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1897ref. 154961897. With Illustrations by I.W. Taber. London: Macmillan and Co. 1897. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt all page edges gilt. First English Edition published about a month after the American. This is Kipling's great novel about the cod fishing fleet of Gloucester Massachusetts written while the newlywed Kiplings lived in Vermont. Kipling freely acknowledged that the book owed much to Dr. James Conland of Brattleboro who brought the Kiplings' elder daughter into the world -- for Conland had been a member of the Massachusetts fishing fleet and it was he who took Kipling to explore the wharves and quays of Boston and Gloucester. The American edition in fact is dedicated to Conland; this English edition bears no dedication. This is the only book of Kipling's which is set entirely in America. All the characters are American. Not only that but the heart of the book -- its moral in a single sentence -- is one of Kipling's main beliefs of this period expressed in terms essentially American or perhaps more particularly New England. He put it later in verse: ".If you don't work you will die!" It is a saga of hard physical work in conflict with natural forces. It is a book which could hardly have been written by anyone who did not admire Huckleberry Finn; it is a book whose claim to survival rests mainly on detail and it is all American detail Mason. CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS was the fourth and last volume to be bound in Macmillan's attractive gift binding style used for the JUNGLE BOOKs in 1894-1895 and for SOLDIER TALES in 1896. In 1937 forty years after publication this tale was made into a film starring Freddie Bartholomew Spencer Tracy who won an Oscar Lionel Barrymore and Mickey Rooney. This is a near-fine copy spine less than bright slight rubbing at the extremities light foxing; the original black-coated endpapers are not cracked. Richards A103; Stewart 163. unknown books
1899ref. 14169London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1899. First Edition First Issue. Quarter Leather. Near fine. First edition first issue of Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling. Octavo ix iii 272pp 2pp ads. Finely bound in three-quarter red morocco top edge gilt. Five raised bands title in gilt on spine. Publisher's original cloth covers laid in place with author's emblem in gilt on front cover. New endpapers. No additional printings listed. Light wear to original cloth faint soiling to gilt edge. Previous ownership inscription on second free endpaper dated "1899." Small loss to corner on page vii. A bright and attractive example. Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown books
1895ref. 159041895. Kipling J. Lockwood. With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling C.I.E. London: Macmillan and Co. 1895. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt all page edges gilt. First English Edition published three days after the American of the sequel to THE JUNGLE BOOK which had been published the year before. It continues with more tales of Mowgli that exemplify "The Laws of the Jungle" -- with illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling Rudyard's father. This was the second of the four Kipling gift books bound similarly by Macmillan with SOLDIER TALES and CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS coming out the following two years respectively. This is an attractive copy very good-plus or possibly near-fine volume slightly askew as usual very light wear at the extremities; atypically other than the endpapers there is no foxing on the leaves within. Richards A85; Stewart 132. unknown books
1909ref. 05457A SONG OF THE ENGLISH Hodder & Stoughton 1909 first edition a bright vg copy with 30 full color full page tipped-in plates by W. Heath Robinson. Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
1915ref. 26249Garden City NY: Doubleday Page 1915. Each one of 50 copies. 6 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers FINE COPIES in blue morocco-backed slipcase. Bookplate of famous collector John A. Spoor in each pamphlet. Each one of 50 copies. 6 vols. 8vo. Stewart 394 Doubleday, Page unknown books
ref. 02968London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson ROBINSON W. Heath illustrator. KIPLING Rudyard. A Song of the English. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.New York: Doubleday Page & Company n.d. 1909. First American trade edition. Large quarto 10 15/16 x 8 5/8 inches; 278 x 219 mm. 64 leaves. Thirty color plates including frontispiece mounted on leaves with color border decorations. Descriptive tissue guards each with a miniature line illustration. Pictorial title and fifty-nine black and white line illustrations in the text half-page or smaller. Title printed in red and black. Original green cloth with front cover pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. A very fine copy. "The next important task I undertook was the illustration of an edition of Rudyard Kipling's A Song of the English to be published by Hodder & Stoughton in the year 1908. It became necessary for me to meet the author and discuss the proposed book with him. For this purpose I travelled down to Burwash where he lived at that time. This was an excursion I shall always remember. I was met at Heathfield and journeyed thence in a motor-car. There were few cars on the road in those days and this in itself was a joyful experience as we drove through the pleasant Sussex lanes. Bateman's the house at Burwash where Rudyard Kipling lived was a fine old building with stone mullioned windows. It was in the midst of wind-blown Sussex country. There was a faint smell of the sea in the air wafted across the few miles of country from the shore where the Coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go. It was a fitting setting in which to find the author of A Song of the English. He met and entertained me with a quiet affability which speedily removed the shyness I felt at first in his presence. Before long I was quite at home with him. His own knowledge of illustration gave him an appreciation of the artist's point of view. While making suggestions he realized that the illustrator must have as free a hand as possible. His sympathetic understanding of my part in the undertaking made me feel that I was consulting with a brother artist. I spent a happy and for me a helpful day. It was a great inspiration for the work I had in hand to be in such close association with the author's interesting personality. I am always glad to remember that he was satisfied with my illustrations to his book." W. Heath Robinson My Line of Life. pp.126-127 "This poem originally appeared in The English Illustrated Magazine May 1893 prior to its inclusion in The Seven Seas 1896" Martindell. Beare 61b. Lewis p. 215. Livingston 321. Martindell 133. Stewart 152. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909 hardcover books
1897ref. 15875London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1897. First English Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The first English edition of Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling published in London in 1897. Octavo vii 245pp 1 2pp ads. Publisher's blue stamped cloth illustrations in gilt on cover and spine. Blue endpapers booksellers label on rear endpaper. Complete with frontispiece and twenty-two plates by Isaiah West Taber. Left lean to text block occasional points of foxing throughout. Touch of rubbing to gilt on spine rubbing to blue cloth on front cover. All edges gilt. Solid binding a near fine example. Stewart 163 Livingston 137. This work was first serialized in McClure's Magazine in November of 1896. The first full novelization was published in America by Doubleday in 1897 followed by the first English edition a month later. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1960ref. 35737n.p. n.d. Saigon 1960. Bifoliate leaflet approx. 8" x 5¼" folded printed on 2 sides 3 panels bearing Kipling's iconic poem "If" in three languages: English Vietnamese as translated by Anh Minh and French as translated by Andre Maurois; and the first a decorative panel with the title: Neu / Anh Minh. Some soiling; very good. Not located bibliographically. unknown books
1915ref. 149451915. I & II. The Auxiliary Fleet. / III & IV. Submarines. / V & VI. Patrols. Together six volumes. Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1915. Original light yellow wrappers lettered in green. First Editions being the American copyright issues limited according to DP&Co's annotated copy to 75 copies each. These six articles written at the instance of the Ministry of Information were issued separately from November 19th through December 1st 1915. The English and American book editions were then published sometime in December; a year later they were collected in Kipling's book SEA WARFARE December 1916. Each of the six volumes leads off with an original poem written by Kipling for the occasion. The Vol VI poem reads "Twelve verses omitted." between the third verse and the last verse: this "was only a little joke of Kipling's to indicate that it would of course take a very lengthy poem to give any idea of the dangers and tribulations incurred by the North Sea patrol" Richards. The first volume has just a hint of cover soil but otherwise all six are fine and un-worn other than the usual minor rusting of the staples. Richards A282; Stewart 394. unknown books
1894ref. 149421894. Decorated by J. Lockwood Kipling C.I.E. New York: The Century Co. 1894. Original olive-green cloth decorated in gilt. First American Edition published on the same day May 22nd as the English edition. Many of the illustrations are by John Lockwood Kipling Rudyard's father. This book and THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK along with KIM and JUST SO STORIES constitute Kipling's best-loved work: For there is a unique magic in the JUNGLE BOOKs from the moment the infant Mowgli enters the wolf's lair and the moonlight is blacked out at the mouth of the cave by the great head of the tiger Shere Khan and his roar fills it with thunder. There is magic too in the jungle so glowingly portrayed with its danger-haunted thickets and the monkeys threading its frail liana ways the enchanted land of which Mowgli is to become the master; and in the animals who are his friends and mentors -- Bagheera the sleek and terrible panther; Baloo the wise old bear; Hathi the elephant; Kaa the gigantic python who makes a nest for Mowgli in his coils; Akela the leader of the wolf-pack; and the bandarlog chattering outcasts of the tree tops whose only wish is to be noticed and who immediately abandon every task they have begun. Birkenhead This volume is in near-fine condition spine cloth a little darkened a trace of rubbing at the extremities; as with most copies we have encountered in the binding process a leaf was glued down under the rear endpaper. Richards A77; Stewart 124. unknown books
1897ref. 330692London: Macmillan 1897. First. hardcover. near fine. Illustrated by I.W. Taber. Small 8vo original blue cloth pictorially stamped in gilt black coated end-papers all edges gilt. London 1897. First Published Edition English. A story of New England deep sea cod fishing. The only book of Kiplings set entirely in America. Light foxing throughout but a particularly bright copy Macmillan unknown books
1898ref. 269122New York: R.H. Russell 1898. First. hardcover. very good-. Nicholson William. Illustrated with 12 colored plates after woodcuts by William Nicholson with text in facing pages. Thin folio pictorial boards well-worn at edges and with some soiling and light penciling on covers; contemporary gift inscription on front endpaper. New York: R.H. Russell 1898. First American edition. Overall a very good- copy. All the plates are in clean condition with some offset to the opposite text pages as usual. There is one rather large purplish stain on Horse Racing text page the rear of Dog Coursing plate but images are un-effected. R.H. Russell unknown books
1896ref. 1351210London: MacMillan and Co. Limited 1896. 1896 Reprints. Hardcover. Octavo three volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in full navy leather armorial bindings with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spines. Mild shelf wear and soiling to all volumes. All corners bumped and rubbed and mild wear to all joints. Some wear to crowns and tail of spines. Upper edges of text blocks gilt. Original owner Henry Arthur Johnstone's ex libris in blind tooled leather as front free endpaper for all volumes and previous owner's bookplate at all front pastedowns. Some age-toning to textblocks. Pages clean. Shelved above Homer/Virgil. 1351210. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. MacMillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1890ref. 345797New York: Harper & Brothers 1890. First edition. Portrait. xii 182 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter green morocco t.e.g. preserving original blue green front wrapper. Uniformly toned to brown. Very good plus letter fine. First edition. Portrait. xii 182 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Collection of six stories previously published in various Harper serials the last story The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney being a piracy. No. 680 in Harper's Franklin Square Library series. This publication is the first time a portrait of Kipling appears in one of his books. This copy retains the front wrapper which lists series titles from 680 to 589 where Richards reports 681-590. With a one-page autograph letter signed on Savile Club letterhead inserted at front: Dear Mrs. Fowler Very many thanks for your kind invitation. I fear however that my engagements will not permit me to accept it. Sincerely Rudyard Kipling Mar. 25 '91. Richards A 43; Ballard XXXIII; Stewart 76; Livingston 57 Harper & Brothers unknown books
1910ref. 366297London: Methuen and Co 1910. Seventh edition. xiii 215 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full red calf boards with single gilt fillet border turn-ins with double gilt rule and floral cornerpieces a.e.g. by Bumpus. Attractive bookplate author's signature "Rudyard Kipling" on slip mounted at front; a few light scuffs to spine otherwise fine. Seventh edition. xiii 215 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition: Stewart 276; Richards A190 Methuen and Co unknown books
1902ref. 140937189New York: John Lane The Bodley Head 1902. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. viii 565 10 ads pp. Original ribbed blue cloth decorated in gilt gilt topstain. Very Good with slightly soiled and scratched cloth spine gilt dulled hinges starting offsetting and foxing to prelims name on paste down and a few pencil marks in margins. A scarce poetry anthology featuring Rudyard Kipling Bliss Carman A. E. Houseman William Butler Yeats and 29 other younger poets with incongruously antiquated Arts-and-Crafts-style woodcut portraits mini-biographies and selections of their work. It was conceived as a follow-up to the scandalous The Yellow Book aimed at a similar readership and took around five years for the editor to realize. See Parker Sarah "Framing the Woman Poet: William Archer's Poets of the Younger Generation.". John Lane The Bodley Head unknown books
1897ref. 156181897. With Illustrations by I.W. Taber. London: Macmillan and Co. 1897. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt all page edges gilt. First English Edition published about a month after the American. This is Kipling's great novel about the cod fishing fleet of Gloucester Massachusetts written while the newlywed Kiplings lived in Vermont. Kipling freely acknowledged that the book owed much to Dr. James Conland of Brattleboro who brought the Kiplings' elder daughter into the world -- for Conland had been a member of the Massachusetts fishing fleet and it was he who took Kipling to explore the wharves and quays of Boston and Gloucester. The American edition in fact is dedicated to Conland; this English edition bears no dedication. This is the only book of Kipling's which is set entirely in America. All the characters are American. Not only that but the heart of the book -- its moral in a single sentence -- is one of Kipling's main beliefs of this period expressed in terms essentially American or perhaps more particularly New England. He put it later in verse: ".If you don't work you will die!" It is a saga of hard physical work in conflict with natural forces. It is a book which could hardly have been written by anyone who did not admire Huckleberry Finn; it is a book whose claim to survival rests mainly on detail and it is all American detail Mason. CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS was the fourth and last volume to be bound in Macmillan's attractive gift binding style used for the JUNGLE BOOKs in 1894-1895 and for SOLDIER TALES in 1896. In 1937 forty years after publication this tale was made into a film starring Freddie Bartholomew Spencer Tracy who won an Oscar Lionel Barrymore and Mickey Rooney. This is an unusually bright copy fine except for the slightest of rubbing at the spine tips and small bumps at the fore-tips. The original black-coated endpapers are not cracked. Richards A103; Stewart 163. unknown books
1900ref. 509799London: Macmillan & Co 1900. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second printing of the "Uniform edition". Octavo. 336 1 ads pp. Red cloth decorated in gilt. The extremities of the binding are slightly bumped and rubbed else near fine. Signed by Rudyard Kipling on the title page crossing out his printed name. The ink signature is a little faded as the tissue used to protect the frontispiece has absorbed some of the ink when Kipling signed the book. Laid into the book is a receipt for the book from Park-Bernet Galleries dated 1958. Macmillan & Co hardcover books
1899ref. 224705London Macmillan & Co. 1899. 1899. First edition. 8vo. Original gilt stamped red cloth t.e.g. 2 pages publisher's advertisements at end. No signatures or bookplates. Light offsetting to endpapers. No foxing. Very good-fine. Enclosed in a 1/2 red morocco slipcase with folding chemise. Stewart 195. Livingston 216. F. Hardcover. London, Macmillan & Co., 1899. hardcover books
1946ref. 295432New York: Doubleday 1946. hardcover. near fine. 850 pages. Thick 8vo handsomely rebound in 3/4 bue morocco top edge gilt. New York: Doubleday 1946. Definitive Edition. Near Fine. Doubleday unknown books
1898ref. 89732London: William Heinemann Ltd 1898. First Edition. Library edition on Japanese vellum. Quarto. Linen-backed pictorial laid paper over boards; unpaginated. Mild darkening to boards with a trace of wear at edges and corners; internally fresh and clean - a pleasing Very Good or better copy. One sport for every month of the year in Nicholson's signature style with text by Rudyard Kipling. In addition to this regular issue there were "a few copies" issued with hand-colored plates signed by the authors. This an attractive copy clean and sound better than usually seen. William Heinemann Ltd unknown books
1891ref. 157961891. Kipling John Lockwood. A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in their Relations with the People. With Illustrations. London: Macmillan and Co. 1891. 2 pp undated ads plus 55 pp ads dated May 1891. Original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First Edition of this volume written and illustrated by Rudyard Kipling's father -- the genesis of his son's two JUNGLE BOOKs similarly illustrated by his father and of JUST SO STORIES illustrated by Rudyard. Each chapter is about a different type of Indian animal "Of Monkeys" "Of Elephants" "Of Camels" "Of Reptiles" etc. -- profusely illustrated by Lockwood himself as well as to a lesser degree by several others. BEAST AND MAN IN INDIA also includes the first appearance of several pieces by Rudyard -- two poems verse headings for nine of the chapters and extracts from two letters. With some leaves still unopened this is a near-fine copy of this attractively-bound book spine slightly darkened some foxing within. Quite uncommon. Richards B4; Stewart 104. unknown books
1891ref. 157181891. Hugh Walpole's copy Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1891. 4 pp preliminary plus 9 pp terminal ads undated with prices in rupees. Original grey-green pictorial wrappers First Published Edition technically the second Indian edition following the suppressed 1890 edition which had considerably different contents and of which only six copies are known. This 1891-dated Allahabad edition printed there came next followed by the 1891 edition with joint Allahabad / London imprint the first English edition printed in the UK. This was issued as No. XIV in the "Indian Railway Library" -- though Wheeler published this THE SMITH ADMINISTRATION and LETTERS OF MARQUE without authority after Kipling had left India for England. As is typical for this volume that is extremely fragile more delicate than the authorized titles condition is good-to-very good -- with about half of the wrapper's spine perished and with chips at some corners. Livingston says of this edition "although it is very scarce copies can be found." Richards A52 mistakenly showing this edition as undated; Stewart 93; Martindell 42; Livingston 70. Housed in a cloth clamshell case. Provenance: 1 there is an indecipherable signature with the date 1891 written across the front cover; 2 at the top of the title page is the signature of Hugh Walpole 1884-1941 the English novelist born in New Zealand; he also added his "Brackenburn" leather bookplate to the inside of the front wrapper. The interior of the clamshell case bears the label of W. & G. Foyle Ltd of Charing Cross Road. unknown books
1937ref. 9032828New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine. Bound in publisher's original burgundy cloth with spines and covers stamped in illustrated gilt covers pressed with embossed medallions. Frontispiece illustrations with tissue guards. Several volumes feature illustrations maps and photographic reproductions in black white and red. All text blocks are in fine condition. Set is near uniformly fine except for minor wear to cloth at head of four spines. A handsome set. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1892ref. 130847London: Heinemann 1892. First. hardcover. very good. Original wrs. bound in 276pp. small 8vo 19th- century full brown morocco small red poppies on gilt-dec. covers gilt-stamped raised bands inner dentelles t.e.g.; corners lightly rubbed otherwise near fine. London: Heinemann 1892. Firts edition. A charming very good copy. Heinemann unknown books
