Kipling, RudyardABAA
1992ref. 1394303Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 1992. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. In Very Good condition. Sealed in original plastic shrink wrap. Bound in publisher's decorated green leather with paneling and gilt lettering to spine. Edges of textblock gilt. Shelved in Easton Press. 1394303. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Easton Press hardcover books
1920ref. 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 books
1914ref. 26603London: Macmillan Company 1914. First edition. Paper wrappers. A fine copy. 3 pp. 16mo. Livingston 300 note p. 285. Stewart 308. Macmillan Company unknown books
1898ref. 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 books
1898ref. 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 books
1899ref. 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 books
1896ref. 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 books
1893ref. 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 books
1911ref. 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 books
1932ref. 7414Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Co 1932. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A very sharp copy of the 1932 stated 1st American edition. Clean and Near Fine with bright gilt-lettering at the front panel and spine in a crisp price-intact Near Fine dustjacket with very very lighty staining along the spine. Thick octavo 371 pgs. Housed in a custom-made quarter-morocco biox. Doubleday, Doran & Co unknown books
1912ref. 23779Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1912. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. The 1912 1st edition preceding the British edition by 1 year. Tight and VG in its dark cloth with bright gilt-titling and blindstamping along the front panel. And in a perfectly serviceable price-intact VG dustjacket with light creasing and wear along the spine ends light soiling to the panels including spotting at the spine and several tiny closed tears to the edges. Still though a presentable copy. Livingston 358. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
ref. 3387019688.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1926ref. 612352London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. Octavo. xiii 169pp. Blue cloth with bright white printed spine label. Scattered foxing near fine in a very good dust jacket with spine ends and corners nicked light foxing housed in a green leather and cloth slipcase embellished in gilt. Containing "The Royal Society of Literature" by the Most Hon. The Marquess of Crewe K.G. President R.S.L.; Ballads by Mrs. Margaret L. Woods; "A Franciscan Poet - Jacopone da Todi" by Evelyn Underhill; "Christina Rossetti" by Walter De La Mare "Swinburne and Baudelaire" by the Hon. Harold Nicolson; "The Art of the Biographer" by A.C. Benson; and Address by Mr. Rudyard Kipling. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press hardcover
1936ref. 550866New York 1936. Unbound. Near Fine. Gelatin silver photograph. 4.75" x 6.5". Near fine. Printed captioned reports Kipling's then recent medical emergency. The author pictured from the chest up smoking a pipe. unknown
1948ref. 94154Garden City:: Doubleday & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1948. Hardcover. Volume One only. This copy is from the personal library of the late Madeleine L'Engle 1963 Newbery Award winner for her now classic young adult fantasy novel A WRINKLE IN TIME and bears her handwritten name and her family's on the front paste-down. Book club edition. Very good in a very good minor edge wear and age toning dust jacket.; 253 pages . Doubleday & Company, hardcover
ref. 004196Airmont. Soft cover. See Description. uncredited. The graphic cardboard display case is still sealed and in Near Fine to Fine condition. All six of the paperbacks are in As New Very Fine and unread condition! Various printings. These Airmont Classics display cases are extremely uncommon. A wonderful set. The Airmont paperback Classic Series have interesting and generally very well done new cover art for each title usually with an insightful introduction. Airmont paperback
ref. 004198Airmont. Soft cover. See Description. uncredited; Roy Krenkel Oz. The graphic cardboard display case is still sealed and in Near Fine to Fine condition. All six of the paperbacks are in As New Very Fine and unread condition! Various printings. These Airmont Classics display cases are extremely uncommon. A wonderful set. The Airmont paperback Classic Series have interesting and generally very well done new cover art for each title usually with an insightful introduction. Airmont paperback
1925ref. 12728Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1925. 1925. Very good. - Octavo softcover bound in printed creamy white stapled paper wraps titled in dark olive green on the front cover. The covers are slightly soiled with some rubbing and a couple of tiny chips along the top edge of the front cover near the spine and a tiny tear to the top edge of the rear cover. There are some minor creases to the corners of the covers. 4 pages with Kipling's 20-line poem entitled "A Choice of Songs" printed on one page. The book is creased vertically down the center. Very good. First edition limited to only 94 copies of the American copyright issue. Stewart 516. "A Choice of Songs / In Faith and Food and Books and Friends / Giver every soul her choice; / For such as follow deivers ends / In divers lights rejoice. / . / There is a glory in all things / But each must find his own / Sufficient for his reckonings / Which is to him alone." Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. paperback
1898ref. 6649London: Macmillan and Co 1898. First Edition First Issue. Original Wraps. Very Good. Small Octavo. 84 pages. Bound in original blue pictorial wrappers. Minor wear at fore-edge of front wrapper; very good in a handsome cloth covered slipcase. Macmillan and Co paperback
1911ref. 318348London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Oxford / Clarendon 1911; same date on title and copyright pages no additional printings indicated; 250pp. with 15 color plates 12 full page black and white illustrations and five maps. Binding is sturdy and fully intact; light wear to edges of blue cloth boards a few small stains on front board some light surface scratches on rear board; white titling and knight illustration on front board lightly rubbed but otherwise bold gilt titling on spine remains bright and bold; illustrations and text very good throughout all plates present; gilt top edge dulled. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges will apply for international and/or expedited shipping. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis Minnesota. Oxford at the Clarendon Press hardcover
1909ref. 510827New York: B. W. Dodge & Company 1909. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown else a fine copy. Livingston 328 "Pirated edition" preceding all others. A beautiful copy. B. W. Dodge & Company hardcover
1909ref. 124551London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1909. First British edition of Kipling’s Actions and Reactions. Octavo original cloth with gilt elephant emblem to the front panel. In good condition. Ownership inscription. 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. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1938ref. 040655NY / Cambridge: Edgar H. Wells / Harvard U Press 1938. First Editions. Original Cloth. Very Good. Two volumes. pp: xviii 523; xv 333. Facsimiles of Kipling title-pages; index in each volume. Bound in brown cloth gilt spine titles. 8.5" x 5.75" Prior owner's address label and name in both volumes. Edgar H. Wells / Harvard U Press unknown
1932ref. 427502London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1932. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint of the Uniform Edition. 282pp. 21 black-and-white illustrations. Gilt-stamped red cloth top edge gilt. Spine cocked near fine in a very good very lightly stained dustwrapper short nicks on spine ends. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1926ref. 126441Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz 1926. First Tauchnitz edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s most sorrowful collections. Octavo original wrappers. 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. Bernhard Tauchnitz unknown
