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rif. 68-8140Moscow 1996. Miniature Book. Gilt White Leather covers. 64 mo. Oblong. ca. 50 pp. Text in Russian & English. VG. Illustrated. Scarce. Moscow, 1996 hardcover
rif. 68-8137Moscow 1996. Miniature Book. Gilt Brown Leather covers. 64 mo. Oblong. ca. 50 pp. Text in Russian & English. VG. Illustrated. Scarce. Moscow, 1996 hardcover
rif. 68-8139Moscow 1996. Miniature Book. Gilt Purple Leather covers. 64 mo. Oblong. ca. 50 pp. Text in Russian & English. VG. Illustrated. Scarce. Moscow, 1996 hardcover
rif. 68-8136Moscow 1996. Miniature Book. Gilt Red Leather covers. 64 mo. Oblong. ca. 50 pp. Text in Russian & English. VG. Illustrated. Scarce. Moscow, 1996 hardcover
rif. 563122New York: F. M. Buckles & Company 1910. Softcover. Near Fine. Separate printing of the poem. 16mo. 8pp. Frontispiece portrait. Sewn illustrated yellow wrappers. A touch of soiling else near fine. F. M. Buckles & Company) unknown
1890rif. 55971London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington Ld 1890. First U.K. Edition. Octavo 21.5cm. Grey pictorial paper wraps printed in black; vi 7-96pp. A straight and handsome copy 5" split to front joint minor tear at head of spine wrappers browned at edges internally clean: Very Good. One of the Railway Library series the paperbacks that "made Kipling's name in India and soon enough in England and America" ODNB. The first and second editions of 1889 were published in Allahabad. LIVINGSTON 36. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ld unknown
1923rif. 17092205NY: Doubleday Page & Co. Fine. 1923. 1st US. 8vo black cloth t.e.g. gilt emblem on front paper labels. Fir st American edition.The War service of the 1st Battalion Irish Gu ards from 1914 to 1918. Meticulously researched from primary sour ces Kipling undertook this regimental history following the deat h in action of his son John at the Battle of Loos. A classic work . 9 maps. Fine as-new copies; vol. 1 in nicked d/w; d/w lacki ng on Vol 2. Livingston 483 Richards A341 . Doubleday, Page & Co hardcover
1908rif. 43963051311146Киплинг Р. Избранные РаÑÑказы. Книга 1. Перевод и предиÑловие ÐÐ¸ÐºÐ¾Ð»Ð°Ñ ÐлекÑеевича Пушешникова. Библиотека иноÑтранных пиÑателей под редакцией Ивана Ð. Бунина. Оригинальный иллюÑтрированный титульный лиÑÑ‚ работы Ивана Билибина. МоÑква: МоÑковÑкое книгоиздательÑтво 1908 г. 320 XXIV Ñ. 1 л. портрет. Твердый переплет обычный формат. Kipling R. Selected Stories. Book 1. Translation and preface by Nikolai Alekseevich Pusheshnikov. Library of Foreign Writers edited by Ivan A. Bunin. Original illustrated title page by Ivan Bilibin. Moscow: Moscow Publishing House 1908. 320 XXIV p. 1 leaf portrait. Hardcover standard format. This 1908 Moscow edition is a bibliophilic treasure of the Russian Silver Age. Published as a lifetime edition of Rudyard Kipling it is part of the prestigious "Library of Foreign Writers" series edited by the future Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin marking it as a project of significant literary ambition. The volume is distinguished by its original illustrated title page created by Ivan Bilibin the master of Russian Art Nouveau and children's book illustration whose distinctive style elevates this as a work of art. The selection of stories translated by Nikolai Pusheshnikov introduced Kipling's complex narratives of British India to the Russian intelligentsia. As a pre-revolutionary publication from a famed literary series with a direct connection to Bunin and featuring Bilibin's artwork this book is a highly collectible artifact of early 20th-century Russian publishing and cultural exchange. Save on Shipping!. Ordering multiple books Message us before checkout — we'll create a discounted invoice with combined shipping!. Dreaming of a rare find. We'll hunt down even the most elusive books: from vintage editions to childhood favorites. Just send us a request and we'll start the search! Library of Foreign Writers edited by Ivan A. Bunin Moscow Publishing House hardcover
1920rif. 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
1920rif. 001336London: Macmillan and Co 1920. 1st Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. vi 284 4pp. including the 4 pages of ads at the end. Bound in red cloth with gold elephant medallion on the front board. With printed dust wrapper. t.e.g. Slight wear to the spine of the dw. A Fine copy in Near Fine dw. Macmillan and Co unknown
1891rif. 006845London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 1891. This is a Very Good Plus copy of the First American Edition. First issue red cloth binding with titling and a decoration in gilt. New York printer on the copyright page. Clean text; xvi 351 pages with an unpaginated poem at the end; eight-page publisher's catalog. Spine has faded to pink; a bit of rub to the margins; gilt on spine has dulled but remains perfectly clear. In an archival plastic protector. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Macmillan and Co. Hardcover
1932rif. 135404London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1932. First edition of this fine collection of fourteen short stories. Octavo original publisher's cloth with central gilt elephant emblem to the front panel. Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book 1894 Kim 1901 and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Limits and Renewals contains fourteen stories three of which appear here for the first time: "The Tie" "Aunt Ellen" and "Uncovenanted Mercies" each with introductory and sometimes supplemental verses. These include eighteen poems which are here published for the first time. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1932rif. 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
1906rif. 238FIRST EDITION AND FIRST WITH THE RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS. The English edition was not illustrated. Stories from English history told by romantic characters to two children over whom Puck the fairy had cast a midsummer spell. It can count both as historical fantasy – since some of the stories told of the past have clear magical elements and as contemporary fantasy – since it depicts a magical being active and practicing his magic in the England of the early 1900s when the book was written. First edition and the first with illustrations. Four illustrations in color by Arthur Rackham. 8vo publisher's original green cloth the spine and upper cover lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black with the design of the famous caravelle sailing ship. 8 277 pp. A very pleasing copy gilt and cloth bright only light age evidence with slight rubbing to the tips and spine ends and slight bowing of the binding. Uncut with pages largely unopened with no previous ownership signatures. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1906rif. 53962New York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1906. First U.S. edition and the first edition with illustrations by Rackham. A fantasy book for children with frontispiece and four full-page colored illustrations by Rackham tipped in. 8vo green cloth stamped in black and lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. Small hole in rear endpaper at hinge which is starting at the final blank; otherwise very good to near fine with just a bit of rubbing to tips. Pages largely unopened. Doubleday, Page & Co. unknown
1893rif. 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
1890rif. 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
1890rif. 17754NY: JOHN W. LOVELL. 1890. 1890. First Edition. Softcover. First American Edition. The so-called authorized edition with a facsimile of Rudyard Kipling's letter admonishing rampant copyright infringements on his works while authorizing them to all in a spirit of helplessness opposite title which bears the "Authorized Edition" statement. This is the trade paperback International Series issue which was published simultaneously with the cloth issue. Preface ends on page 6. Ads on page 210 This copy was rebound in contemporary grey cloth with a black & gold title label at head of spine. Cloth corners & spine ends rubbed. Soiling & traces of faint dam ping to covers. Text in excellent condition but for an erasure on the half-title page A Kipling classic. GC . NY: JOHN W. LOVELL. 1890 paperback
rif. 33793KIPLING Rudyard. Stalky and Co. Original cloth. London: Macmillan 1899. First English edition. The story of "Stalky & Co." partly fiction partly truth is of Kipling's college life. unknown
1899rif. 149009England and The United States: The Daily Mail Publishing Co 1899. First illustrated facsimile edition of Kipling's poem The Absent-Minded Beggar a souvenir specially printed by The Daily Mail. Quarto silk moire wrappers six pages tissue-guarded frontispiece with tissue-guards between the two pages of facsimile stanzas cover portrait of Kipling by John Collier. Originally printed as a single folded sheet forming six printed pages in triptych format. The souvenir marked the 100th performance of Sydney Grundy's The Degenerates at the Garrick Theatre on Friday 24th October 1899 when Lillie Langtry who was playing Mrs. Trevelyan in the production recited Kipling's poem The Absent-Minded Beggar from the stage after the final curtain. The proceeds of the sale of the poem benefited the wives and children of the reservists. In good condition. Interior illustration of "A Gentleman in Kharki" by R. Caton Woodville. Rudyard Kipling’s The Absent-Minded Beggar first published at the outbreak of the Second Boer War 1899–1902 is a notable example of patriotic literature mobilized for imperial causes. Written to rally support for British troops and their families the poem was quickly transformed into a piece of popular ephemera with the first illustrated edition marketed through The Daily Mail as part of a charitable appeal. The publication’s sales generated significant funds for the reservists’ families illustrating how literature journalism and philanthropy intersected within the culture of British imperialism. The Daily Mail Publishing Co unknown
1926rif. 149579London: Macmillian and Co. Limited 1926. The Bookman Portfolio 1926 Christmas issue containing three color illustrations inspired by Kipling's collection of poems "Sea and Sussex." Quarto original wrappers three colored plates laid in. In very good condition. Paintings by Donald Maxwell. From Rudyard Kipling's Verse. Sea and Sussex 1926 by Rudyard Kipling is a lyrical tribute to the English county he called home blending poetry and prose to celebrate its natural beauty maritime traditions and historical spirit. Written with both affection and precision the book captures Kipling’s deep connection to the Sussex landscape and its coastal life portraying the region as a timeless symbol of English resilience and identity. Macmillian and Co. Limited unknown
1899rif. 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
rif. 14974London:: Sampson Low Marston & Company n.d. First English edition. publisher's green illustrated wrappers. . A few tiny chips to fragile wrappers at corners; unobtrusive light stain to front wrapper; an attractive copy. 8vo. Stewart 94. A. H. Wheeler & Co's. Indian Railway Library No. XIV. Sampson Low, Marston & Company, unknown
1933rif. 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
1904rif. 150551Boston: Alfred Bartlett 1904. Second edition but the first edition to be printed by the Goudys at their Village Press. Duodecimo original boards frontispiece drawing by E. B. Bird. In fine condition. Alfred Bartlett hardcover
