws of the Jungle. A major theme throughout the books is abandonment followed by fostering as in the life of Mowgli echoing Kipling's own childhood. Another is law vs. freedom; the stories are not about animal behavior but about human archetypes in animal form. The books remain popular to this day and have been adapted several times for film and other media including the classic Walt Disney 1967 animation and its 2016 remake. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1904Best.-Nr. 005107London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1904. Twenty-two stories and a poem in a collection authorized by Kipling. This is a Near Fine copy of the "Red Cover" version less coomon than the First Edition. Red cloth binding heavily stamped with a floral design with the notation of "The Red-Cover Novels." This edition lacks the medallion seen on the First. Clean text; vi 393 pages with a 16-page catalog in the rear. The catalog is from the First State with an erroneous date "35.8.04".Tiny bit of rub to the corners; spine faded as is gilt titling; else a Fine copy. In an archival plastic protector. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Macmillan and Co., Limited Hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 50757New York: R.F. Fenno & Co. 1899. Two works in one vol. 8vo. 156 1; 9-139 1 pp. Decorated title in tan & black frontisp. portrait. Green ribbed publisher’s cloth lozenge illust. of elephant mounted on front cover gilt decorated spine t.e.g. slight shelfwear very slight rubbing NF copy from the library of Donald Alexander Skene 1898-1938 reporter for the Portland Oregonian served as a United States Marine during World War I and graduated Yale University in 1920 w/ gift inscription dated 1901 on ffep. First American edition of these two works with the first containing four of Kipling’s short stories originally published as the sixth and final installment of Wheeler’s Indian Railway Series including Wee Willie Winkie Baa Baa Black Sheep His Majesty the King and The Drums of the Fore and Aft. The second volume of American notes includes Kipling’s travels through California a fascinating and excellent account of Salmon fishing on the Columbia River visiting a salmon cannery in The Dalles with only Chinese immigrants cleaning and packing the fish and fishing on the Clackamas River along with the authors travels to Yellowstone and Chicago. R.F. Fenno & Co., hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 121504New York: Doubleday and McClure Company 1899. First separate edition of Kipling's Without Benefit of Clergy. Octavo original illustrated cloth. In very good condition. 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. Doubleday and McClure Company hardcover