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1998Best.-Nr. 324716San Francisco: Arion Press 1998. Limited. hardcover. fine. Introduction by Thomas Pinney. Illustrations by Vincent Perez. Thin 8vo linen with wrap-around paper label. San Francisco: Arion Press 1998. Limited Edition. Fine. Kipling's only science fiction story. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the artist. Arion Press unknown books
1890Best.-Nr. 22293New York: Harper & Brothers 1890. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; original printed wrappers in custom blue cloth double slipcase gilt-lettered spine; xii1822adspp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Wrappers chipped and worn along extremities with several shallow losses not affecting text contemporary ownership signature to upper wrapper spine quite darkened and cracked with small losses; interior near fine. An About Very Good copy of this fragile piece. Harper's Franklin Square Library no. 680. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 140946715Easthapmton MA: The Chamberlain Press 1976. Limited Edition. Fine. Limited edition. Number 21 of 75 copies signed by Sarah Chamberlain. Bound in publisher's marbled boards with stamped leather spine label. Trivial rubbing at extremities else Fine. An endearing fine press edition of Kipling's fable with six tipped-in illustrations by Chamberlain. The Chamberlain Press unknown books
1897Best.-Nr. 05447CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS" Macmillan 1897 first edition gold-gilt lettering and art work on spine somewhat dulled some rubbing to spine extremities and corner tips some light scattered foxing else a tight bright vg copy with unbroken inner hinges and all edges in gold-gilt as called for with bright gold pictorial stamping on deep blue cloth on the front cover. A most handsome book. Illustrated. The source book for the film of the same name. Macmillan hardcover books
1890Best.-Nr. 15916THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW Lovell 1890 first American edition slight wear to corner tips and spine extremities else a vg copy. This collection of ghost stories is Kipling's second book published in the United States. Lovell unknown books
1891Best.-Nr. 05445MINE OWN PEOPLE Lovell Coryell 1891 first American edition a vg copy with a long introduction by Henry James. Among the first of the authors books to be published in the U.S. While this copy does indeed have a Table of Contents page that is placed after the printed facsimile letter in Kipling's hand and a title page as Lovell Coryell & Co. along with their address and no date printed at the base of same and furthermore has a binding where the base of the cloth spine is blank that is not stamped with any publisher information all which seem to be indices that suggest that this is a later issue this copy not only has a printed page following the half-title page which reads in total "This edition of my collected writings is issued in America with my cordial sanction / Rudyard Kipling / London March 1891" but also has the portrait frontispiece which is said NOT to be part of the Lovell and Coryell issue !!! Also it is not quite clear as to why the Lovell and Coryell issue does not "precede" the United States Book Company issue if in fact the United States Book Company is the successor "to" the John W. Lovell Company. Lovell, Coryell hardcover books
1893Best.-Nr. 10900TRUE FIRST EDITION TOM SAWYER ABROAD in ST. NICHOLAS Magazine 1893-1895 Century first edition 4 Volumes Volumes 21 & 22 Parts 1 & 2 of each some wear to spine extremities and corner tips else a good to very good set in the publishers original highly decorated cloth. Also contains several EPISODES OF Palmer Cox's THE BROWNIES the first 4 stories from Kiplings JUNGLE BOOK Rikkii-Tikki-Tavi Tiger! Tiger! Mowgli's Brothers Toomai of the Elephants along with Howard Pyle's JACK BALLISTERS FORTUNE complete along with HERO TALES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY complete by Theodore Roosevelt et.al. A wonderful grouping. Century hardcover books
1893Best.-Nr. 223301Octavo. 6 pages publisher's advertisements at end. Original gilt stamped blue cloth. Inner hinges cracking else fine. No signatures or bookplates. Enclosed in a 1/2 red morocco slipcase. Stewart 118. Livingston 100. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1906Best.-Nr. 006313New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1906. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Arthur Rackham. 8vo 8 277 1pp. Beautiful First Printing of the First American Edition published two months prior to the English Edition. Bound in original pictorial green cloth with titles and viking ship vignette stamped in black gilt on the front board and spine. t.e.g. Four colored plates by Arthur Rackham present which were not present in the English Edition. Housed in a red cloth-covered chemise and matching quarter red morocco and red cloth slipcase. Bookplate on front paste-down.of popular American Author George Barr McCutcheon best known for the "Graustark" novels as well as"Brewster's Millions" made into several films of the same name. Bookseller ticket of Lauriat's of Boston on ffep. Square tight and clean throughout. Mild rubbing to hinges edges and tips. A hint of off-setting on the ffep from the bookplate but quite minor. Very well-preserved. A most handsome collectable copy. Doubleday Page & Co hardcover books
1899Best.-Nr. 322273New York: Doubleday McClure 1899. First Seperate edition one of 100 copies printed on hand-made paper. Portrait. 24pp. 12mo. Grey borads. Spine chipped at top of spine. First Seperate edition one of 100 copies printed on hand-made paper. Portrait. 24pp. 12mo. With a signed portrait tipped in after title-page signed in margin "Very sincerely yours Rudyard Kipling. Doubleday, McClure unknown books
1909Best.-Nr. 30659New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1909. First American Edition. 30 color plates by W. Heath Robinson. 1 vols. 4to. Gilt green cloth. Spine a little faded else very good. Robinson W. Heath. First American Edition. 30 color plates by W. Heath Robinson. 1 vols. 4to. Doubleday, Page & Co unknown books
1899Best.-Nr. 90256London: Daily Mail 1899. Quarto printed on white satin. Oblong folio in triptych form opening to six panels with portrait of Kipling to cover reproduction of a sketch by R. Caton Woodville "A gentleman in kharki" at center panel; Kipling's poem is reproduced from manuscript on the first and third interior panels. A beautifully-preserved example a trifle aged at margins but free of perforations or loss; Very Good to Near Fine. A fundraising souvenir one of several versions of this text produced to benefit families of British soldiers in the Boer War. Copies printed on satin were hawked by programme girls throughout the theatres of London for the princely sum of One Guinea. Ours is the special issue noted by Richards produced for the actress Lilly Langtry and offered for sale at the Garrick Theatre on Nov. 24 1899. The rear panel bears the printed legend: "Presented by Mrs. Lilly Langtry on the occasion of the 100th performance of the "Degenerates" at the Garrick Theatre." Richards notes that a few copies were produced with a silk fringe not present on our copy. RICHARDS A147. Daily Mail unknown books
1917Best.-Nr. 333373London: Macmillan 1917. First edition. viii 442 4 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket in red cloth slipcase and chemise. First edition. viii 442 4 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stewart 408 Macmillan unknown books
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
1918Best.-Nr. 224241Garden City New York Doubleday Page & Company 1918. 1918. First American edition issued for copyright purposes. Original stiff cream wrappers stamped in dark green. Enclosed in a 1/2 red morocco slipcase with folding chemise. Large bookplate of B. George Ulizio on the chemise. No signatures or bookplates on the pamphlet. Fine. Stewart 461. F. Soft cover. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918. paperback books
1890Best.-Nr. 530764New York: United States Book Company 1890. Hardcover. Fine. First American edition boards issue. Red beveled cloth gilt. Attractive early bookplate a touch rubbing on the boards else fine. United States Book Company hardcover books
1918Best.-Nr. 332644London: Macmillan 1918. hardcover. very good. 21 volumes 8vo red cloth with gold emblem on front covers. London: Macmillan 1918. Very Good . Macmillan unknown books
1892Best.-Nr. 157451892. London: William Heinemann 1892. 8 pp undated ads. Original salmon cloth decorated in brown. First Edition of Kipling's only serious attempt at literary collaboration. A Vermonter Wolcott Balestier was an American author and publisher's agent in London; in fact in 1890 he and Heinemann had founded the Heinemann & Balestier publishing house in Leipzig books in English for the Continental market. He had written about the American "Wild West" and Kipling of course had written about India. THE NAULAHKA a misspelling of "naulakha" which in Hindu means nine lakhs i.e. 900000 rupees is an odd tale that combines these two environments into "A Story of East and West" -- a man from a Western boom-town attempts to get possession of a fabulous jewel in India. In December 1891 six months before this was published Balestier suddenly died at age 29 of typhoid fever in Dresden. Kipling had met Wolcott's sister Carrie and just a month after Wolcott died she became Kipling's wife; the Kiplings built their first home in Vermont and in memory of her brother named it "Naulakha" -- spelled correctly. The newlywed Kiplings lived in Vermont for four years toward the end of which Kipling wrote CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS about the Massachusetts fishing fleet; but it all came crashing down when Wolcott's brother Beatty was arrested for assaulting Kipling -- there was an altercation after Kipling had created a little garden on land he owned but had allowed Beatty to hay: the Kiplings fled to England. This is an unusually clean copy just about fine a hint of rubbing at the spine ends; such condition is scarce for this book in view of its soil-prone salmon-colored binding. Richards A66; Stewart 105; Livingston 85. unknown books
1891Best.-Nr. 369677New York: M.J. Ivers & Co 1891. First edition first issue wrappers with Nassau Street address. Ads for Cushings Manual on verso of front page rear wrapper with ad for Walter Baker & Co's Breakfast Cocoa on recto and Standard Recitations by Best Authors No. 4 on verso a variant of this verso not mentioned in Richards. 160 pp. In printed wrappers. Some wear to front wrapper loss to foot of spine some spots of loss to title page where pieces have stuck to half title likely when wet. First edition first issue wrappers with Nassau Street address. Ads for Cushings Manual on verso of front page rear wrapper with ad for Walter Baker & Co's Breakfast Cocoa on recto and Standard Recitations by Best Authors No. 4 on verso a variant of this verso not mentioned in Richards. 160 pp. Uncommon as such. Richards A54; Prideaux III 10 M.J. Ivers & Co unknown books
Best.-Nr. 67981Np. nd. The photograph is a reprint of the 1892 Bourne & Shepherd portrait of Kipling in formal pose with cigar in his left hand. Original signature in ink on 4.5 x 8 cm slip of cream paper. Matted with a 12 x 11 cm glossy copy print of a portrait of Kipling. Fine. unknown books
1889Best.-Nr. 49958Allahabad India: Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co 1889. Good. Allahabad India: Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1889. First Indian Edition. Slim octavo 21.5cm; publisher's white pictorial wrappers illustrated by the Mayo School of Art Lahore; 4iiii106viipp. Wrappers toned and chipped along spine edge with some glue repair to the latter though top half of wrapper split along spine edge. Good overall internally clean and sound. Issued as A.H. Wheeler & Co.'s Indian Railway Library no. 3. Collection of eight short stories all relating to the lives of native Indians rather than their colonizers. All but one of these stories first appeared in 1888 in the periodical The Week's News. Livingston 34. Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co unknown books
1888Best.-Nr. 49973V.p.: v.i. 1888. Very Good. V.p.: v.i. 1888-1890. Mixed Editions see below. Four volumes bound in one. Octavos 21.5cm; contemporary parchment over marbled paper-covered boards crimson gilt spine piece top edge gilt marbled endpapers original pictorial wrappers of each volume bound in. Parchment dust-soiled light wear to boards else Very Good and sound. Contemporary armorial ownership ex libris of an Elizabeth Armitage to front pastedown. Contents as follows: 1. Soldiers Three. London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1890. Fifth Edition. 93pp. 2. Wee Willie Winkie. Allahabad / London: Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1890. First UK Edition with slightly reduced wrapper design to fit in the UK price one shilling. 96pp. Richards A36 3. In Black and White. Allahabad / London: Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1890. First UK Edition with slightly reduced wrapper design to fit in the UK price one shilling. 96pp. Richards A35 4. The Story of the Gadsbys: A Tale without a Plot. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler 1888. First Edition. 85pp. Issued as A.H. Wheeler & Co.'s Indian Railway Library no. 2. Richards A15. v.i. unknown books
1891Best.-Nr. 49457London: A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston & Company 1891. Very Good. London: A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston & Company 1891. First English Edition. Slim octavo 21.5cm; publisher's green-grey pictorial wrappers; 96pp. A few small shallow chips to wrapper margins foxing to final few leaves else Very Good and sound nicer than often encountered. Kipling's oppressive novella of a man's sleepless night spent walking the streets of Lahore. This edition part of A.H. Wheeler & Co's Indian Railway Library No. XIV preceded by an Allahabad printing. Livingston 71. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low, Marston & Company unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 156674Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1939. Vintage studio still photograph of director William Wellman and a camera crew filming on location in New Mexico for the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1891 novel by Rudyard Kipling. An artist whose sight is failing struggles to complete his final painting while also grieving his broken relationship with his childhood sweetheart. Shot on location in Abiquiu Santa Fe and Espanola New Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1920Best.-Nr. 226057Garden City New York Doubleday Page & Company 1920. 1920. First American edition. 8vo. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt black and blind. Dust jacket unclipped; small chips. Very good. 303 pages. Bookplate of actor Wallace Reid and stamp of Earl Theisen. Livingston 455. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920. hardcover books