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Best.-Nr. 95780Lausanne Gonin et Cie 1930. . limited edtion number 17 of 20 hors commerce out of a total of 160 copies 4 vols; 4to 31.5 x 26.5 cm. 276 pp.; 272 pp. with 15 colour plates including frontispiece and 15 chapter heading vignette illustrations and initials all cut in wood and printed in colour by F. L. Schmied with 15 supplementary plates not called for in index and two extra suites of all the illustrations one in colour one in monochrome; original wrappers protected by chemises and slipcase; slipcase slightly rubbed with one joint starting to split. with 15 supplementary plates and two extra suites of all the illustrations. Set in the period between the second and third Afghan Wars therefore 1893-1898 Kim was first published in 1900-1901 with this French translation first appearing in 1902. Unfolding against the backdrop of the political conflict between Russia and Great Britain in Central Asia the novel popularised the term 'The Great Game'. The charming illustrations were engraved and printed by the painter and printer François-Louis Schmied 18731941 who was of Swiss origin. After attracting fame with his engravings for a 1919 edition of The Jungle Book Schmied turned his attention to producing expensive luxurious works in limited editions. Buyssens no 43. Lausanne, Gonin et Cie, 1930. unknown
Best.-Nr. 150490Rare print of Rudyard Kipling's poem Being a Man more commonly referred to as "If-". One page typed. Boldly signed by author Cormac McCarthy at the bottom right corner. Cormac McCarthy 1933–2023 was an American novelist whose stark prose and often violent themes earned him recognition as one of the most influential literary voices of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His best-known works include Blood Meridian 1985 regarded as a masterpiece of the American West and frontier violence and the Border Trilogy—All the Pretty Horses 1992 The Crossing 1994 and Cities of the Plain 1998—which brought him both critical acclaim and commercial success with All the Pretty Horses winning the National Book Award. Later No Country for Old Men 2005 and The Road 2006 achieved bestseller status with the latter earning him the Pulitzer Prize and cementing his reputation as a chronicler of human survival and moral ambiguity. In near fine condition. The piece measures 6 inches by 7.5 inches. Housed in a hand-made cloth folder by the Harcourt Bindery. "If—" first appeared in the "Brother Square Toes" chapter of the book Rewards and Fairies a collection of Kipling's poetry and short-story fiction published in 1910. In his posthumously published autobiography Something of Myself 1937 Kipling said that in writing the poem he was inspired by the character of Leander Starr Jameson leader of the failed Jameson Raid against the Transvaal Republic to overthrow the Boer Government of Paul Kruger. The failure of that mercenary coup d'état aggravated the political tensions between Great Britain and the Boers which led to the Second Boer War 1899–1902.As an evocation of Victorian-era stoicism—the "stiff upper lip" self-discipline which popular culture rendered into a British national virtue and character trait "If—" remains a cultural touchstone. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 73662London: Macmillan and co. 1901. Adventure thriller FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 21 x 14cm pp.8 413 3. With 10 black and white illustrated plates. Publisher's red cloth gilt titles to spine and gilt elephant Ganesha motif stamped to upper cover top edge gilt. With the extremely scarce dust-wrapper printed in red on grey paper stock. This is the correct jacket listing fourteen 'uniform edition' titles starting with 'Kim' without printing statement and ending with The Naulahka. Contents clean no inscriptions light spotting to endpapers bump at crown jacket gently toned with light chipping to top edge and a long archivally repaired tear to rear panel extending to spine. Shows extremely well housed in a leather-spined cloth clamshell. Kipling's famous Indian adventure and one of the author's most enduring thrillers. Basis for the classic 1950 movie starring Erroll Flynn and Dean Stockwell. An early spy novel which undoubtedly influenced Ian Fleming and a whole generation of spy writers; the British spy Harold 'Kim' Philby was so nicknamed by his father after elements from this text. This is novelist Michael Sadleir's copy with his elegant oval nameplate to pastedown. Sadleir 1888-195 was a noted collector of Victorian fiction a nineteenth century bibliographer close friend of Ian Fleming and author most notably of the grimy backstreet story Fanny by Gaslight 1940. His remarkable collection of Victorian fiction now at the UCLA Department of Special Collections was the subject of a catalogue published in 1951. Richards A174. London: Macmillan and co., 1901 unknown
Best.-Nr. 06181Lahore: "The "Civil and Military Gazette" Press 1884. First Edition of Kipling's Very Rare Second Book "Echoes" KIPLING Rudyard and Alice. Echoes. By Two Writers. Lahore: "The "Civil and Military Gazette" Press 1884 First edition. Small square octavo 6 x 4 1/2 inches; 154 x 115 mm. 2 blank 2 title verso blank 2 index 1-72 2 blank pp. Some light foxing throughout first blank leaf with early ink signature. Publisher's light brown wrappers front wrapper with tile design printed in black. lower corner 1 1/8 x 3/4 inch; 28 x 19 mm. torn away spine expertly and invisibly restored still a near fine copy. Housed in a red cloth chemise within a full red morocco velvet lined 'jewel-case'. Spine with five raised bands lettered in gilt in compartments brass lock. First edition of Kipling's very rare second book; the "two writers" of the title were Kipling and his sister Alice "Trix". Of the 39 poems mostly "echoes" or imitations of well-known poets 32 are ascribed to Kipling and 7 to his sister. First published in Lahore in August 1884 the volume appeared when Kipling then 18 years old had been living in India for nearly two years. It was printed by the Civil and Military Gazette Press where Kipling served as sub-editor and he personally oversaw its production. In December 1883 Kipling's mother brought his 15-year-old sister Trix from England to join him. Together they engaged in a series of literary experiments and playful compositions producing a substantial collection of poems-primarily parodies of well-known poets-by the spring of 1884. Encouraged by their efforts Rudyard published a selection of these works in August of that year under the title Echoes by Two Writers. The Poems: Echoes: Introduction 1. A Vision of India Rudyard Kipling 2. The City of the Heart Rudyard Kipling 3. The Raiyat at Home Rudyard Kipling 4. Children of Nature Alice MacDonald Fleming 1884 5. The Bearing of the Vine Alice MacDonald Fleming 1884 6. Hope Deferred Alice MacDonald Fleming 1884 7. The Flight of the Bucket Rudyard Kipling 8. Laocoon Rudyard Kipling 9. Nursery Rhymes for Little Anglo-Indians Rudyard Kipling 10. Tobacco Rudyard Kipling 11. Appropriate Verses on an Elegant Landscape Rudyard Kipling 12. His Consolation Rudyard Kipling 13. Egoism Alice MacDonald Fleming 1884 14. The Cursing of Stephen Rudyard Kipling 15. On Sorrow Alice MacDonald Fleming 16. Jane Smith Rudyard Kipling/Alice MacDonald Fleming 1884 17. Nursery Idyls Rudyard Kipling 18. Sonnet On Being Rejected of One's Horse Rudyard Kipling 19. Kopra Brahm Rudyard Kipling 20. The Sudder Bazár Rudyard Kipling 21. Commonplaces Rudyard Kipling 22. To You Love Alice MacDonald Fleming 1884 23. On True Friendship Alice MacDonald Fleming 1884 24. Quæritur Rudyard Kipling 25. London Town Rudyard Kipling 26. Himalayan Rudyard Kipling 27. Our Lady of Many Dreams Rudyard Kipling 28. A Murder in the Compound Rudyard Kipling 29. " 'Way Down the Ravee River" Rudyard Kipling 30. Amour de Voyage Rudyard Kipling 31. Failure Rudyard Kipling 32. How the Day Broke The Drawing Room Song Rudyard Kipling 33. A Locked Way Rudyard Kipling 34. Land Bound Rudyard Kipling 35. The Ballad of the King's Daughter Old Ballad Rudyard Kipling 36. How the Goddess Awaketh Rudyard Kipling 37. The Maid of the Meerschaum Rudyard Kipling 38. Estunt the Griff Rudyard Kipling 39. Cavaliere Servente Rudyard Kipling Livingston 14; Stewart 5. Lahore: "The "Civil and Military Gazette" Press, 1884 unknown
1913Best.-Nr. 141035London: Macmillan & Co. 1913-38. A handsomely bound set signed by the author on the half-title The Bombay Edition one of only 500 possible complete sets signed by the author on the half-title. The Bombay edition was initially published in 20 volumes and limited to 1000 copies. Kipling continued to write and the edition eventually grew to 31 volumes but the last 11 volumes were limited to 500 copies only. Because later volumes were issued separately and at a lower limitation complete sets such as this one are rare. 31 vols octavo. Attractively bound in recent burgundy morocco green morocco labels centre tool to spines gilt raised bands roll to boards gilt marbled endpapers top edges gilt others untrimmed. Mild partial toning to a couple of the half-titles an excellent set. hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. BIBLIO-13244Macmillan and Co. Ltd London Sussex Edition 1937-39. Limited edition of 525 sets of which 500 signed by the author were for sale. However many of these were destroyed when the publisher's warehouse was bombed in 1941. 35 vols royal 8vo full russet Niger morocco handmade paper top edges rough-gilded other edges untrimmed. several thousand pages. The Sussex edition is the definitive edition of Kipling's works splendidly produced and much sought after by collectors. Some contemporary Macmillan advertising material described it thus: "The Sussex Edition had been planned some years before the author's death and was designed to rank as the definitive edition of all his works in prose and verse in the most complete and handsome form. Kipling had undertaken a detailed revision of the text for this purpose and had autographed and numbered the first volume of each set. He left behind him careful instructions regarding the unpublished or uncollected writings which are so conspicuous and interesting a feature of the Sussex Edition. This material includes over sixty stories articles and speeches besides such groups of papers as The War in the Mountains Eyes of Asia and Brazilian Sketches none of them previously published in book form if at all in this country and the whole of his early or uncollected verse." From a contemporary review in the TLS: "The publishers are justified in the use of the epithet "superb" to describe this edition. The fine hand-made paper and Bembo type are equally satisfactory : but perhaps the binding is still more notable. It is . Niger leather lettered and simply ornamented in gold. The volumes though ten inches by six and three quarter inches in size are comparatively slim and so easy to hold; and they have an air of durability and of being meant for reading as well as for keeping which is not always the case with éditions de luxe. Set No. 15 signed by Kipling. Unobtrusive 1 cm scratch to spine of volume 7 some spine bands just a trifle rubbed otherwise a splendid Fine set. Contents exceptionally clean with many volumes largely unopened. Macmillan and Co. Ltd, London, Sussex Edition, 1937-39 unknown
Best.-Nr. 65418London: Macmillan and Company 1937-39. LIMITED EDITION 119/525 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 35 vols 8vo. 24 x 16 cm. Titles printed in white within russet frames printed on handmade paper with watermark Ganesha original saddle tan morocco by James Burn & Co. covers with double gilt-fillet border spines gilt-lettered in six compartments marbled endpapers top edges gilt on rough others uncut Presentation inscription to first blank "Darling Rick /from /Mummy & Daddy with best love/ Anberley Court/Stroud/ Gloucestershire/ May 1937-38" Very slight variable fading to spines as uual. A fine set. The ulitimate deluxe and definitive edition of Kipling's works including two volumes of previously unpublished prose and verse. Supposedly many unbound sets of the text were destroyed during the Blitz further reducing the actual limitation. Richards D23 London: Macmillan and Company, 1937-39. unknown
1937Best.-Nr. 165903London: Macmillan and Company 1937-39. The most desirable collected edition The Sussex Edition number 72 of 525 sets only signed by the author in the first volume and containing two volumes of previously uncollected prose. Published after Kipling's death on 18 January 1936 this magnificent posthumous edition saw a small limitation and became even rarer following the destruction of many unsold sheets during the German bombing of London. In his last years and with his health failing Kipling remained determined to finish editing this "great retrospective work" which was first proposed in 1928. The edition was "fuller than that of any other. Kipling saw the proofs of at least 21 of the edition's 35 volumes before his death" and it is now "among the most prized and most expensive of all modern editions" Pinney p. 231. 35 vols large octavo. Printed on handmade paper with Ganesha watermark. Fly-titles printed in orange. Original full russet niger by James Burn & Co. spines lettered in gilt raised bands ruled in blind twin gilt fillet bordering covers turn-ins ruled in gilt and blind marbled endpapers top edges gilt and red on the rough other edges uncut. Bindings slightly darkened occasional light scuffs and internal marks otherwise clean. A near-fine set. Richards D23; Stewart pp. 577-80. Thomas Pinney The Letters of Rudyard Kipling vol. 6 1990. hardcover
1913Best.-Nr. 187925New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1913-1926. A stately array of bindings The Seven Seas Edition number 63 of 1050 sets printed on watermarked paper and signed by the author on the half-title of Volume I. Intended as the American counterpart to Macmillan's Bombay Edition this deluxe signed limited edition was issued in 27 volumes. This set has been finely bound likely by the publishers in 51 slimmer and more readable volumes. 27 vols expanded to 51 octavo. Title pages printed in red and black rubricated initials in some vols illustrations to text of children's works. Likely publisher's deluxe red crushed morocco spines lettered in gilt compartments and corners of boards richly gilt wide turn-ins with multiple gilt rolls dark blue crushed morocco doublures with richly gilt frames cream silk flyleaves top edges gilt fore and bottom edges uncut cream bookmarkers. Bookplate of John Francis Neylan 1885-1960 attorney to William Randolph Hearst to first blanks. Spots of rubbing hear hinge of From Sea to Sea volume I part II cracked. Overall a fine set. Richards D15; Stewart pp. 573-4. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 122541London Macmillan and Co. 1902. . First edition first impression second issue binding; large 4to 240 x 190 mm; 22 full-page illustrations by the author faint partial offsetting to endpapers faint contemporary gift inscription to front flyleaf discreet bookseller's label to front pastedown occasional minor thumb-soiling to blank fore-margins a hint of spotting to fore-edge of text block; publisher's red decorated cloth lettered in white minor rubbing to spine tips and corners front cover only slightly bowed pictorial dust-jacket a few closed tears and nicks to extremities loss to head of spine panel costing two letters small triangular area of loss to centre of spine panel long closed tears to head of front and rear panels discreetly repaired on verso traces of earlier repair to corners and head and foot of spine early inscription in black ink to front panel; a very good copy in the rare dust-jacket. A lovely copy in the exceptionally rare dust-jacket which unusually for the period reproduces an image different from that of the blocking on the boards. With a contemporary gift inscription to the front flyleaf: 'Alice M. L. Russell / from / John S. Russell / October 1902'. Followed by another endearing inscription presumably from the mother of the recipient to the front panel of the dust-jacket: 'This is the first edition of / Just So Stories / Dad went to great trouble to get it / therefore keep carefully'. Kipling's famous stories include: How the Whale Got His Throat How the Camel Got His Hump How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin How the Leopard Got His Spots The Elephant's Child The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo The Beginning of the Armadilloes How the First Letter Was Written How the Alphabet Was Made The Crab that Played with the Sea The Cat that Walked by Himself and The Butterfly that Stamped. The Chinese white pigment commonly used for the decorative blocking on the first issue binding famously tended to flake off and a new ink was used for the more commonly encountered second issue. Richards A181. London, Macmillan and Co., 1902. hardcover
1902Best.-Nr. 49105London: Macmillan & Co 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 249p quarto illustrated. A fine bright copy in a very good dust jacket. The design on the dust jacket differs from the design on the covers of the book. Just So Stories was Kipling's only self illustrated book. A fine bright copy with none of the usual flaking to the white pigment on the binding; armorial bookplate of George Jefferson Mersereau with the bookplate of A. Edward Newton above it on the front paste down. The extremely rare dust jacket is complete with only minor wear and tear and with a few archival tape reinforcements o the inside of the spine. Preserved in a custom cloth chemise and morocco-tipped slipcase Macmillan & Co hardcover
1888Best.-Nr. 05443RARE TYPESCRIPT COLLECTION being 17 typed manuscripts with the authors own hand corrections 11 of which were originally published in "TURNOVERS" and the Civil and Military Gazette 1 from the St. James Gazette and 5 that have just been recently published for the first time in 1986. They total 74 leaves with the upper right corner of some of them exhibiting wear and tear never entering anywhere near the text. All were published initially in the period 1884 thru 1891 these being later typed copies and represent a truly rare opportunity of acquisition for the serious collector. They are: A DAY OFF A SELF MADE MAN HOT WEATHER COUNCILS TILL THE DAY BREAK THE BURDEN OF NINEVEH THE HOUSE OF SHADOWS AN INTERESTING CONDITION THE PIT THAT THEY DIGGED AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY THE LONGEST WAY ROUND THE OLD STATION THE KILLING OF HATIM-TAI IN GILDED HALLS HIMALAYAN COUNCILS THAT DISTRICT LOG BOOK THE CASE OF ADAMAH and THE HILL OF ILLUSION. An historic gathering which at one time was sent by the authors British agency to his American publisher in an attempt to thwart another piracy by the Dodge Publishing Co. e.g. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. Authors photograph included. Housed in most handsome custom made tray-case. More information available upon request. N.p. unknown
