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1898ref. 32265New York: The S.S. McClure Co 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Volume 9 includes: "Ah Poverties Wincings and Sulky Retreats" by Whitman on page 600; "Camps of Green" by Whitman on page 999; "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Whitman on page 1052 all three Whitman poems are later printing from "Leaves of Grass"; the conclusion of the first appearance of "Captain Courageous" Rudyard Kipling; first American appearance of short story "The Voyage of Copley Banks" by A. Conan Doyle on page 862; first appearance of "Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Expedition" by Stephen Crane on page 1045; first American appearance of "The Governor of Saint Kitts" by A. Conan Doyle on page 565; "Slaves of the Lamp" by Rudyard Kipling on page 837; "The Two Barks" by Doyle on page 769; and "Pharoah and the Sergeant. A Poem" by Kipling on page 925. Bound in three quarter black leather with marbled paper covered boards and gilt title to spine. Minor wear to edges of boards and corners. A few chips to leather on spine and sunning to spine. Bookplate to front pastedown and previous owner inscription in pen dated 1938 to front free endpaper. Minor browning and occasional spots of foxing to margins but clean overall. Illustrated. Pages 559 - 1004. PER/061418. The S.S. McClure Co hardcover books
1928ref. 11043New York: Privately Printed 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st ed. limited to100 numbered copies this being #34. Small octavo uncut. Boards with paper spine label. Very Near Fine in Very Good plain glassine dust jacket. Privately Printed hardcover
1909ref. 55046New York: B. W. Dodge & Company 1909. First U.S. edition. Though a pirated one it does precede the authorized Doubleday Page and Co. edition by a few months. First issue in gilt-lettered blue cloth boards with ship at sea illustration stamped In black. Spine a little shaken otherwise near fine. Issued without a dust jacket. B. W. Dodge & Company unknown
1909ref. 292190New York: B.W. Dodge 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. First American pirated edition first issue with original blue cloth with seascape in black gilt-stamped lettering. . Appearing two months before the authorized edition by Doubleday Page and Company. Very good with light wear to the spine ends small newspaper clipping laid on rear pastedown pertaining to Rudyard Kipling without dustwrapper as issued. Scarce. A collection of short stories. B.W. Dodge hardcover
1978ref. 43854Franklin Center PA: The Franklin Library 1978. Hardcover. Illustrations by Ben F. Stahl. 8vo. Full red calf with gilt lettering raised bands and gilt decorations. 227pp. All edges gilt. Line drawings green moire endpapers and matching sewn-in page marker. Very good. Spine mildly sunned. A tight and attractive volume unspecified limited edition in "The Collector's Library of the World's Best-Loved Books" -- with choice and unusual autograph addition: This copy extra-illustrated with unique added frontispiece consisting of a reproduction of a cartoonist's 1938 renderings of the stars of the 1937 MGM film version of this book Freddie Bartholomew and Spencer Tracy for the Disney film "Mother Goose Goes Hollywood" -- and tipped beneath this 5½" X 4½" image is a fine vintage signature of Bartholomew in bold green ink on a heavy stock 3" X 2" card. Bartholomew 1924-92 was an English-American actor one of most famed child stars of all time. The Franklin Library hardcover
ref. 0881102520New. hardcover. New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. hardcover
1912ref. 126444London: Hodder & Stoughton 1912. First edition of the definitive collection of Kipling's verse. Royal octavo original quarter buckram over paper-covered boards paper spine label top edge gilt. In very good condition. Bookplate. Rudyard Kipling was the celebrated author of classic poems such as "Mandalay" "Gunga Din" "Recessional" and "The White Man's Burden" Kipling won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. "The family and the Empire were the poles about which his genius turned" DNB. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
1910ref. 265801910. 1910 Kipling Rudyard COLLECTED VERSE NY: Doubleday Page & Co 1910 392pp illus color tipped-on plated W Heath Robinson 4to tissue guards present though one torn ink underline on p20 ink signature rear of frontis ink date on half-tpage spine neatly rebacked in matching cloth overall a nice copy with only minimal shelf-rubbing on edges. unknown
1891ref. 005046Calcutta: Thacker Spink and Co. 1891. Kipling's first book. First published in 1886; this is a Near Fine copy of the Sixth Indian Edition. Maroon cloth binding ruled with bevelled edges; titling in gilt on the spine. The front cover has a decorative version of the title in gilt - sheaves of paper bound with a ribbon. Rear cover has the publisher's device in black. Clean text; 125 pages with a Glossary for non-Colonials and a 24 page publisher's catalog in the rear. Close to a Fine copy; just some hints of rub at the margins. In an archival plastic protector. A really lovely copy. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Thacker, Spink and Co. Hardcover
1900ref. 122456London: Methuen & Co 1900. First edition of this anthology published and sold to benefit the officers and men of the British Army in South Africa during the Boer Wars. Octavo original publisher's decorated cloth. In very good condition. For Britain's Soldiers: A Contribution to the Needs of our Fighting Men and Their Families includes: Sir Walter Besant's The Memory Cell Rudyard Kipling's The Son of His Father H.G. Wells' Miss Winchelsea's Heart and Walter Wood's The Atonement of the "Vanguard's" Skipper among others. Methuen & Co hardcover
1962ref. 49935New York: The Limited Editions Club 1962. Hardcover. Introduction by Charles Edmund Carrington. Illustrations by Robin Jacques. Small 4to. Quarter brown calf with gilt lettering/decorations and gilt-ruled tan cloth slipcase. x 284pp. Color frontispiece color illustrations pictorial endpapers. Fine/near fine. First published in 1901 this lovely LEC production is the tenth title in their 30th series. Rear colophon notes limitation of 1500 numbered copies this #241 signed by illustrator Jacques. In addition this unusual copy bears a fine film addition from the 1950 from the MGM version: Tipped to the half-title page is the signature in blue ballpoint of co-star ROBERT DOUGLAS 1909-99; portrays Colonel Creighton on a heavy stock 5" X 3" card dated by him 25 December 1984 at upper right. Laid in are the "Monthly Letter" publisher's announcement card and Douglas' original transmittal envelope. NEWMAN 337. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
1920ref. 54021London: Macmillan and Co. 1920. First edition. Three sections of letters 24 letters in all. 8vo gilt-stamped red cloth; 284 pp 4 pp ads; top edge gilt. Hole in last page of text not affecting any lettering front board bumped at top corner and a little shaken otherwise near fine in near fine dust jacket with slight tanning to spine and two small tears. Macmillan and Co. unknown
1891ref. 611699London and New York: Macmillan and Co 1891. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. First issue sheets without "October" but with "Robert Drummond Electrotyper and Printer New York" printed on copyright page. Octavo. xvi 351pp. 1pp. poem 8pp. catalogue in rear. First issue binding in red pebbled cloth both blind and gilt-stamped. Gutters cracked lacking front fly spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped a good only copy. Macmillan and Co hardcover
1891ref. 54277London: Macmillan and Co. 1891. First U.S. edition with imprint of New York printer at base of copyright page. First issue sheets without "October" on copyright page; in second issue binding Richards A58. Short stories and a poem. 8vo half light-olive cloth stamped in gilt and black dark-olive cloth lettered in gilt on front; 351 pages plus 8-page publisher's catalog; top edge olive. Light soiling spine a little darkened spine ends rubbed otherwise very good. Macmillan and Co. unknown
1891ref. 123804London: Macmillan and Co 1891. First edition of Kipling's collection of short stories on the British in India. Octavo original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and 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 hardcover
1891ref. 121804London: Macmillan and Co 1891. First edition of Kipling's collection of short stories on the British in India. Octavo original cloth decorated in gilt. 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. Macmillan and Co hardcover
1932ref. 607814Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1932. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Slight scattered foxing on first and last couple of leaves and on bottom page edges else a fine bright copy in lightly faded very good or better dust jacket. Doubleday Doran hardcover
1932ref. 54791London: Macmillan 1932. First Edition. First Printing. 16mo 20cm. In original red cloth titled on spine in gold with elephant badge to front board top edge gilt in original printed tan dust jacket; list of other publications facing the title page; viii 400pp. A clean square copy cloth slightly darkened at spine edges and corners lightly rubbed: Very Good. In the original dust jacket chipped at head with cellotape repairs to verso at head and upper flap folds: Good. Not in LIVINGSTON. Macmillan unknown
1932ref. 322151London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1932. First edition. viii 400 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth t.e.g. Fine in slightly chipped dust jacket. Bookplate. First edition. viii 400 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stewart 588. IN DJ. Stewart 588 Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1932ref. 53939New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1932. First U.S. edition published a few weeks after the UK. Short stories and poems. First appearances for 3 of the stories and 19 of the poems. Near fine in about very good dust jacket with rear panel lightly soiled and pair of tears to uppper rear panel with creasing between. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. unknown
1932ref. 34312London: Macmillan and Co. Limited. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1932. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. First English and true first edition published two weeks before the American edition on 7 April 1932. Near Fine condition with lightly rubbed extremities in alike dust-wrapper with light edgewear. Richards A402 Livingston 577 Stewart 588; Kipling's final collection of short stories published shortly after the death of his only son. Limits and Renewals contains fourteen short stories and nineteen poems three of the stories were published here for the first time; 8vo; vi vii-viii 2 3-400 pages . Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1906ref. RK072New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906 Illustrated with four color plates by Arthur Rackham including a frontispiece. First edition first printing published two months before the first UK edition. Publisher's green cloth with boat illustration in blind to front board lettered in gilt and top edge gilt. Near fine with clean and bright boards light wear to spine ends joints and corners and small marks to pp. 46-47 lines 15-21 on both pages slightly affected. Overall an excellent copy. In Puck of Pook's Hill two children playing in the English countryside are approached by the magical fairy Puck from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Over the course of the summer Puck introduces them to notable events and characters from British history told through ten connected short stories. Interspersed between the stories are poems by Kipling some of which were later selected by T.S. Eliot for inclusion in A Choice of Kipling's Verse 1941. Notably this first American edition includes illustrations by the legendary book illustrator Arthur Rackham whereas the first UK edition was illustrated by Harold R. Millar. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Rackham Arthur. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1906ref. 125313Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz 1906. First Tauchnitz edition of Kipling's collection of historical fantasy tales. Octavo original wrappers. In good condition. Set in multiple periods of English history Kipling's Puck stories are each narrated to two children living near Burwash in the High Weald of Sussex in the area of Kipling's own house Bateman's by people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck or told by Puck himself. Puck who refers to himself as "the oldest Old Thing in England" is better known as a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. The genres of the stories range from authentic historical novella A Centurion of the Thirtieth On the Great Wall to children's fantasy Dymchurch Flit. Each story is bracketed by a poem which relates in some manner to the theme or subject of the story. Bernhard Tauchnitz unknown
1926ref. 54567London: Macmillan and Co. 1926. First edition trade issue. First appearance of Kipling's introductory poem "The Downs The Weald and The Marshes" followed by 24 selections from Kipling's verses each accompanied by a full-page color Illustration by Maxwell. Small quarto gilt-stamped blue cloth; top edge gilt. Spine ends and corners bumped unavoidable darkening to endpapers otherwise very good to near fine in good to very good trimmed dust jacket that is slightly tanned at spine shows few faint tape shadows and 1/4" or so chipping at spine ends not affecting any lettering or design. Macmillan and Co. unknown
1893ref. 607443London: C. Sheard & Co 1893. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Three nested bifolia making 12 pages. Outer most bifolium separated along the bottom half of the fold "File Copy" stamp on the front cover and edgewear still a complete and very good copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "The Widow at Windsor." OCLC locates only three holdings and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. C. Sheard & Co unknown
