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1916ref. 10916Garden City NY: Doubleday Page 1916. First Edition. 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cream wrappers printed in green; old fold else fine. In red morocco-backed case spine worn. First Edition. 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. One of a small number of copies published for American copyright. Stewart 400; Livingston 407 Doubleday, Page unknown
1925ref. 51609New York:: Privately Printed 1925. First edition in book form; No. 22 of 66 copies. original printed boards preserved in a quarter red morocco slipcase and chemise. Fine. 12mo. Livingston 501. Privately Printed, hardcover
1919ref. 51583Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1919. First Edition. One of 70 copies printed for copyright purposes. Slim octavo 20.5cm; publisher's original wrappers bound into full navy blue crushed morocco by The French Binders with five raised bands titles stamped in gilt on spine and covers with double-ruled borders and decorative corner pieces tooled in gilt on covers; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt; 8pp padded with 11 blank terminal leaves. Pinpoint wear else Fine. A poem first published in the Daily Telegraph 29 January 1919 concerning the young naval officers who were sent to Cambridge University for two terms between 1919-1922. LIVINGSTON 437. cf.Kipling Society website. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
1897ref. OCB14708New York: New York: D. Appleton and Company 1897. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American Edition. Marigold cloth covered boards with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Only very slight rubbing at head and tail. Unusually bright and clean. Bottom right edge of front board bumped approx 1/2 in. Near Fine to just shy of Fine. New York: D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1918ref. 51612Garden City:: Doubleday Page & Company 1918. First American edition - copyright. . original printed wrappers in a custom cloth slipcase and chemise. Very very slightest of light dust-soiling; a beautiful copy. 8vo. Richards A302. Privately distributed; one of 83 copies. Doubleday, Page & Company, hardcover
1925ref. 82667Garden City:: Doubleday Page & Company. Good. 1925. Hardcover. B001EUCL0W . Stated first edition. Octavo bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and design. Moderate shelf wear and aging brief gift inscription from 1925 on front free endpaper else good. No dust jacket. ; 576 pages . Doubleday, Page & Company, hardcover
1898ref. 035688New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1898. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Volumes 1 - 31 31 volumes hardcover books with reddish brown cloth covered boards small round white cameo inset on cover with gold line border; gold lettering and decoration on spines. Ranging from Good to Very Good condition most very good - dates of publication range from 1898 to 1926. Each has a different frontispiece illustration with clean tissue guard gilt top edges. . Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover
1904ref. 221112London Macmillan and Co. Limited 1904. 1904. First edition. 8vo. Full red cloth gilt stamped spine and upper cover t.e.g. Later issue tan dust jacket stamped in blue lists works in uniform edition priced at 7s 6d each. Very good-fine. No signatures or bookplates. Livingstone #289. F. Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. hardcover
ref. 1372450London: A.H. Wheeler & Co n.d. Mixed Editions. Hardcover. Octavo 96 104 96 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in half brown leather and dark green buckram with gilt lettering on spine. Minor shelfwear. Rubbing to leather. Light age-toning to textblock. Edges of textblock dyed speckled red. Pencil signature of previous owner on front free endpaper. Shelved in Case 2. "Under the Deodars" is third edition. "The Phantom 'Rickshaw" does not list edition. "Wee Willie Winkie" is fifth edition. 1372450. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. A.H. Wheeler & Co hardcover
1898ref. 80953London:: William Heinemann 1898. First English edition; Library issue on Japanese vellum with edges stained red and 1898 calendar. publisher's illustrated boards with vellum spine. The top 2-1/2 inches of the spine has been destroyed--otherwise an attractive copy with slight dust-soiling to the rear board. Folio. Illustrated throughout in color by William Nicholson. Words by Rudyard Kipling. Richards A105. William Heinemann, hardcover
1926ref. GBB-0103Publisher pending 1926. First of illustrated combined volume; F.H. Townsend. Original binding. Good/Good. Edition/issue: First of illustrated combined volume; F.H. Townsend. Binding/format: Original binding. Dust jacket: DJ. Condition: Good. Completeness: Complete. Publisher pending unknown
1901ref. 10957Doubleday Page & Company New York 1901. First Edition First State rhyming chapter headings only Ch. VIII and XIII of the First 1st Printing of the First Edition. Note: The U.S. edition preceded the U.K. edition by over two weeks. VG deep green cloth with distinct black ship stamped on both the front board and the spine alongside gold gilt lettering. See photos for top and bottom of spine. The top edge of the pages are bright gold leaf with side and bottom edges rough-cut deckeled. Inside cover previous owner's bookplate and again across from half title page. Some hinge separation 10 full-page black-and-white plates inside created specifically for the book by the author's father John Lockwood Kipling. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1901ref. 009004Toronto: George N. Morang & Co. Limited 1901. First Canadian edition. Hardcover. This is the Canadian edition of Kim considered to be Kiplings greatest work and the finest novel about the India of the British Empire. This first Canadian edition considerably scarcer than its U.S. and British counterparts was made up from the U.S. sheets with a cancel title leaf. The binding is the same dark green cloth illustrated with a black-stamped Kipling-designed Viking longship on a wave-crested sea on the front cover and spine but with the Canadian publisher "Morang" stamped in gilt at the spine heel. The title page features "George N. Morang & Co. Limited" rather than the U.S. publisher Doubleday. This is a lovely copy in very good condition. The green illustrated green cloth binding is square clean bright tight and sharp cornered. There is modest shelf wear to the bottom edges including a touch of fraying to the lower front cover corner wrinkling at the spine head and a few trivial blemishes including a triangle of mild dulling at the lower corner of the blank rear cover. The contents are notably clean with no spotting bright gilt top edges and mild age-toning primarily confined to the otherwise clean untrimmed fore and bottom edges. A single previous owner name initials and a surname is inked to the upper front free endpaper recto. The binding is protected beneath a clear removable mylar cover. Among Kiplings tales of India perhaps none eclipses his masterpiece Kim. Originally published in 1901 this is the story of Kimball OHara an Irish orphan who goes from begging on the streets of Lahore to being a spy for the British simultaneously taking a spiritual journey that conflicts with his new obligations to the Empire. Kims context is the Great Game that pitted Russia against Britain for control of the subcontinent in the wake of the Second Afghan War 1878-1880. Kiplings career as a journalist afforded him travel to the major cities of India a breadth of geographic experience with the subcontinent that informs the sweeping settings of Kim. U.S. Canadian and British first editions of Kim followed serialization in the United States in McClures Magazine from December 1900 through October 1901 and in Britain in Cassells Magazine from January through November 1901. Chosen by the New York Public Library as one of its books of the century Kim was Kiplings final book about India and was called magical upon publication. When the orphaned Kimball OHara joins a Buddhist lama in his search for the River of Healing the reader not only beholds a kaleidoscope of people and settings through Kims eyes but also feels the native social and spiritual currents of India moving beneath the political veneer of imperial ambitions and authority. Bengali critic Niraud Chaudhuri called Kim the finest novel in the English language dealing with an Indian theme. Kim was also included in the Modern Librarys list of the 100 best English-language books of the 20th century. Joseph Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 was an English poet short-story writer and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism stories and poems of British India and his tales for children. Despite this reputation Kiplings extraordinary body of work eludes all labels in its range and variety Kipling's work is not only of the highest artistic excellence it is deeply humane and fully expresses the sense of one of his favourite texts: Praised be Allah for the diversity of his creatures. Kipling was in his twenties when his stories of Anglo-Indian life made him a literary celebrity and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. Kipling was the first English language author awarded and remains the youngest person to receive the Prize. References: Richards A173; ODNB Books of the Century George N. Morang & Co., Limited hardcover
1932ref. 4Ticket in front pages signed by Rudyard Kipling. Slight scuffing on the cover. Macmillan & Co., Limited
1940ref. BL-002303Pettigrew AR: Burt Randle 1940. 34 pp. Approximately 1/2 x 3/8". LIMITED EDITION of unknown quantity usually done in 50 - 80 copies at most. Green leather cover which is rubbed and has a few spots on the rear cover paper label on front cover wire clasp. A very good copy scarce. Bradbury Burt Randle 5The miniature books published by Burt Randle were usually "photographic reproductions of his Randle's very small handwriting" according to Bradbury. This is a very tiny collection of some of Kipling's inspirational poetry. "Lest we forget" Burt Randle hardcover
1906ref. 1049841KIPLING Rudyard. Puck of Pook's Hill. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham A.R.W.S. NY: Doubleday Page and Company 1906. 12mo viii 277pp. Green cloth pictorially stamped in black and gold; t.e.g. 4 color plates. Light wear along edges spine cloth with a bit puckered tissue guard at frontispiece foxed with title page lightly so but frontispiece unaffected nonetheless a very sharp clean tight copy with stamped binding still bright. First US edition and first Rackham-illustrated edition. A series of fantasy stories set in various periods of English history told to two children by various figures plucked out of history by Puck the mischievous fairy from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Interestingly only this US edition features the four color plates by Rackham the British edition was instead illustrated solely in black-and-white by H.R. Millar. Doubleday, Page & Co hardcover
1938ref. 18875Paris: Librairie Delagrave 1938. 3/4 leather. Near Fine. E. Carlegle. #90 of 100 copies within the larger limitation of 1210 copies of this handsome 1938 French edition of Kipling's "Stalky & Co.". 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 E. Carlegle and "une suite speciale des gravures en bistro". Clean very attractive and Near Fine translated from its original Englsh by Paul Bettelheim and Rodolphe Thomas. Librairie Delagrave unknown
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
ref. 69975E-136. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Published by St. Martin's Press New York. 1931. 231 pgs. Illustrated with 16 color plates. Later Printing. Bound in decorated red cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities spine ends are bunmped and worn. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Mowgli lost in the deep jungle as a child is adopted into a family of wolves. Hunted by Shere Khan the Bengal tiger Mowgli is allowed to run with the wolf pack under the protection of Bagheera the black panther and Baloo the brown bear who teaches wolf cubs the Laws of the Jungle. Through his many adventures Mowgli evolves from a man-cub to a just and compassionate human being who at last returns to joinperhaps to leadhis own kind. W. Somerset Maugham calls Kipling our greatest short story writer and in The Jungle Books he says Kiplings great and varied gifts find their most brilliant expression. His most famous work effortlessly captures the imagination and has inspired beloved film adaptations including Disney's The Jungle Book as well as readers the world over. Edward Julius Detmold 21 November 1883 Putney Wandsworth Surrey - 1 July 1957 Montgomery and his twin brother Charles Maurice Detmold were prolific Victorian book illustrators. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . hardcover
1907ref. 16951Montreal: The Montreal Daily Star. Very Good. 1907. First Edition. Magazine. The covers are soiled. The magazine was printed with covers about 1/4" overlapping the contents; this overlap is very rubbed with some chipping. Undecipherable pencil notes at the top of the front cover. Contains the scarce 2 page work "The Grey Dress" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 116ads pages . The Montreal Daily Star unknown
1895ref. b11547New York: Evening Post Publishing Co. 1895. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Boas and Kipling both write signed letters to the editor in these issues. Near fine in original three-quarter leather and marbled-paper boards. Shelfwear on the bottom edge with a small rubber stamp library names and two stickers on the front pastedown but no other markings and brief foxing on the endpapers. Brief marginal foxing but no other marks within the text. Evening Post Publishing Co. hardcover
1890ref. BB2578Allahabad / London: Published by Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington Ld. St. Dunstan's House Fetter Lane from 1888 1890. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. First English Edition third overall of this collection of short stories. Indian Railway Library Number 4. Demy 8vo 214 x 135mm: 96pp with Indian title page. Publisher's grey-green illustrated paper wrappers design re-engraved from the first Indian edition with carriage umbrella tipped to left and several other modifications printed in black "Price One Shilling" top of front cover back cover with vignette of lady's face partially covered by fan. Pages occasionally spotted but a collectible copy of this fragile production tightly bound in original wrappers and generally clean throughout. Richards A37. Stewart 48. Martindell 31 misdated 1889. Livingston 39. Grolier 91. First published in 1888 in Allahabad collecting six stories which originally appeared earlier that year in The Week's News. This edition published shortly thereafter and in the same graphic format but according to Stewart with text revised. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Published by Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ld., St. Dunstan's House Fetter Lane [from unknown
1901ref. mon0000128566Bernhard Tauchnitz 1901-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Hardback/Hardcover. Clean text sound binding. Bernhard Tauchnitz hardcover
1908ref. 05456ABAFT THE FUNNEL B. W. Dodge 1908 first edition second state pictorial binding with lettering in red as opposed to gold fine in like pictorial dust-wrapper. Collects many pieces that were originally printed in the Civil and Military Gazette which were first collected in Turn-overs around 1889. B. W. Dodge 1908 unknown books
1891ref. 014252London United Kingdom: Allahbad: Published By Messrs A H Wheeler & Co London: Sampson Low Marston & Company Ltd 1891. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First UK edition First Printing. Pp.86. n.d circa 1891. Original illustrated wrappers cloth internally pages unmarked. Adverts to the rear cover and inside front cover and rear cover.Tight binding the wrappers have chips and wear to the extremities. Errata slip before title as called for. Small label to front by previous owner with date of purchase 2014 . Allahbad: Published By Messrs A H Wheeler & Co ,London: Sampson Low Marston & Company Ltd Paperback
