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1941rif. 57419Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1941. Limited Edition. No. 148 of one thousand sets signed by Kipling in the first volume. Twenty-eight octavo volumes; red gilt-blocked beveled cloth top edges gilt fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; in uniform dustjackets. Front endpapers with printed bookplates of Harry Bishop Clapp to each pastedown and James Glen Mead to each free endpaper. The latter have caused some mild rippling to the endleaves else a fresh fine set in the original printed dustwrappers uniformly fine and free of darkening or wear. The authoritative edition of Kipling's works rarely found in the original dustwrappers and almost unheard of in this condition certainly the finest set to reach the market in the past twenty or more years. RICHARDS D25. Doubleday, Doran & Company unknown books
1896rif. 140944705New York: The Century Co 1896. Early Printing. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition early reprint with "Thirtieth Thousand" on the title page. Bound in publisher's original olive green cloth decoratively embossed and stamped in gilt. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper contents lightly tanned and occasionally foxed else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with light chipping at the edges toning and a scratch to the front panel. A stunning and bright copy with sharp gilt no doubt protected by the dust jacket over all these years. A remarkable survival. The Century Co unknown books
1913rif. 69306London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1913. Full Description: KIPLING Rudyard. The Works of Rudyard Kipling. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1913-1938. Bombay Edition. Limited edition signed by Rudyard Kipling in volume I. Complete in thirty-one small quarto volumes 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches; 240 x 165 mm. As all sets are volumes 1-25 are from an edition of 1050 volume 26 is from an edition of 1000 and volumes 27-31 are from an edition of 500. Title pages and limitation pages printed in blue and black. Decorative initials printed in blue. Publisher's original paper spine labels bound in to the back of each volume. Bound uniformly in full red morocco. Boards tooled in gilt with a wavy border. Spines spines decoratively tooled in compartments and lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt others uncut. Marbled endpapers. A small neat black number stamp to the top margin of each title-page. The final leaf of each volume with a small note in red ink. Still an about fine set. HBS 69306. $8500. Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown books
1897rif. 114945London: Macmillan & Company 1897-1919. The Bombay edition of Rudyard Kipling's collected works. Octavo 30 volumes bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe gilt titles to the spine gilt tooling and ruling to the spine front and rear panels raised bands inner dentelles top edge gilt marbled endpapers. One of 1050 sets with volume one signed by Rudyard Kipling. In very good condition. The works of Rudyard Kipling contains his poetry novels stories travel writings childrens tales military tales and essays. Kipling in 1907 became the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize. Macmillan & Company hardcover
1912rif. 015439London: Hodder & Stoughton 1912. De Lux edition printed on Japanese vellum limited to 100 signed copies. Book measures 27.5x21.cm. Bound in full calf gilt titles and tooling along with swastika symbol to the spine front and rear panels along with a embossed gilt elephant on the front board top edges gilt others uncut. Calf lightly rubbed some minor abrasion wear. Generally bindings in very good condition. Internally pages clean. A very nice copy. The anthology Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling which was released by Hodder & Stoughton in 1912 is an outstanding compilation that encompasses the vast array of poetic accomplishments associated with Kipling. This signed and limited-edition deluxe copy not only exemplifies his lyrical prowess but also constitutes a significant artefact of literary history. Featuring Kipling's autograph and bound in opulent materials this edition is a collector's delight and a testament to the enduring legacy of one of the most renowned authors in British history. Limited Edition. Calf. Very Good. Large 8vo. Hodder & Stoughton Paperback
1885rif. 155839Lahore: The "Civil and Military Gazette" Press 1885. An early Kipling rarity and first appearance of a classic ghost story First edition first impression of the book written by members of the Kipling family. Published in an edition of 250 copies it is rare in original wrappers and with advertisements at the end. The book includes the first appearance of "The Phantom 'Rickshaw'" and "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes C. E.". Kipling described the conception of this work in his autobiography Something of Myself 1937. He noted that "in the cold weather of 1885 we four made up a Christmas annual. which pleased us a good deal and attracted a certain amount of attention. Later much later it became a 'collector's piece' in the US book-market and to that extent smudged the memories of its birth". The 16 pieces comprising eight in prose and eight in verse were written by "four Anglo-Indian writers" as described on the title page and remaining anonymous throughout the book who were Kipling his father mother and sister. Kipling had initiated the publication with the Civil and Military Gazette and it was sold by subscription. This slim volume gave the 19 year old writer an opportunity to publish his work and he contributed half of the texts. The ghost stories would become better-known and were reprinted within The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other tales in 1890. Kipling's father had been somewhat against publication of Quartette and wrote to Margaret Burne-Jones that he had hoped that someone would "rap Rudyard's knuckles for the unwholesomeness of 'The Phantom 'Rickshaw' and the coarseness of the 'Tragedy of Teeth'". The binding of the publication was particularly chaotic. According to Kipling the work took place at night by candlelight and he provided workers on overtime with tots of brandy and plugs of free tobacco to encourage the "forty odd men besides binders to keep Quartette going". Publication was announced on 19 December and the front cover was possibly designed by John Lockwood Kipling then serving as the first principal of the Mayo School of Art in Lahore. Richards notes that the advertisements "sometimes vary in number". He states "copies are known with only three leaves or four leaves or six or even eight with a blank final yellow leaf instead of the more standard seven. Copies were also bound without advertisements at Kipling's direction for family members. In some copies the last of the seven leaves of advertisements is pink rather than pale yellow". Additionally "the rear endsheet has been excised from some copies. with the stub pasted to the terminal leaf of advertisements". The present copy carries seven leaves of which the final leaf is pink. Octavo. Original wrappers printed in black. Housed in a red cloth chemise with a red morocco-backed slipcase. Ownership signature on front wrapper. Loss to most of spine minor chip at top right corner of front wrapper some slight rust-staining; a very good copy and a particularly attractive example. Martindell 4; Livingston 5; Stewart 7; Ballard VII; Grolier 18; Richards A4. hardcover
1894rif. 175281London: Macmillan and Co. 1894 & 1895. Handsomely bound set First editions. Based on folk tales and legends that Kipling learned during his childhood in India The Jungle Book was first published in periodicals in 1893-4 before it was printed in book form in 1894. An immediate success on publication the book was reprinted twice the same year and twice again in 1895. Kipling won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907; he was the first English-language writer and the youngest ever to receive the prize. The present book and its sequel The Second Jungle Book 1895 inspired the 1967 and 2016 Disney movies of the same name. 2 vols octavo 181 x 116 mm. Illustrated by J. L. Kipling W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco spines gilt-lettered raised bands single rule to boards gilt pictorial block to front boards gilt twin rule to turn-ins gilt burgundy endpapers gilt edges. Housed in a matching dark blue leather entry slipcase. The occasional minor blemish else an excellent set. Stewart 123 & 132; Martindell 61 & 63. hardcover
1897rif. 40582New York : Century Co. 1897 . First American Edition. Original green illustrated cloth and publisher's dustjacket. Although the English edition is occasionally found in dust jacket the American edition is much less common. Not in Tanselle for the English dust jacket see Tanselle 97.91 Very good with light shelf wear in nearly Very good dustjacket with chips at top and bottom of spine and a few tears along the spine and front flap. Century Co. hardcover
rif. 51-3634Paris: Editions Mornay 1919-1935. 8vo. 87 vols. a few duplicates. All numbered and some signed. Original wraps.MORNAY Éditions. Ensemble de 87 volumes illustrés. Paris Éditions Mornay 1919 à 1940. In-8 broché couverture illustrée.Important ensemble de 87 ouvrages d'Honoré de Balzac Colette Gustave Flaubert Anatole France Rudyard Kipling Pierre Loti Octave Mirbeau Henri de Régnier ou encore Jules Vallès tous illustrés par George Barbier Carlègle Deluermoz Pierre Falké Louis Jou Mathurin Méheut Jean Lébédeff ou Gaston Nick à travers différentes techniques comme le bois gravé en noir ou l'aquarelle au pochoir.Répartis en deux collections intitulées Les Beaux livres et La Collection originale la centaine de titres publiés par Georges et Antoinette Mornay devaient paraître en un nombre prédéterminé d’ouvrages cinq par an et en quantité limitée. Le tirage justifié était environ de 1 000 exemplaires sur japon ou vélin de Rives.Certains volumes contiennent un envoi autographe signé de l'illustrateur.Liste détaillée : -ANNUNZIO G. d'. Triomphe de la mort. 1923.-BALZAC Honoré de. César Birotteau. 1929. X2-BALZAC Honoré de. Le Père Goriot. 1933.-BÉRAUD Henri. Le Vitriol de Lune. 1931. -BOYLESVE René. La Leçon d’amour dans un parc. 1929.-BOYLESVE René. Les Nouvelles leçons d’amour dans un parc. 1930. x2-BRAZ Le Anatole. Le Gardien de feu. 1923. -CHADOURNE Louis. Le Pot au noir. Scènes et figures des Tropiques. 1922. -CHATEAUBRIANT Alphonse de. Monsieur des Lourdines. 1925.-CHÉRAU Gaston. Valentine Pacquault. 1927.-COLETTE. L’Entrave. 1929.-CONSTANTIN-WEYER Maurice. Clairière. 1929.-CRÉBILLON fils. Le Sopha. 1933.-CURWOOD James Oliver. Nomades du Nord. 1932. -DEVAL Jacques. Marie Galante. 1935. -DOFF Néel. Jours de famine et de détresse. 1927.-DUHAMEL Georges. Vie des martyrs 1914-1916. 1919.-DUNAN Renée. Le Prix Lacombyne. 1924. X2 -FARRÈRE Claude. La Bataille. 1926.-FARRÈRE Claude. Les Civilisés. 1931. X2-FARRÈRE Claude. Thomas l’Agnelet Gentilhomme de fortune. 1928.-FLAUBERT Gustave. Madame Bovary. 1930. -FRANCE Anatole. Crainquebille. Putois riquet et plusieurs autres récits profitables. 1922. X3-FRANCE Anatole. La Révolte des anges. 1921. -FRANCE Anatole. La Rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque. 1920.-FRANCE Anatole. Le Comte Morin député. 1921 joints spécimen et suites-FRANCE Anatole. Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard membre de l’Institut. 1923. -FRANCE Anatole. Les Opinions de Monsieur Jérome Coignard. 1924.-FRANCE Anatole. Les Sept femmes de la Barbe Bleue et autres contes merveilleux. 1925.-GORKY Maxime. Les Vagabonds. 1921. X2-ISTRATI Panaït. Tsatsa Minnka. 1931.-KIPLING Rudyard. Le Livre de la jungle. 1930. X2-KIPLING Rudyard. Le Second livre de la jungle. 1930 X2-KIPLING Rudyard. Les Bâtisseurs de ponts. 1935. X2 -LEMONNIER Camille. Au cœur frais de la forêt. 1922.-LORRAIN Jean. Monsieur de Phocas. Astarté. 1922. X2-LOTI Pierre. Mon frère Yves. 1928. X2-LOUŸS Pierre. Psyché. 1935. X2-MAUROIS André. Ariel ou la vie de Shelley. 1932. X2-MIRBEAU Octave. Le Calvaire. 1928.-MIRBEAU Octave. Le Jardin des supplices. 1923. X2-MIRBEAU Octave. Le Journal d’une femme de chambre. 1932. -MIRBEAU Octave. Sébastien Roch. 1926. -MONTHERLANT Henry de. Les Bestiaires. 1926. X3-MONTFORT Eugène. Un Cœur vierge. 1926.-PERGAUD Louis. De goupil à Margot. 1925. -PERGAUD Louis. Le Roman de Miraut chien de chasse. 1928.-PERGAUD Louis. La Guerre des boutons. 1927.-PHILIPPE Charles-Louis. Marie Donadieu. 1921.-RACHILDE. Portrait d’hommes. 1929. -RÉGNIER Henri de. L’Escapade. 1931. X2-RÉGNIER Henri de. Les Rencontres de Monsieur de Bréot. 1930.-ROLLAND Romain. Colas Breugnon. 1927. -ROUQUETTE Louis-Frédéric. L’Ile d’enfer. 1924.-SAVIGNON André. Filles de la pluie. 1934.-SUDERMANN Hermann. Le Chemin des chats. 1924-TILLIER Claude. Belle-plante et cornelius. 1921.-THARAUD Jérome et Jean. Dingley l’illustre écrivain. 1920. -THARAUD Jérôme et Jean. L’Ombre de la croix. 1932. X2-VALLÈS Jules. Le Bachelier. 1921. -VALLÈS Jules. L’Enfant. 1920.-VALLÈS Jules. Les Réfractaires. 1930. X2 -VALLÈS Jules. L’Insurgé. 1923. -WILDE Oscar. Le Portrait de Dorian Gray. 1920.-WHITE Stewart Edward. Terres de silence. 1922.-ZOLA Émile. La Bête humaine. 1924. -ZOLA Émile. La Faute de l’abbé Mouret. 1922. Tout commence en 1919 pour beaucoup la révolution apportée par les Editions MORNAY fut l'utilisation systématique de l'illustration pour les ouvrages édités par cette maison.Il faut savoir que jusqu'alors l'illustration était réservée aux editions dites "de Luxe" qualificatif qui indiquait à la fois un soin tout particulier apporté à l'édition à la composition mais aussi un prix élevé qui ne permettait pas à tous d'acquerir ces ouvrages et les réservés ainsi aux classes les plus aisées de la société.En ce début de XXeme siécle un certain nombre de maison d'édition se lancérent sur le créneau de ce que l'on appela le livre de "demi-luxe" eut égard aux prix plus modéré pratiqué pour ces ouvrages. Ouvrages qui pour autant permettaient de découvrir des auteurs de tout premier ordre et étaient imprimé avec une attention toute particuliére sur des velins de qualité. Pour autant les illustrations n'étaient qu'exception dans ce genre d'edition.Antoinette et Georges MORNAY ont pensés une organisation qui allait bien au-delà de ce "coté visible de l'iceberg" que fut le recours permanent aux illustrateurs. Leur concept de maison d'edition etait global et trés "marketing" dirions nous aujourd'hui :- Prix de vente trés bas augmentant néanmoins au fil des années avec le succés mais qui n'acceptait aucun compris tant sur la qualité de l'impression papier gravure etc. que sur le choix des auteurs et des illustrateurs .- Création d'un Service de Presse qui par les livres offert aux journalistes donna aux Editions MORNAY une publicité non négligeable.- Campagne de publicité pouvant être de grande envergure Article de Maurice CONSTANTIN-MEYER sur Maria Chapdelaine dans l'Illustration de NOEL 1931De tout cela il nous reste aujourd'hui un formidable ensemble de textes et d'auteurs comprenant 112 ouvrages edités de 1919 à 1935 qui retrace l'évolutions de ces editions du livre illustré moderne : des bois gravé en noir jusqu'aux aquarelles au pochoir. Paris: Editions Mornay, 1919-1935. paperback
1930rif. 549Paris Javal & Bourdeaux 1930 LE DOUARIN In-4(340X260mm) en feuilles, couverture illustrée. (Boîte-étui).
1913rif. 135262London: Macmillan & Company 1913-38. The Bombay edition of Rudyard Kipling's collected works. Octavo 31 volumes bound in full morocco by Riviere & Son gilt titles to the spine gilt tooling and ruling to the spine front and rear panels raised bands inner dentelles top edge gilt marbled endpapers. One of 1050 sets with volume one signed by Rudyard Kipling. In fine condition. A very sharp set. The works of Rudyard Kipling contains his poetry novels stories travel writings childrens tales military tales and essays. Kipling in 1907 became the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize. Macmillan & Company hardcover
1902rif. 138vo. Publisher's full red cloth decoratively stamped in black and white and lettered in white. First edition. Magnificent copy in its original illustrated cardboard very fresh. Originally written for his daughter Josephine there are twelve such stories all charmingly illustrated by Kipling himself. There we find in particular the famous story of The Elephant's Child. Macmillan hardcover
1903rif. 154195London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903. Magnificent illustrations for Kipling's classic and considered by some to be the finest book illustrations ever published First edition sole impression. Macmillan issued this sumptuous portfolio at five guineas advertising the illustrations as reproductions "in colour from the Original Drawings in the highest style of Lithography". The 16 watercolours had been exhibited at the Dutch Gallery in London and were subsequently incorporated in reduced format into Macmillan's 1908 edition of The Jungle Book. The illustrations rank among the Detmold brothers' most celebrated work. A modern study of British book illustration describes the series as a "masterpiece of Edwardian era" singling out Shere Khan in the Jungle for its synthesis of Japanese pictorial influence anatomical observation and elaborate detail. Quoting Rodney Engen's study of the golden age of illustration it notes how the brothers' understanding of nature enabled them to create the "mythology and harshness of the natural world". Folio. 16 coloured chromolithograph prints on thin card sheet sizes: 330 × 430 mm tipped onto white board with grey window mounts mount sizes: 393 × 545 mm with cover sheet to each illustration providing the title and a short extract from the book. Original green cloth chemise front cover lettered and with illustration in gilt containing title page contents leaf and 16 loose prints. Housed in a custom grey cloth folding box. Chemise worn with loss front cover detached bookplate removed lacking ties occasional chips and tears to extremities of cover sheets light browning to sheets fold to title page and contents leaf strengthened prints bright and unfaded; a good set. Nicholas Alfrey & Richard Verdi Charles Maurice and Edward Julius Detmold: A Centenary Exhibition 1983; Rodney Engen The Age of Enchantment 2007; Iain MacPhail "The Detmold Twins" The Book Collector Autumn 2024 pp. 48193; Tessa Morris-Suzuki Nature War and the Art of the Detmold Twins 2026; David Alan Richards Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliography 2010. hardcover
1896rif. 005002London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1896 / 1895 1896. THE JUNGLE BOOK SIGNED WITH A 4 LINE QUOTE. 2 vols. Fourth & Second Editions 7-1/2" x 5-3/8" Kipling crossed out his name and signed above an additional 4 line quote to the title-page which reads "Now these are the laws of the Jungle and many & mighty are they: But the head & the heart of the Law and the haunch and hump is - Obey!" illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling & W. H. Drake. Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped blue cloth all edges gilt. General handling minor rubbing to head and foot of spines and back corners bookplate to front endpaper of the Second Jungle Book overall GOOD copies. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1896 / 1895 hardcover
1426rif. 115765Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc 1914-26. Signed limited edition of Rudyard Kipling's collected works. Octavo 27 volumes. Bound in full morocco gilt titles to the spine gilt tooling and ruling to the spine front and rear panels raised bands inner dentelles top edge gilt marbled endpapers. One of 1050 sets with volume 1 signed by Rudyard Kipling. In fine condition. An exceptional set. The works of Rudyard Kipling contains his poetry novels stories travel writings childrens tales military tales and essays. Kipling in 1907 became the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover
1897rif. 140948638London: The Macmillan and Company Limited 1897. First British Edition. Near Fine. First British edition first printing. Signed by Rudyard Kipling on the title page. viii 245 pp. illustrated with wood engravings. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with pictorial stamping in gilt all edges gilt black endpapers; lacking the exceedingly rare dust jacket. Near Fine with sunning to spine light rubbing and soiling to cloth and minimal mottling to cloth over rear board. Hinges starting with webbing exposed at rear hinge contents lightly toned faint foxing to prelims and margins. Housed in a custom chemise slipcase blue cloth over quarter blue morocco titled in gilt somewhat rubbed with foxing to paper lining of chemise. Livingston 137 Martindell 68. Rudyard Kipling wrote Captains Courageous during the years he lived in Vermont with his young family in a house he designed to resemble a ship. The Dr. James Conland to whom the American edition is dedicated was the family physician whose stories of his time in a Massachusetts fishing fleet inspired this bildungsroman about a millionaire's son who learns the value of hard work at sea. The novel drew praise from Teddy Roosevelt and the 1937 film adaptation won Spencer Tracy an Oscar for his portrayal of a kindly fisherman. The first British edition slightly preceded by the first American edition was issued by Macmillan in pretty gift binding reflecting the status Kipling had already achieved as a writer. Signed copies are rare. The Macmillan and Company Limited unknown
1937rif. 7813London: The Macmillan Co 1937. The Sussex Edition. Very Good . One of 575 numbered sets signed by the author in the first volume. Leaves measuring 240 x 160 mm with the set occupying 141 cm 55 in of shelf space. A Very Good set. Bound for the publisher by James Burn & Co. in full reddish-brown Niger morocco. Double ruled in gilt. Spine in six compartments with raised bands. Top edge gilt. Sunning and speckling to some spines and some rubbing to raised bands and edges. Very clean throughout. Printed in Edinburgh by R&R Clark Ltd. on handmade paper. The Sussex Edition which has become the most desirable collected edition of Kipling's works was edited by Kipling himself and including two volumes of previously uncollected prose. The edition published the year after Kipling's death was intended as a complete retrospective on Kipling's career and the definitive edition of his works. The superbly produced set of course includes Kipling's most lauded fiction - The Jungle Book Kim and Just So Stories - as well as his poems and nonfiction capturing the scope of his literary output. A contemporary review in the Times Literary Supplement lauded the production: "The publishers are justified in the use of the epithet 'superb' to describe this edition. The fine hand-made paper and Bembo type are equally satisfactory but perhaps the binding is still more notable. It is.Niger leather lettered and simply ornamented in gold. The volumes.are comparatively slim and so easy to hold; and they have an air of durability and of being meant for reading as well as for keeping which is not always the case with éditions de luxe." Very Good . The Macmillan Co unknown
1937rif. 7813London: The Macmillan Co 1937. The Sussex Edition. Very Good . One of 575 numbered sets signed by the author in the first volume. Leaves measuring 240 x 160 mm with the set occupying 141 cm 55 in of shelf space. A Very Good set. Bound for the publisher by James Burn & Co. in full reddish-brown Niger morocco. Double ruled in gilt. Spine in six compartments with raised bands. Top edge gilt. Sunning and speckling to some spines and some rubbing to raised bands and edges. Very clean throughout. Printed in Edinburgh by R&R Clark Ltd. on handmade paper. The Sussex Edition which has become the most desirable collected edition of Kipling's works was edited by Kipling himself and including two volumes of previously uncollected prose. The edition published the year after Kipling's death was intended as a complete retrospective on Kipling's career and the definitive edition of his works. The superbly produced set of course includes Kipling's most lauded fiction - The Jungle Book Kim and Just So Stories - as well as his poems and nonfiction capturing the scope of his literary output. A contemporary review in the Times Literary Supplement lauded the production: "The publishers are justified in the use of the epithet 'superb' to describe this edition. The fine hand-made paper and Bembo type are equally satisfactory but perhaps the binding is still more notable. It is.Niger leather lettered and simply ornamented in gold. The volumes.are comparatively slim and so easy to hold; and they have an air of durability and of being meant for reading as well as for keeping which is not always the case with éditions de luxe." Very Good . The Macmillan Co unknown books
1897rif. 140948638London: The Macmillan and Company Limited 1897. First British Edition. Near Fine. First British edition first printing. Signed by Rudyard Kipling on the title page. viii 245 pp. illustrated with wood engravings. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with pictorial stamping in gilt all edges gilt black endpapers; lacking the exceedingly rare dust jacket. Near Fine with sunning to spine light rubbing and soiling to cloth and minimal mottling to cloth over rear board. Hinges starting with webbing exposed at rear hinge contents lightly toned faint foxing to prelims and margins. Housed in a custom chemise slipcase blue cloth over quarter blue morocco titled in gilt somewhat rubbed with foxing to paper lining of chemise. Livingston 137 Martindell 68. Rudyard Kipling wrote Captains Courageous during the years he lived in Vermont with his young family in a house he designed to resemble a ship. The Dr. James Conland to whom the American edition is dedicated was the family physician whose stories of his time in a Massachusetts fishing fleet inspired this bildungsroman about a millionaire's son who learns the value of hard work at sea. The novel drew praise from Teddy Roosevelt and the 1937 film adaptation won Spencer Tracy an Oscar for his portrayal of a kindly fisherman. The first British edition slightly preceded by the first American edition was issued by Macmillan in pretty gift binding reflecting the status Kipling had already achieved as a writer. Signed copies are rare. The Macmillan and Company Limited unknown books
1426rif. 132739New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1914-26. Handsome Stikeman binding The Seven Seas Edition number 435 of 1050 copies signed by the author on the half-title of vol. I. This was issued by Doubleday as the counterpart to the Bombay Edition published by Macmillan in London. A particularly attractive set beautifully bound by the workshop of Henry Stikeman one of the leading American binders of the period. 27 vols octavo 237 x 161 mm. Title pages printed in red and black. Contemporary burgundy morocco by Stikeman spines gilt lettered direct compartments with double fillet panels enclosing trefoil foilate motifs on a field of gilt dots sawtooth pattern on the raised bands sides with double fillet frame enclosing panel of trailing stems and repeated trefoils and dots gilt ruled turn-ins marbled endpapers top edges gilt. A fine set. Richards D15; Stewart pp. 573-4. hardcover
rif. 95780Lausanne Gonin et Cie 1930. . limited edtion number 17 of 20 hors commerce out of a total of 160 copies 4 vols; 4to 31.5 x 26.5 cm. 276 pp.; 272 pp. with 15 colour plates including frontispiece and 15 chapter heading vignette illustrations and initials all cut in wood and printed in colour by F. L. Schmied with 15 supplementary plates not called for in index and two extra suites of all the illustrations one in colour one in monochrome; original wrappers protected by chemises and slipcase; slipcase slightly rubbed with one joint starting to split. with 15 supplementary plates and two extra suites of all the illustrations. Set in the period between the second and third Afghan Wars therefore 1893-1898 Kim was first published in 1900-1901 with this French translation first appearing in 1902. Unfolding against the backdrop of the political conflict between Russia and Great Britain in Central Asia the novel popularised the term 'The Great Game'. The charming illustrations were engraved and printed by the painter and printer François-Louis Schmied 18731941 who was of Swiss origin. After attracting fame with his engravings for a 1919 edition of The Jungle Book Schmied turned his attention to producing expensive luxurious works in limited editions. Buyssens no 43. Lausanne, Gonin et Cie, 1930. unknown
rif. 150490Rare print of Rudyard Kipling's poem Being a Man more commonly referred to as "If-". One page typed. Boldly signed by author Cormac McCarthy at the bottom right corner. Cormac McCarthy 1933–2023 was an American novelist whose stark prose and often violent themes earned him recognition as one of the most influential literary voices of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His best-known works include Blood Meridian 1985 regarded as a masterpiece of the American West and frontier violence and the Border Trilogy—All the Pretty Horses 1992 The Crossing 1994 and Cities of the Plain 1998—which brought him both critical acclaim and commercial success with All the Pretty Horses winning the National Book Award. Later No Country for Old Men 2005 and The Road 2006 achieved bestseller status with the latter earning him the Pulitzer Prize and cementing his reputation as a chronicler of human survival and moral ambiguity. In near fine condition. The piece measures 6 inches by 7.5 inches. Housed in a hand-made cloth folder by the Harcourt Bindery. "If—" first appeared in the "Brother Square Toes" chapter of the book Rewards and Fairies a collection of Kipling's poetry and short-story fiction published in 1910. In his posthumously published autobiography Something of Myself 1937 Kipling said that in writing the poem he was inspired by the character of Leander Starr Jameson leader of the failed Jameson Raid against the Transvaal Republic to overthrow the Boer Government of Paul Kruger. The failure of that mercenary coup d'état aggravated the political tensions between Great Britain and the Boers which led to the Second Boer War 1899–1902.As an evocation of Victorian-era stoicism—the "stiff upper lip" self-discipline which popular culture rendered into a British national virtue and character trait "If—" remains a cultural touchstone. hardcover
rif. 73662London: Macmillan and co. 1901. Adventure thriller FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 21 x 14cm pp.8 413 3. With 10 black and white illustrated plates. Publisher's red cloth gilt titles to spine and gilt elephant Ganesha motif stamped to upper cover top edge gilt. With the extremely scarce dust-wrapper printed in red on grey paper stock. This is the correct jacket listing fourteen 'uniform edition' titles starting with 'Kim' without printing statement and ending with The Naulahka. Contents clean no inscriptions light spotting to endpapers bump at crown jacket gently toned with light chipping to top edge and a long archivally repaired tear to rear panel extending to spine. Shows extremely well housed in a leather-spined cloth clamshell. Kipling's famous Indian adventure and one of the author's most enduring thrillers. Basis for the classic 1950 movie starring Erroll Flynn and Dean Stockwell. An early spy novel which undoubtedly influenced Ian Fleming and a whole generation of spy writers; the British spy Harold 'Kim' Philby was so nicknamed by his father after elements from this text. This is novelist Michael Sadleir's copy with his elegant oval nameplate to pastedown. Sadleir 1888-195 was a noted collector of Victorian fiction a nineteenth century bibliographer close friend of Ian Fleming and author most notably of the grimy backstreet story Fanny by Gaslight 1940. His remarkable collection of Victorian fiction now at the UCLA Department of Special Collections was the subject of a catalogue published in 1951. Richards A174. London: Macmillan and co., 1901 unknown
rif. 6863Lausanne, Gonin et Cie, 1930-32. 2 vol. in-4°, 31,5 x 26 cm et 1 un volume in-4° [31 x 26,5 cm] supplémentaire pour les suites. - Tome I : 267-[1] pp, (1) f. de table des illustrations - Tome II : 263 pp, (1) page, (1) f. blanc, (2) ff. de table des illustrations et achevé d'imprimer, (1) f. blanc. Reliures plein box anthracite pour les deux volumes de texte illustrés, dos lisses avec auteur, artiste et millésime dorés, titre mosaïqué de box rouge serti dor à la chinoise, contre-plats et gardes de papier bois, toutes tranches dorées, couvertures et dos conservés, étuis bordés et papier bois, chemises de même box et papier bois, titrées à la chinoise à loser rouge. Et un volume de Suite(s) : Reliure demi-box à bandes, dos lisse titré comme les chemises des deux volumes de texte, plats de papier bois, contre-plats et gardes de papier bois, tête dorée, étui bordé et papier bois.Reliures non signées mais de remarquable facture. Le titrage a été réalisé par les Ateliers Devauchelle [Paris]. Quelques frottements sans gravité aux étuis, minime frottement sur une des coupes du Tome I, 2 coins inférieurs légèrement comprimés au Tome 2, coins très légèrement émoussés au volume de Suite(s), quelques taches claires au dos des illustrations de la suite en noir dans ce volume. Magnifique ouvrage Art Déco illustré de 56 compositions d'après François-Louis SCHMIED dont un frontispice (relié ici dans le second tome), 14 planches hors-texte, 15 grands en-têtes, 15 lettrines, 12 culs-de-lampe dont un à lachevé dimprimer, lensemble gravé sur bois par Philippe Gonin. Tirage limité à 140 exemplaires sur papier Japon, numérotés et signés par léditeur (et 20 H.C. numérotés en chiffres). Celui-ci est un des 100 exemplaires du tirage normal (n°83) mais considérablement enrichi de suites montées sur onglet au sein dun 3ème volume. Il comporte : - une suite en noir de toutes les illustrations tirées sur vélin (30 planches) - une suite dessais et décompositions de couleurs de certaines illustrations, la plupart remontées sur papier japon ( 35 planches) - une seconde suite dessais et décompositions de couleurs sur papier japon de toutes les illustrations (30 planches) - une suite en couleurs sur Japon nacré de toutes les illustrations(30 planches) En 1932, F.-L. Schmied compléta l'édition en dessinant une série supplémentaire de 15 planches, intitulée Suite pour Kim, portant le nombre d'illustrations à 45. Elle fut tirée à 160 exemplaires sur Japon. Cette suite est ici directement insérée au sein des 2 volumes de textes. Magnifique exemplaire de cet ouvrage magistral dans le plus pur style Art Déco propre à François-Louis Schmied.
rif. 6863Lausanne, Gonin et Cie, 1930-32. 2 vol. in-4°, 31,5 x 26 cm et 1 un volume in-4° [31 x 26,5 cm] supplémentaire pour les suites. - Tome I : 267-[1] pp, (1) f. de table des illustrations - Tome II : 263 pp, (1) page, (1) f. blanc, (2) ff. de table des illustrations et achevé d'imprimer, (1) f. blanc. Reliures plein box anthracite pour les deux volumes de texte illustrés, dos lisses avec auteur, artiste et millésime dorés, titre mosaïqué de box rouge serti dor à la chinoise, contre-plats et gardes de papier bois, toutes tranches dorées, couvertures et dos conservés, étuis bordés et papier bois, chemises de même box et papier bois, titrées à la chinoise à loser rouge. Et un volume de Suite(s) : Reliure demi-box à bandes, dos lisse titré comme les chemises des deux volumes de texte, plats de papier bois, contre-plats et gardes de papier bois, tête dorée, étui bordé et papier bois.Reliures non signées mais de remarquable facture. Le titrage a été réalisé par les Ateliers Devauchelle [Paris]. Quelques frottements sans gravité aux étuis, minime frottement sur une des coupes du Tome I, 2 coins inférieurs légèrement comprimés au Tome 2, coins très légèrement émoussés au volume de Suite(s), quelques taches claires au dos des illustrations de la suite en noir dans ce volume. Magnifique ouvrage Art Déco illustré de 56 compositions d'après François-Louis SCHMIED dont un frontispice (relié ici dans le second tome), 14 planches hors-texte, 15 grands en-têtes, 15 lettrines, 12 culs-de-lampe dont un à lachevé dimprimer, lensemble gravé sur bois par Philippe Gonin. Tirage limité à 140 exemplaires sur papier Japon, numérotés et signés par léditeur (et 20 H.C. numérotés en chiffres). Celui-ci est un des 100 exemplaires du tirage normal (n°83) mais considérablement enrichi de suites montées sur onglet au sein dun 3ème volume. Il comporte : - une suite en noir de toutes les illustrations tirées sur vélin (30 planches) - une suite dessais et décompositions de couleurs de certaines illustrations, la plupart remontées sur papier japon ( 35 planches) - une seconde suite dessais et décompositions de couleurs sur papier japon de toutes les illustrations (30 planches) - une suite en couleurs sur Japon nacré de toutes les illustrations(30 planches) En 1932, F.-L. Schmied compléta l'édition en dessinant une série supplémentaire de 15 planches, intitulée Suite pour Kim, portant le nombre d'illustrations à 45. Elle fut tirée à 160 exemplaires sur Japon. Cette suite est ici directement insérée au sein des 2 volumes de textes. Magnifique exemplaire de cet ouvrage magistral dans le plus pur style Art Déco propre à François-Louis Schmied.
