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1917ref. 10917Garden City NY: Doubleday Page 1917. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo 8 pp. Original cream wrappers printed in green fine. In red morocco-backed case spine worn. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo 8 pp. One of a small number of copies published for American copyright. Stewart 455; Livingston 419 Doubleday, Page unknown books
1930ref. 200070New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1930. Limited to 537 copies 525 of which are numbered and for sale. Good See Comments. No covers 6 exposed cords. xviii 1-6 7-393 pp. with facsimile frontis of Kipling's manuscript for "The Thousandth Man" printed as frontispiece to vol. I with tissue guard. Title page printed in red and black. I have two of these copies of Volume 1 each numbered and signed 41 and 42. They were never bound and both retain their untrimmed cords and temporary endpapers beyond those intended to be bound. They have spent the last 90 years together in the stockroom of a venerable but now closed New York City bookstore. They both retain their limitation page signed by Kipling and numbered. Please be aware you are buying an bound book as delivered by the publisher to the binders. Several possible uses for these volumes are evident an explanation for why they were never bound and where the other two volumes for each of these is are more distant and hypothetical bordering on fantasy. Beyonbd being lovely Kipling items and complete in their own right these volumes sold by the piece are a scarce representation of how books leave the printer's for the binder's. "First edition."/ "This edition printed from type that has now been distributed is limited to five hundred and thirty-seven sets. Twelve of these are for presentation. The first volume of each of the remaining five hundred and twenty-five numbered sets is signed by the author"--Front fly-leaf. Pictures upon request. The London printing of this set was accomplished in 1929 and included a signed etching of Kipling as the frontis. Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc unknown books
1906ref. 13138New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine. First edition of Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Octavo 277pp. Green cloth title stamped in gilt on spine illustrations stamped in black on front cover. Stated "Published October 1906" on copyright page. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's signature in ink on front free endpaper. Complete with frontispiece and three color illustrations by Arthur Rackham. A near fine example. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
1899ref. 013511Boston: Desmond Publishing Co 1899. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Salesman's dummy for the six volume set sold by subscription. With frontispiece portrait title page 5 photogravure plates w/tissue guards and about 10 pages of text with some duotones. Though title page is for Soldiers Three the elements in the book appear to be from it and the other five books in this Desmond edition of Selected Works: Mine Own People Phantom Rickshaw Plain Tales from the Hill The Light that Failed and Back Room Ballads as listed in the prospectus printed on the front pastdown. Some foxing solid binding. Desmond Publishing Co hardcover books
1891ref. 265647Allahabad: Wheeler 1891. paperback. good. 96pp thin 8vo printed gray green wrappers; lightly edge-chipped. Allahabad & London: A.H. Wheeler & Sampson Low Marston n.d. 1891. First English Edition. Volume XIV of the Indian Railway Library. Errata slip attached to title page. Wheeler unknown books
1898ref. 611705London: Macmillan 1898. Hardcover. Fine. First English edition. Octavo. Blue cloth gilt. A fine copy. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. Slipcase shows some wear but it has protected the book which is bright and fresh splendidly. Macmillan hardcover books
1898ref. 613212Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company 1898. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition by this publisher likely a piracy. 12mo. Green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt. Offsetting on endpapers from jacket flaps near fine in lightly worn near fine dust jacket. Rare in jacket. Henry Altemus Company hardcover books
1930ref. 10921Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran 1930. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo 24pp. Original cream wrappers printed in green fine. In red morocco-backed case. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo 24pp. One of a small number of copies printed for American copyright. Stewart 579; Livingston 549 Doubleday, Doran unknown books
1936ref. 612253Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1936. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Octavo. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards with frontispiece and plates in color. Slight age-toning at the hinges from the binder's glue else fine in price-clipped very good or better dust jacket with a couple of short tears a little rubbing on the spine and foxing on the rear panel. A nice fresh copy. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover books
1916ref. 10916Garden City NY: Doubleday Page 1916. First Edition. 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cream wrappers printed in green; old fold else fine. In red morocco-backed case spine worn. First Edition. 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. One of a small number of copies published for American copyright. Stewart 400; Livingston 407 Doubleday, Page unknown books
1919ref. 51583Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1919. First Edition. One of 70 copies printed for copyright purposes. Slim octavo 20.5cm; publisher's original wrappers bound into full navy blue crushed morocco by The French Binders with five raised bands titles stamped in gilt on spine and covers with double-ruled borders and decorative corner pieces tooled in gilt on covers; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt; 8pp padded with 11 blank terminal leaves. Pinpoint wear else Fine. A poem first published in the Daily Telegraph 29 January 1919 concerning the young naval officers who were sent to Cambridge University for two terms between 1919-1922. LIVINGSTON 437. cf.Kipling Society website. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
1925ref. 82667Garden City:: Doubleday Page & Company. Good. 1925. Hardcover. B001EUCL0W . Stated first edition. Octavo bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and design. Moderate shelf wear and aging brief gift inscription from 1925 on front free endpaper else good. No dust jacket. ; 576 pages . Doubleday, Page & Company, hardcover books
1904ref. 221112London Macmillan and Co. Limited 1904. 1904. First edition. 8vo. Full red cloth gilt stamped spine and upper cover t.e.g. Later issue tan dust jacket stamped in blue lists works in uniform edition priced at 7s 6d each. Very good-fine. No signatures or bookplates. Livingstone #289. F. Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. hardcover books
ref. 1372450London: A.H. Wheeler & Co n.d. Mixed Editions. Hardcover. Octavo 96 104 96 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in half brown leather and dark green buckram with gilt lettering on spine. Minor shelfwear. Rubbing to leather. Light age-toning to textblock. Edges of textblock dyed speckled red. Pencil signature of previous owner on front free endpaper. Shelved in Case 2. "Under the Deodars" is third edition. "The Phantom 'Rickshaw" does not list edition. "Wee Willie Winkie" is fifth edition. 1372450. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. A.H. Wheeler & Co hardcover books
1911ref. 38303Oxford: at the Clarendon Press. London Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton 1911. First English Edition. Illustrated by Henry Ford. 250 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Blue cloth stamped in white maps on endpapers. Fine. First English Edition. Illustrated by Henry Ford. 250 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Stewart 356 at the Clarendon Press. London Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
1909ref. 191633London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909. First trade edition. Hardcover. An attractive edition of this work by Kipling. Features 30 tipped in color plates along with some additional black and white illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. A close to near fine copy in illustrated blue cloth boards with all tissue guards present and with some scattered foxing to the page edges and internally some very minor fraying to the base of the spine and a small vintage bookstore sticker to the rear pastedown. No dust jacket. Despite the minor flaws a very pleasing copy. Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
ref. 00136London: Macmillan and Co. 1903. The Songs from Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories" KIPLING Rudyard. The Just So Song Book. Being the Songs from Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. Set to Music by Edward German. London: Macmillan and Co. 1903. First edition. Large quarto 12 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches; 311 x246 mm. 2 62 pp. Music. Original dark red cloth pictorially stamped in black on front cover and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Small area of slight discoloration on back cover. Front hinge hints at starting. Title tissue guard slightly browned and with a short tear at lower margin. Otherwise a fine copy. A charming and scarce musical companion to Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories issued at the height of his popularity and designed for domestic performance. Edward German's settings - by turns playful lyrical and theatrically assured -translate Kipling's rhythmic verse into songs intended for both children and adults reflecting the Edwardian taste for cultivated family entertainment. Books combining Kipling's texts with original musical settings were produced in relatively small numbers and were often heavily used making clean copies increasingly difficult to find. This first edition of The Just So Song Book survives as an appealing example of early twentieth-century literary music publishing and an important adjunct to Kipling's most beloved work. "The texts of the twelve poems contained in the Just So Stories 1902 are here set to music by Edward German. The last song 'Rolling down to Rio' is substituted for 'I've never sailed the Amazon' which is here omitted" Stewart. Livingston 270 describing the first American edition. Stewart 269-A. London: Macmillan and Co., 1903 unknown books
1938ref. 18875Paris: Librairie Delagrave 1938. 3/4 leather. Near Fine. E. Carlegle. #90 of 100 copies within the larger limitation of 1210 copies of this handsome 1938 French edition of Kipling's "Stalky & Co.". Bound in 3/4 pebbled green morocco over marbled boards. 3 raised bands bright gilt-tilting and lovely Art Deco gilt-tooling along the spine. Matching marbled endsheets and pastedowns the original wrappers bound-in. As part of the limitation of 100 copies includes the 12 extra plates-in-color by E. Carlegle and "une suite speciale des gravures en bistro". Clean very attractive and Near Fine translated from its original Englsh by Paul Bettelheim and Rodolphe Thomas. Librairie Delagrave unknown books
1938ref. 18874Paris: Librairie Delagrave 1938. 3/4 leather. Near Fine. Georges Leroux. #90 of 100 copies within the larger limitation of 1210 copies of this handsome 1938 French edition of Kipling's "On the City Wall". Bound in 3/4 pebbled green morocco over marbled boards. 3 raised bands bright gilt-tilting and lovely Art Deco gilt-tooling along the spine. Matching marbled endsheets and pastedowns the original wrappers bound-in. As part of the limitation of 100 copies includes the 12 extra plates-in-color by Georges Leroux and "une suite speciale des gravures en bistro". Clean very attractive and Near Fine translated from its original Englsh by Louis Fabulet. Librairie Delagrave unknown books
1908ref. 05456ABAFT THE FUNNEL B. W. Dodge 1908 first edition second state pictorial binding with lettering in red as opposed to gold fine in like pictorial dust-wrapper. Collects many pieces that were originally printed in the Civil and Military Gazette which were first collected in Turn-overs around 1889. B. W. Dodge 1908 unknown books
1926ref. 3992LONDON MACMILLAN 1926 1926. DUST JACKET FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD-FINE. F. Hardcover. LONDON, MACMILLAN, 1926 hardcover books
1901ref. 153691901. London: Macmillan and Co. 1901. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with Ganesha device in gilt. First English Edition of the book that "is acknowledged as Kipling's masterpiece in fiction. The novel is the finest written about the India of the British Empire" CGEL. It follows the adventures of an orphan son of a British soldier who is raised by an Indian woman becomes a disciple to a Lama and ultimately becomes an undercover agent as well. The illustrations are by John Lockwood Kipling the author's father. The American edition is considered to have been published earlier though in the same month as the English one. As with most of Kipling's British editions published by Macmillan the binding is red cloth with in gilt the "Ganesha" device -- an elephant's head with a swastika the latter had been a ubiquitous symbol in India for millennia; its use ceased in the early 1930s when events in Germany gave the symbol a whole new meaning. This is a very good copy front endpaper slightly cracked at the gutter light speckling of the cloth plus one small stain on the rear cover; as always there is some foxing of the endpapers and of the frontispiece tissue guard and there is minor rubbing of the gilt elephant. Richards A174; Stewart 254; Livingston 250. One of the books selected as a "Modern Library 100" for the 20th Century. unknown books
1933ref. 158391933. Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Company 1933. Original light yellow wrappers lettered in green. First Editions being the American copyright issues -- 75 copies each issued two weeks apart in March 1933 to coincide with their periodical appearances in French and in English. This is a series of sketches that together form a personal memoir documenting Kipling's lifelong affection for France from a childhood trip with his father to the Paris Exhibition of 1878 to beyond the Great War. This title was published four months later in England bound in blue cloth. Both volumes are in fine condition. Richards A412; Stewart 600. unknown books
1903ref. 196092London Methuen 1903. 1903. First edition first state p.56. Small 8vo. Original 1/2 vellum over light blue boards t.e.g. uncut. Paper label on spine. Very good. One of only 200 large paper copies on handmade watermarked Arnold unbleached large paper. Livingston 279. F. Hardcover. London, Methuen, 1903. hardcover books
1904ref. 010339London: Macmillan and Co 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 393pp plus 22pp. ads. . Beautiful First Edition First issue with ads dated 35.8.04. Bound in publisher's red cloth with titles on spine stamped in gilt. t.e.g. Square tight and clean throughout with some fairly minor bumping to spine ends Some foxing to paste-downs and endpapers and a touch of the fore-edges. Equally attractive later unclipped wrapper 7/6 on spine panel has very light edge-wear and a tiny closed tear on the rear panel. Spine panel is mildly toned. but is fresh and bright with no chipping or creases. A gorgeous well-preserved collectable copy. Macmillan and Co hardcover books
