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KIPLING, [Joseph] Rudyard (1865-1936)Biblio.com

Traffics And Discoveries

réf. 73577London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1904. Short Stories / Strange Tales FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 21 x 14cm pp.2 vi; 393 23. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt elephant motif stamped to upper. Top edge gilt. With the plain typographic dust-jacket various prices affixed to spine. Toning to edges with some spotting to endpapers otherwise internally clean. Jacket toned especially to spine with moderate general wear and chipping to edges and a large loss to front panel. Various publisher's price labels to jacket spine. Rarely seen with the jacket. Very good. A quality collection of short stories including the remarkable 'Mrs. Bathurst' with its theme of destructive power and obsessive love plus the strange tale 'Wireless' which concerns spirit possession as well as the classic ghost story 'They'; an unsettling tale about a lost motorist and his encounter with a blind woman at the isolated 'House Beautiful' being a companion rather than a sequel to the earlier 'Brushwood Boy' fantasy which sees the reappearance of the characters 'Them'. Adept at short fiction Kipling penned many 'uncanny tales' some being subtle fantasies They The Brushwood Boy The Eye of Allah whilst others were more overtly supernatural or scientific romances in the manner of Edgar Allan Poe The Phantom 'Rickshaw The Mark of the Beast The Night Mail. Kipling wrote of new inventions and future wars warned of the social consequences of technological change and exerted an the most lasting influence on modern science fiction and fantasy writing according to leading SF writer Poul Anderson; indeed his stories of India with notions of an earthly alien in a strange world are the most salient predecessors of golden age sci-fi. Kipling later stressed he was 'not diving after physical experiences' although he was exposed to and described uncanny events and was much aware of the irrational premises and feelings of others; his formative professional years were spent in India a country with a widespread belief in ghosts and spirit reincarnation and at a time when matters 'psychic' were fashionable throughout Europe. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904 unknown

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Rudyard Kipling; Helen Gray Cone; Et alBiblio.com

St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks. Vol. XX No. 3. January 1893.

1898réf. 1003H34New York: The Century Co. 1898 . Paperback. Good. 10" by 7.5". Various. A scarce copy of the January 1893 issue of the celebrated monthly children"s magazine St. Nicholas featuring the first appearance of Rudyard Kipling"s story "The Potted Princess" profusely illustrated throughout. In the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps.A single issue of the celebrated monthly children"s magazine St. Nicholas containing Rudyard Kipling"s story "The Potted Princess."Richly illustrated in monochrome throughout. First appearing in this issue Kipling"s tale forms part of his sequence of stories concerning Punch and Judy set in colonial India. The story was later collected in Kipling"s short-story collection Many Inventions 1893 published later the same year by D. Appleton and Company in New York and Macmillan and Co. in London.Founded in 1873 and edited by Mary Mapes Dodge St. Nicholas became one of the most influential illustrated magazines for young readers running continuously from 1873 until 1943 it was highly regarded for attracting many of the most prominent literary figures of the period including Mark Twain Louisa May Alcott Frances Hodgson Burnett Joel Chandler Harris and Kipling.Publisher's advertisements to front and rear including a coloured advertisement of Pear's Soap to rear. In the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps. Externally a little worn. Rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in the odd small chip closed tear and crease. Loss to head and tail of spine. Light scattered spotting and the odd handling mark to wraps. Wraps characteristically age toned. Loss to lower corner of rear wrap towards joint. Wraps detached from staple binding fragile but holding to joint. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots and the odd minor handling mark to fore edge. Good The Century Co. paperback

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