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1891Best.-Nr. 265647Allahabad: Wheeler 1891. paperback. good. 96pp thin 8vo printed gray green wrappers; lightly edge-chipped. Allahabad & London: A.H. Wheeler & Sampson Low Marston n.d. 1891. First English Edition. Volume XIV of the Indian Railway Library. Errata slip attached to title page. Wheeler unknown
1898Best.-Nr. 611705London: Macmillan 1898. Hardcover. Fine. First English edition. Octavo. Blue cloth gilt. A fine copy. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. Slipcase shows some wear but it has protected the book which is bright and fresh splendidly. Macmillan hardcover
1898Best.-Nr. 613212Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company 1898. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition by this publisher likely a piracy. 12mo. Green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt. Offsetting on endpapers from jacket flaps near fine in lightly worn near fine dust jacket. Rare in jacket. Henry Altemus Company hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 10921Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran 1930. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo 24pp. Original cream wrappers printed in green fine. In red morocco-backed case. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo 24pp. One of a small number of copies printed for American copyright. Stewart 579; Livingston 549 Doubleday, Doran unknown
1905Best.-Nr. 55777Boston: Alfred Bartlett / The Village Press No-date 1905. Second edition. But first edition to be printed by the Goudys at their Village Press. Corrects several mistakes in the printing done by Carl Rollins. Both editions and a third done by Cornhill Press in 1909 were unauthorized printings of Kipling's poem "The Gipsy Trail" which first appeared in Century Magazine in 1890. One of 1000 copies in the trade issue. Cary 27. Dark gray paper boards measuring approximately 4 x 4.75"; title page and front cover label printed in black and red; frontis woodcut by E. B. Bird. Small chips from head and tail of spine otherwise near fine with tattered and torn remnants of original glassine still present. STEVENSON POETRY CALLING CARD laid in. Approximately 4 x 2.75"; untitled; rubricated initial "G" in red with rest of poem as well as Stevenson's initials printed in black; "Alfred Bartlett in caps/ 69 Cornhill Boston Mass." in black on back. Would appear to have been printed by The Village Press though not marked as such on card. Alfred Bartlett / (The Village Press) unknown
1936Best.-Nr. 612253Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1936. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Octavo. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards with frontispiece and plates in color. Slight age-toning at the hinges from the binder's glue else fine in price-clipped very good or better dust jacket with a couple of short tears a little rubbing on the spine and foxing on the rear panel. A nice fresh copy. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover
1916Best.-Nr. 10916Garden City NY: Doubleday Page 1916. First Edition. 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cream wrappers printed in green; old fold else fine. In red morocco-backed case spine worn. First Edition. 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. One of a small number of copies published for American copyright. Stewart 400; Livingston 407 Doubleday, Page unknown
1925Best.-Nr. 51609New York:: Privately Printed 1925. First edition in book form; No. 22 of 66 copies. original printed boards preserved in a quarter red morocco slipcase and chemise. Fine. 12mo. Livingston 501. Privately Printed, hardcover
1919Best.-Nr. 51583Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1919. First Edition. One of 70 copies printed for copyright purposes. Slim octavo 20.5cm; publisher's original wrappers bound into full navy blue crushed morocco by The French Binders with five raised bands titles stamped in gilt on spine and covers with double-ruled borders and decorative corner pieces tooled in gilt on covers; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt; 8pp padded with 11 blank terminal leaves. Pinpoint wear else Fine. A poem first published in the Daily Telegraph 29 January 1919 concerning the young naval officers who were sent to Cambridge University for two terms between 1919-1922. LIVINGSTON 437. cf.Kipling Society website. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
1897Best.-Nr. OCB14708New York: New York: D. Appleton and Company 1897. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American Edition. Marigold cloth covered boards with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Only very slight rubbing at head and tail. Unusually bright and clean. Bottom right edge of front board bumped approx 1/2 in. Near Fine to just shy of Fine. New York: D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1918Best.-Nr. 51612Garden City:: Doubleday Page & Company 1918. First American edition - copyright. . original printed wrappers in a custom cloth slipcase and chemise. Very very slightest of light dust-soiling; a beautiful copy. 8vo. Richards A302. Privately distributed; one of 83 copies. Doubleday, Page & Company, hardcover
1925Best.-Nr. 82667Garden City:: Doubleday Page & Company. Good. 1925. Hardcover. B001EUCL0W . Stated first edition. Octavo bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and design. Moderate shelf wear and aging brief gift inscription from 1925 on front free endpaper else good. No dust jacket. ; 576 pages . Doubleday, Page & Company, hardcover
1898Best.-Nr. 035688New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1898. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Volumes 1 - 31 31 volumes hardcover books with reddish brown cloth covered boards small round white cameo inset on cover with gold line border; gold lettering and decoration on spines. Ranging from Good to Very Good condition most very good - dates of publication range from 1898 to 1926. Each has a different frontispiece illustration with clean tissue guard gilt top edges. . Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover
1904Best.-Nr. 221112London Macmillan and Co. Limited 1904. 1904. First edition. 8vo. Full red cloth gilt stamped spine and upper cover t.e.g. Later issue tan dust jacket stamped in blue lists works in uniform edition priced at 7s 6d each. Very good-fine. No signatures or bookplates. Livingstone #289. F. Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1372450London: A.H. Wheeler & Co n.d. Mixed Editions. Hardcover. Octavo 96 104 96 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in half brown leather and dark green buckram with gilt lettering on spine. Minor shelfwear. Rubbing to leather. Light age-toning to textblock. Edges of textblock dyed speckled red. Pencil signature of previous owner on front free endpaper. Shelved in Case 2. "Under the Deodars" is third edition. "The Phantom 'Rickshaw" does not list edition. "Wee Willie Winkie" is fifth edition. 1372450. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. A.H. Wheeler & Co hardcover
1898Best.-Nr. 80953London:: William Heinemann 1898. First English edition; Library issue on Japanese vellum with edges stained red and 1898 calendar. publisher's illustrated boards with vellum spine. The top 2-1/2 inches of the spine has been destroyed--otherwise an attractive copy with slight dust-soiling to the rear board. Folio. Illustrated throughout in color by William Nicholson. Words by Rudyard Kipling. Richards A105. William Heinemann, hardcover
1926Best.-Nr. GBB-0103Publisher pending 1926. First of illustrated combined volume; F.H. Townsend. Original binding. Good/Good. Edition/issue: First of illustrated combined volume; F.H. Townsend. Binding/format: Original binding. Dust jacket: DJ. Condition: Good. Completeness: Complete. Publisher pending unknown
1901Best.-Nr. 10957Doubleday Page & Company New York 1901. First Edition First State rhyming chapter headings only Ch. VIII and XIII of the First 1st Printing of the First Edition. Note: The U.S. edition preceded the U.K. edition by over two weeks. VG deep green cloth with distinct black ship stamped on both the front board and the spine alongside gold gilt lettering. See photos for top and bottom of spine. The top edge of the pages are bright gold leaf with side and bottom edges rough-cut deckeled. Inside cover previous owner's bookplate and again across from half title page. Some hinge separation 10 full-page black-and-white plates inside created specifically for the book by the author's father John Lockwood Kipling. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1901Best.-Nr. 009004Toronto: George N. Morang & Co. Limited 1901. First Canadian edition. Hardcover. This is the Canadian edition of Kim considered to be Kiplings greatest work and the finest novel about the India of the British Empire. This first Canadian edition considerably scarcer than its U.S. and British counterparts was made up from the U.S. sheets with a cancel title leaf. The binding is the same dark green cloth illustrated with a black-stamped Kipling-designed Viking longship on a wave-crested sea on the front cover and spine but with the Canadian publisher "Morang" stamped in gilt at the spine heel. The title page features "George N. Morang & Co. Limited" rather than the U.S. publisher Doubleday. This is a lovely copy in very good condition. The green illustrated green cloth binding is square clean bright tight and sharp cornered. There is modest shelf wear to the bottom edges including a touch of fraying to the lower front cover corner wrinkling at the spine head and a few trivial blemishes including a triangle of mild dulling at the lower corner of the blank rear cover. The contents are notably clean with no spotting bright gilt top edges and mild age-toning primarily confined to the otherwise clean untrimmed fore and bottom edges. A single previous owner name initials and a surname is inked to the upper front free endpaper recto. The binding is protected beneath a clear removable mylar cover. Among Kiplings tales of India perhaps none eclipses his masterpiece Kim. Originally published in 1901 this is the story of Kimball OHara an Irish orphan who goes from begging on the streets of Lahore to being a spy for the British simultaneously taking a spiritual journey that conflicts with his new obligations to the Empire. Kims context is the Great Game that pitted Russia against Britain for control of the subcontinent in the wake of the Second Afghan War 1878-1880. Kiplings career as a journalist afforded him travel to the major cities of India a breadth of geographic experience with the subcontinent that informs the sweeping settings of Kim. U.S. Canadian and British first editions of Kim followed serialization in the United States in McClures Magazine from December 1900 through October 1901 and in Britain in Cassells Magazine from January through November 1901. Chosen by the New York Public Library as one of its books of the century Kim was Kiplings final book about India and was called magical upon publication. When the orphaned Kimball OHara joins a Buddhist lama in his search for the River of Healing the reader not only beholds a kaleidoscope of people and settings through Kims eyes but also feels the native social and spiritual currents of India moving beneath the political veneer of imperial ambitions and authority. Bengali critic Niraud Chaudhuri called Kim the finest novel in the English language dealing with an Indian theme. Kim was also included in the Modern Librarys list of the 100 best English-language books of the 20th century. Joseph Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 was an English poet short-story writer and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism stories and poems of British India and his tales for children. Despite this reputation Kiplings extraordinary body of work eludes all labels in its range and variety Kipling's work is not only of the highest artistic excellence it is deeply humane and fully expresses the sense of one of his favourite texts: Praised be Allah for the diversity of his creatures. Kipling was in his twenties when his stories of Anglo-Indian life made him a literary celebrity and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. Kipling was the first English language author awarded and remains the youngest person to receive the Prize. References: Richards A173; ODNB Books of the Century George N. Morang & Co., Limited hardcover
1932Best.-Nr. 4Ticket in front pages signed by Rudyard Kipling. Slight scuffing on the cover. Macmillan & Co., Limited
1940Best.-Nr. BL-002303Pettigrew AR: Burt Randle 1940. 34 pp. Approximately 1/2 x 3/8". LIMITED EDITION of unknown quantity usually done in 50 - 80 copies at most. Green leather cover which is rubbed and has a few spots on the rear cover paper label on front cover wire clasp. A very good copy scarce. Bradbury Burt Randle 5The miniature books published by Burt Randle were usually "photographic reproductions of his Randle's very small handwriting" according to Bradbury. This is a very tiny collection of some of Kipling's inspirational poetry. "Lest we forget" Burt Randle hardcover
1906Best.-Nr. 1049841KIPLING Rudyard. Puck of Pook's Hill. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham A.R.W.S. NY: Doubleday Page and Company 1906. 12mo viii 277pp. Green cloth pictorially stamped in black and gold; t.e.g. 4 color plates. Light wear along edges spine cloth with a bit puckered tissue guard at frontispiece foxed with title page lightly so but frontispiece unaffected nonetheless a very sharp clean tight copy with stamped binding still bright. First US edition and first Rackham-illustrated edition. A series of fantasy stories set in various periods of English history told to two children by various figures plucked out of history by Puck the mischievous fairy from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Interestingly only this US edition features the four color plates by Rackham the British edition was instead illustrated solely in black-and-white by H.R. Millar. Doubleday, Page & Co hardcover
1938Best.-Nr. 18875Paris: Librairie Delagrave 1938. 3/4 leather. Near Fine. E. Carlegle. #90 of 100 copies within the larger limitation of 1210 copies of this handsome 1938 French edition of Kipling's "Stalky & Co.". Bound in 3/4 pebbled green morocco over marbled boards. 3 raised bands bright gilt-tilting and lovely Art Deco gilt-tooling along the spine. Matching marbled endsheets and pastedowns the original wrappers bound-in. As part of the limitation of 100 copies includes the 12 extra plates-in-color by E. Carlegle and "une suite speciale des gravures en bistro". Clean very attractive and Near Fine translated from its original Englsh by Paul Bettelheim and Rodolphe Thomas. Librairie Delagrave unknown
1938Best.-Nr. 18874Paris: Librairie Delagrave 1938. 3/4 leather. Near Fine. Georges Leroux. #90 of 100 copies within the larger limitation of 1210 copies of this handsome 1938 French edition of Kipling's "On the City Wall". Bound in 3/4 pebbled green morocco over marbled boards. 3 raised bands bright gilt-tilting and lovely Art Deco gilt-tooling along the spine. Matching marbled endsheets and pastedowns the original wrappers bound-in. As part of the limitation of 100 copies includes the 12 extra plates-in-color by Georges Leroux and "une suite speciale des gravures en bistro". Clean very attractive and Near Fine translated from its original Englsh by Louis Fabulet. Librairie Delagrave unknown
Best.-Nr. 69975E-136. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Published by St. Martin's Press New York. 1931. 231 pgs. Illustrated with 16 color plates. Later Printing. Bound in decorated red cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities spine ends are bunmped and worn. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Mowgli lost in the deep jungle as a child is adopted into a family of wolves. Hunted by Shere Khan the Bengal tiger Mowgli is allowed to run with the wolf pack under the protection of Bagheera the black panther and Baloo the brown bear who teaches wolf cubs the Laws of the Jungle. Through his many adventures Mowgli evolves from a man-cub to a just and compassionate human being who at last returns to joinperhaps to leadhis own kind. W. Somerset Maugham calls Kipling our greatest short story writer and in The Jungle Books he says Kiplings great and varied gifts find their most brilliant expression. His most famous work effortlessly captures the imagination and has inspired beloved film adaptations including Disney's The Jungle Book as well as readers the world over. Edward Julius Detmold 21 November 1883 Putney Wandsworth Surrey - 1 July 1957 Montgomery and his twin brother Charles Maurice Detmold were prolific Victorian book illustrators. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . hardcover