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1918ref. 406898Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1918. Some light soiling and toning generally near-fine. 8vo. 8 pages. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers; green cloth chemise and slipcase. First edition of this poem printed for copyright purposes. Ricvhardson A312; Stewart 461. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1943ref. 122437Cambridge Massachusetts: Houghton Library 1943. First edition in book form of this previously unpublished letter written by Kipling to William Joshua Harding seeking an army commission for his son John. Octavo original wrappers as issued. One of only seventy-five numbered copies this is number 32. In fine condition. Rare. Kipling's son John was about three years old when this letter was written. Despite his son's short-sightedness Kipling sought to get him an army commission when the First World War broke out in August 1914. John was killed in the Battle of Loos causing his family immense grief and placing a great strain on the marriage as Kipling's wife had strongly opposed his enlisting. Later Kipling wrote of him "I had a boy who came near writing stories about Kangaroos and Queensland pearl-fishers. But another call came and Johnny went to France where the stars are still shining although Johnny's drum has ceased to beat." Houghton Library unknown books
1917ref. WRCLIT41419Garden City: Doubleday 1917. Cream wrappers printed in green. Wrappers slightly creased and dusty; about very good. First U.S. edition of this war poem one of 114 copies printed for copyright purposes. RICHARDS A298 STEWART 455. REILLY WWI p.189. Doubleday unknown books
1899ref. WRCLIT80643London: Macmillan and Co. 1899. Gilt red cloth t.e.g. First British edition. Endsheets moderately tanned and foxed 1899 ownership inscription on half-title a few spots to fore-edges ROBERTS A145. STEWART 195. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1899ref. WRCLIT55743London: Macmillan and Co. 1899. Gilt red cloth t.e.g. First British edition. Lower fore-corners bumped cloth a bit hand- soiled small nick in inner hinge otherwise a good or better copy. ROBERTS A145. STEWART 195. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1933ref. WRCLIT41435Garden City: Doubleday 1933. Cream wrappers printed in green. Lower edge of upper wrapper creased else fine in somewhat faded folding cloth slipcase. First edition. One of about 75 copies printed for copyright purposes and preceding the UK edition. RICHARDS A410. STEWART 616. Doubleday hardcover books
1933ref. WRCLIT60723Garden City: Doubleday 1933. Cream wrappers printed in green. Small nick at fore-edge of upper wrapper else very near fine. First edition printed for copyright purposes and preceding the UK edition. RICHARDS A415. STEWART 616. Doubleday unknown books
1921ref. WRCLIT20538Garden City: Doubleday 1921. Parchment and gilt boards. First American edition previously printed as a pamphlet in Britain. One of 108 copies. Parchment slightly mellowed typical offsetting to endsheets collector's bookplate on pastedown but a very good copy. RICHARDS A334. STEWART 550. Doubleday hardcover books
1928ref. WRCLIT83685New York: Doubleday Doran & Company 1928. Cream wrapper printed in green. A few small spots on upper wrapper otherwise near fine in half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition. One of 75 copies published to protect copyright in the U.S. RICHARDS A377. STEWART 562. LIVINGSTON 527. Doubleday, Doran & Company unknown books
1919ref. 406897Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1919. Some light soiling and toning generally near-fine. 8vo. 8 pages. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers; green cloth chemise and slipcase. First edition of this poem printed for copyright purposes in an edition of 70 copies. Richardson A318; Stewart 528. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1895ref. 2189954Century Co 1895. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Kipling John Lockwood. First American edition preceding the UK release by several days with a number of alterations to the text. One of two binding variants no priority. Spine toned edges rubbed ink name & pencil gift note dated Christmas 1895 on front endpaper. We have more books available by this author!. 324 pp. 8vo. A sequel to the children's classic The Jungle Book -- which inspired the classic Disney animated film as well as the 2016 live action motion picture -- with illustrations by the author's father John Lockwood Kipling. Century Co hardcover books
1925ref. WRCLIT41422Garden City: Doubleday 1925. Cream wrappers printed in green. Light foxing to title leaf and upper wrapper small nick at top of upper wrapper else very good or better. First American edition. One of sixty-three copies printed for copyright purposes. STEWART 557. RICHARDS A354. Doubleday unknown books
1890ref. WRCLIT74046Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1890. 48512pp. Later somewhat crude quarter gilt calf and cloth boards original wrappers bound in. Lower and upper forecorners of upper wrapper cut away some modest soiling closed tear in from gutter in rear wrapper no loss; a sound copy with two booksellers' descriptions tipped in both in error. To all appearances one of the 3000 copies of the first British printing exported for sale in India but without either the London co- imprint on the title or the denotation "Third Edition." STEWART 34ref. RICHARDS A34ref. A.H. Wheeler & Co. hardcover books
ref. 4026LONDON METHUEN 1919. FIRST TRADE EDITION VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. LONDON, METHUEN, 1919 unknown books
ref. 03541New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. First American Edition With Illustrations By Arthur Rackham Not Found in the British Edition RACKHAM Arthur illustrator. Rudyard Kipling. Puck of Pook's Hill. New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. First American edition with illustrations by Arthur Rackham not present in the first U.K. edition. Octavo 8 x 5 1/4 inches; 203 x 132 mm. 10 277 1 blank pp. Four color plates including frontispiece. Original green cloth pictorially stamped in black with gilt lettering to upper board and spine. Top edge gilt others untrimmed. Neat ownership signature to front free-endpaper. A very good copy. The first U.K. edition issued later in October 1906 than this first American had illustrations by H.R. Millar as well as many insignificant differences to the text Latimore and Haskell p. 28. Riall p. 75. Livingston 300. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906 unknown books
1908ref. 861P33London: Francis Griffiths 1908. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A scarce first edition science fiction novel depicting a war between Britain and the States versus Japan and Germany. The first edition of this scarce work.A 'Future War' genre novel by American author Arthur Wellesley Kipling.'The New Dominion' is sci-fi novel in which the USA and Britain are fighting against Japan and Germany an eerie prediction of the Second World War.Four pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally smart with a mark to the front board and a small mark to the rear board. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spots to the fore edge. Ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright with some spotting. Very Good Francis Griffiths hardcover
1914ref. 1062London: The Daily Telegraph in conjunction with The Daily Sketch The Glasgow Herald and Hodder and Stoughton. 1914. First edition. Presented by King George V to S. Lawes of the 1st Royal Berkshire Regiment at the 4th London General Hospital Denmark Hill on Christmas Day 1914 inscribed to front free endpaper. Quarto. Publisher's original cream cloth with decorative titles in green to the upper board and spine. Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece 16 tipped-in colour plates 1 further colour plate and 10 black and white plates. Additional printed presentation plate to front pastedown: "King Albert's Book with Sir Francis Trippel's Best Wishes for a Happy Xmas a Speedy Recovery and a Victorious New Year Xmas 1914". 188pp. A very good copy the binding square and firm with marking and darkening to the boards. The contents with toning to the endpapers scattered foxing and creasing to the corners of some of the tipped-in plates are otherwise in very good order. Inscribed in black ink to the front free endpaper: "S. Lawes. 1st Royal Berkshire. / December 25th - IH. / 4th London Genera Hospital / Denmark Hill. / Presented by His Majesty King George V" not in the King's hand. Published in aid of the Belgium Fund the work includes contributions from over 250 figures from the worlds of literature art politics music and science. Certainly not an uncommon book but an evocative copy presented by King George V to a wounded soldier on Christmas Day 1914 just five months in to the First World War. London: The Daily Telegraph in conjunction with The Daily Sketch, The Glasgow Herald, and Hodder and Stoughton. hardcover
1977ref. 017276Published for the Sir Thomas Browne Institute. Leiden University Press 1977. Inscribed on free endpaper by Kipling also a typed letter signed by Kipling. Book measures 22x14.cm. xiv188pp. Bound in original publishers maroon cloth with gilt crest and lettering. Binding in near fine condition. Internally pages very clean. . Signed by Author. Cloth. Very Good Plus. 8vo. Published for the Sir Thomas Browne Institute. Leiden University Press Hardcover
1901ref. 72326London Macmillan and Co. 1901. 8vo. 6411pp. Frontispiece and nine plates. First edition. unknown
2005ref. 20568London: The Folio Society 2005. A first Folio Society edition first printing of Collected Short Stories by Rudyard Kipling published by The Folio Society London in 2005 in five volume set comprising Volume One: Plain Tales from the Hills and Soldiers Three and Other Stories introduced by Andrew Lycett Volume Two: Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories and Life's Handicap Volume Three: Many Inventions and The Day's Work Volume Four: Traffics and Discoveries Actions and Reactions and A Diversity of Creatures Volume Five: A Diversity of Creatures continued Debits and Credits and Limits and Renewals all volumes illustrated throughout by Philip Bannister. A set of very fine books free from internal inscriptions orange cloth bound graphically illustrated boards gilt titling and similarly illustrated to the spines text blocks are bright and crisp. In an orange paper bound pictorial slip case. The Folio Society hardcover
1895ref. KIPLINGR001375W. Thacker Calcutta. 1895. Eighth edition. Octavo. pp viii 125 3. Illustrated by Dudley Cleaver. 24-page publisher's catalogue at rear dated May 1895. Original burgundy buckram covers with large gilt device of manuscript papers to front bevelled edges there was also an issue in blue cloth. Patterned endpapers.Contemporary 1895 ownership signature on verso of front free endpaper. Edges slightly spotted. Very good indeed. A very bright copy. W. Thacker, Calcutta. hardcover
1892ref. Q424Calcutta: Thacker Spink and Co 1892. Seventh Edition . Hardback. Vg. small 8vo. 125 24 pp. pub. cat. No 51 dated July 1892. Blue buckram gilt embossed picture on front cover and small black crest on back cover. Floral end-paperscracked but sound and neat owners name to f.f.e.p. 7th Indian Edition of Kipling's first book. A lovely copy with no fading and internally very clean. Printed by William Clowes and Sons Limited London. Please Email for photos Thacker, Spink and Co hardcover
1890ref. 1300079New York: United States Book Company successors to John W. Lovell 1890. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This has the first issue binding with Lovell shown on spine. Internally fine owners signature in an early neat hand on inside front cover slight markings on endpapers look to be from a protective wrapper hinges professionally repaired. The cover first issue with Lovell shown on spine is bright ; teg . A nice copy. United States Book Company successors to John W. Lovell Hardcover
1913ref. 1476183139722First edition thus first impression with coloured illustrations London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1913. Originally published in 1902. Quarto. Original dark blue cloth gilt-lettered and elaborately gilt-decorated on the upper board and spine with an elephant medallion design; gilt rules to boards. Top edge gilt. The binding is somewhat tender but all holding firm and square with only light rubbing to extremities and a couple of knocks to corners. The gilt remains notably bright and well defined. Internally the text is clean and sound with the occasional faint spot of foxing chiefly to the preliminary and terminal leaves. A little loss to top corner of first three leaves with an early gift inscription - unobtrusive and neatly penned - to the front free endpaper. The coloured plates by Joseph M. Gleeson remain fresh and vivid. A handsome example of the first coloured illustrated edition of Just So Stories incorporating Gleeson's celebrated colour plates for the first time. Macmillan & Co. hardcover
1912ref. 004068Original photographic portrait. KIPLING Rudyard 1865-1936. Photographic portrait c.1912. 150 x 205 mm. Matte photographic print on stout card. Very good the image clean and well preserved with only light handling wear and a few insignificant surface marks to the corner tips and blank reverse. A handsome vintage photographic portrait of Rudyard Kipling shown in profile holding his characteristic pipe. The image appears to date from around 1912 depicting Kipling at the height of his literary career shortly after receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 and during the period in which he produced works including Rewards and Fairies and A Diversity of Creatures. The pose closely resembles portraits made during Kipling's 1912 studio sitting with E.O.Hoppe although the present photograph is unsigned and the photographer has not been identified. An attractive period literary portrait of the author of The Jungle Book. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1912. Original photographic portrait paperback
