Kipling, RudyardBiblio.com
7.868 Ergebnisse
1906Best.-Nr. RK010London: Macmillan and Co. 1906 First edition. Near fine in publisher's original red cloth with some fading to the spine and darkening of the boards and a former owner's bookplate. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. London: Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 020471Boston MA: C. R. Gibson Company 1899. Privately Printed. Hardcover. Good/Very Good/No Jacket. Goodling Sally . Type: Book This book is a recessional by the famous writer Kipling. The book was printed privately. It is a very small book of five pages. The cover is blue with gold gilt and black blank inlaid decoration. There is slight edge wear on the upper and lower spine/ corner tips. The book is in very good condition for being published in 1899. The first blank page has the corner tip missing. There is an inscription on the third blank page as a gift from son to father dated February 27 1899. This book is a collector's item. There are No Marks No Underlining and No Writing in the reading text of the book. The book is clean and tight. The book is in very good readable condition. C. R. Gibson Company hardcover
1904Best.-Nr. 587851London: Charles Sheard & Co 1904. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Composer's name stamp and "file copy" stamp on the front cover outer bifolium separating a bit at both ends of the fold light edgewear and toning a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "Lichenberg. E." The following note is printed above the music "The blossoms of the Australian Wattle Tree a species of Acacia emit a remarkably fragrant perfume more particularly after rain: the sudden recognition of this scent on an occasion during the Transvaal campaign awakens thoughts of 'Home sweet home' in the breast of an Australian Trooper." Gerard F. Cobb is primarily remembered for his musical settings to Kipling's words this perhaps being his last such composition as he passed away in March of the year it was published. This song is unrecorded by OCLC and appears equally scarce in the trade; in fact the only references we can find to the piece online are are The Kipling Society citing a record of it in Rudyard Kipling A Bibliographical Catalogue by James McGregor Stewart and a 2005 recording released by ABC Records-Australia on an album titled When the Empire Calls. A rare and intriguing piece. Charles Sheard & Co unknown
1927Best.-Nr. 58499London:: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1927. First edition; one of five hundred large paper copies signed by Rudyard Kipling. publisher's quarter vellum over blue boards t.e.g. in dust jacket and slipcase with printed paper label. A very fine copy in a dust jacket with a few tiny chips not affecting any printed area and some light overall tanning. Light sunning and use to slipcase. Very attractive. . 4to. Illustrated in color by Donald Maxwell. Macmillan and Co., Limited, hardcover
1903Best.-Nr. 211194London: Methuen 1903. First. hardcover. fine. 12mo artfully bound in dark olive green morocco; gilt lettered spine with raised bands & floral devices stamped in gilt and red on the covers; inner dentelles. London: Methuen 1903. First English Edition. First issue with "David" on p.56. Methuen unknown
1992Best.-Nr. 1401001Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 1992. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Octavos Four Volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's dark blue black green and red decorated leather boards respectively. All with paneling and gilt lettering to spines. Mild general shelf wear. Edges of textbock gilt lightly worn on top edges of all four volumes causing small visible tears in various places throughout interiors. With silk endpapers and silk ribbon bookmarks. Shelved above Easton Press. Copyright dates 1992 in all except Tales of East and West 1973. 1401001. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Easton Press hardcover
1914Best.-Nr. 000016850Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co. 1914. First American Edition 1st Printing. softcover. Fine. Six pamphlets octavo uniformly bound in paper wrappers the front covers lettered in green. Copyright issues-- just a few copies of each were printed. Precedes the British edition. Livingston 390. The titles are: infantry The Men At Work; II: The Quality of the Machine; III: Guns and Supply; IV: Canadians in Camp; V: Indian Troops; VI: A Territorial Battalion and a Conclusion. In a custom red chemise and slipcase with leather spine and gilt spine titles that is a bit sunned at the top edge of rear panel. 042407B Doubleday, Page & Co. paperback
1896Best.-Nr. Lopes003First English edition. Poems published the year Kipling returned to England after living four years in Vermont. Stewart J. M. Kipling 140. Hardcover. xv 230 pages; 19 cm. This copy is bound in red Oasis leather handsomely gold-tooled by Worsfold; fine. stock#Lopes003/h. Methuen hardcover
1890Best.-Nr. 17889London:: Sampson Low MArston Searle & Rivington 1890. First English edition. original illustrated wrappers. Lacks initial blank; old ink ownership signature on title page; a few small chips closed tears and light wear to wrappers. . 8vo. Stewart 56. Sampson Low, MArston, Searle & Rivington, unknown
1900Best.-Nr. 229603London Macmillan and Co. Limited 1900. 1900. First English edition. 8vo. 1 page preface by Kipling. Attractively bound in 3/4 blue morocco over light blue/gray marbled boards spine with 5 raised bands with each compartment gilt ruled with small floral design in the corners two compartments with a gilt drum and 2 compartment with a gilt horn a.e.g.; light blue/gray marbled endpapers. Very good. 2 volumes complete. No signatures or bookplates. Livington 228. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1900. hardcover books
1901Best.-Nr. 54794London: Macmillan 1901. First U.K. Edition. First printing. 16mo 20cm. In original red cloth titled in gilt on spine with elephant badge on front top edge gilt; plain endpapers; 2pp of publisher's ads at rear; vi 413 3pp; 10 illustrations by J. L. Kipling. With 1901 ownership inscription of George D. Herron and later bookplate of Dartmouth College Library to front endpapers. Bookseller's ticket of Brentano's Paris to rear pastedown. A pleasantly bright copy lacking the dustjacket gently rubbed front hinge largely cracked but holding: Very Good. George Davis Herron 1862-1925 was a clergyman Christian Socialist and advocate for the Social Gospel and the Socialist Party of America. Four months before the date of this inscription Herron was defrocked for divorcing his first wife and remarrying. The consequent scandal overshadowed his activity in the formation of the Socialist Party of America leading him to take his new family abroad ANB. LIVINGSTON 250. Macmillan unknown books
1906Best.-Nr. 317848New York: Doubleday 1906. First. hardcover. fine. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Handsomely rebound in full green morocco using the original pictorial cover New York: Doubleday 1906. First American edition. Fine. Doubleday unknown books
1906Best.-Nr. RK010London: Macmillan and Co. 1906 First edition. Near fine in publisher's original red cloth with some fading to the spine and darkening of the boards and a former owner's bookplate. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. London: Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1903Best.-Nr. 211194London: Methuen 1903. First. hardcover. fine. 12mo artfully bound in dark olive green morocco; gilt lettered spine with raised bands & floral devices stamped in gilt and red on the covers; inner dentelles. London: Methuen 1903. First English Edition. First issue with "David" on p.56. Methuen unknown books
1992Best.-Nr. 1401001Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 1992. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Octavos Four Volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's dark blue black green and red decorated leather boards respectively. All with paneling and gilt lettering to spines. Mild general shelf wear. Edges of textbock gilt lightly worn on top edges of all four volumes causing small visible tears in various places throughout interiors. With silk endpapers and silk ribbon bookmarks. Shelved above Easton Press. Copyright dates 1992 in all except Tales of East and West 1973. 1401001. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Easton Press hardcover books
1904Best.-Nr. 587851London: Charles Sheard & Co 1904. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Composer's name stamp and "file copy" stamp on the front cover outer bifolium separating a bit at both ends of the fold light edgewear and toning a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "Lichenberg. E." The following note is printed above the music "The blossoms of the Australian Wattle Tree a species of Acacia emit a remarkably fragrant perfume more particularly after rain: the sudden recognition of this scent on an occasion during the Transvaal campaign awakens thoughts of 'Home sweet home' in the breast of an Australian Trooper." Gerard F. Cobb is primarily remembered for his musical settings to Kipling's words this perhaps being his last such composition as he passed away in March of the year it was published. This song is unrecorded by OCLC and appears equally scarce in the trade; in fact the only references we can find to the piece online are are The Kipling Society citing a record of it in Rudyard Kipling A Bibliographical Catalogue by James McGregor Stewart and a 2005 recording released by ABC Records-Australia on an album titled When the Empire Calls. A rare and intriguing piece. Charles Sheard & Co unknown books
1919Best.-Nr. 004965England 1919. Cloth. Near Fine. Lovely meticulously rendered vignette illustrations framing the key letter on each page and on a few pages two vignettes. Oblong 9 by 13 cm. 28 pp. The album opens to a particularly nice pen and ink drawing of a schooner framed with highly decorative foliate baroque ornamentation. The first poem is Kipling's "If" each letter device accompanied by a painting of a different type of sail boat or ship. Ship motives are used again in "Love at Sea" by Swinburne. Another Kipling poem "The Explanation" is enlivened with paintings of colorful expressive fish. In our judgment these are the most charismatic of the illustrations. Other poems include Swinburne's "Rondel" "Before Sunset" "Song" and "Child's Song"; and some verses by Sappho. Other illustrative motives take in dragons flowers and floral daipers butterflies and coasts. The poems are rendered in a neat calligraphic hand and it is very easy to imagine this manuscript as something that might have been published as a gift book. unknown
1919Best.-Nr. 004965England 1919. Cloth. Near Fine. Lovely meticulously rendered vignette illustrations framing the key letter on each page and on a few pages two vignettes. Oblong 9 by 13 cm. 28 pp. The album opens to a particularly nice pen and ink drawing of a schooner framed with highly decorative foliate baroque ornamentation. The first poem is Kipling's "If" each letter device accompanied by a painting of a different type of sail boat or ship. Ship motives are used again in "Love at Sea" by Swinburne. Another Kipling poem "The Explanation" is enlivened with paintings of colorful expressive fish. In our judgment these are the most charismatic of the illustrations. Other poems include Swinburne's "Rondel" "Before Sunset" "Song" and "Child's Song"; and some verses by Sappho. Other illustrative motives take in dragons flowers and floral daipers butterflies and coasts. The poems are rendered in a neat calligraphic hand and it is very easy to imagine this manuscript as something that might have been published as a gift book. unknown books
1898Best.-Nr. 432854London: William Heinemann Ltd 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Quarter cloth and illustrated boards. Modest wear at the spine ends small repairs to the front hinge a sound and very good copy. William Heinemann Ltd hardcover
1898Best.-Nr. 432854London: William Heinemann Ltd 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Quarter cloth and illustrated boards. Modest wear at the spine ends small repairs to the front hinge a sound and very good copy. William Heinemann Ltd hardcover books
1909Best.-Nr. 89438London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909. Full Leather. Very Good. W. Heath Robinson. 27.5 x 22 cm. Quarto. Unpaginated. Rebound in to full dark leather decorated in gilt 5 raised bands to spine. AEG marble endpapers. Some scuffing to bottom edges of boards. Beautifully illustrated with 30 tipped-in color plates by W. Heath Robinson. Spine and top of front cover is a bit faded. Scuff to spine. Some discoloration to the edges of the half-title page. This edition is reprinted from 'The Seven Seas' published by Methuen & Co. Hodder & Stoughton unknown
1898Best.-Nr. 106292William Heinemann 1898. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. Twelve prints by Nicholson. Covers edgeworn. Name written inside front cover. William Heinemann hardcover
2011Best.-Nr. 009009Whittington Gloucestershire England: Nomad letterpress circa 2011. Limited and numbered broadside. Broadside. This limited and numbered letterpress broadside of Kiplings iconic poem is number 27 of 94. It was printed circa 2011 by Nomad letterpress operating out of the historic Whittington Press near Cheltenham Gloucestershire using Cason and wood types on Zerkell mould-made paper. Copy number 45 of this edition is held in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum where it is preserved under accession number E.797-2014. The print measures 51 x 38 cm. It is mounted on heavy white card within a recessed beveled cut border the mount measuring 65.5 x 51.5 cm with 7 cm top and side margins and an 8mm lower margin. We presume that it was issued thus; this unblemished copy remains within the original plastic wrapping as originally sold by Henry Sotheran Limited with their original invoice attached to the verso. Please note that we chose to leave this plastic cover in place when photographing the item in the interest of preserving condition. This item will be packed flat with our customary care and posted at cost depending on the buyers shipping preference. IF- was first published in October 1910 in Rewards and Fairies Kiplings collection of eleven stories and twenty-three poems that was a continuation of the Puck stories first told in 1906s Puck of Pooks Hill. To capitalize on the immediate and immense popularity of IF- the publisher of the American edition of Rewards and Fairies Doubleday Page & Company swiftly followed with a separate publication in 1910. A British edition followed in 1914 published the first month of the First World War. Although the poem was not collected and published until 1910 inspiration for the poem occurred 15 years earlier in the person of Leander Starr Jameson 1853-1917 leader of the failed Jameson Raid of that year against the Boer Republic of Transvaal that helped precipitate the Second Anglo-Boer War. Despite the fiasco much of the British public treated Jameson as a dashing hero Kipling admired him greatly and in his autobiography Something of Myself Kipling said that "If" was drawn from Jameson's character. The character flaws of the poems muse are an irony. The poems association with the collective anonymized slaughter of the First World War is another irony. This was no accident. Indeed a 1916 edition of the poem was produced in an edition of 30000 as a Xmas and New Year card from the Ladies Buffet staff to the soldiers embarking for the front through Waterloo Station; Kipling waived his royalty cutting the reprint cost. The poems enshrinement of firmness of character and temperament in the face of adversity became inextricably linked to the patriotic offering and sacrifice of so many British sons to the decidedly inglorious trenches of the First World War. The association was undoubtedly difficult for Kipling who lost his own and only son to the war. John Kipling who had been commissioned in the Irish Guards at the outset of the war had gone to France in August 1915; in September a month after his eighteenth birthday he was reported wounded and missing in the battle of Loos. His body was never found in Kipling's lifetime: the grave was identified in 1992. John's death coincided with the onset of Kipling's suffering from the undiagnosed duodenal ulcer that tormented the last twenty years of his life and that at last killed him. None of the ironies attendant to the poems inspiration and application diminish its beautifully lyrical and enduringly compelling exhortations. References: Victoria & Albert Museum; Richards A269; ODNB Nomad letterpress unknown
1891Best.-Nr. 49259Allahabad India: A.H. Wheeler & Co 1891. Very Good -. Allahabad India: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1891. First Published Edition following the suppressed edition of which only three copies were said to have survived. Octavo; original illustrated wrappers; viii 108 xpp. Housed in a red linen folder and a crimson half morocco slipcase. Wear and chipping to wraps with exposure along spine; binding holding; ownership inscription of an Arthur Wilson dated 1894 to title page; a Good to Very Good copy of a scarce Kipling title the English edition being much more common. Livingston 70. A.H. Wheeler & Co unknown
1917Best.-Nr. 013799New York: Doubleday Page & Company / Garden City 1917. 1st Edition. Stapled. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. I The Roads of an Army II Podgora III A Pass a King and a Mountain IV Only a Few Steps Higher Up V The Trentino Front. All five are in very good condition with only slight marks to covers. Cream colored stapled card covers. Doubleday, Page & Company / Garden City unknown
