9 600 résultats
1897réf. b29426New York: S.S. McClure Co. 1897. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Near fine in original wrappers with a chip at the bottom of the spine. S.S. McClure Co. paperback
1890réf. 005025New York: United States Book Company Successor to John W. Lovell Company 1890. First published in 1888; this is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition Second Issue. An uncommon to scarce edition. Brown cloth binding; ruled titled and with decoration of two musicians on the front cover in maroon. Noted as "Indian Tales - I." Titling decoration and reproduced Kipling signature on the spine. Clean text; vi continues from 7 to 287 pages; dark blue endpapers. Title Page notes as "Authorized Edition." There is no publication date but 1890. Light rubbing around the margins; decorations on spine diminished so. Some spotting to prelims and TP. Cracked at the TP but holding nicely. Basically a sound copy of this uncommon book. In an arcvhival plastic protector. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. United States Book Company Successor to John W. Lovell Company Hardcover
1949réf. 28465San Francisco: The Colt Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. Limited 1st edition. Hardcover. The DJ is rubbed at the edges. One of 500 copies and evidently one of far fewer copies with the original dust jacket present. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 76 pages . The Colt Press hardcover
1926réf. 6653New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1926. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Donald Maxwell. Quarto. 94 pages 24 mounted color plates. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering in dust jacket with light wear at spine ends and slight age toning at spine. First edition stated. Internally clean and bright. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
1916réf. 54078London: Macmillan and Co. 1916. First edition. Compilation of 13 newspaper articles on the subject. 8vo blue cloth boards stamped in gilt on spine and in gilt and blind on front; page edges untrimmed; 222 pages; 4 pp of ads. Bright and near fine. Lacking dust jacket. Macmillan and Co. unknown
1910réf. 526716London: The Frederick Harris Company 1910. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Composer's name stamp on the front cover some light toning to the exterior and bumping to the corners including a nick to the ends of the fold of the outer bifolium still a complete and very good copy. For voice or piano monologue with no vocal melody. Plate number "F.H. 810." The front cover features a black and white portrait of whom we assume to be the composer of the piece Frederic Dale. "These words are reprinted from Mr. Rudyard Kipling's The Seven Seas by permission of the author" printed above the music. OCLC locates only three physical holdings. The Frederick Harris Company unknown
1937réf. 016631London: Macmillan 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 237pp. Beautiful First Edition of this autobiography from the author of The Jungle Books Kim Captain's Courageous and so many more classic tales for children4 and adults. Bound in red cloth with titles in gilt on spine and elephant head motif stamped in gilt on the front board. Square tight and clean throughout with a little or no wear. Some mild off-setting to end-papers from the dust-jacket. Equally attractive unclipped though unpriced dust-jacket has some moderate toning but still fresh and bright with no creasing tears or chipping. A gorgeous collectable copy and though not uncommon much more so in such nice condition. Macmillan hardcover
1912réf. 121421Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1912. First edition of this selection of songs from Kipling's children's stories. Octavo original illustrated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Songs From Books contains songs The Recall Cuckoo Song The New Knighthood Puck Rewards and Fairies Kim Actions and Reactions and The Truthful Song among dozens of others. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1933réf. 196204London Macmillan 1933. 1933. First edition. Thin 8vo. Original full gilt stamped red morocco t.e.g. Dust jacket unclipped; no chips. Fine fresh. No signatures or bookplates. F. Hardcover. London, Macmillan [1933]. hardcover
1899réf. 121634New York: Doubleday and McClure Company 1899. First separate American edition of Kipling children’s classic. Octavo original illustrated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel pictorial endpapers illustrated by Orson Lowell tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very condition. Bookplate. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book 1894 Kim 1901 and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Doubleday and McClure Company hardcover
1900réf. 149566Boston: Alfred Bartlett 1900. Rare August 1900 issue of The Cornhill Booklet containing Rudyard Kipling's "Occasional Poems." Duodecimo original wrappers volume one number two printed in red and black illustrated with the original detached portrait of Kipling from an etching by William Strang laid in. In very good condition. Illustrated and designed by H.W. Colby. Rudyard Kipling’s occasional poems reflect his distinctive ability to merge public commentary with poetic craft transforming topical or ephemeral subjects into enduring reflections on empire duty and human character. Written primarily during his years in British India and later reprinted in collections such as Departmental Ditties and Other Verses 1886 these works—originally composed for newspapers and limited pamphlets—combine wit irony and moral insight to capture the social texture of colonial life. Alfred Bartlett unknown
1890réf. 0141821890. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Fine with minor wear to this copy. Uncommon. Contributors to this issue: Rudyard Kipling George Saintsbury and Mrs. Oliphant. paperback
1898réf. 005285London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1898. A collection of 13 stories written while Kipling was resident in America considered to be some of his best "day's" work. Includes "007: which is not a theft from Ian Fleming unless quantum mechanics has struck again. This is a Very Good Plus copy of the First English Edition. Dark blue cloth binding ruled with gilt titling and decorations. Clean text 381 pages top edge gilt. Eighteen page catalog dated 15-9-98 in the rear. Bookplate on the front paste-down of Wilhelmine Harrod OBE 1911-2005 writer and architectural preservationist.also an ink signature in a different name that Quercus judges as earlier. Tiny bumping/rub; some spotting to endpapers and page ends. A solid attractive copy in an archival plastic protector. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Macmillan and Co., Limited Hardcover
1898réf. blb03263New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. 1898. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Textured dark green cloth with stamped bright gilt lettering on front and spine. Viking ship is stamped in black on front and spine as well. Stamped double lined ruling around perimeter of front and top edge gilt. Book is tight square relatively sharp-cornered - with some minor bumping - and free of markings or major flaws inside or out other than prior owners name on FFEP and a few spots on spine where cloth has bubbled up a tiny bit. Prior owner: ""Mr. Henry J. Hosner sp Jr. January 1 1899"" in neat script on FFEP. Illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard and seven additional plates by W. L. Sonntag E. L. Blumenschein and W. D. Stevens. This edition preceded the British edition by about five weeks and is the First Edition First Printing signified by a printing error on page 189 - a half closed 'o' in the word 'into' on page 189. A mixed collection of twelve stories by Kipling while he was living in Vermont. Included in these stories is one titled ""007."" 431 pp. 1st / 1st Doubleday & McClure Co. hardcover
1900réf. RARE54New York: GEORGE MUNRO'S SONS 1900. stapled wraps. INCLUDES THE RECRUDESCENCE OF IMRAY and TAMGAY DOOLA. This work is not dated pages are tanned and brittle. GEORGE MUNRO'S SONS paperback
1918réf. 52415New York: doubleday 1918. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm.; green cloth over dark gray boards; paper title plate on cover and spine; dustjacket; 101pp.; A Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped with tears to the extremities; Very Good only. The book consists of four stories that read as letters home from soldiers from India and the North-West Frontier which take place in 1915 and 1916. "A Retired Gentleman" and "The Fumes of the Heart" are both fictionalized letters written from the perspective of wounded Indian soldiers a Rajput and a Sikh to their families. The second is cast as a dictated letter from a Sikh soldier to his brother and has dramatic asides and digressions from the injured soldier punctuating the text. As for the remaining two stories "The Private Account" is presented as a scene showing an Afghan family reading and responding to a letter from their son on the Western Front and the final story "A Trooper of Horse" takes the form of a letter from an unwounded Muslim soldier in France to his mother. doubleday unknown
1915réf. 221090Garden City Doubleday Page & Company 1915. 1915. First American edition. 12mo. Dust jacket unclipped; few small chips. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. "Includes 6 new poems.especially written for this book." Livingston 401. F. Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. hardcover
1904réf. 2222360Second edition. 4 ¾" x 4". Frontispiece drawing by E. B. Bird. Title page in red and black. Original dark green boards printed paper label on upper cover. No dust jacket. Very good. 10 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Printed by Fred & Bertha Goudy at The Village Press Hingham Mass. Livingston 293. Alfred Bartlett hardcover
1917réf. 3964JGarden City: Doubleday 1917. First Edition - American Copyright Issue. Printed in a tiny quantity by the publisher to secure the copyright. Published 8 December 1917 distributed privately. Number of copies unknown. Richards A300 locates 14 copies. Precedes the English edition "Published: December 1917 at 2p." Poetry. Paperbound. Fine in printed wrappers. Doubleday unknown
réf. 014181First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Fine with minor wear to this copy. Uncommon. paperback
1923réf. 004614New York: Doubleday Page 1923. Former owner's signature on each front flyleaf. First American Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. Doubleday, Page Hardcover
1923réf. 29614Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1923. First American Edition. Hardcover. Both volumes lack dust jackets some shelf wear and chipping cracking and darkening of the spine labels contents vg cond. ; Illus. maps; 641 pages . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1980réf. 115440Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1980. 1st Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket as issued. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. David Gentleman. These stories set in India were originally published in periodicals then collected into two volumes: The Jungle Book published in 1894 followed by The Second Jungle Book published the following year. Both volumes presented here as THE JUNGLE BOOKS by Rudyard Kipling published by the Easton Press in 1980 and illustrated by David Gentleman. First edition first printing of this Easton Press collector's edition in as new condition. Quarto 10" tall. Easton Press specializes in premium leather-bound books. This volume is one of Easton's 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series all of which have silk moire endpapers sewn-in ribbon markers smyth sewn binding archival paper with all gilt edges on the text block and leather boards. Cream colored ribbon with cream moire silk endpapers green leather cover with gilt bamboo decorations four raised bands to spine gilt stamped spine and covers. No names or markings. A fine bright copy suitable as a gift. Easton Press hardcover
1980réf. 115441Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1980. 1st Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket as issued. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. David Gentleman. These stories set in India were originally published in periodicals then collected into two volumes: The Jungle Book published in 1894 followed by The Second Jungle Book published the following year. Both volumes presented here as THE JUNGLE BOOKS by Rudyard Kipling published by the Easton Press in 1980 and illustrated by David Gentleman. First edition first printing of this Easton Press collector's edition in as new condition. Quarto 10" tall. Easton Press specializes in premium leather-bound books. This volume is one of Easton's 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series all of which have silk moire endpapers sewn-in ribbon markers smyth sewn binding archival paper with all gilt edges on the text block and leather boards. Cream colored ribbon with cream moire silk endpapers green leather cover with gilt bamboo decorations four raised bands to spine gilt stamped spine and covers. No names or markings. A fine bright copy suitable as a gift. Easton Press hardcover
1918réf. 126592Macmillan and Co. Limited: London 1918. Early printing of Kipling's Just So Song Book. Quarto original illustrated boards. In very good condition. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book 1894 Kim 1901 and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. London hardcover