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1901ref. 74015New York:: Doubleday Page & Company 1901. First edition; second state. publisher's pictorial green cloth t.e.g. Former owner's name in ink at the center of the title page; slight use at extremities of cloth; clean tight and sound. 8vo. Illustrated. Doubleday, Page & Company, hardcover
1920ref. 54021London: Macmillan and Co. 1920. First edition. Three sections of letters 24 letters in all. 8vo gilt-stamped red cloth; 284 pp 4 pp ads; top edge gilt. Hole in last page of text not affecting any lettering front board bumped at top corner and a little shaken otherwise near fine in near fine dust jacket with slight tanning to spine and two small tears. Macmillan and Co. unknown
1891ref. 611699London and New York: Macmillan and Co 1891. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. First issue sheets without "October" but with "Robert Drummond Electrotyper and Printer New York" printed on copyright page. Octavo. xvi 351pp. 1pp. poem 8pp. catalogue in rear. First issue binding in red pebbled cloth both blind and gilt-stamped. Gutters cracked lacking front fly spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped a good only copy. Macmillan and Co hardcover
1891ref. 54277London: Macmillan and Co. 1891. First U.S. edition with imprint of New York printer at base of copyright page. First issue sheets without "October" on copyright page; in second issue binding Richards A58. Short stories and a poem. 8vo half light-olive cloth stamped in gilt and black dark-olive cloth lettered in gilt on front; 351 pages plus 8-page publisher's catalog; top edge olive. Light soiling spine a little darkened spine ends rubbed otherwise very good. Macmillan and Co. unknown
1891ref. 123804London: Macmillan and Co 1891. First edition of Kipling's collection of short stories on the British in India. Octavo original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In good condition. Ownership inscription. 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. Macmillan and Co hardcover
1891ref. 121804London: Macmillan and Co 1891. First edition of Kipling's collection of short stories on the British in India. Octavo original cloth decorated in gilt. 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. Macmillan and Co hardcover
1932ref. 607814Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1932. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Slight scattered foxing on first and last couple of leaves and on bottom page edges else a fine bright copy in lightly faded very good or better dust jacket. Doubleday Doran hardcover
1932ref. 010595Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1932. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. Octavo. ii 371 pp stated First Edition. Previous owner's sticker atop ffep Binding tight pages clean unmarked paper well-preserved. 5.25" x 8" dark green cloth gilt fr cover and spine titles blind embossed design fr cover gray stained top-edge in DJ with light edgewear at top spine unclipped in acetate protector. . Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Hardcover
1932ref. 54791London: Macmillan 1932. First Edition. First Printing. 16mo 20cm. In original red cloth titled on spine in gold with elephant badge to front board top edge gilt in original printed tan dust jacket; list of other publications facing the title page; viii 400pp. A clean square copy cloth slightly darkened at spine edges and corners lightly rubbed: Very Good. In the original dust jacket chipped at head with cellotape repairs to verso at head and upper flap folds: Good. Not in LIVINGSTON. Macmillan unknown
1932ref. 322151London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1932. First edition. viii 400 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth t.e.g. Fine in slightly chipped dust jacket. Bookplate. First edition. viii 400 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stewart 588. IN DJ. Stewart 588 Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1932ref. 53939New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1932. First U.S. edition published a few weeks after the UK. Short stories and poems. First appearances for 3 of the stories and 19 of the poems. Near fine in about very good dust jacket with rear panel lightly soiled and pair of tears to uppper rear panel with creasing between. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. unknown
1932ref. 62201London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1932. First edition. viii 400 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth with the gilt Ganesha device on the upper cover spine lettered in gilt. With the original tan printed dust jacket some chipping and short tears mostly of head and tail of spine some minor discoloration. First edition. viii 400 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The last collection published by Kipling of 14stories and 19 poems three stories and 18 poems appearing for the first time in print the rest were in periodicals. Stewart 588. Stewart 588 Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1932ref. 9432ELondon: Macmillan 1932. First Edition. With publisher’s printed promotional postcard laid in. Fine in a near fine lightly used dust jacket. Macmillan unknown
1932ref. 34312London: Macmillan and Co. Limited. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1932. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. First English and true first edition published two weeks before the American edition on 7 April 1932. Near Fine condition with lightly rubbed extremities in alike dust-wrapper with light edgewear. Richards A402 Livingston 577 Stewart 588; Kipling's final collection of short stories published shortly after the death of his only son. Limits and Renewals contains fourteen short stories and nineteen poems three of the stories were published here for the first time; 8vo; vi vii-viii 2 3-400 pages . Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1893ref. 7548London: Macmillan 1893 Dark blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Octavo. Lower corners lightly bumped spine a trifle cocked. A very good bright copy. Macmillan, hardcover
ref. 4011GC DOUBLEDAY 1917. COPYRIGHT COPY VERY GOOD. GC, DOUBLEDAY, 1917 unknown
1899ref. 68654New York:: H. M. Caldwell 1899. Oriental Edition. publisher's elaborately decorated white cloth gilt-lettered and stamped in red green and blue t.e.g.; in dust jacket and publisher's two-part box. A fine copy in a very near fine jacket. The box is a little sunned. 8vo. With Original Illustrations by Victor A. Searles. H. M. Caldwell, hardcover
1906ref. RK072New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906 Illustrated with four color plates by Arthur Rackham including a frontispiece. First edition first printing published two months before the first UK edition. Publisher's green cloth with boat illustration in blind to front board lettered in gilt and top edge gilt. Near fine with clean and bright boards light wear to spine ends joints and corners and small marks to pp. 46-47 lines 15-21 on both pages slightly affected. Overall an excellent copy. In Puck of Pook's Hill two children playing in the English countryside are approached by the magical fairy Puck from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Over the course of the summer Puck introduces them to notable events and characters from British history told through ten connected short stories. Interspersed between the stories are poems by Kipling some of which were later selected by T.S. Eliot for inclusion in A Choice of Kipling's Verse 1941. Notably this first American edition includes illustrations by the legendary book illustrator Arthur Rackham whereas the first UK edition was illustrated by Harold R. Millar. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Rackham Arthur. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1906ref. 125313Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz 1906. First Tauchnitz edition of Kipling's collection of historical fantasy tales. Octavo original wrappers. In good condition. Set in multiple periods of English history Kipling's Puck stories are each narrated to two children living near Burwash in the High Weald of Sussex in the area of Kipling's own house Bateman's by people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck or told by Puck himself. Puck who refers to himself as "the oldest Old Thing in England" is better known as a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. The genres of the stories range from authentic historical novella A Centurion of the Thirtieth On the Great Wall to children's fantasy Dymchurch Flit. Each story is bracketed by a poem which relates in some manner to the theme or subject of the story. Bernhard Tauchnitz unknown
1889ref. 07476A.H. Wheeler 1889 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. No. 2 second edition and no. 3 of the Indian Railway Series externally near fine with raised bands on the spine and no chipping or worn through spots front cover of the Gadsbys well chipped sometimes affecting the printing otherwise clean and complete Three-Quarter Leather. A.H. Wheeler hardcover
1926ref. 54567London: Macmillan and Co. 1926. First edition trade issue. First appearance of Kipling's introductory poem "The Downs The Weald and The Marshes" followed by 24 selections from Kipling's verses each accompanied by a full-page color Illustration by Maxwell. Small quarto gilt-stamped blue cloth; top edge gilt. Spine ends and corners bumped unavoidable darkening to endpapers otherwise very good to near fine in good to very good trimmed dust jacket that is slightly tanned at spine shows few faint tape shadows and 1/4" or so chipping at spine ends not affecting any lettering or design. Macmillan and Co. unknown
1893ref. 607443London: C. Sheard & Co 1893. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Three nested bifolia making 12 pages. Outer most bifolium separated along the bottom half of the fold "File Copy" stamp on the front cover and edgewear still a complete and very good copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "The Widow at Windsor." OCLC locates only three holdings and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. C. Sheard & Co unknown
1899ref. 583068London: Enoch & Sons / The Daily Mail 1899. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. 9pp. Wrappers. Notched along the spine with the pages numbered in ink by hand from once being bound within an album music shop stamp on the front wrapper rubbing to the exterior still a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "E & S 2703." "For every copy sold of this song one shilling goes to The Daily Mail fund for the relief of the sufferers by the war" from the front cover. This charitable effort by The Daily Mail to raise money for soldiers and their families during the Second Boer War was reportedly the first of its kind. Kipling wrote the lyrics specifically to be used in this fashion and is quoted as saying "It's catchpenny verse and I want it to catch just as many pennies as it can" going on to remark that it is not something he would ever care to reprint "so there is no need of copyrighting it in America. If anyone wants to sing it take care that the proceeds go to our men" Victoria and Albert Museum. The song was an enormous hit and though the exact amount raised is unknown it certainly succeeded in catching a lot of pennies. Enoch & Sons / The Daily Mail unknown
1906ref. 589623London: Charles Sheard & Co 1906. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Composer's name stamp and "File Copy" stamp on the front cover a bit of separation at the top and bottom of the fold of the outer bifolium else near fine. For voice and piano. One of Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads. OCLC locates only two copies and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. Charles Sheard & Co unknown
1890ref. 006269New York: John W. Lovell Company 1890. The second book of Kipling's to be published in America a collection of eight military stories .This is a very good copy of the First American Edition "Authorized".Decorative tan or light brown cloth binding featuring the three soldiers; with a facsimile signature of the author and the designation "Indian Tales - II' on the front cover. Clean text; 409 pages with five-pages of publisher's adverts in the rear. Mild wear at the margins; rear hinge cracked but holding well. The decorations and titles are faded but readable; worse on the spine. In an archival plastic protector. First American Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John W. Lovell Company Hardcover