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1921ref. 5853New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1921. Measuring approximately 7.25" x 5.25" and 8" x 5.5" with 303 324 numbered pages respectively. These books are in fair condition. Moderate bumping staining and scuffing to boards and textblocks. Front water damage to the first book. Previous owners bookplate in both books. Moderate foxing and staining to interior pages. The Jungle Book 1894 is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli who is raised in the jungle by wolves. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #O4-17. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
1975ref. 2081402109803943Gaku Ken 1975. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Gaku Ken paperback
1892ref. ABE-1617505805973Macmillan & Co New York 1892 Beautiful first American edition in first issue boards. Brown cloth with gilt decorations with virtually now wear. 379 pages plus ads octavo brown cloth with gilt titles and black fleuron pattern. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted padded box. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Macmillan & Co, New York hardcover
1897ref. 105368D. Appleton & Co 1897. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. Later printing. Covers shelfworn. Name written on front flyleaf. D. Appleton & Co hardcover
ref. 61354E-258. Very Good. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. Published by Methuen and Company London UK. 1914. Xv 230 pgs. Twenty-Fifth Edition. Bound in 3/4 red morocco gilt ruled leather with matching cloth and gilt titles and raised bands present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Light foxing present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The 'Seven Seas' is a bitter disillusioned series of poems centred on Britains role in colonialism and Empire building. With reverberating lyrics and powerful imagery Kipling writes of the ruthless means that were often employed to add nations to the glorious Empire and the subsequent effects upon these colonised nations. Though disturbing and unsettling in theme Kiplings lyrical dexterity makes these poems strangely compelling reading. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . hardcover
1924ref. 000176New York: Walter J. Black Incorporated 1924 Book. Fine. Hardcover. F/NJ One Volume Edition presumed First Edition no date listed. This 1004 page red leather hardcover is in Fine condition a high quality antique collection from a classic author. The boards are square with very slight shelf wear at sharp corner. The red leather covers and strong straight spine are embossed with designs of leaves and ornate borders as well as a shield on the front cover containing the gilt name of the author to match gilt titles and designs along the spine. All 1004 pages are intact and unmarked. One small sticker 1/2 inch by 1 inch bearing the price of 50c on back flyleaf. No Dust Jacket. Rudyard Kipling gives life to the world of his imagination with a keen ability to tap into the timelessness of the collective conscious. His stories and poetry all contained within these pages speak in his unique voice of a universal desire to understand and relate to all around us. This book is a gem free to be cliche as all the most potent are a diamond in the rough. . Walter J. Black Incorporated hardcover
1961ref. 2090202118205200Kodansha 1961. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Kodansha paperback
1966ref. 2081502112303717Shueisha 1966. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Shueisha paperback
1930ref. 339799Standard Book Company January 1930. Hardcover. Used - Good/No Jacket. Set of 10. No dust jackets on these editions printing is directly on boards. Aged with minor shelf wear on spines. Pictures available upon request. Standard Book Company hardcover
ref. 71360London: Macmillan and Company 1897. Classic seafaring adventure FIRST EDITION first impression. Crown octavo 20 x 14cm pp.viii; 245 3. With 22 engraved illustrations by Taber including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth front board shows gilt titles and a scene in gilt of Harvey at hauling on a line in apparently rough seas gilt titles and a portrait of Manuel blowing a horn to spine; all edges gilt black endpapers. Blind W.H. Smith stamp to fly-leaf otherwise internally crisp and clean. Heavy rubbing and toning to spine and lower board; upper quite clean. Good. One of Kipling's more moralistic adventure tales which tells the story of Harvey Cheyne the spoiled and perennially annoying son of a railroad magnate. When he falls overboard and is picked up by fishermen who don't believe the story of his origins he is forced to work his way back to land. By the time he reaches he shore and his parents arrive to pick him up he has become a worthy and industrious young man meeting the whole checklist of virtues outlined by Kipling in "If London: Macmillan and Company, 1897 unknown
1917ref. KIPLINGR010607Macmillan London. 1917. First edition. Octavo. pp viii 442. Four pages of adverts at rear. Top edge gilt. Fourteen stories interspersed with poems. Red buckram covers with gilt device on front.Free endpapers partially tanned. Very good indeed. No dustwrapper. Macmillan, London. hardcover
1909ref. 789896Hodder & Stoughton London c.1909. 1909. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition hardback 4to unpaginated 30 tipped-in colour plates with decorated borders and captioned guards numerous b/w illustrations 2 of the plates have creased corners slight scattered foxing otherwise clean and binding sound no inscriptions gilt-decorated blue cloth board edges rubbed and slightly bumped slightly frayed on the spine minor soiling on covers Good condition. . Hodder & Stoughton, London, c.1909, hardcover
1909ref. 61187London: Hodder & Stoughton N.d. 1915. 4to.Illustrated. 124 pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth with decoration in pale green & lettering in gilt to front board & spine. Spotting to fore-edge and prelims. With sixteen tipped-in colour plates by W. Heath Robinson. Plates complete. Bright and clean copy. . Very Good. Decorated Cloth. 1909. Hodder & Stoughton N.d. [1915] hardcover
ref. 53303London: Hodder & Stoughton Lightly rubbed front board slightly warped gutters cracked inscription to ffep a few plates loose plate to p.73 detached but extant. Clean plates bright. Cloth. Fair. Illus. by Robinson W Heath. 4to. Hodder & Stoughton Hardcover
ref. 533Macmillan London 1926 1st edition. vi 416pp. Red cloth boards with gilt titles and elephant head motif on front cover. Top edge gilt. Spine of d/w darkened edges little frayed and creased. Some pages little foxed. Some outer pages little browned from d/w. A nice clean copy. 20x14cms. Macmillan, London, 1926 (1st edition). hardcover
1920ref. 69091London: Macmillan and Co Ltd. 1920. 8vo. First Edition. vi 284 4 pp. Red cloth binding with stamped gilt decoration to front and gilt letting to spine. Original dust jacket brown with monochrome printed title and monogram - uncommon to find in its jacket. Top edge gilt publisher's catalogue at rear. Jacket is chipped and torn at head of spine and corners with a large section of loss to corner of rear panel. Boards clean and bright with minor rubbing to spine ends. Binding firm. Internally very clean and bright with minor foxing to fore-edge and a prize bookplate dated 1945 from Bideford Grammar School. . Fine. Gilt Lettered Cloth. First Edition. 1920. Macmillan and Co, Ltd. 1920 hardcover
ref. 121528London Macmillan and co. ltd 1932 . First edition; 8vo 200 x 140mm; contemporary ownership inscription in pencil to ffep; gilt top-edge mild spotting to fore-edges otherwise pages are clean and bright; publisher's red cloth with elephant gilt medallion to upper panel gilt titling binding is sound most certainly an attractive copy in near fine condition; viii 400pp. Limits and Renewals was the author's last collection of short stories written not long after the death of his only son. It is therefore unsurprising that many of these stories then take on the themes of grief and suffering. London, Macmillan and co. ltd, 1932, hardcover
1904ref. 53719London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1904. 8vo. 387 18 pp. Publisher's original maroon cloth with gilt decoration to front board & gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. In the original printed dust wrapper. Dj spine slightly darkened and chipped at spine ends. Cloth especially fresh and bright. Slight spotting to endpapers and fore-edge. Internally clean. 18 page publisher's list at rear. Scarce in jacket. . Very Good. Cloth. Reprint. 1904. Macmillan and Co., Limited 1904 hardcover
1958ref. 77866London: Hodder and Stoughton 1958. 8vo. Definitive edition on india paper. xvi 845 pp. Red and black printed title page. Publisher's blue buckram with spine gilt in slipcase. Bright and very firm copy. An inscription in ink to ffep and a few spots to edge of prelims. A few minor cracks to slipcase. The complete collection of Rudyard Kipling's poetry containing 37 additional poems from the inclusive edition of 1918. . Near Fine. Buckram. 1958. Hodder and Stoughton 1958 hardcover
1903ref. 53914London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1903. 8vo. vi 353 2 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt device to front board and gilt lettering to spine. In the original printed grey paper dust wrapper. Top edge gilt. Dj edgeworn with darkened spine. Cloth bright and fresh. Internally clean. No ownership names. . Very Good. Cloth. Reprint. 1903. Macmillan and Co., Limited 1903 hardcover
1890ref. 52465Allahabad: A.H Wheeler 1890. Spine relaid some sunning chipping and loss to extremities. Gutters cracked period ink inscrip to flyleaf. PP in clean clear condition binding firm. . Half Leather Marbled Boards. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. A.H Wheeler Hardcover
1937ref. 907101937. Macmillan & Co. London. 1937. First edition the Delux Leather version with gilt decorations to spine unusually still with its DW. Endpapers lightly browned edges have slight foxing otherwise a remarkably clean and bright copy in wrapper. The best copy of this title we have ever seen! hardcover
1899ref. 50289London: Macmillan and Co. 1899. First edition 8vo xii 272 2 advertisement pp. Marbled endpapers sides and edges armorial bookplate. Contemporary half calf a little sunned. Martindell 77. London: Macmillan and Co. unknown
1899ref. 018835Macmillan & Co Ltd 1899. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Red hardcover. spine faded spine ends rubbed. Corners bumped. A few marks to cover. Presentation copy. Pages toned. Two pages of adverts at rear. Macmillan & Co Ltd hardcover
1899ref. 70977London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1899. 8vo. First Edition. xi 272 2 pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and elephant medallion on the front board top edge gilt. Slight wear to spine ends rubbing to joints and darkening to spine. Ink name to ffep. Occasional spots but generally internally clean. . Very Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth. First Edition. 1899. Macmillan and Co., Limited 1899 hardcover
