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1903réf. 211194London: Methuen 1903. First. hardcover. fine. 12mo artfully bound in dark olive green morocco; gilt lettered spine with raised bands & floral devices stamped in gilt and red on the covers; inner dentelles. London: Methuen 1903. First English Edition. First issue with "David" on p.56. Methuen unknown books
1992réf. 1401001Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 1992. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Octavos Four Volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's dark blue black green and red decorated leather boards respectively. All with paneling and gilt lettering to spines. Mild general shelf wear. Edges of textbock gilt lightly worn on top edges of all four volumes causing small visible tears in various places throughout interiors. With silk endpapers and silk ribbon bookmarks. Shelved above Easton Press. Copyright dates 1992 in all except Tales of East and West 1973. 1401001. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Easton Press hardcover books
1904réf. 587851London: Charles Sheard & Co 1904. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Composer's name stamp and "file copy" stamp on the front cover outer bifolium separating a bit at both ends of the fold light edgewear and toning a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "Lichenberg. E." The following note is printed above the music "The blossoms of the Australian Wattle Tree a species of Acacia emit a remarkably fragrant perfume more particularly after rain: the sudden recognition of this scent on an occasion during the Transvaal campaign awakens thoughts of 'Home sweet home' in the breast of an Australian Trooper." Gerard F. Cobb is primarily remembered for his musical settings to Kipling's words this perhaps being his last such composition as he passed away in March of the year it was published. This song is unrecorded by OCLC and appears equally scarce in the trade; in fact the only references we can find to the piece online are are The Kipling Society citing a record of it in Rudyard Kipling A Bibliographical Catalogue by James McGregor Stewart and a 2005 recording released by ABC Records-Australia on an album titled When the Empire Calls. A rare and intriguing piece. Charles Sheard & Co unknown books
1919réf. 004965England 1919. Cloth. Near Fine. Lovely meticulously rendered vignette illustrations framing the key letter on each page and on a few pages two vignettes. Oblong 9 by 13 cm. 28 pp. The album opens to a particularly nice pen and ink drawing of a schooner framed with highly decorative foliate baroque ornamentation. The first poem is Kipling's "If" each letter device accompanied by a painting of a different type of sail boat or ship. Ship motives are used again in "Love at Sea" by Swinburne. Another Kipling poem "The Explanation" is enlivened with paintings of colorful expressive fish. In our judgment these are the most charismatic of the illustrations. Other poems include Swinburne's "Rondel" "Before Sunset" "Song" and "Child's Song"; and some verses by Sappho. Other illustrative motives take in dragons flowers and floral daipers butterflies and coasts. The poems are rendered in a neat calligraphic hand and it is very easy to imagine this manuscript as something that might have been published as a gift book. unknown books
1898réf. 432854London: William Heinemann Ltd 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Quarter cloth and illustrated boards. Modest wear at the spine ends small repairs to the front hinge a sound and very good copy. William Heinemann Ltd hardcover books
1891réf. 49259Allahabad India: A.H. Wheeler & Co 1891. Very Good -. Allahabad India: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1891. First Published Edition following the suppressed edition of which only three copies were said to have survived. Octavo; original illustrated wrappers; viii 108 xpp. Housed in a red linen folder and a crimson half morocco slipcase. Wear and chipping to wraps with exposure along spine; binding holding; ownership inscription of an Arthur Wilson dated 1894 to title page; a Good to Very Good copy of a scarce Kipling title the English edition being much more common. Livingston 70. A.H. Wheeler & Co unknown books
1926réf. 159101926. Maxwell Donald. Illustrated by Donald Maxwell. With an Introductory Poem by Rudyard Kipling. London: Macmillan and Co. 1926. Original light blue-grey paper-covered boards with vellum spine with dust jacket. First English Edition published on the same day as the American -- of which this is one of 500 large-paper copies signed by Kipling. This is a collection of 24 previously-published poems plus a previously-UNpublished introductory poem accompanied by 24 full-page color plates by Donald Maxwell. As Richards points out Maxwell -- related to Kipling by marriage -- had been an accomplished naval artist/correspondent during the Grear War and was a frequent visitor at the Kiplings' "Bateman's." Near-fine light foxing on the boards in a very good-plus jacket faint foxing a couple of small edge-chips. There is an ownership signature dated October 30 1926 -- eleven days after publication. Richards A365; Stewart 525. unknown books
1897réf. 42681NY: Century 1897. First American edn. W. Taber. 8vo pp. 323. Illustrated with 21 full-page black-and-white plates by W. Taber. Light green cloth stamped in dark green red and gilt. Former owner's inscriptions on end paper. A very good copy. Story of a Gloucester fishing boat. Kipling's first American novel written while the newlywed Kiplings lived in Vermont. Century unknown books
1916réf. 149461916. Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1916. Together four volumes. Original light yellow wrappers lettered in green. First Editions being the American copyright issues -- consisting of only 70 copies each published separately between October 18th and 30th 1916. Each volume consists of Kipling's account of specific sea warfare preceded by an original poem written for the occasion including Vol I's "Have you news of my boy Jack". As with THE FRINGES OF THE FLEET Kipling wrote these articles with the permission of the British Admiralty for appearance in British and American newspapers; he ceded copyright so that they could be used for propaganda purposes. Two months later they were all collected in Kipling's book SEA WARFARE. All four volumes are in fine clean condition the usual minor rusting of the staples. Richards A287; Stewart 402. unknown books
1909réf. 010385DoubledayPage & Company 1909. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Fine Copy With a Bright Spine.First Edition1909 Beautiful Copy. Doubleday,Page & Company Hardcover books
1903réf. 224704First edition first issue p. 56. Octavo. Original maroon gilt stamped cloth t.e.g. 38 publishers catalogue at end dated July 1903. Very good. Bookplate of Edward F. Burke on the front pastedown. Enclosed in a 1/2 red morocco slipcase with folding chemise. Methuen & Co. hardcover books
1889réf. 613723Allahabad: Messers A. H. Wheeler & Co 1889. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 96pp. Rebound in early half red cloth and marbled paper covered boards. Original printed front wrapper affixed on front board. Rear wrap and ads lacking. Bookplate of Victor Scharrer on verso of titlepage small name stamp of a previous owner partly effaced on titlepage boards modestly rubbed and worn a pleasing very good copy. Issued in A. H. Wheeler & Co’s Indian Railway Library No. 4. Messers A. H. Wheeler & Co hardcover books
1896réf. ST19567-086London: Methuen and Co 1896. First British Edition. 185 x 120 mm. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4". xv iii 230 pp. VERY ATTRACTIVE SCARLET POLISHED CALF GILT BY FROST stamp-signed on front flyleaf covers with double fillet border raised bands spine compartments with antique scrolling cornerpieces and centerpiece green and maroon morocco labels richly gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Engraved title page. Stewart 140; Livingston 131; Martindell 59. A group of seven leaves lightly foxed otherwise a virtually mint copy inside and out the decorative binding exceptionally bright. This is a very pleasing copy in quite an attractive leather binding of a collection of 51 Kipling poems including "Song of the English" "The Rhyme of the Three Sealers" and "The Story of Ung." Day writes that "people uninterested in poetry 'qua' poetry were thrilled by the splendor and spread of empire as glorified in this work. Kipling's Toryism made the mediocre Alfred Austin the poet laureate in 1896 but Kipling was the unofficial laureate of the British empire." One of Britain's best-known writers Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 is most famous for his works portraying the lives of the native population and colonialists on the Indian subcontinent. He was born in Bombay where his father ran an art school and he lived in India until the age of six. He was sent to school in England but chose to return to the East at 18. He proved to be a prolific author writing novels tales for children and adults and many poems. Kipling's wife was American and they lived for a time in Vermont but from 1896 the couple settled in England. Among his many honors are a Nobel Prize 1907 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature 1926 which had previously only been awarded to Scott Meredith and Hardy. Copies of the present book are easy to find but they are not so readily available in reasonably priced pretty bindings like the one offered here. Methuen and Co unknown books
1897réf. 2358London and New York: Macmillan and Co. and The Macmillan Company 1897. I.W. TABER. FICTION. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited and New York: The Macmillan Company 1897. I.W. TABER illustrator. R. & R. Clark Limited Edinburgh printer. First British edition. 12mo 7 7/16" x 5"; viii 1-245pp; red goat over board double gilt fillet with corner flower ornaments 6 spine compartments with gilt ornaments and date "1897" onlaid gilt-lettered labels; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles with marbled boards owners bookplate "Josephine B. Crane / Sugar Hill / Dalton Mass." on front pastedown; binder's stamp on verso ffep "Bound by Zaehnsdorf"; engraved fp 20 plates and one illustration in text; light shelf wear to edges spine sunned a few spots; very good plus. A beautifully bound copy of Rudyard Kipling's 1865-1936 exciting tale about a 15-year-old boy Harvey Cheyne Jr. who is washed overboard from a trans-Atlantic steamship and picked up by a fishing schooner off the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. First published in McClure's magazine from November 1896 to May 1897 it was published as a book first in the U.S. by Doubleday and then by Macmillan in London. Bound by Joseph Zaehnsdorf 1816-1886 an Austrian Hungarian binder who moved to London by 1837. Macmillan and Co. and The Macmillan Company unknown books
1912réf. 219685London: Hodder & Stoughton 1912. Limited edition Number 95 of 500 copies on handmade paper signed by Hodder & Stoughton. Title page printed in green and black. xix 476 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original limp vellum t.e.g. Ties perished else fine. Bookplate. Cloth slipcase. Limited edition Number 95 of 500 copies on handmade paper signed by Hodder & Stoughton. Title page printed in green and black. xix 476 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Finely printed compendium of Kipling's verse including many favorite poems. Richards A258 Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
1889réf. 62188Calcutta: Thacker Spink and Co. London: W. Thacker and Co 1889. Second edition with "Kidnapper" reading on contents page. 1 vols. 8vo. Original olive green cloth with ornamental bands at top and bottom of front cover spine lettered in gilt upper cover lettered in black rubbed some fraying and soiling squash endpapers some light spotting and browning generally marginal 32 pages publisher's advertisements at back dated December 1889. Second edition with "Kidnapper" reading on contents page. 1 vols. 8vo. Richards 22; Stewart 18; Livingston 24 Thacker, Spink and Co., London: W. Thacker and Co unknown books
1891réf. 343404Allahabad / London: A.H. Wheeler & Co. / SampsonLow Marston 1891. Softcover. Good. First English edition. 12mo. Illustrated green wrappers. 96pp. Errata slip bound-in. Small owner's name and small chip on front wrap a couple of modest chips on rear wrap spine somewhat eroded another small embossed stamp of an American author on title-page a good copy in custom cloth chemise and slipcase. Scarce. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson,Low, Marston unknown books
1920réf. 374461Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Comapny 1920. Limited Edition. No. 117 of 377 copies numbered and signed by Kipling. Photographically Illustrated by Lewis R. Freeman. pp. xxiv 44 unnumberred leaves. 8vo. Vellum spine ansd boards. Very good. Limited Edition. No. 117 of 377 copies numbered and signed by Kipling. Photographically Illustrated by Lewis R. Freeman. pp. xxiv 44 unnumberred leaves. 8vo. Livingston 449; Richards A331 Doubleday, Page & Comapny unknown books
1909réf. 157971909. One page on Kipling's "Bateman's Burwash Sussex" stationery. 14th Aug. 1909. This letter addressed to "Dear Sir" but with the recipient's name and address "9 King's Cross Road W.C." typed below reads: I have received your letter of the 12th together with the file of correspondence which I return herewith. I am only sorry that as I know nothing about the business side of inventions it is out of my power to assist you. Yours truly signed: Rudyard Kipling. We do not know who John Proctor was; nor did Kipling -- but Proctor had apparently sent a whole file regarding some invention he was working on. Perhaps he contacted Kipling because he knew the famous author had written an 1893 book titled MANY INVENTIONS The letter is in very good condition a couple of small holes and tape-marks not affecting print. Basic content but a fine example of Kipling's signature. unknown books
1926réf. 002998New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1926. First Edition Thus Signed LImited Edition. Quarter Vellum. Near Fine. No. 141 of 150 copies signed by Kipling. 4to. 29 by 23 cm. 94 pp. 24 mounted color plates. A few soil marks on spine. Edges of paper on board sllightly faded in color. Otherwise tight and clean within. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
1898réf. 201207London: William Heinemann 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Features words by Rudyard Kipling the author of "Captains Courageous" and "The Jungle Book." Includes 12 color lithographic plates by William Nicholson. A very good plus copy in paper covered boards with cloth spine but with some splitting to the front and rear internal hinges some other minor wear and with a vintage bookstore stocker to the rear pastedown. Plates in fine condition with some slight offsetting to the facing pages. No dust jacket. A very nice copy of this classic. William Heinemann unknown books
1937réf. 151560Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1937. Vintage reference photograph of director Victor Fleming and script clerk Bill Lewis on the set of the 1937 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel. The spoiled young son of a business tycoon falls overboard on a steamship trip to Europe and is picked up by a fishing schooner where he is made to earn his keep. Shot on location in Massachusetts and California in the US and Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1927réf. 159111927. Illustrated by Donald Maxwell. Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1927. Original light blue-grey paper-covered boards with vellum spine. First American Edition of which this is one of 150 large-paper copies signed by Kipling this being copy #6; there was also a UK signed edition but it consisted of 500 un-numbered copies. This is a collection of previously-published Kipling poems plus a previously-UNpublished concluding poem "The Scholars" accompanied by twelve color plates by Donald Maxwell plus 22 monotone head- and tail-pieces. As Richards points out Maxwell -- related to Kipling by marriage -- had been an accomplished naval artist/correspondent during the Great War and was a frequent visitor at the Kiplings' "Bateman's." This is a near-fine copy slight browning at the edges of the boards; there is no jacket but the only jacket issued with this large-paper issue was a glassine one. Richards A370. unknown books
1890réf. 52434New York: Lovell 1890. First Edition. Octavo. First Authorized Edition; 19.5cm; blue cloth covered boards titled in gilt on spine; top textblock in gilt; 771pp.; a Near Fine or better copy. A classic collection of 36 short stories. Lovell unknown books
1896réf. 12370THE TRUE FIRST EDITIONS "CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS" & ST. IVES in McClures Magazine for 1896-1898 first edition 3 volumes #8 9 & 10 November 1896 through April 1898 some light wear to the corner tips some light rubbing and scuffing else vg or better copies bound in half leather with marbled boards and raised spines. Also includes the work of Walt Whitman thrice Arthur Conan Doyle thrice John Kendrick Bangs Browning Stephen Crane twice Robert Barr 4 times S.P. Langley Guglielmo Marconi Mark Twain Fridtjof Nansen as well as writings about Benjamin Franklin U.S. Grant Alexander Hamilton Abraham Lincoln William T. Sherman George Washington John Wilkes Booth Henry Clay Grover Cleveland Heavier Than Air Aeroplanes Andrew Jackson The Civil War The Klondike Gold Fields The Log of the Mayflower Queen Victoria John Quincy Adams The Andree Party Balloon Expedition to the Pole Wireless Telegraphy The Railroads et.al. Century hardcover books