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1896Best.-Nr. 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
1893Best.-Nr. 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
1892Best.-Nr. ABE-1562616554532Metheun 1892 London Iast UK edition boards faded and worn contents good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Metheun hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 115400Roycrofters 1899. Hardcover. Fine/No jacket. #775/950cc signed by Elbert Hubbard and binder Bernice Lofland. Leatherbound in folded case and slipcase. Roycrofters hardcover
1894Best.-Nr. 003522New York: The Century Co. 1894. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. hardcover 1894c.18931894 in green embossed boards with gold gilt title decorations eighteenth thousand as stated under publisher colophon on title page 303 pages with all illustrations as listed present single numerical code under last line starting with 1 on page 1 ending with 19 on page 293 interesting period bookplate applied inside front cover showing crest of arms opposite related inscription dated 1895 foxing to end papers binding lean The Century Co. hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. KIPLINGR018455George Newnes London. 1899. Eleventh edition. Octavo. pp xiv 189. Illustrations by Dudley Cleaver. Period binding of three-quarter red morocco with raised bands lettered and decorated in gilt the decorations including a bugle drum and two poppies marbled boards and endpapers. Top edge gilt.Faint mark on spine. Covers a little rubbed at edges. Very good indeed. Attractive binding. George Newnes, London. hardcover
1892Best.-Nr. 1777992598MEPMethuen & Co 1892. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1892. First Edition. 208 pages. Contemporary rebind: half brown leather with brown cloth. With the bookplate of Colonel S H Banks to FEP. Formerly of 'Kamptee Public Rooms Library' perhaps from the British military base there. The poems deal with grim realities of late-Victorian military life - a subject that readers at Kamptee would have found very familiar. 16-page publisher's catalogue to rear. Vignette of bugler to title page. Pages have slight foxing tanning and thumbing. Gutters cracked with some exposed netting. A bit shaky with loose binding thread and loosening front matter. Pencil marks to FEP and both pastedown. Slightly bubbled pastedowns. Sporadic heavy stains and thumb marks text legible throughout. A few dog-eared corners. Boards have heavy edge wear: intense bumping and peeling to corners. Slightly exposed board beneath. Spine ends very crushed: loss to ends and title label. Highly scratched rubbed spotted and marked especially the leather; slight ring mark to Methuen & Co hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 755P17London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1899. First edition. Leather. Near Fine. 7.5" by 5". None. A finely bound first edition second printing of Rudyard Kipling's school-based anthology showing the juvenile exploits of boys in boarding schools. The first edition second impression of this work published the month after the first impression.In a smart half calf fine binding.A collection of short stories set in boarding schools looking at the lives of the adolescent boys living at the schools and their juvenile adventures. They were less childish than other school tales with elements of bullying violence and revenge.Rudyard Kipling is best known for his novel 'The Jungle Book' however he was a prolific writer of poems novels and short stories. Being born in India inspired much of his work and he went on to become one of the most popular writers of his time. Bound without the publisher's adverts to the rear.Bookplate of F. G. L. Whiteaway to the front pastedown. In a half calf binding with cloth to the boards. Externally near fine. Spine is a little faded. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1898Best.-Nr. 1222E046Roycroft East Aurora USA: Elbert Hubbard at the Roycroft Shop 1898. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 90. Very Good Plus/Near Fine. 5.75 x 9.25 inches 14.5 x 23.5 cm. Slipcase: Custom built slip case in brown buckram lined with brown card. Previous owners bookplate inside front cover. Excellent condition. Overall case condition is Near Fine. Book: First printing. One of the 950 trade copies although limitation is not stated. Limp green suede binding with yapp edges. Browning and light creasing to edges. Page edges untrimmed. Red silk pastedown endpapers. Red silk ribbon bookmark. First initial in each poem printed in blue and black. Colophon and running title printed in red. Tanning to free endpapers very clean text throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to leading blank. An unauthorised American edition. Contains a selection of poems taken from 'Departmental Ditties' and 'Barrack Room Ballads' including 'The Dipsy Chanty' The Last Chantey 'The Vampire' and 'Gunga Din'. A very nice example. Richards E1-27. Overall book condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 5.75 x 9.25 inches 14.5 x 23.5 cm. Elbert Hubbard at the Roycroft Shop hardcover
1896Best.-Nr. 5516London: Macmillan and Co 1896. First Edition 1894 4th reprint. hardback with no dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gold elephants motif on the front cover. illustrations by kiplingDrake and Frenzeny In very good condition. No inscriptions or markings. Spine faded and torn top and bottom. interior sound and clean with some age browning. 1896 Macmillan and Co hardcover
1900Best.-Nr. 028998UK: Macmillan 1900. New Edition 2nd Printing. Cloth. Very Good . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. J Lockwood Kipling. New Uniform Editions 2nd Imps 1900/1901. This new Uniform edition was used for all future Kipling works until he died. Illustrated throughout by J Lockwood Kipling. Full decorative cloth binding. Books are very good and bright. Contents good. Inscription to very foxed endpapers. More images can be taken upon request. Ref14973/16169 Macmillan hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 34602New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. 1899. First Edition. Illustrated with 8 full page illustrations on coated paper. 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. 12 310 pp. A handsome copy quite bright clean and with very little evidence of use or age. FIRST EDITION AND VERY SCARCE IN PLEASING CONDITION. The story of Kipling’s school days at Westward Ho! in Devon. Doubleday & McClure Co. hardcover
1890Best.-Nr. 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
1890Best.-Nr. 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
1898Best.-Nr. 301555London : Macmillan and Co 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges bumped and rubbed as with age. Physical description: 84 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy - Sea life. Personal narratives. London : Macmillan and Co hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 880T21London: George Newnes Limited; Methuen and Co. 1899-1900. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. A smartly bound set of volumes from English writer Rudyard Kipling with illustrations. Two volumes. Written by Rudyard Kipling an English novelist short-story writer journalist and poet known for his works the Jungle Book and Just So Stories. This set includes: Departmental Ditties and Other Verses 1899. Eleventh edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete. Includes poems such as: Delilah A Code of Morals To the Unknown Goddess The Lovers' Litany Possibilities and many others. Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses 1900. A collection of verses including: Danny Deever Fuzzy-Wuzzy Soldier Soldier Mandalay The Widow's Party Ford o' Kabul River and many others. Bound in half blue calf with blue cloth boards. Externally smart with light shelf wear and minor rubbing to the extremities. Light fading to the spine and the odd mark to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark or pencil mark. The odd spot to the endpapers. Prize bookplate to the front endpaper. Very Good Indeed George Newnes, Limited; Methuen and Co. hardcover
1891Best.-Nr. 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
1890Best.-Nr. 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
1899Best.-Nr. 652180Charles Scribner's Sons 1899. Later Printing. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. SIGNED BY RUDYARD KIPLING on title page beneath his printed name which he has lined out. A fair copy in the original plum-red cloth stamped in gilt with white lozenge on front cover top edge gilt spine faded with chips tears wear and old glue repairs and residue of old tape; tape repairs to inner hinges with some chipping to endpapers; printed bookplate with later owner's name in ink. A later owner has inscribed the title page at foot ink ink: 'Mr. Kipling made this an autographed copy in March 1925.' Issued as Writing in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling Volume I. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1894Best.-Nr. 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
1892Best.-Nr. 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
1890Best.-Nr. 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
1892Best.-Nr. 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
1891Best.-Nr. 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
1894Best.-Nr. 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