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1990ref. Q-0434946419Egmont Childrens Books 1990-03-19. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Egmont Childrens Books hardcover
1893ref. 000406London: MacMillan and Co 1893. FIRST EDITION first printing. Original pebbled blue cloth blind and gilt stamped vertical borders on front cover extending around the spine top edges untrimmed. Book is cocked front cover slightly discolored. ix i 365 & ipp. and 6pp. of ads. Stewart 118. Overall in GOOD condition. UncleAndy. First Edition. Full Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. MacMillan and Co Hardcover
1910ref. 001787NEW YORK: DOUBLEDAY PAGE AND COMPANY 1910 1675 TOTAL Pp. COPYRIGHT 1910-1920. ABAFT THE FUNNEL; 323 p. ACTION AND REACTION; 324 p. REWARDS AND FAIRIES; 344 p. STALKY AND COMPANY; 310 p. THE NAULAHKA; 374 p. BOOK DESCRIPTION: RED LEATHER HARDBOUND WITH PLAIN BOARDS GILT GOLD STAMP/EMBOSSED CIRCULAR ELEPHANT DESIGN ON FRONT WITH SWASTIKA AT UPPER LEFT & SPINE COVER WITH FLORAL DECORATED MOTIF & TITLE GILT UPPER LEAF EDGE BROWN INNER BOARD PAPER. DIMENSIONS: 7 1/4" x 5 3/4" x 3/4" each volume. CONDITION: VERY GOOD-GOOD; CHIPPED SPINE CROWN/HEEL TO LEAF EDGE MOST VOLUMES LEATHER BRITTLE AT EDGES/WORN INNER BOARD EXPOSED IN AREAS 2 BOARDS DETACHED ACTION & REACTION; FRONT BOARD THE NAULAHKA; REAR BOARD 2 VERTICAL CRACKS EFFECT LEATHER ON SPINE OF REWARDS AND FAIRIES CHIPS EFFECT SPINE EXTREMITIES OF ABAFT THE FUNNEL STRONG SQUARE SPINES CLEAN AGE TONED PAGES. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. Very Good. DOUBLEDAY, PAGE AND COMPANY paperback
1897ref. 666077Macmilan 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A very good copy of the first edition first printing in the original blue pictorial cloth all edges gilt light wear spine slightly cocked; some foxing to text; bookseller's ticket on front pastedown. PROVENANCE: Bookplate of Beatrice B. Fahnestock. Macmilan hardcover
1906ref. 031156Toronto: Macmillan of Canada 1906. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 1st Canadian Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Red cloth lettered in gilt and with the Kipling Elephant on front panel. Top edge gilt. Pencil tracing to front tissue.Illustrated. Slight bow to boards o/w near fine copy. Macmillan of Canada Hardcover
1996ref. 067260The Folio Society. A beautiful crisp clean seven volume hardcover set in near fine condition; all volumes in fine condition except "Short Stories" which has a tiny bump mid spine. No dust jackets as issued. Includes slipcase in near fine condition with faint rubbing. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1996. The Folio Society hardcover
ref. 41326New York: Tarry at the Taft. Hardcover. Circa 1930s. One of the "Tarry at the Taft" book series complimentary copies of literary classics provided by the Hotel Taft in New York now The Michelangelo. 244p advertisement on rear pastedown for the Hotel St. George pool on Clark Street in Brooklyn back then one of the largest indoor saltwater swimming pools in the United States. Both hotels were by the same company Bing & Bing. Some wear to extremities fading to spine. Very good-. ; Octavo. Tarry at the Taft hardcover
1925ref. LPB007553RKNew York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1925. First US Edition Thus/First Printing. Hardcover. Good/N/A. The collected Jungle Books in lovely red cloth with gilt to type and debossed illustrations on cover and spine. First Edition stated. Light ding to bottom front corner dent to bottom of rear board near spine and 5 inch crease to board across top rear corner. Tiny chip to head of spine with some light wear at ends edges and corners. Interior clean and binding solid. Presents nicely. Doubleday, Page & Co. hardcover
1909ref. TB34122New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. First Edition. First Printing Very good in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt text on the front board with the white illustration of an air ship. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches with full color end sheets by F. X. Leyendecker. Both front and rear hinges have been reinforced to help protect and preserve the beautiful end sheets. lower edge. The cloth at the tips of the boards are rubbed as is the cloth rubbed at the head and heel of the spine. A 1 inch tear to page 58 has been professionally repaired. 77 pages with the printing on the rectos only followed by the "Advertising Section" of nine leaves. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and three color plates by Frank X. Leyendecker and H. Reuterdahl. Richards A217 Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
2001ref. mon0000213657Fredonia Books 2001-09-01. Paperback. Good. 3.3475 in x 20.3545 in x 13.4997 in. Ex-library book usual markings. Clean copy sound binding. Fredonia Books paperback
ref. ria9781108060448_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Best known for The Jungle Book and the poem 'If-' Rudyard Kipling 1865–1936 became the first British recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Widely regarded as his masterpiece and described by him as 'a labour of great love' hardcover
1910ref. C82055London: Alston Rivers 1910. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Hardcover Hardcover. Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xvi 440. Original publisher's blue cloth lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. First Edition. The second of the author's two future-war novels. These two novels are the sum total of his literary output. Kipling 1885-1947 an American both of whose books were published in London saw service as a Major in the American Ambulance Service during WWI. He is buried in Arlington Cemetary his wife next to him. A reviewer wrote: ""The Shadow of Glory is written with so much reason and with such an air of verity that politicians diplomats commanders and rulers may well take heed and realise that unless there is some strong united effort for peace universal war will soon involve all the great nations of the earth."" The author realising that an appendixis unusual for a purely imaginary story provides an Introduction to his long Appendix pp. 385-440 that as the reviewer said ""contains lists of the navies and Powers engaged their battle organisation the war strength of the land forces explanatory notes on technical details and a bibliography of naval and military subjects international law and statistical works which make valuable reference for those interested in the preservation of the world's peace."" Strikingly accurate in many respects predictive of World War I in Europe even to Russia joining the Allies with the action also taking place in the Pacific Manchuria and also involving the Japanese. In Bleiler: Imaginary wars and battles. Bookplate on the front pastedown of Jo and Bryan Hanson. Slight marking and wear to covers with two tiny nicks at spine hinges otherwise very good minus with clean text. Alston Rivers, hardcover
1917ref. 019402London: Macmillan And Co 1917. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Green hardcover. Spine and edges of the cover are darkened. Corners lightly bumped. Endpapers are darkened. Foxing to the first few pages. Rare in the Greens Cloth for British first editions. Macmillan And Co hardcover
1991ref. TK231399The Folio Press At the Folio Society London 1991. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. 1st printing thus. 8vo in brown cloth backed decoratively printed paper covered boards 71pp printed in Scotch Roman with Victoria Titling on Magnani paper at the Stamperia Valdonega with duo-tone illustrations by Ian Ribbons __CONDITION : An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread and unmarked copy with the original limp clear plastic protective wrapper. . __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS The Folio Press At the Folio Society, London hardcover
1914ref. 031455UK: Macmillan 1914. 4th Edition . Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. R Kipling. Later printing of the 1st Edition dated 1914 and in the same format. A collection of Kipling's well-known animal stories including "How the Whale Got his Throat" "The Elephant's Child" and "The Butterfly That Stamped." With author's illustrations throughout. Book is near fine and very bright. Contents good. Inscription to endpaper. Ref19327 Macmillan hardcover
1893ref. 026159UK: Macmillan 1893. First Edition 5th or later Printing. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st edition 5th Imp 1893 Same format a the first edition. Bookplate of Charles Hibbert Henry Williamson's father in law. The Hibbert's were a wealthy middle class family in Devon. Williamson' met his daughter Ida Loetitia at various hunting meets and fell in love. Kipling's collection of short stories on the British in India and the Supernatural. From a large collection of Henry Williamson's and his family's books. Includes a specially commissioned small bookplate affixed inside the book confirming this. Book is very good with quite bright boards. Spine tips lightly rubbed. Contents good. Light age toning. More images can be taken upon request. ref 17593 Macmillan hardcover
1932ref. 921F38London: Macmillan and Co 1932 . First edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 6". None. An exceptional first edition of this entertaining anthology of short stories by Rudyard Kipling in the original dust wrapper. The first edition first impression of this work.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A collection of short stories and poems by Rudyard Kipling.Including the stories and poems 'Dayspring Mishandled' 'The Church That Was at Antioch' 'Akbar's Bridge' 'Fairy-Kist' 'Dinah in Heaven' 'Naaman's Song' 'Azrael's Court' 'Song of Seventy Horses' and many more.Many of these stories had previously appeared in various periodicals however three of these stories are for the first time here published being 'The Tie' 'Aunt Ellen' and 'Uncovenanted Mercies'. In the publisher's original cloth binding with unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to back strip head and tail otherwise externally excellent. Small loss of paper to dust wrapper back strip head with small closed tear and light tide mark to head of front wrap. Minor tide mark to tail of rear wrap. Small are of adhesive residue to reverse of dust wrapper back strip head. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine Macmillan and Co hardcover
1906ref. 781P1London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1906. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8" by 5.5". H. R. Millar. The first edition of these entertaining fantasy short stories by Rudyard Kipling illustrated throughout by H. R. Millar. The first edition first impression of this work.A historical fantasy work by Rudyard Kipling a series of short stories set across different periods of English history.Illustrated with a frontispiece and nineteen plates by H. R. Millar.Collated complete.Ten pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally generally smart with some light marks to the boards and spine. Spine is a little faded. Institutional label to the front paste down and to the recto to the front endpaper. Marks and wear to the rear paste down. Internally binding is strained in places. Pages are bright and clean with the odd handling mark. Good Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1933ref. 043422London: Hodder and Stoughton 1933. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. large Octavo. pp XVIII 819. 1st printing. Very slight foxing to end papers. Internally as new. DJ protected spine sunned. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
1899ref. GEN26-C-23London : Macmillan and Co. 1899-1926. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5". None. A two volume set of Rudyard Kipling first editions. Comprising of Stalky and Co. as well as Debits and Credits the works here show the breadth of Kipling's abilities with the former book a novel and the latter a collection of short stories poems and scenes for a play. Both volumes are decorated with Kipling's signature elephant to the boards a nod to his time in and love for India something also related to in the Hindu symbols found to the endpages. Stalky and Co. features the bookplate of one G.W. Bell. In decorative cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally quite smart there is some wear to the boards extremities and joints as well as some sunning to spines. The hinge of Stalky and Co. is tender. Internally the pages are generally firmly bound although there is some light strain in places and are bright and clean throughout aside from the odd instance of spotting throughout. Very Good Indeed Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1903ref. 924T61London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1903-1913. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. Three smart volumes of poetry and verse from English writer Rudyard Kipling. Three volumes. Written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling an English journalist novelist poet and short-story writer best known for The Jungle Book the Just So Stories and Kim. This set includes: The Five Nations 1903. First edition. A collection of poetry focused on the five nations which were suggested to be "five free nations of Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa and 'the islands of the sea'." The poems are divided into two with the first section covering a wide range of subjects and the second titled "Service Songs" relating to the common experiences of British soldiers around the turn of the century. Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses 1913. Thirty-fourth edition. A collection of poems and songs with a common theme of the late-Victorian British Army mostly written in a vernacular dialect. The series contains some of Kipling's best-known works including the poems "Gunga Din" "Tommy" and "Mandalay". The Seven Seas 1913. Twenty-third edition. A collection of verses on the theme of sailing and the sea with titles including "Hymn Before Action" "In the Neolithic Age" "The Lost Legion" "The Mary Gloster" and "McAndrew's Hymn". Publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the original red cloth binding. Externally smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. The odd mark to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting to the foredge and the first and last few pages. Further spotting to Barrack-Room Ballads. Light age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper of Barrack-Room Ballads and The Seven Seas. Very Good Methuen & Co. Ltd. hardcover
1903ref. 755P27London: Methuen and Co 1903. Leather. Near Fine. 7.5" by 5". None. A finely bound second edition of Rudyard Kipling's poetry with his section of touching service poetry. The second edition of this work.'The Five Nations' is a collection of Kipling's poetry; the first section contains poems on a wide variety of subjects. The second section is titled 'Service Songs' and relates the experiences of British soldiers of the time.Rudyard Kipling is best known for his novel 'The Jungle Book' however he was a prolific writer of poems novels and short stories. Being born in India inspired much of his work and he went on to become one of the most popular writers of his time. Bookplate of F. G. L. Whiteaway to the front pastedown. Rebound in a half calf binding with cloth to the boards. Externally spine. Spine is a little faded. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Pages are uncut to the fore edge. Near Fine Methuen and Co hardcover
1903ref. 653M22London: Methuen and Co. 1903. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5". None. A pleasing first edition first issue copy of this renowned collection of poetry by Rudyard Kipling. A first edition first issue copy with the issue point of 'David' to page 56 line 9 that was later changed to 'Saul' and publisher's advertisements dated 'July 1903'. This work is split into two sections: the first covering a wide range of subjects and the second section entitled 'Service Songs' containing poems about British soldiers at the turn of the twentieth century. Kipling is best known for his novel 'The Jungle Book' however he was a prolific writer of poems novels and short stories. Being born in India inspired much of his work and he went on to become one of the most popular writers of his time. With an extensive publisher's catalogue to the rear of the work dated 'July 1903'. In the publisher's original cloth binding with gilt title to spine. Externally excellent with minor shelfwear to extremities and slight fading to spine as expected with this colour binding. Small ink mark to head of spine. Age toning to endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages slightly age toned to extremities but very bright and clean. The odd spot to first and last few pages and fore edges only visible to textblock. The occasional page uncut throughout. Very Good Indeed Methuen and Co. hardcover
1896ref. 874V4London : Methuen and Co. 1896. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None . A collection of poetry and ballads focusing on the role of the British Empire overseas. An early edition published the same year as the first edition of 150 copies printed on handmade paper. Publisher's advertisements have been discarded. Bound in half crushed morocco. A collection of poems and ballads aimed at children focusing on themes of adventure and British pride. The vast scale of British Empire is explored in relation to colonialism for a child audience. Kipling condenses themes of British power and wealth to make it accesible for children. Kipling explores themes of British imperialism and the role of colonial rule within the 19th century through a series of short ballads and poems to demonstrate the vastness of the British Empire. In a half crushed morocco binding. Externally generally smart but with slight rubbing and cracking to the joints. Slight loss to the head and tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with spotting to the first and last few pages. Pages roughly cut. Very Good Methuen and Co. hardcover
1902ref. 755P28London: Methuen & Co LTD 1902. Leather. Near Fine. 7.5" by 5". None. A finely bound poetry collection by Rudyard Kipling a beautiful example of his superb writing. 'The Seven Seas' is one of Kipling's popular poetry collection most notably containing his most 'The Lost Legion'.Rudyard Kipling is best known for his novel 'The Jungle Book' however he was a prolific writer of poems novels and short stories. Being born in India inspired much of his work and he went on to become one of the most popular writers of his time. Bookplate of F. G. L. Whiteaway to the front pastedown.The eighth edition of this work. Rebound in a half calf binding with cloth to the boards. Externally smart. Spine is faded. A little rubbing to the spine. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine Methuen & Co LTD hardcover
