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1906Best.-Nr. 006313New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1906. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Arthur Rackham. 8vo 8 277 1pp. Beautiful First Printing of the First American Edition published two months prior to the English Edition. Bound in original pictorial green cloth with titles and viking ship vignette stamped in black gilt on the front board and spine. t.e.g. Four colored plates by Arthur Rackham present which were not present in the English Edition. Housed in a red cloth-covered chemise and matching quarter red morocco and red cloth slipcase. Bookplate on front paste-down.of popular American Author George Barr McCutcheon best known for the "Graustark" novels as well as"Brewster's Millions" made into several films of the same name. Bookseller ticket of Lauriat's of Boston on ffep. Square tight and clean throughout. Mild rubbing to hinges edges and tips. A hint of off-setting on the ffep from the bookplate but quite minor. Very well-preserved. A most handsome collectable copy. Doubleday Page & Co hardcover
Best.-Nr. BIBLIO-19454Whittington Press. Limited edition of 125 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. Printed wrappers mounted hand-coloured cover illustration 4to 30 cm slipcased. Illustrated with hand-coloured linocuts. Kipling's famous poem -including the oft-quoted lines "Our England is a garden and such gardens are not made / By singing:'Oh how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade" - gloriously illustrated by Judith Verity with linocuts based on the garden at Whittington Court where the book was printed. Seventeen of the linocuts are full-page and they are printed with one verse of the poem per page. The double leaves in the book are joined at the inner margin and form a concertina-folded continuous strip measuring 30 x 470 cm Although the limitation page states that copies 1-25 contain an additional set of the linocuts this copy - numbered 5 - is one of the ordinary copies without additional proofs. From the colophon: ".set in 24-point Caslon and printed on Oxford laid paper with linocuts of Whittington Court garden hand-coloured by the artist. Copy No. 5 signed by Judith Verity. Fine in slipcase. Whittington Press, unknown
1894Best.-Nr. 021785New York: The Century Co. 1894. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover green cloth lettered in gold on front cover and spine. Spine heavily blind-stamped with four small animal figures stamped in gold interspersed by title author and publisher while covers show larger gold elephant on front and tiger on rear both within elaborate blind-stamped frame. Top edge gilt. 303 pages. Illustrated with frontispiece and 34 additional plates and drawings in text. First American edition published simultaneously with the British. Previous owner's armorial style book-plate onside front cover. End-papers and half title heavily foxed with light to moderate foxing throughout text block. Cloth covers clean gold lettering and stamping bright. A tight sound and still attractive copy. A good or better copy. . The Century Co. Hardcover
1914Best.-Nr. BIBLIO-51283n.p. n.d. but Garden City New York 1914. 50 copies printed. Broadside 27.2 cm in green cloth slipcase with gilt spine-title and limp cloth chemise. 1 leaf. Richards A273. Kipling's powerful poem "The Outlaws" was his response to the German invasion of Belgium and the many reported atrocities. Kipling had long warned of the German threat and the poem makes clear his belief that Germany had been planning the war cold-bloodedly and hypocritically for many years. Very minor creasing Very Good in slightly rubbed slipcase. n.p., n.d., but Garden City, New York, 1914 hardcover
1925Best.-Nr. BIBLIO-51299Privately printed New York first unauthorized edition 1925. Limited edition of 66 numbered copies. Thin gray boards black cover-title 8vo 20 cm. 16 leaves on handmade paper. A scarce unauthorized first separate edition the story having first appeared in St. Nicholas Magazine for January 1893. The publisher has never been identified but was also responsinble for a similar unauthorized printing in the same year of 'Collah-Wallah and the Poison Stick'. Richards A357. John McGivering summarized the content for the Kipling Society website as follows: "This is an amusing little trifle that might well entertain adults as well as the children for whom it was intended being a fairy-tale with echoes of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves from The Arabian Nights with a message indicating that the simplest way of doing something is probably the best. Fine copy in rubbed quarter-morocco slipcase with gilt spine-title and cloth chemise. Privately printed, New York, first (unauthorized) edition, 1925 hardcover
1888Best.-Nr. 54564Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1888. First edition. "Indian Railway Library No. 2." Rebound in full leather by "C. Fox" with original first-issue front cover bound in 2 pages of ads as called for at front and first 6 pages of ads called for at rear lacking final leaf with ad page vii. Printed label affixed to 3rd page of ads above "Plain Tales from the Hills" reading "From/ A. H. Wheeler & Co. Allahabad/ and/ All Railway Bookstalls" not recorded in Richards A15 and with rear cover bound in with illustration usually seen on IN BLACK AND WHITE which was No. 3 in the series Richards A16. As this copy has been rebound we assume the rear cover from the later volume was bound in either by mistake or design versus it representing some sort of variant of the original binding. 8vo slender gilt-stamped full green leather with raised spine bands inner gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers. Armorial "Think and Thank" bookplate on front pastedown. Very good to near fine with spine toned to brown tiny chip to lower corner front wrapper archival tape repair to front ad leaf where starting to split along the hinge and few small edge tears to text block. A.H. Wheeler & Co. unknown
Best.-Nr. 69607E-146. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Published by Doubleday Page & Co New York 1909. 64 unnumbered leaves illustrations. Illustrated with 30 color plates by W. Heath Robinson. Bound in green cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities spine is sunned and worn. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In Kipling's A Song of the English the experience of British imperialism is hauntingly related through a series of poems on English seafarers the casualties of imperialist expansion and the exotic and far-flung capitals of the British Empire. With stunning illustrations by prominent turn-of-the-century illustrator W. Heath Robinson this 1909 volume provides a poignant glimpse at this bygone period of history. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . hardcover
1985Best.-Nr. 23220KIEPENHEUER & WITSCH 1985. 3. softcover. Dschungelbücher Die KIEPENHEUER & WITSCH paperback
1901Best.-Nr. 103824Macmillan 1901. First edition first printing with 2pp of ads at rear. 8vo. Publisher's red boards with gilt titles & elephant motif to front board. Topedge gilt. A near fine copy with clean & fresh boards with none of the usual fading to spine. No marks to boards. Light wear to extremities. No nicking & no splitting to cloth. Internally clean and complete with no inscriptions. A lovely copy with very attractive unmarked/unfaded boards. Considered one of the author's greatest works and one of the finest novels of India and the British Empire. Macmillan unknown
1913Best.-Nr. 016764London: Macmillan 1913. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Good. Reprint. Hardback original red cloth binding gilt titling to spine and gilt elephant roundel to upper board. Top edge gilt. 20.5 × 13cm 407pp 1. This copy has a quite remarkable maritime history. It was owned by architect Arthur J. Davis with his bookplate to the front pastedown and the rear endpapers contain two architectural pencil plans/sketches believed to relate to the smoking rooms of RMS Aquitania. The left-hand drawing is more detailed and appears to show the funnel casing at the base of the plan with a swirl in the middle suggesting the outline of a skylight; the tapering of the deck plan is consistent with the aft position of the smoking room. The right-hand drawing is a similar plan possibly representing a secondary smoking room. The presence of Davis's bookplate together with the subject matter of the sketches and his documented role in designing the public interiors of Aquitania during this period strongly suggests these drawings were executed by Davis in association with his own copy of the book. Arthur Joseph Davis 1878-1951 was an English architect trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and co-founder of the firm Mewès & Davis responsible for the interior design of the London Ritz Hotel notable country houses and the public rooms of RMS Aquitania in 1911-1914 - a period that coincides with the date of this book 1913. While no external authentication is offered the attribution is made in good faith on the basis of ownership evidence and contextual consistency. Kipling's selection of short stories first published in 1891 set in colonial India. Most had previously been published in periodicals. Condition: The pencil sketches are in good condition there is a little offsetting from each when the books has been closed and they've faced each other and some light age-toning to the endpapers. The red cloth is good but a little darkened and there is light scattered foxing to the pages throughout. However the bookplate and sketches make this a unique item of Aquitania history. Macmillan hardcover
Best.-Nr. 882216LondonLondon: Macmillian & Co. 1899 First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth embossed with circular gold elephand seal and gold lettering on spine. T.E.G. no jacket present. Fine. LondonLondon: Macmillian & Co. 1899 hardcover
1906Best.-Nr. 1497New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1906. First American Edition. Cloth. Good. Arthur Rackham. Green cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine imagine of ship embossed on cover wear to extremities top gilt page edge deckled pages edge and bottom. Signature of previous owner on front free endpaper. Frontispiece with heavily foxed tissue guard title page also foxed. 4 illustrations including frontispiece by Arthur Rackham. Pages 165 and 166 have open tear edges of ten lines of text obscured by tear. Some age toning throughout. 277 pp. First American Edition published two months before British Edition. Doubleday, Page & Co unknown
1975Best.-Nr. 004238Nottingham: Lonsdale & Bartholemew Ltd. 1975. Single sided printed poster approximately 1015mm x 755mm in size 40" x 30". Lightly creased from old folds one or two hints of foxing but generally quite bright and clean. Based on the 1888 novella by Rudyard Kipling. The film was directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery and Michael Caine. First Edition. Unbound. Good. UK Quad. Poster. Lonsdale & Bartholemew Ltd. Paperback
Best.-Nr. 62247London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd. 1935. Fantasy Tales FIRST EDITION THUS first impression. Octavo 19 x 12cm pp.x; 670 4 ads. With colour frontispiece and full page illustrations. Publisher's red cloth gilt with top edge gilt in pictorial dust-wrapper priced 10/6. Contents clean school prize label binding a little mottled fragile jacket mostly complete with a few chips to upper panel and to crown with a few neat tape strips to reverse side. Very good uncommon in jacket. Kipling's complete series of popular tales told by 'Puck' traditionally a name for a malicious spirit or demon of popular superstition and from the 16th century the name of a mischievous goblin or Hobgoblin similar to that appearing in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' the fairy scene from which is acted out here. Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature 277. BMC No.11984; 'Edwardian Children's Books'. London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd. 1935 unknown
Best.-Nr. 42669London: Methuen and Co. 1903. LIMITED FIRST EDITION printed on Japanese paper. Crown octavo pp.xv; 215; 1 blank. Elegantly bound in publisher's full vellum with gilt titles top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. A clean fine copy with just a little expected bowing to the vellum covers. A rare book this being one of just thirty copies. London: Methuen and Co., 1903 unknown
Best.-Nr. 73577London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1904. Short Stories / Strange Tales FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 21 x 14cm pp.2 vi; 393 23. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt elephant motif stamped to upper. Top edge gilt. With the plain typographic dust-jacket various prices affixed to spine. Toning to edges with some spotting to endpapers otherwise internally clean. Jacket toned especially to spine with moderate general wear and chipping to edges and a large loss to front panel. Various publisher's price labels to jacket spine. Rarely seen with the jacket. Very good. A quality collection of short stories including the remarkable 'Mrs. Bathurst' with its theme of destructive power and obsessive love plus the strange tale 'Wireless' which concerns spirit possession as well as the classic ghost story 'They'; an unsettling tale about a lost motorist and his encounter with a blind woman at the isolated 'House Beautiful' being a companion rather than a sequel to the earlier 'Brushwood Boy' fantasy which sees the reappearance of the characters 'Them'. Adept at short fiction Kipling penned many 'uncanny tales' some being subtle fantasies They The Brushwood Boy The Eye of Allah whilst others were more overtly supernatural or scientific romances in the manner of Edgar Allan Poe The Phantom 'Rickshaw The Mark of the Beast The Night Mail. Kipling wrote of new inventions and future wars warned of the social consequences of technological change and exerted an the most lasting influence on modern science fiction and fantasy writing according to leading SF writer Poul Anderson; indeed his stories of India with notions of an earthly alien in a strange world are the most salient predecessors of golden age sci-fi. Kipling later stressed he was 'not diving after physical experiences' although he was exposed to and described uncanny events and was much aware of the irrational premises and feelings of others; his formative professional years were spent in India a country with a widespread belief in ghosts and spirit reincarnation and at a time when matters 'psychic' were fashionable throughout Europe. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904 unknown
1902Best.-Nr. AQ34790London: Macmillan and Co. 1902. 7 249pp 2. With half-title and 22 engraved plates by the author. Original publisher's decorated red cloth boards. Rubbed and marked with spine dulled and chipped some soiling to boards corners bumped. Light browning and soiling to endpapers. The first edition second issue in original boards of Kipling's most popular collection of children's stories centring around the unique adaptations of numerous anthropomorphised animals. . First edition second issue. Quarto. Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1902Best.-Nr. 62211London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1902. 4to.Illustrated. 249 pp. Publisher's pictorial maroon cloth with lettering in white to front board & spine. Wear to spine ends & joints with slight loss. Boards slightly marked. Inner hinges split. Spotting to endpapers. Early ink owner's name to first blank. Four leaves previously loose and re-attached that are frayed & damaged at edges. With numerous full-page and in-text illustrations by the author. Condition noted. . Poor. Pictorial Cloth. First Edition. 1902. Macmillan and Co., Limited 1902 hardcover
1890Best.-Nr. 47436London: Sampson Low and Marston 1890. In original wraps this is the indian railway edition with many first editions within. They are as follows- Black and white 1st Under the Deodars 1st The Story of the Gadsby's 1st The Phantom Rickshaw 1st Soldiers Three 3rd and Wee willie Winkie 5th. Decorative front and rear boards are nearly detached pages are lightly rubbed and have finger marks and light dampstains to edges otherwise content clean and bright. First Edition. Half Leather Marble Boards. Good Minus/No Jacket. 8vo. Sampson, Low and Marston Hardcover
1949Best.-Nr. 77962London: Hodder and Stoughton 1949. Large 8vo. The 'Definitive Edition' on India paper. xvi 845 pp. Bound by Bumpus in half red-brown morocco over light brown cloth boards; spine of gilt-ruled raised bands gilt deocrated compartments and gilt lettering; top edge gilt. New endpapers. Foxing to bottom of prelims otherwise clean. A nice copy. . Near Fine. Half Morocco. 1949. Hodder and Stoughton 1949 unknown
1925Best.-Nr. 48397London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1925-1932. Twenty six volumes. Small 8vo. Publisher's limp burgundy leather spines richly gilt with a circular gilt devices repeated to the upper covers some volumes with the neat original owner's signature to the front free endpaper. A bright and notably well preserved set. Macmillan's uniform pocket edition was published over a long period of time and seldom comes complete this volume comprises all those listed on the verso of the half titles except "Songs from Books". Nor does it include any volumes of Kipling's verse which although not listed often appear in this format. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited unknown
1913Best.-Nr. AQ29828London: Macmillan and Co. 1913. xix 1 302pp 2. Bound by Truslove & Hanson in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-calf red cloth boards T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and sunned lower joint slightly scuffed/cracked but holding firmly. Marbled endpapers internally clean and crisp. Armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden to FEP. A handsomely bound copy of Kipling's compilation of verse extracted from his popular books for children including Just-So Stories Jungle Book and Kim. Sir Anthony Eden 1897-1977 British foreign secretary 1935-38 1940-45 and 1951-55 and Prime Minister 1955-1957. Following active service in the First World War Eden read Oriental languages at Oxford. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1923. In 1935 he was appointed foreign secretary a position he resigned in 1938 to protest Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Nazi Germany. When Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940 he was named secretary of state for war and later during the Second World War once more served as foreign secretary. Eden succeeded Churchill as Prime Minister in 1955. In 1956 his failure to respond effectively during the Suez Crisis and the subsequent loss of party and public support would ultimately lead to his resignation from office in 1957. He was knighted in 1954 and created earl of Avon in 1961. . First edition third impression. 8vo. Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1929Best.-Nr. KIPLINGR007161Macmillan London. 1929. First edition thus. Octavo. pp xv 447. Illustrations by L. Raven-Hill. Publishers' de luxe binding of full red gilt pictorial morocco all edges gilt.Spine slightly creased. Very good indeed. A bright copy and scarce in this binding. Macmillan, London. unknown
1895Best.-Nr. 110820Macmillan & Co. London. 1895 1897. Macmillan & Co. London. 1895 1897. In two volumes. Hardback. Original blue cloth with gilt illustrations to spines and upper boards. All page edges gilt. The Jungle Book is a first edition second issue and The Second Jungle Book is the third printing of the first edition. There is a lean to the spine of the first volume which is also slightly faded and frayed to head of spine corners rubbed and small light patches of rubbing to covers and a light stain to back cover. The Second Jungle Book is a very bright and clean copy with slight rubbing to extremities. Pages to both vols. browned and foxed otherwise a very good set. hardcover
1894Best.-Nr. 557344London: Macmillan & Co 1894. GILT illustrations on boards Reprint in same year as First Edition. Rubbing to the spine and board edges. We also have a matching Second Jungle Book FIRST EDITION 1895. Please Email for further details. Not Signed or Inscribed. Reprint 1894. Blue Cloth. Very Good AVERAGE/No Jacket. Illus. by Illustrated By J.L KiplingW.H Drake & P. Frenzeny . 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". HARDBACK. Macmillan & Co Hardcover
