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1890Best.-Nr. 530764New York: United States Book Company 1890. Hardcover. Fine. First American edition boards issue. Red beveled cloth gilt. Attractive early bookplate a touch rubbing on the boards else fine. United States Book Company hardcover
1891Best.-Nr. COLLECTI013475ILONDON: MACMILLAN & CO. NEAR FINE WITHOUT D.J. PUB 1891. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL NAVY CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT SPINE TITLES GILT DECORATIVE BORDER ALONG TOP OF SPINE AND UPPER COVER GREEN COATED ENDPAPERS CIRCULAR PUBLISHER'S DEVICE AT CENTER OF REAR COVER TWO PAGES OF ADDS FOLLOWING 340 PAGE TEXT WITH A 55 PAGE PUBLISHER'S CATALOGUE DATED FEB 1892 INSERTED AT REAR. OTHER THAN SOME MODEST WEAR AT THE BOTTOM FORE-EDGE CORNER SOME VERY FAINT DAMPING TO THE REAR COVER SMALL PORTRAIT OF YOUNG KIPLING AFFIXED TO VERSO OF THE FRONT FREE-ENDPAPER OPPOSITE THE HALF-TITLE THAT ALSO CONTAINS A PREVIOUS OWNER'S SIGNATURE DATED JANUARY 141892 KIPLING RELATED NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS ALSO AFFIXED TO THE LAST BLANK OF THE CATALOGUE ADN THE VERSO OF THE REAR FREE-ENDPAPER AND THE REAR ENDPAPER. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY WITH BRIGHT GILT TITLES AND DECORATION. . MACMILLAN & CO hardcover
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
1918Best.-Nr. 332644London: Macmillan 1918. hardcover. very good. 21 volumes 8vo red cloth with gold emblem on front covers. London: Macmillan 1918. Very Good . Macmillan unknown
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
1901Best.-Nr. 022501New York: Doubleday Page. First American Edition. Original green decorated cloth. Rhyme chapter headings for only chapters 8 and 13. Date on title page. Kiplings masterpiece. Very Good. No Dust Jacket. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1901. Doubleday, Page hardcover
1897Best.-Nr. 1iiiCd0001New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1897. Book. Good. Hardbound Clothbinding. Copyright 1897. 8vo or 8° Medium Octavo: 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 377 pp. A rarre hard-to-find gem! Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Clean text. No dust jacket. Staining on top edge. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover
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
2019Best.-Nr. x-0815368135Taylor & Francis 2019. Hardcover. New. 211 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. Taylor & Francis hardcover
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
2016Best.-Nr. x-1848725574Psychology Pr 2016. Hardcover. New. 352 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. Psychology Pr hardcover
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
2005Best.-Nr. x-184169424XPsychology Pr 2005. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 366 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.00 inches. Psychology Pr hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. BIBLIO-12267Macmillan and Co. Ltd London Sussex Edition 1937. From the limited edition of 525 sets of which 500 were for sale. Full russet Niger morocco contrasting black-and-gilt title panes on spine handmade paper gilt top other edges untrimmed as issued marbled endpapers royal 8vo. vii-viii 373 2 pp. The Sussex Edition is the finest edition of Kipling's works sumptuously produced and also containing his final thoughts on the text having been revised by Kipling in his last years. Kipling died in 1936 and the edition was published posthumously. Complete sets of the 35 volumes are rare and desirable : only 525 sets were produced and many of these were destroyed when the publisher's warehouse was bombed in 1941. Single volumes such as that offered here are in practice still harder to find : we have a handful only of such volumes. This volume collects together the contents of three of Kipling's "Railway Library" volumes first published at the start of his career in India : Soldiers Three the first collection of the adventures of Mulvaney Learoyd and Ortheris 1888; The Story of the Gadsbys 1888 and In Black and White 1889. Fine. Macmillan and Co. Ltd, London, Sussex Edition, 1937 unknown
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
1901Best.-Nr. KIPLINGR002286Macmillan London. 1901. First edition. Octavo. pp viii 413. Ten plates. Two pages of publishers' adverts at rear. Recent binding of full red morocco with raised bands gilt devices to spine gilt rules marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Original front cover and backstrip bound in.Inscription on preliminary blank. Very good. Binding fine. Macmillan, London. hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. KIPLINGR016625Macmillan. London. 1899. First edition. Octavo. pp xii 272. Two pages of adverts at rear. Nine stories. Original red cloth with gilt elephant device on upper cover. Top edge gilt.Bookplate on front pastedown. A bit of spotting to endpapers. Small snag to tail of spine where there is also a small patch of fading. Very good. Macmillan. London. hardcover