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1920ref. 15241New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1920. FIRST EDITION. With half-title and vignette woodcut on title. Publisher’s illustrated green cloth with gilt on front board; overall a strong bright and excellent copy. First American edition. Kipling's collection of three series of travel letters on Japan Canada and America and Egypt: “From Tideway to Tideway” “Letters to the Family” and “Egypt of the Magicians”. Kipling 1865-1936 was one of the most popular English-language writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
1932ref. 62202London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1932. First edition. viii 400 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth with the gilt Ganesha device on the upper cover spine lettered in gilt. With the original tan printed dust jacket Fine in fine dust jacket with bookplate of Joan Whitney. First edition. viii 400 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The last collection published by Kipling of 14 stories and 19 poems three stories and 18 poems appearing for the first time in print the rest were in periodicals. Stewart 588 Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown books
1906ref. 461878New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Decorated green cloth printed in black and gilt. Substantial chip on front fly else a bright very good copy. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1890ref. 531279New York: John W. Lovell Company 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Illustrated pale brown boards. Some rubbing and modest soiling a nice very good copy. John W. Lovell Company hardcover books
1899ref. TB33463New York: Doubleday and McClure Company 1899. First Edition separate edition. Very good in its original green cloth covered boards with slightly tarnished gilt text on the spine and with bold gilt text black designs and silver colored crescent moon and stars on the front board. A small octavo of 7 5/8 by 5 inches with decorated end sheets fore and aft. There is a gift inscription at the upper fore edge of the fly title page with a date of "May 8 1899". The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is worn of it color as is the cloth at the tips of the boards. Without a dust jacket if it ever had one. 119 pages of text and illustrated with a color frontispiece printed in orange and black and 16 full-page black and white plates printed on recto only with many vignettes throughout and floral page decorations all by Orson Lowell and American illustrator 1871-1956. What is interesting about this copy is the date of the gift inscription of :"May 8 1899". This title was not copyrighted until November 22 1899 according to David Alan Richard's in-depth bibliography: Rudyard Kipling Bibliography. Richards Rudyard Kipling A Bibliography A149 Doubleday and McClure Company hardcover books
1933ref. 10929Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran 1933. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo 8 pp. Original cream wrappers printed in green fine. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo 8 pp. One of a small number of copies printed for American copyright. Stewart 616; Livingston 591 Doubleday, Doran unknown books
1896ref. 1397631New York: D. Appleton and Company 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo vii 209 pages. In Very Good condition Spine grey cloth with gilt lettering and inlay. Spine darkened by UV damage head of spine worn. Minor shelfwear and soiling board corners bumped. Top of textblock gilt moderatly worn. Textblock exterior agetoned interior clean. Former owner's inscription on front endpaper. Shelved case 0. 1397631. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1909ref. 90334New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. First American Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's deep blue cloth lavishly decorated in gilt and silver to spine and front board. 77pp. printed rectos only; 16pp. fictional advertisments to rear. Bright and straight with some light scuffing to spine ends and extremities a little darkened to the spine; internally clean and fresh color pictorial endpapers by Leyendecker color frontispiece with tissue guard color plates. A very good copy of a pretty book. A most unusual bit of Kipling in the shape of a fantastic vision of the future in which the majority of air travel is via dirigible public industrial or private and which takes the form of a journalistic account of the aerial mail service for some future magazine or other a little optimistic of Kipling to assume we would have journalism in the 21st century. This heady and dramatic vision of the year 2000 is embellished with a selection of advertisments and blurbs for private airships dirigible engineering equipment and classified ads looking for pilots "Must be a member of the Church of England." in a pseudo-documentary transmedial fashion. The end result is an entertaining and deeply unserious bit of speculative fiction. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
1893ref. 589667London: C. Sheard & Co 1893. Softcover. Very Good. Presumably the first English edition. Cover illustration by E. Jackman. Folio. Three nested bifolia making 12 pages. Some separation at the top and bottom of the fold of the outer bifolium light edgewear and a "File Copy" and composer name stamp on the front cover still a very good or better copy. For voice and piano. "Dedicated by kind permission to H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge K.G." OCLC locates only a single holding and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. C. Sheard & Co unknown books
1890ref. 13386SOLDIERS THREE A. H. Wheeler & Co. 1890 noted as Third Editon bound along with THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS / A TALE WITHOUT A PLOT A. H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington A. H. Wheeler & Co. bound along with TALES OF BLACK AND WHITE A. H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington A. H. Wheeler & Co. bound along with WEE WILLIE WINKIE AND OTHER STORIES A. H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington A. H. Wheeler & Co. some wear and rubbing to the fore edge corner tips and spine hinges some foxing to the first and last several leaves else a tight just about vg copy rebound in half leather with marbled boards. A. H. Wheeler & Co. hardcover books
1890ref. 125195New York: United States Book Company 1890. Hardbound. Good- general fragility and wear. Publishers blue cloth. 771pp. no illustrations. A most noteworthy copy bearing the copper-engraved bookplate of Henry Van Deventer Black which was designed by Mr. Black and engraved by Edwin Davis French. The book is signed by Henry Van Deventer Black and he has dated it Dec. 1892. He has also written that "This book has spent a winter on the Nile and been around the world" on the ffep. A few pencil lines to the contents perhaps indicating favorite passages. The bookplate is stunning in it's detail and beauty. United States Book Company hardcover books
1901ref. 322153London: MacMillan 1901. First English edition. Illustrations by John L. Kipling. 443 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cloth spine slightly sunned and top of spine rubbed. Bookplate. First English edition. Illustrations by John L. Kipling. 443 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Richards A174; Stewart 254 MacMillan unknown books
1920ref. 42678London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd 1920. First edition. 284 4 pp. of ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth t.e.g. Fine in almost fine dust jacket with split without loss on inner hinge. First edition. 284 4 pp. of ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stewart 478 Macmillan and Co., Ltd unknown books
1930ref. 158381930. Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Company 1930. Original light yellow wrappers lettered in green. First Edition of this short story being the American copyright issue -- 75 copies printed and privately distributed in August 1930 in order to secure copyright protection in America. The main story is the voyage generally reckoned to have taken place in or shortly after 60 AD during which St. Paul was shipwrecked on the island of Malta then called Melita -- the account of which given in Acts 27-28 has been said to be the most vivid account of a voyage and shipwreck in the whole of Greek and Latin literature. In Kipling's story that voyage is described in the conversation of three reminiscing seamen whose meeting provides a typically Kiplingesque "frame" for the main story kipling.org. This tale then appeared in the September issue of London Magazine and was subsequently collected in 1932 in LIMITS AND RENEWALS the last collection published during Kipling's life. A fine copy. Richards A389; Stewart 592. Housed in a morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. unknown books
1913ref. 14171London: Methuen and Company 1913. Twenty-First Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling published in 1913 in a fine binding by Birdsall of London. Octavo xv 230pp. Three-quarter red morocco red cloth boards gilt trim. Four raised bands title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt marbled endpapers. Finely bound by Birdsall of Northampton and London. Stated "Twenty-first Edition. February 1913" on copyright page. Previous ownership bookplate affixed to endpaper. Solid text block light sunning to spine bumped corners a near fine example. The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling first appeared in 1896 published by Methuen & Company of London and D. Appleton & Company in New York. Richards A92. Methuen and Company unknown books
1892ref. 14167London: Sampson Low Marston & Company 1892. First Combined Edition. Leather bound. Very good. The first Combined Edition of Wee Willie Winkle and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling finely bound by Charles Mudie of London. Octavo 314pp. Three-quarter red morocco marbled paper boards. Matching marbled edges and endpapers. Five raised bands title in gilt on spine. "Bound by Mudie" stamp on verso of front free endpaper. Light wear to corners faint rubbing to front cover a very good example. Stories in this volume include "At the Pit's Mouth" "My Own True Ghost Story" and "Baa Baa Black Sheep. Sampson Low, Marston, & Company unknown books
1891ref. 450540New York: M.J. Ivers & Co 1891. Softcover. Good. Early edition variant wrappers with man looking out a window. Printed illustrated pale pink wrappers. Front wrap detached and chipped good only. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and dropbox case by Stikeman. Notes about the purchase of the book in 1926 laid in. Very uncommon. M.J. Ivers & Co unknown books
1894ref. 1410343New York: The Century Co 1894. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo xvii pages. In Fair minus condition. Spine is green with gold print. Boards in green cloth gold print gilt elephant on front panel; fraying to spine caps and corners toning to spine peripheral toning cocked spine. Text block has has gilt top edge; foxing to endpapers light foxing throughout tear across page 89 penciled name on title page intermittent spine breaks. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece and text illustrations drawings. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area ND-HV Section. 1410343. FP New Rockville Stock. The Century Co hardcover books
1937ref. 152130N.p.: N.p. 1937. Vintage reference photograph from the 1937 film showing actor Sabu Dastagir commonly known only by his given name Sabu. With a mimeo label snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamps of National Film Archive library. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Rudyard Kipling's story "Toomai of the Elephants" which originally appeared in Kipling's 1895 collection "The Jungle Book." A young Indian boy helps guide his father and a government elephant hunter to the secret elephant camp in the jungle. A breakthrough role for Sabu who would go on to work under exclusive contract for film mogul Alexander Korda in "The Thief of Bagdad" 1940 "Arabian Nights" 1942 and "The Jungle Book" 1942. Set in colonial India shot on location in Gwynedd Wales. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown books
1904ref. 9044London: Macmillan and Co 1904. First English and American edition housed together in custom leather box set 8vo 394 & 364pp.; first English edition in original red cloth with Ganesha device on front cover and lettering on spine in gold spine sunned rear hinge starting else a very good copy t.e.g. First American edition with minor wear to extremities else fine in original green cloth t.e.g. Livingston 289 290. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1937ref. 007910London: Macmillan and Co Limited 1937. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Second Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second printing of the First Edition 1937. Finely bound in signed Sangorski & Sutcliffe polished blue calf binding for W. Robinson Co. Back decorated in gilt with two red morocco labels lettered in gilt and gilt tail date all edges gilt marbled end papers ribbon marker frontispiece photo of bust of Kipling. Near Fine slight rubbing at edges and corners. Macmillan and Co, Limited Hardcover books
1898ref. 009779London: compiled and arranged by the proprietors of "Punch" the "Daily Graphic" and the "Daily Chronicle." 1898. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. Oblong 4to. SCARCE in current commerce. Original red silk covered boards lettered in gilt all edges gilt unpaginated Very Good covers a bit soiled. A compilation of art illustrations poetry and letters done in facsimile from many of the leading authors and artists of 1890s London. Place of publication not identified publisher not identified Printed rectos only. OCLC locates 14 libraries worldwide with holdings. compiled and arranged by the proprietors of "Punch," the "Daily Graphic," and the "Daily Chronicle.&quo Hardcover books
1915ref. 2634Garden City: Doubleday Page 1915. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. 1st American edition. Pink paper over boards with printed labels on the front and spine. Paper worn away on three corners otherwise very good condition. Stewart 388. Doubleday Page hardcover books
1893ref. 228647Boston Perry Mason & Co. 1893. 1893. First edition thus. Folio. Complete issue pages 501-512. Illustrations. Some tears and old repairs at folds. Enclosed in 1/2 brown morocco slipcase. Scarce. Kipling's contribution appears on pages 506 507. See Livingston p. 171 #140. Soft cover. Very Good. Boston [Perry Mason & Co.] 1893. paperback books
1891ref. 110941891. KIPLING RUDYARD. Life's Handicap. Being Stories of Mine Own People. London 1891. xvi 351 9 p. Red cloth. A very good-to-fine copy. Bookplate. In a morocco-backed slipcase. First American edition. Livingston 79 Stewart 99. unknown books
