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1924réf. 29731Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1924. Second Edition. Hardcover. A most handsome Second American edition in just about Fine condition with only limited signs of edgewear. Issued in sage-green boards the front cover lettered in green upon a white paper label. Lightly browned dust-jacket shows portrait of Kipling on front and original price of $1.00 on inside flap. Livingston 487; Rectorial address delivered at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland on October 10 1923. Originally published as "Man's Desire for Independence" in The London Times. Kipling became Rector of St. Andrews in 1922. "You know that there is no loneliness equal to the loneliness of youth at war with its surroundings in a world that does not care." ; 8vo; 33 pages . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1923réf. 29876London: MacMillan and Co. Limited. Near Fine. 1923. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A first English edition gilded title on original red cloth in just about near Fine condition showing little rubbing and sunning to spine. Also issued in gray paper wrappers. Livingston 486; Rectorial address delivered at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland on October 10 1923. Originally published as "Man's Desire for Independence" in The London Times. Kipling became Rector of St. Andrews in 1922. "The sole revenge that Maturity can take upon Youth for the sin of being young is to preach at it. When I was young I sat and suffered under that dispensation." ; 16mo; 32 pages . MacMillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1923réf. 29877London: MacMillan and Co. Limited. Fine. 1923. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. A charming first English edition in Fine condition grayish blue card wrappers. Ruled and lettered in dark blue. 20000 copies printed. Also issued in red cloth. Livingston 486 Richards A343; Kipling became Rector of St. Andrews in 1922 and gave this rectorial address at his inauguration the University of St. Andrews in Scotland on October 10 1923. Originally published as "Man's Desire for Independence" in The London Times. "The sole revenge that Maturity can take upon Youth for the sin of being young is to preach at it. When I was young I sat and suffered under that dispensation." ; Small 8vo; 32 pages . MacMillan and Co., Limited paperback books
1899réf. 99859NY:: Dodge Publishing Company. Very Good. 1899. Hardcover. With original illustrations by L. J. Bridgman and others. Oriental edition. Octavo bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and multicolored design top edge gilt. Fading along the spine minor edge wear else very good. Text is clean and binding is sound. ; 750 pages . Dodge Publishing Company, hardcover books
1899réf. 24788Cleveland New York: International Fiction Library. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. c1899 1930. Cloth. An attractive publication of the International Fiction Libary in Very Good condition minor staining and foxing chiefly to endpapers in little chipped dust-jacket. While copyright stating 1899 this wasn't published until 1930 as indicated by mention of Edgar Wallace's "The Stretelli Case and Other Mystery Stories" and "Silinski Master Criminal" on the dust-jacket ; In November 1887 Kipling was transferred from the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore to the Pioneer in Allahabad. The results were these nineteen articles which can be said to be Kipling's description of life in the semi-independent States of India; 8vo; 254 pages . International Fiction Library hardcover books
1926réf. TB30615Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1926. First Edition. First printing Very good in blue cloth covered boards with tarnished gilt text on the spine and bright gilt text on the front board. A small quarto measuring 9 7/8 by 7 1/2 inches with light rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and light rubbing to the cloth at the tips of the boards. There is a prior owner's name on the first free end page. In a good plain tan printed dust jacket with text on the spine and front panel with shallow chips at the upper and lower edges of the spine area with soiling to both panels and spine area. A small quarto measuring 9 7/8 by 7 1/2 inches containing 94 pages of text and 24 full color plate illustrations by Donald Maxwell. Facing each of the 24 color plates which show maritime scenes and landscapes of the English countryside is a selection of verse by Kipling. An attractive copy. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1973réf. 437058Avon Connecticut: Limited Editions Club 1973. Hardcover. Fine. Selected by Bernard Bergonzi. Illustrated by Charles Raymond. Quarto. Fine in lightly worn very near fine cardboard slipcase lacking the unprinted glassine dustwrapper. One of 2000 numbered copies Signed by Raymond. Prospectus for the book and LEC newsletter laid in. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1973réf. 9025772Avon: Limited Editions Club 1973. Hardcover. Fine. Charles Raymond. Bound in publisher's original full half and half green and blue buckram. Spine and cover stamped in gilt. Publisher's original matching slipcase wrapped in matching blue and green paper. Signed by Charles Raymond. One of 2000 numbered copies. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1937réf. 11998RUDYARD KIPLING'S VERMONT FEUD Countryman Press 1937 first edition fine in vg slip-case with some slight chipping to the spine section of the paste-on attached to the slip-case. Illustrated. #649 of 700 SIGNED by the author and the artist. Countryman Press unknown books
1897réf. 03204LIFE ON A GREENLAND WHALER in McClure's Magazine for March 1897 first American edition some light wear and tear to the covers some chipping to the spine extremities else vg in wraps. Also contains chapters 8 & 9 of CAPTAIN'S COURAGEOUS by Kipling. McClure paperback books
1932réf. 12372LIMITS AND RENEWALS Doubleday Doran 1932 first American edition a bright near fine copy in a vg/vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. Doubleday, Doran unknown books
1906réf. 05455PUCK OF POOK'S HILL Doubleday Page & Co. 1906 first American edition save for some touch-up work with a bit different green shade of ink at the corner tips and spine hinges some light brown staining to three leaves a bright vg/near fine copy with the Rackham full color full page illustrations none of which were present in the English edition. Doubleday, Page & Co. unknown books
2006réf. 537743New York: Little Simon Simon & Schuster 2006. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Paper engineering by Matthew Reinhart. Octavo. Fine in illustrated boards issued without a dust jacket. A Classic Collectible Pop-up. Little Simon (Simon & Schuster) hardcover books
1923réf. 13208London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd 1923. Near Fine/Very Good. London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd 1923. New Edition Much Enlarged Limited to 700 copies of which this is no. 518. Octavo; publisher's cloth in grey printed dust jacket red topstain; 2xvi2221pp.; frontispiece and fifty-one 51 leaves of plates collated and complete. Dust jacket verso entirely reinforced / backed with evidence of expert repair along margins and across spine; faint spotting to front and rear panel bottom fore-edge corner of front board has been touched up else a Near Fine copy in a Very Good albeit rather excessively restored jacket. John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd unknown books
1995réf. 102541London:: Folio Society. Fine. 1995. Hardcover. First edition thus. Fine in a fine slipcase. . Folio Society, hardcover books
1926réf. JC2834London: Macmillan and Co. 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. Gilt-stamped cloth. From the library of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. with his bookplate on the front paste-down and a gift inscription to him on the FFEP rendered nearly illegible by his young daughter's efforts to insert her ownership signature -- it's cute. Fairbanks 1909-2000 was an American actor his credits include Gunga Din and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1908réf. 1358919London: Macmillan & Co 1908. Softcover. 12mo; 31 pages; G; Red paper covers with no text; on spine; Covers have wear to corners and edges chipping along spine edges; Textblock has bookplate on inside of front cover age toning to pages; RWO; NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area Wegewood Section. 1358919. Special Collections. Macmillan & Co unknown books
1903réf. 148181903. KIPLING RUDYARD. The Five Nations. London: Methuen and Co. 1903. xiii 3 215 p. 38 p. Methuen cat. dated July 1903. Dark red cloth. Spine a bit darkened extremities rubbed. First edition. Stewart 276. unknown books
1919réf. 427453London: Macmillan and Co 1919. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. Octavo. 219pp. 4pp. Illustrations by Rudyard Kipling. Red cloth with gilt embossed stamp of elephant and swastika on front board gilt-stamped spine title top edge gilt. Gutter cracked small stain on pages 192-193 at the very foredge spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped a very good copy in a very good lightly age-toned dustwrapper with "7/6 Net" sticker on spine short tears on spine ends and corners. Macmillan and Co hardcover books
1949réf. 57771Paris: Robert Laffont 1949. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. #2663 of 3000cc. 473pp. Small tape ghosts on endpapers else very good in publisher's wraps and onionskin jacket. Robert Laffont paperback books
1927réf. 13690London: Macmillan 1927. First edition. Hardcover. g. Small 4to. xi. 99pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Written on vellum. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Wear scuffing and rubbing to boards and spine. Collection of poems by Rudyard Kipling recipient of the Nobel Prize of Literature each poems illustrated with colored and b/w drawings by Donald Maxwell. In overall good condition. Macmillan hardcover books
1898réf. TB33467New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. 1898. First Edition. Very good in dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations on the spine and with the same on the front board to include a Viking ship under sail. The top edge of the text block is gilt. A small octavo measuring 8 by 5 1/4 inches with the first blank end sheet has been removed and rubbing and light wear to the cloth at the corners of the spine and to the tips of the boards. The upper fore tip has been bumped. The last 12 leaves have an ink stain in the lower margins at the extreme edge of the pages. Without a dust jacket. 431 pages of text. A collection of twelve short stories Illustrated with a frontispiece by W. D. Stevens and five plates by various artists. A very handsome and clean copy. Richards Rudyard Kipling A Bibliography A115 Doubleday & McClure Co. hardcover books
1903réf. 324702London: Methuen and Company 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. First state with misprint 'David' for 'Saul' on page 56 line 9 ads dated July 1903. Very good with a faded spine and some fading at the bottom front corner light edgewear endpapers browned. Methuen and Company hardcover books
1980réf. 64198Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 1980. Limited Edition. 8vo. 27cm x 18.5cm. Publisher's full green leather titled and decorated in gilt to spine and boards. Clean and bright a fine unread copy. 383pp. Internally clean. Yellow silk endpapers. All edges gilt. Illustrated throughout by David Gentleman. Part of the "One Hundred Greatest Books Ever Written" series. The Easton Press unknown books
1968réf. WB17104Lunenburg VT: The Limited Editions Club 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Copy 81 of a total edition of 1500. Large 8vo. Signed by David Gentleman illustrator. Excellent copy in slipcase. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books