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1892Best.-Nr. 157451892. London: William Heinemann 1892. 8 pp undated ads. Original salmon cloth decorated in brown. First Edition of Kipling's only serious attempt at literary collaboration. A Vermonter Wolcott Balestier was an American author and publisher's agent in London; in fact in 1890 he and Heinemann had founded the Heinemann & Balestier publishing house in Leipzig books in English for the Continental market. He had written about the American "Wild West" and Kipling of course had written about India. THE NAULAHKA a misspelling of "naulakha" which in Hindu means nine lakhs i.e. 900000 rupees is an odd tale that combines these two environments into "A Story of East and West" -- a man from a Western boom-town attempts to get possession of a fabulous jewel in India. In December 1891 six months before this was published Balestier suddenly died at age 29 of typhoid fever in Dresden. Kipling had met Wolcott's sister Carrie and just a month after Wolcott died she became Kipling's wife; the Kiplings built their first home in Vermont and in memory of her brother named it "Naulakha" -- spelled correctly. The newlywed Kiplings lived in Vermont for four years toward the end of which Kipling wrote CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS about the Massachusetts fishing fleet; but it all came crashing down when Wolcott's brother Beatty was arrested for assaulting Kipling -- there was an altercation after Kipling had created a little garden on land he owned but had allowed Beatty to hay: the Kiplings fled to England. This is an unusually clean copy just about fine a hint of rubbing at the spine ends; such condition is scarce for this book in view of its soil-prone salmon-colored binding. Richards A66; Stewart 105; Livingston 85. unknown
1898Best.-Nr. 12564New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1898. Very Good. 32 Volumes bound in burgundy cloth with gilt frame on front cover and white medallion embossed with an elephant and bordered in gold on the front of each. corners are sharp gold lettering and decoration on the spines which are moderately sunned. Each volume has a frontis with a tissue guard plus another three illustrations many are illustrated by John Lokwood Kipling. Neat ownership marking on ffep in most volumes. Titles range in publication date from 1898 to 1937. Any exception to these conditions are listed beside the titles which are: Plain Tales From the Hills 1898; Soldiers Three and Military Tales Part 1 1898; Soldiers Three and Military Tales Part II 1898; In Black and White 1898; The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories 1898; Under the Deodars The Story of Gadsby s Wee Willie Winkie 1898 hinges cracked; the Jungle Book 1898 hinges cracked; The Second Jungle Book 1898 hinges cracked; The Light That Failed 1898 hinges cracked; The Naulahka 1898; Verses 1889-1896 1898 hinges cracked poem glued to rear endpapers White Man;s Burden ; Captain s Courageous A Story of the Grand Banks 1898; the Day s Work Part I 1899; The Day s work Part II 1899; From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Part I 1899; From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Part II 1899; Early Verse 1899; Stalky & Co. 1900 6 b&w postcards are glued to the front blank endpapers. They depict scenes in Westward Ho! and Bideford; Kim 1902 front hinge cracked; Just so Stories for Little Children 1903 no frontis or an indication that there ever was one; The Five Nations 1903; Traffics and Discoveries 1904; Puck of Pook s Hill 1906; Actions and Reactions 1909; Rewards and Fairies 1910; A Diversity of Creatures 1917; The Years Between and Poems From History 1919; Letters of Travel 1892-1913 1920 boards are green; The Irish Guard in the Great War Part I The First Battalion 1923; The Irish Guard in the Great War Part II The Second Battalion and Appendices 1923 boards are brown; Land and Sea Tales 1937 Price reflects extra shipping. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1898Best.-Nr. 88799New York: R.H.Russell 1898. First American Edition. Hardcover. very good. William Nicholson. Quarto.31 cm x 25 cm.12" x 10" Bound in brown illustrated boards. 12 full page color illustrations by Nicholson with a preface of a poem on each subject for each month by Kipling. Some wear to spine and corners. R.H.Russell hardcover
1898Best.-Nr. 3107First edition of the first German translation - and one of the earliest - of the Jungle Book. One of 5000 copies printed. The Groh illustrations were made especially for this edition. Hardcover Fine. 8vo. original brown cloth stamped in silver; front cover red and blue with an image of Mowgli. Edges stained red. Spine cocked slightly. Edges lightly rubbed. Pages 161-165 mended with tape. Ownership stamp to title page. A beautiful and scarce book. Freiburg i, Br.: Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld hardcover
1889Best.-Nr. 49958Allahabad India: Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co 1889. Good. Allahabad India: Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1889. First Indian Edition. Slim octavo 21.5cm; publisher's white pictorial wrappers illustrated by the Mayo School of Art Lahore; 4iiii106viipp. Wrappers toned and chipped along spine edge with some glue repair to the latter though top half of wrapper split along spine edge. Good overall internally clean and sound. Issued as A.H. Wheeler & Co.'s Indian Railway Library no. 3. Collection of eight short stories all relating to the lives of native Indians rather than their colonizers. All but one of these stories first appeared in 1888 in the periodical The Week's News. Livingston 34. Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co unknown
1888Best.-Nr. 49973V.p.: v.i. 1888. Very Good. V.p.: v.i. 1888-1890. Mixed Editions see below. Four volumes bound in one. Octavos 21.5cm; contemporary parchment over marbled paper-covered boards crimson gilt spine piece top edge gilt marbled endpapers original pictorial wrappers of each volume bound in. Parchment dust-soiled light wear to boards else Very Good and sound. Contemporary armorial ownership ex libris of an Elizabeth Armitage to front pastedown. Contents as follows: 1. Soldiers Three. London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1890. Fifth Edition. 93pp. 2. Wee Willie Winkie. Allahabad / London: Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1890. First UK Edition with slightly reduced wrapper design to fit in the UK price one shilling. 96pp. Richards A36 3. In Black and White. Allahabad / London: Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1890. First UK Edition with slightly reduced wrapper design to fit in the UK price one shilling. 96pp. Richards A35 4. The Story of the Gadsbys: A Tale without a Plot. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler 1888. First Edition. 85pp. Issued as A.H. Wheeler & Co.'s Indian Railway Library no. 2. Richards A15. v.i. unknown
1891Best.-Nr. 49457London: A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston & Company 1891. Very Good. London: A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston & Company 1891. First English Edition. Slim octavo 21.5cm; publisher's green-grey pictorial wrappers; 96pp. A few small shallow chips to wrapper margins foxing to final few leaves else Very Good and sound nicer than often encountered. Kipling's oppressive novella of a man's sleepless night spent walking the streets of Lahore. This edition part of A.H. Wheeler & Co's Indian Railway Library No. XIV preceded by an Allahabad printing. Livingston 71. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low, Marston & Company unknown
1939Best.-Nr. 156674Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1939. Vintage studio still photograph of director William Wellman and a camera crew filming on location in New Mexico for the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1891 novel by Rudyard Kipling. An artist whose sight is failing struggles to complete his final painting while also grieving his broken relationship with his childhood sweetheart. Shot on location in Abiquiu Santa Fe and Espanola New Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown
1895Best.-Nr. 030039UK: Macmillan 1895. First Edition 4th Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 4th Imp 1895. Same format and printed a year later after the 1st Edition. Book is very good with quite bright boards and gilt work. Slight rubbing to spine tips and corners. Odd marks to cloth. Contents good. Light foxing to pages. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18931 Macmillan hardcover
1931Best.-Nr. 449751931 Paris. Mornay. 1930. 2 volumes in-8, demi-maroquin vert à coins, dos à nerfs ornés et passés, têtes dorées, couvertures et dos conservés. Reliure signée Knoderer. (2) ff. ; 259 pp. ; (7) pp. - (2) ff. ; 333 pp. ; (7) pp.
1938Best.-Nr. 72066Paris: Paul Hartmann 1938. Fine. Paul Hartmann Paris 1938 12 x 19 cm broché First edition of the French translation one of 20 numbered copies on pur fil paper ours one of the few hors commerce a deluxe issue. Endpapers lightly and entirely toned. A fine copy with full margins. Paul Hartmann unknown
1909Best.-Nr. 041614London UK: Hodder & Stoughton 1909. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/N/A. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Heath Robinson W. None. First trade edition first printing. Thirty fine coloured plates mounted on leaves with coloured frames and guarded all by William Heath Robinson. and many further black and white illustrations in text Title page in red and black. Original blue cloth boards front panel and spine stamped with gilt decorations and lettering. Large 4to approx 11.25 x 9 x 2 inches. A magnificent impressive volume boards just a little rubbed on extreme corners and spine tips. Hint of toning to text block edges and first and last few leaves. Gift inscription neatly inked on the front free endpaper else volume is neat clean bright and tight throughout. Boards now protected with acetate sleeve. An beautiful example of this first trade edition. "This edition of A Song of the English is reprinted from The Seven Seas and the publishers desire to acknowledge the courtesy of Messrs Methuen & Co in consenting to its issue as a separate volume" from the half title page. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
1921Best.-Nr. 898P14New York; Toronto : Doubleday Page & Company 1921. First edition. Vellum. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 5". None. The first edition of this scarce speech given by Rudyard Kipling for the Royal Society of St. George. The first edition of this scarce work.Including the front wrap of the original glassine dust wrapper.A speech written and given by Rudyard Kipling delivered at the meeting of the Royal Society of St. George in London in St. George's Day 1920. In this speech Kipling discusses what makes a true Englishman.From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son literary agent of Rudyard Kipling. In the original publisher's quarter vellum binding with paper to the boards. Externally smart. Vellum is a little age-toned as is usual to see. A few light marks to the boards and spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Front wrap of the glassine wrap is edge worn and age-toned. Very Good Indeed Doubleday, Page, & Company hardcover
2019Best.-Nr. x-0815368135Taylor & Francis 2019. Hardcover. New. 211 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. Taylor & Francis hardcover
2016Best.-Nr. x-1848725574Psychology Pr 2016. Hardcover. New. 352 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. Psychology Pr hardcover
2005Best.-Nr. x-184169424XPsychology Pr 2005. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 366 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.00 inches. Psychology Pr hardcover
1950Best.-Nr. 11294Macmillan and Co. London. 1950. REPRINT. Large 8vo. 9.2 x 6.8 inches. Illustrated throughout by the author. A few pages with light spotting and one leaf with a neat repair to a tear without loss otherwise a very good copy in an interesting craft leather binding of full dark blue morocco. Raised body of an elephant to the front board with gilt ear eye and tusk and a design of a crocodile and water rings around it. Spine lettered in gilt. Blue marbled endpapers. An accomplished and attractive leather binding on this classic work. Macmillan and Co. London. 1950 hardcover
1923Best.-Nr. 11702Macmillan and Co. Ltd. London. 1923 1924. SERVICES EDITION. Two volumes bound in one. 8vo. 6.6 x 4.9 inches. A very clean copy in a fine leather binding of half deep red morocco spine with raised bands. Compartments ruled in blind and lettered and decorated with tigers heads in gilt. Burgundy cloth on boards. Top edge gilt. An attractive volume. The binding is unsigned but certainly the work of a master bookbinder. Please note; This edition doesn't contain any illustrations. Macmillan and Co. Ltd. London. 1923 1924 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 112653London Macmillan and Co. 1901. . First edition; 8vo 250 x 145 mm; 10 monotone illustrations after bas-reliefs by John Lockwood Kipling the author's father near-contemporary ink ownership name dated 1903 to verso of half-title offsetting from frontispiece tissue guard to title-page else near-fine; mid-twentieth century half morocco over cloth top edge gilt gilt roundel to upper cover containing an elephant's head the Hindu Ganesha one of their favourite gods generally rubbed with minor soiling from handling but otherwise very good. London, Macmillan and Co., 1901. hardcover
1891Best.-Nr. 000554London: Ward Lock Bowden & Co. 1891. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. True first English edition Ward Lock & Bowden; 12 chapters with happy ending. Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Undated 1891 Deep green/black cloth mock leather with gilt title/author to spine; Full page portrait of Kipling as frontispiece. Other contributors are Eben Rexford 'In An Old Garden' Julian Hawthorne 'The New Spanish Inquisition' Ruth Stuart 'Christmas Gifts' Francis Wilson 'I Remember' Charlotte Bates 'Perversity' Moses Handy 'The State of Washington' Daniel Dawson 'Anacreontic' Lewis Haupt 'The Road Movement' and Frederic Bird 'Friend Olivia'. Please contact me for further details or pictures/photographs. Slight shelf wear with minor wear to head and tail. Minor spotting to frontis and title pages. Previous owner's name in pencil top of title page with blind stamped address St. Jean de Luz S. France. Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co. hardcover
1912Best.-Nr. 2354Garden City: Doubleday Page and Company 1912. First Edition. Fine/Very Good . A Fine copy of the book that has been exquisitely preserved in its original dust jacket. Dust jacket is Very Good with a large chip at the base of the spine and price-clipped but otherwise in excellent condition. A rare survivor. Kipling's compilation of songs from his various children's books. This is the authoritative guide to Kipling's charming poetic works; and it provides an opportunity for readers to indulge in nursery rhymes and songs outside of their narrative contexts. Songs from Books has become a perennial family bedtime favorite. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Doubleday, Page and Company unknown books
1901Best.-Nr. 158791901. From The Times March 15 1900. Published by the Imperial South African Association. London: Printed by George Edward Wright The Times Office 1901. First Edition following its appearance in March 1900 both in The Times of London and in The Mail of Cape Town. The Imperial South African Association was founded "to uphold British supremacy and to promote the interests of British subjects in South Africa."; specifically this piece "inveighs against the supposedly friendly or neutral Boers and their liberal sympathizers as 'traitors' to the Cape and the Orange Free State quotes by Richards. It was never collected in any other Kipling book. This is a near-fine copy slight discoloration around the sole rusted staple. Richards A167. Housed in a morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. unknown books
1912Best.-Nr. 2354Garden City: Doubleday Page and Company 1912. First Edition. Fine/Very Good . A Fine copy of the book that has been exquisitely preserved in its original dust jacket. Dust jacket is Very Good with a large chip at the base of the spine and price-clipped but otherwise in excellent condition. A rare survivor. Kipling's compilation of songs from his various children's books. This is the authoritative guide to Kipling's charming poetic works; and it provides an opportunity for readers to indulge in nursery rhymes and songs outside of their narrative contexts. Songs from Books has become a perennial family bedtime favorite. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Doubleday, Page and Company unknown
1901Best.-Nr. 158791901. From The Times March 15 1900. Published by the Imperial South African Association. London: Printed by George Edward Wright The Times Office 1901. First Edition following its appearance in March 1900 both in The Times of London and in The Mail of Cape Town. The Imperial South African Association was founded "to uphold British supremacy and to promote the interests of British subjects in South Africa."; specifically this piece "inveighs against the supposedly friendly or neutral Boers and their liberal sympathizers as 'traitors' to the Cape and the Orange Free State quotes by Richards. It was never collected in any other Kipling book. This is a near-fine copy slight discoloration around the sole rusted staple. Richards A167. Housed in a morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. unknown
Best.-Nr. 121531London Macmillan and Co. Ltd 1897 . First edition; 8vo 185 x 121 mm; half-title frontispiece tissue-guard title 21 engraved plates by I. W. Taber all edges gilt occasional light mostly marginal spotting otherwise very good; publisher's pictorial cloth with gilt-blocked decoration gilt titles shelf worn to extremities of spine rubbed corners otherwise very good condition; viii 245pp 1 2 ads 1. In Captains Courageous Kipling tells the story of the spoiled fifteen-year-old son of a millionaire who is lost at sea and finds himself rescued by the crew of a fishing schooner which proves to be a redemption of both character and body. London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1897, hardcover
