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1938ref. 18874Paris: Librairie Delagrave 1938. 3/4 leather. Near Fine. Georges Leroux. #90 of 100 copies within the larger limitation of 1210 copies of this handsome 1938 French edition of Kipling's "On the City Wall". Bound in 3/4 pebbled green morocco over marbled boards. 3 raised bands bright gilt-tilting and lovely Art Deco gilt-tooling along the spine. Matching marbled endsheets and pastedowns the original wrappers bound-in. As part of the limitation of 100 copies includes the 12 extra plates-in-color by Georges Leroux and "une suite speciale des gravures en bistro". Clean very attractive and Near Fine translated from its original Englsh by Louis Fabulet. Librairie Delagrave unknown books
1898ref. 55180Chicago: R. H. Russell. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Original oversized cloth-backed boards. First US edition. Ex-University library with spine number small sticker to front cover three bookplates some bookplate remnants and blindstamps on each illustration. Edges and points exposed. . ; quarto . R. H. Russell hardcover
1911ref. 38303Oxford: at the Clarendon Press. London Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton 1911. First English Edition. Illustrated by Henry Ford. 250 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Blue cloth stamped in white maps on endpapers. Fine. First English Edition. Illustrated by Henry Ford. 250 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Stewart 356 at the Clarendon Press. London Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton unknown
1909ref. 191633London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909. First trade edition. Hardcover. An attractive edition of this work by Kipling. Features 30 tipped in color plates along with some additional black and white illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. A close to near fine copy in illustrated blue cloth boards with all tissue guards present and with some scattered foxing to the page edges and internally some very minor fraying to the base of the spine and a small vintage bookstore sticker to the rear pastedown. No dust jacket. Despite the minor flaws a very pleasing copy. Hodder & Stoughton unknown
1909ref. 010439New York: B. W. Dodge & Co. 1909. First Edition. hardcover. Hinge cracked at the rear but very tight; covers bright and fresh. The dustwrapper is complete with only minor chipping at the spine tips and corners. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Livingston 328. Pirated Edition preceding the first edition of this collection of stories. This is one of the last copies to be bound with the front cover lettered in red rather than gold. B. W. Dodge & Co. hardcover
1909ref. DOY 9London: MACMILLAN 1909. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. FIRST. A NEAR FINE FIRST EDITION IN NEAR FINE SCARCE DUST JACKET. MACMILLAN Hardcover
1893ref. 228647Boston Perry Mason & Co. 1893. 1893. First edition thus. Folio. Complete issue pages 501-512. Illustrations. Some tears and old repairs at folds. Enclosed in 1/2 brown morocco slipcase. Scarce. Kipling's contribution appears on pages 506 507. See Livingston p. 171 #140. Soft cover. Very Good. Boston [Perry Mason & Co.] 1893. paperback
1897ref. 45302New York: The Century Co 1897. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and black gilt and orange pictorial and decorative stamping. viii 323pp. Frontispiece 20 full-page called-for plates. Very good. Internally tight and near fine though binding is a bit edgeworn and the cloth "flecked" with a few stray small spots on spine and rear board; small homely gouge at lower left of front board. A tight and decent first edition of this great seafaring adventure in a binding that's well-loved but still fairly attractive with front board gilt bright. The illustrations by Walton Taber 1857-1933 are pristine. The Century Co hardcover
ref. FORT299521The Folio Society. Used - Very Good. Five volume set 5 volume set. Includes slipcase. Collected Short Stories: 5 Volume Set The Folio Society unknown
1913ref. 149048New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1913. First edition of this selection of lines from Kipling's works for each day of the year. Duodecimo bound in full suede with gilt titles to the front panel pictorial endpapers frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In very good condition inscription to the second free endpaper. 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. Thomas Y. Crowell Company unknown
1887ref. H40153London: Illustrated London News 1887. Hardcover. Good. Folio 15.75 x 12.25 inches old half leather and moire cloth boards good to very good light wear to binding some rubbing and weakening along outer joints small piece of leather missing from head of spine title on spine erroneously indicates this volume only contains Xmas numbers for 1897-98 when it actually contains quite a few others dating back to 1887 contents very good and sharp with original covers bound in. Contains both the 1887 and 1897 Jubilee issues the 1897 one entitled "Her Majesty's Glorious Jubilee.The Record Number of a Record Reign" has page after page of full page chromolithographs 12 in all plus covers very lavish and elaborate illustrations with the text pages having gilt decorated borders. Other issues include: Summer 1889 Summer 1890 both with Bret Harte stories Christmas 1890 Kipling's "Mr. Hauksbee Sits Out" Summer 1891 Christmas 1891 Bret Harte's "Their Uncle from California" Hardy's "The Son's Veto" and Barrie's "The Inconsiderate Waiter" Christmas 1892 Chromo cover Mrs. Moleworth's fairy tale "Princess Ice-Heart" Louis Wain illustrations of rabbits and dogs Frank Stockton story July 10 1893 "Wedding Number" marriage of Prince George to Princess Mary of Teck many engravings and articles about the royal families Summer 1894 "The Eternal Femine" by Israel Zangwill Bret Harte's "A Rose of Glenbogie" the aforementioned 1897 Jubilee issue with text by Sir Walter Besant; Summer 1898 H. G. Wells "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" a 2 pp. ballad by Cecil Aldin illustrated in color Bret Harte's "The Man and the Mountain" Christmas 1898 full page Louis Wain plate of cats in a snowball fight and much else. Lots of engravings some double-page throughout. Illustrated London News hardcover
ref. 00136London: Macmillan and Co. 1903. The Songs from Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories" KIPLING Rudyard. The Just So Song Book. Being the Songs from Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. Set to Music by Edward German. London: Macmillan and Co. 1903. First edition. Large quarto 12 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches; 311 x246 mm. 2 62 pp. Music. Original dark red cloth pictorially stamped in black on front cover and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Small area of slight discoloration on back cover. Front hinge hints at starting. Title tissue guard slightly browned and with a short tear at lower margin. Otherwise a fine copy. A charming and scarce musical companion to Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories issued at the height of his popularity and designed for domestic performance. Edward German's settings - by turns playful lyrical and theatrically assured -translate Kipling's rhythmic verse into songs intended for both children and adults reflecting the Edwardian taste for cultivated family entertainment. Books combining Kipling's texts with original musical settings were produced in relatively small numbers and were often heavily used making clean copies increasingly difficult to find. This first edition of The Just So Song Book survives as an appealing example of early twentieth-century literary music publishing and an important adjunct to Kipling's most beloved work. "The texts of the twelve poems contained in the Just So Stories 1902 are here set to music by Edward German. The last song 'Rolling down to Rio' is substituted for 'I've never sailed the Amazon' which is here omitted" Stewart. Livingston 270 describing the first American edition. Stewart 269-A. London: Macmillan and Co., 1903 unknown
1901ref. 74264New York:: Doubleday Page & Company 1901. First edition; first printing. publisher's pictorial green cloth t.e.g. A very slightly shaken and shelf-slanted copy; light use to cloth. 8vo. Illustrated. Doubleday, Page & Company, hardcover
1917ref. 10917Garden City NY: Doubleday Page 1917. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo 8 pp. Original cream wrappers printed in green fine. In red morocco-backed case spine worn. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo 8 pp. One of a small number of copies published for American copyright. Stewart 455; Livingston 419 Doubleday, Page unknown
1891ref. 006850New York: United States Book Company Successor to John W. Lovell Company 1891. This is a Very Good copy of the First American "Authorized" Edition also designated on the cover as "Indian Tales - IV". Uncmmon in this printing. Tan cloth binding with titling in maroon; ruled and with a printed male Indian on the cover. Clean text; frontis illustration of Kipling; xxvi 268 pages oddly th text begins at page eleven. The Introduction is by Henry James. The spine is lightly faded as is the titling.; the front cover printing is rubbed but remains clear. In an archival plastic protector. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. United States Book Company Successor to John W. Lovell Company Hardcover
1930ref. 200070New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1930. Limited to 537 copies 525 of which are numbered and for sale. Good See Comments. No covers 6 exposed cords. xviii 1-6 7-393 pp. with facsimile frontis of Kipling's manuscript for "The Thousandth Man" printed as frontispiece to vol. I with tissue guard. Title page printed in red and black. I have two of these copies of Volume 1 each numbered and signed 41 and 42. They were never bound and both retain their untrimmed cords and temporary endpapers beyond those intended to be bound. They have spent the last 90 years together in the stockroom of a venerable but now closed New York City bookstore. They both retain their limitation page signed by Kipling and numbered. Please be aware you are buying an bound book as delivered by the publisher to the binders. Several possible uses for these volumes are evident an explanation for why they were never bound and where the other two volumes for each of these is are more distant and hypothetical bordering on fantasy. Beyonbd being lovely Kipling items and complete in their own right these volumes sold by the piece are a scarce representation of how books leave the printer's for the binder's. "First edition."/ "This edition printed from type that has now been distributed is limited to five hundred and thirty-seven sets. Twelve of these are for presentation. The first volume of each of the remaining five hundred and twenty-five numbered sets is signed by the author"--Front fly-leaf. Pictures upon request. The London printing of this set was accomplished in 1929 and included a signed etching of Kipling as the frontis. Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc unknown
1906ref. 13138New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine. First edition of Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Octavo 277pp. Green cloth title stamped in gilt on spine illustrations stamped in black on front cover. Stated "Published October 1906" on copyright page. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's signature in ink on front free endpaper. Complete with frontispiece and three color illustrations by Arthur Rackham. A near fine example. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
1926ref. 44499London:: Macmillan 1926. First edition. publisher's blue cloth in dust jacket. Some minor bubbling to the cloth and slight use at extremities; otherwise a nice copy in a dust-soiled jacket with a few tiny chips and some minor edgewear. 4to. Illustrated in color by Donald Maxwell. With an Introductory Poem by Rudyard Kipling. Macmillan, hardcover
1899ref. 013511Boston: Desmond Publishing Co 1899. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Salesman's dummy for the six volume set sold by subscription. With frontispiece portrait title page 5 photogravure plates w/tissue guards and about 10 pages of text with some duotones. Though title page is for Soldiers Three the elements in the book appear to be from it and the other five books in this Desmond edition of Selected Works: Mine Own People Phantom Rickshaw Plain Tales from the Hill The Light that Failed and Back Room Ballads as listed in the prospectus printed on the front pastdown. Some foxing solid binding. Desmond Publishing Co hardcover
1891ref. 265647Allahabad: Wheeler 1891. paperback. good. 96pp thin 8vo printed gray green wrappers; lightly edge-chipped. Allahabad & London: A.H. Wheeler & Sampson Low Marston n.d. 1891. First English Edition. Volume XIV of the Indian Railway Library. Errata slip attached to title page. Wheeler unknown
1898ref. 611705London: Macmillan 1898. Hardcover. Fine. First English edition. Octavo. Blue cloth gilt. A fine copy. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. Slipcase shows some wear but it has protected the book which is bright and fresh splendidly. Macmillan hardcover
1898ref. 613212Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company 1898. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition by this publisher likely a piracy. 12mo. Green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt. Offsetting on endpapers from jacket flaps near fine in lightly worn near fine dust jacket. Rare in jacket. Henry Altemus Company hardcover
1930ref. 10921Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran 1930. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo 24pp. Original cream wrappers printed in green fine. In red morocco-backed case. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo 24pp. One of a small number of copies printed for American copyright. Stewart 579; Livingston 549 Doubleday, Doran unknown
1905ref. 55777Boston: Alfred Bartlett / The Village Press No-date 1905. Second edition. But first edition to be printed by the Goudys at their Village Press. Corrects several mistakes in the printing done by Carl Rollins. Both editions and a third done by Cornhill Press in 1909 were unauthorized printings of Kipling's poem "The Gipsy Trail" which first appeared in Century Magazine in 1890. One of 1000 copies in the trade issue. Cary 27. Dark gray paper boards measuring approximately 4 x 4.75"; title page and front cover label printed in black and red; frontis woodcut by E. B. Bird. Small chips from head and tail of spine otherwise near fine with tattered and torn remnants of original glassine still present. STEVENSON POETRY CALLING CARD laid in. Approximately 4 x 2.75"; untitled; rubricated initial "G" in red with rest of poem as well as Stevenson's initials printed in black; "Alfred Bartlett in caps/ 69 Cornhill Boston Mass." in black on back. Would appear to have been printed by The Village Press though not marked as such on card. Alfred Bartlett / (The Village Press) unknown
1936ref. 612253Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1936. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Octavo. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards with frontispiece and plates in color. Slight age-toning at the hinges from the binder's glue else fine in price-clipped very good or better dust jacket with a couple of short tears a little rubbing on the spine and foxing on the rear panel. A nice fresh copy. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover
