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1932réf. 13376HIS APOLOGIES Doubleday Doran 1932 first edition head of spine ever so gently bumped else fine in a bit chipped glassine dust-wrapper. Illustrated by Cecil Alden. Rare in dust-wrapper. Doubleday, Doran unknown
1901réf. 13377KIM Doubleday & Page 1901 first edition first issue a brilliant fine copy. Illustrated. Doubleday & Page unknown
1895réf. 33870New York: G.W.Dillingham 1895. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. OUT OF INDIA First American Edition decorated in green and gilt on the original beige cloth pictorial covered boards. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. G.W.Dillingham hardcover
1907réf. 18071THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK Century 1907 upper fore edge corner tips lightly bumped else near fine in black pictorial stamped green cloth binding with gold-gilt lettering and vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and dust-soil. Most uncommon in dust-wrapper but you already know that. Century hardcover
1904réf. 13380TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES Macmillan 1904 first edition just about fine in vg/near fine dust-wrapper. Macmillan & Company unknown
réf. 9483New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Hardcover. Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. Vulumes 1-28 of the Outward Bound edition. Issued over a period of time this set grew to 36 volumes over a period of many years. Dates on this set range from 1899 - 1920. all volumes have clean clear pages b&w frontis with printed tissue guard other b&w illustrations within. Two copies bear an owners signature and one has light pencil marking inside the front cover otherwise they are unmarked. They are bound in red cloth save volume 28 which matches in olive the front of 28 is sunned the front covers each have a gold border and white medallion in the center with an embossed elephant. This medallion is bordered in gold. Spines have gold lettering and a very nice art nouveau floral decoration in gold. Top edges gilt. A few volumes show wear at the top of the spine. The state of the hinges is thus: V.7 broken hinges v 20 front hinge broken v14 back hing just starting vols 8.10.14 hinges barely starting. All others quite firm. Corners are sharp. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1901réf. 13377KIM Doubleday & Page 1901 first edition first issue a brilliant fine copy. Illustrated. Doubleday & Page unknown books
1907réf. 18071THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK Century 1907 upper fore edge corner tips lightly bumped else near fine in black pictorial stamped green cloth binding with gold-gilt lettering and vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and dust-soil. Most uncommon in dust-wrapper but you already know that. Century hardcover books
1904réf. 13380TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES Macmillan 1904 first edition just about fine in vg/near fine dust-wrapper. Macmillan & Company unknown books
1932réf. 13376HIS APOLOGIES Doubleday Doran 1932 first edition head of spine ever so gently bumped else fine in a bit chipped glassine dust-wrapper. Illustrated by Cecil Alden. Rare in dust-wrapper. Doubleday, Doran unknown books
1980réf. 191002Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Leather Bound. Book accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines.; First Easton Press Edition. Easton Press hardcover
1953réf. ZB251421LONDON 1953. volumes 20 22-23 25 43 47-48 56-62 66 69-71 1953-1997 mostly original paper wrappers PRICE IS FOR THE LOT. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. LONDON unknown
réf. 39735comprising two tickets to the Funeral Service at Westminster Abbey on the 23rd January 1936 giving access to the West Cloister Door via Dean's Yard together with the printed Order of Service 4 pages 4to. and a cutting from a newspaper of his poem 'Bonfires on the Ice' in 1933 the funeral 23rd January unknown
1894réf. 003469London : Macmillan Company 1894 Bound in blue cloth with gilt decorations 212 pp. second impression of the first edition published in June 1894. First printing was May 1894. Of interest there is a copy of a period photo of Kipling pasted inside the rear cover. This book has wear at the extremities and is somewhat cocked. Front hinge is cracked exposing the webbing and rear hinge is starting. Text block itself is fine possibly unread. Macmillan Company hardcover
1926réf. 3992LONDON MACMILLAN 1926 1926. DUST JACKET FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD-FINE. F. Hardcover. LONDON, MACMILLAN, 1926 hardcover
1902réf. 27402London: Macmillan and Co. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Ends of spine rubbed. 11mm tear to cloth at head of front joint. 20mm tear to cloth at tail of front joint. Some rubbing to joints and edges of boards. Rear board with some flecking to cloth. Front hinge loosened with split to gutter at page 1. A 6mm tear to lower margin of one leaf pp.9-19 with paper tape repair. Some foxing. Some fingermarks to margins. Previous owner's rubber name stamp on front endpaper. ; First printing. 2 blank 6 249 2 1 blank pages. Red cloth boards with white lettering on spine and front board white and black illustrations to boards. Page dimensions: 232 x 173mm. Illustrated by the author. 12 stories: How the Whale got his Throat; How the Camel got his Hump; How the Rhinoceros got his Skin; How the Leopard got his Spots; The Elephant's Chld; The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo; The Beginning of the Armadilloes; How the First Letter was Written; The Crab that Played with the Sea; The Cat that Walked by Himself; The Butterfly that Stamped. Reference: Livingston 267 . Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1919réf. 150552London: Methuen & Co 1919. First British edition of this broadside poem in six stanzas with two on front and remaining four on back. Octavo stiff cream paper printed in black on both sides with exterior double frame rule and interior single rule "between which the names of towns and villages laid waste by the Germans in World War I are printed in capitals" Richards A315. In very good condition. Methuen & Co unknown
1901réf. 153691901. London: Macmillan and Co. 1901. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with Ganesha device in gilt. First English Edition of the book that "is acknowledged as Kipling's masterpiece in fiction. The novel is the finest written about the India of the British Empire" CGEL. It follows the adventures of an orphan son of a British soldier who is raised by an Indian woman becomes a disciple to a Lama and ultimately becomes an undercover agent as well. The illustrations are by John Lockwood Kipling the author's father. The American edition is considered to have been published earlier though in the same month as the English one. As with most of Kipling's British editions published by Macmillan the binding is red cloth with in gilt the "Ganesha" device -- an elephant's head with a swastika the latter had been a ubiquitous symbol in India for millennia; its use ceased in the early 1930s when events in Germany gave the symbol a whole new meaning. This is a very good copy front endpaper slightly cracked at the gutter light speckling of the cloth plus one small stain on the rear cover; as always there is some foxing of the endpapers and of the frontispiece tissue guard and there is minor rubbing of the gilt elephant. Richards A174; Stewart 254; Livingston 250. One of the books selected as a "Modern Library 100" for the 20th Century. unknown
1933réf. 158391933. Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Company 1933. Original light yellow wrappers lettered in green. First Editions being the American copyright issues -- 75 copies each issued two weeks apart in March 1933 to coincide with their periodical appearances in French and in English. This is a series of sketches that together form a personal memoir documenting Kipling's lifelong affection for France from a childhood trip with his father to the Paris Exhibition of 1878 to beyond the Great War. This title was published four months later in England bound in blue cloth. Both volumes are in fine condition. Richards A412; Stewart 600. unknown
1926réf. 120430London: J. A. Allen & Co 1926. First separate edition first issue of this report issued on the occasion of Kipling's acceptance of the gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature. Octavo original wrappers. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard 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. Kipling was presented by Lord Balfour with the gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature at the centenary banquet of the society of the New Prince's Galleries Piccadilly on Wednesday July 7 1926. J. A. Allen & Co unknown
1891réf. 3962Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co. . Good. First British Edition. Flexible covers. Covers frail and with moderate chipping. Professionally repaired with japonese tissue paper. Errata slip nicely tape repaired.; Including errata sheet bound-in.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 96 pages . 1891. A. H. Wheeler & Co. unknown
1903réf. 148872London: Methuen and Co 1903. Finely bound edition of Kipling's notable poetry collection. Duodecimo bound in three-quarters morocco with gilt titles and pictorial tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands all edges gilt marbled endpapers title page vignette. In very good condition inscription to the second free endpaper. First published in 1903 Kipling's The Five Nations included a number of new poems as well as several that had been previously published notably Recessional of 1897. In 1903 the United Kingdom consisted of four nations: England Ireland Scotland and Wales. It was soon suggested that Kipling's "five nations" were the "five free nations of Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa i.e. Cape Colony and 'the islands of the sea' i.e. the British Isles" - all dominated by Britons; and except in the last case by recent settlers. That suggestion was endorsed some one hundred years later. Methuen and Co unknown
1903réf. 196092London Methuen 1903. 1903. First edition first state p.56. Small 8vo. Original 1/2 vellum over light blue boards t.e.g. uncut. Paper label on spine. Very good. One of only 200 large paper copies on handmade watermarked Arnold unbleached large paper. Livingston 279. F. Hardcover. London, Methuen, 1903. hardcover
1895réf. 35938London: Macmillan and Co 1895. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. J. Lockwood Kipling. 1st edition 1895. A Very Good copy. 12mo. 238 pp. bound in publishers blue cloth with gilt snake on front cover titles in gilt on spine all edges gilt. Spine is tanned and dulled minor rubbing to tips. Front hinge starting. Previous owners brief inscription on end paper otherwise text appears unmarked. Macmillan and Co hardcover
1896réf. 121694New York: D. Appleton and Company 1896. First American edition of this collection of Kipling’s poetry published October 30 1896 the same day as the English edition. Octavo original publisher's elaborately decorated cloth top edge gilt with others untrimmed. 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. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
