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1890rif. 125195New York: United States Book Company 1890. Hardbound. Good- general fragility and wear. Publishers blue cloth. 771pp. no illustrations. A most noteworthy copy bearing the copper-engraved bookplate of Henry Van Deventer Black which was designed by Mr. Black and engraved by Edwin Davis French. The book is signed by Henry Van Deventer Black and he has dated it Dec. 1892. He has also written that "This book has spent a winter on the Nile and been around the world" on the ffep. A few pencil lines to the contents perhaps indicating favorite passages. The bookplate is stunning in it's detail and beauty. United States Book Company hardcover books
1901rif. 322153London: MacMillan 1901. First English edition. Illustrations by John L. Kipling. 443 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cloth spine slightly sunned and top of spine rubbed. Bookplate. First English edition. Illustrations by John L. Kipling. 443 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Richards A174; Stewart 254 MacMillan unknown books
1920rif. 42678London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd 1920. First edition. 284 4 pp. of ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth t.e.g. Fine in almost fine dust jacket with split without loss on inner hinge. First edition. 284 4 pp. of ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stewart 478 Macmillan and Co., Ltd unknown books
1930rif. 158381930. Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Company 1930. Original light yellow wrappers lettered in green. First Edition of this short story being the American copyright issue -- 75 copies printed and privately distributed in August 1930 in order to secure copyright protection in America. The main story is the voyage generally reckoned to have taken place in or shortly after 60 AD during which St. Paul was shipwrecked on the island of Malta then called Melita -- the account of which given in Acts 27-28 has been said to be the most vivid account of a voyage and shipwreck in the whole of Greek and Latin literature. In Kipling's story that voyage is described in the conversation of three reminiscing seamen whose meeting provides a typically Kiplingesque "frame" for the main story kipling.org. This tale then appeared in the September issue of London Magazine and was subsequently collected in 1932 in LIMITS AND RENEWALS the last collection published during Kipling's life. A fine copy. Richards A389; Stewart 592. Housed in a morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. unknown books
1913rif. 14171London: Methuen and Company 1913. Twenty-First Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling published in 1913 in a fine binding by Birdsall of London. Octavo xv 230pp. Three-quarter red morocco red cloth boards gilt trim. Four raised bands title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt marbled endpapers. Finely bound by Birdsall of Northampton and London. Stated "Twenty-first Edition. February 1913" on copyright page. Previous ownership bookplate affixed to endpaper. Solid text block light sunning to spine bumped corners a near fine example. The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling first appeared in 1896 published by Methuen & Company of London and D. Appleton & Company in New York. Richards A92. Methuen and Company unknown books
1892rif. 14167London: Sampson Low Marston & Company 1892. First Combined Edition. Leather bound. Very good. The first Combined Edition of Wee Willie Winkle and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling finely bound by Charles Mudie of London. Octavo 314pp. Three-quarter red morocco marbled paper boards. Matching marbled edges and endpapers. Five raised bands title in gilt on spine. "Bound by Mudie" stamp on verso of front free endpaper. Light wear to corners faint rubbing to front cover a very good example. Stories in this volume include "At the Pit's Mouth" "My Own True Ghost Story" and "Baa Baa Black Sheep. Sampson Low, Marston, & Company unknown books
1891rif. 450540New York: M.J. Ivers & Co 1891. Softcover. Good. Early edition variant wrappers with man looking out a window. Printed illustrated pale pink wrappers. Front wrap detached and chipped good only. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and dropbox case by Stikeman. Notes about the purchase of the book in 1926 laid in. Very uncommon. M.J. Ivers & Co unknown books
1894rif. 1410343New York: The Century Co 1894. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo xvii pages. In Fair minus condition. Spine is green with gold print. Boards in green cloth gold print gilt elephant on front panel; fraying to spine caps and corners toning to spine peripheral toning cocked spine. Text block has has gilt top edge; foxing to endpapers light foxing throughout tear across page 89 penciled name on title page intermittent spine breaks. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece and text illustrations drawings. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area ND-HV Section. 1410343. FP New Rockville Stock. The Century Co hardcover books
1937rif. 152130N.p.: N.p. 1937. Vintage reference photograph from the 1937 film showing actor Sabu Dastagir commonly known only by his given name Sabu. With a mimeo label snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamps of National Film Archive library. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Rudyard Kipling's story "Toomai of the Elephants" which originally appeared in Kipling's 1895 collection "The Jungle Book." A young Indian boy helps guide his father and a government elephant hunter to the secret elephant camp in the jungle. A breakthrough role for Sabu who would go on to work under exclusive contract for film mogul Alexander Korda in "The Thief of Bagdad" 1940 "Arabian Nights" 1942 and "The Jungle Book" 1942. Set in colonial India shot on location in Gwynedd Wales. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown books
1890rif. 13386SOLDIERS THREE A. H. Wheeler & Co. 1890 noted as Third Editon bound along with THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS / A TALE WITHOUT A PLOT A. H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington A. H. Wheeler & Co. bound along with TALES OF BLACK AND WHITE A. H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington A. H. Wheeler & Co. bound along with WEE WILLIE WINKIE AND OTHER STORIES A. H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington A. H. Wheeler & Co. some wear and rubbing to the fore edge corner tips and spine hinges some foxing to the first and last several leaves else a tight just about vg copy rebound in half leather with marbled boards. A. H. Wheeler & Co. hardcover books
1900rif. 526952Cincinnati Ohio: No Publisher 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 547pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait of Grand Master E.L. Lyburger. Beveled blue cloth boards stamped in gilt. Covers have light wear at tips of spine and corners else a very good copy with gilt stamping bright; front and rear hinges are started due to quality of paper of endpapers text is fresh and clean. This publication also prints a poem by Rudyard Kipling The Mother Lodge on page 94-95 noting that Kipling was a Freemason. Most of the book pages 88 to 404 is devoted to 'Report of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence' including detailed information about 'English-speaking Grand Lodges' in the United States listed by each state and including 'Indian Territory' Canada by province Great Britain New Zealand Australia etc. and a section devoted to thirteen 'None English-speaking Grand Bodies' including Cuba Mexico and Puerto Rico. This publication for the year 1900 as well as previous 'Proceedings' include discussions of African-American masons see page 119 179 206 etc which includes discussion of "Negro Lodges and Grand Lodges" and the difficulties with acceptance in Washington page 119 and "Clandestine Negro Masonry" page 178 referencing Washington in the section devoted to the Indian Territory and further reference to Washington and former "Prince Hall Lodge" members in the Louisiana section page 206. Previous Grand Lodge publications also discussed rejection of 'colored' Grand Lodges by some white Grand Lodges with particular reference to the failure of 'Ohio recognition' in a specific instance in 1877 which stated: "As predicted in our last annual address the proposed recognition of our grand lodge by the grand lodge of whites of this state has failed. While I anticipated the result I must confess that the manner in which it was brought about surprised and disappointed me. followed by a long discussion of the events." OCLC locates no copies of this October issue. No Publisher hardcover books
1928rif. 220835New York Privately Printed 1928. 1928. First edition unauthorized. Thin 8vo. Title page illustration. Original blue/gray boards with printed paper label on spine uncut. Glassine dust jacket. Very good-fine fresh copy. No signatures or bookplates. #84/93 numbered copies. Stewart 412. F. Hardcover. New York, Privately Printed, 1928. hardcover books
1909rif. 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 books
rif. 8910New York: The Century Co. 1896/97. Hardcover. Sm 8vo 8" x 5.5" gilt green cloth pictorial front cover. t.e.g. Frontis. viii 323 pp. 8 pp. pub. ads 20 additional b&w plates. Early inscription in ink on ffep: "George Wells Cheney from cousin Julie Xmas 1897." CONDITION: Good spine sunned 2.5" split to inner front hinge front hinge a bit slack 1.75" split to inner rear hinge 1" tear to one plate. First American edition which preceded the British first. New York: The Century Co., 1896/97 unknown books
1926rif. 62185London: Macmillan And Co. Limited 1926. First edition. 416 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth gilt lettering and Ganesha vignette t.e.g. Fine in dust jacket chipped at head of spine and adjoining back panel with small portion wanting else fine. First edition. 416 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stewart 519 Macmillan And Co., Limited unknown books
1897rif. RK070London: W. Thacker & Co. 1897 With illustrations by Dudley Cleaver. Ninth edition Deluxe edition. One of 150 copies printed with two extra illustrations signed and numbered by publisher on tipped-in limitation slip this being number 68. Publisher's vellum spine and red cloth-covered boards with gilt illustration to front board spine lettered in gilt and tissue-guarded plates. Very good with a couple of tiny spots of dampstaining to front board a touch of toning to top part of rear board corners very lightly bumped light offsetting to endpapers previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper and some exposed webbing to pp. 96 and 97. Overall a sturdy and attractive copy. Departmental Ditties is Rudyard Kipling's first collection of poetry which he published when he was only 21. The poems which explore British military life first appeared in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore where Kipling worked as assistant editor. Kipling continued to revise and expand the collection in subsequent editions. Some of the poems included in the collection are: "Army Head-quarters" "Study of an Elevation in Indian Ink" "Pink Dominoes" "The Lovers' Litany" "As the Bell Clinks" and "Christmas in India.". Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Dudley Cleaver. London: W. Thacker & Co. hardcover books
rif. 563122New York: F. M. Buckles & Company 1910. Softcover. Near Fine. Separate printing of the poem. 16mo. 8pp. Frontispiece portrait. Sewn illustrated yellow wrappers. A touch of soiling else near fine. F. M. Buckles & Company) unknown books
1890rif. 55971London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington Ld 1890. First U.K. Edition. Octavo 21.5cm. Grey pictorial paper wraps printed in black; vi 7-96pp. A straight and handsome copy 5" split to front joint minor tear at head of spine wrappers browned at edges internally clean: Very Good. One of the Railway Library series the paperbacks that "made Kipling's name in India and soon enough in England and America" ODNB. The first and second editions of 1889 were published in Allahabad. LIVINGSTON 36. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ld unknown books
1920rif. 15241New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1920. FIRST EDITION. With half-title and vignette woodcut on title. Publisher’s illustrated green cloth with gilt on front board; overall a strong bright and excellent copy. First American edition. Kipling's collection of three series of travel letters on Japan Canada and America and Egypt: “From Tideway to Tideway” “Letters to the Family” and “Egypt of the Magicians”. Kipling 1865-1936 was one of the most popular English-language writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
1932rif. 62202London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1932. First edition. viii 400 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth with the gilt Ganesha device on the upper cover spine lettered in gilt. With the original tan printed dust jacket Fine in fine dust jacket with bookplate of Joan Whitney. First edition. viii 400 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The last collection published by Kipling of 14 stories and 19 poems three stories and 18 poems appearing for the first time in print the rest were in periodicals. Stewart 588 Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown books
1906rif. 461878New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Decorated green cloth printed in black and gilt. Substantial chip on front fly else a bright very good copy. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1890rif. 531279New York: John W. Lovell Company 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Illustrated pale brown boards. Some rubbing and modest soiling a nice very good copy. John W. Lovell Company hardcover books
1899rif. TB33463New York: Doubleday and McClure Company 1899. First Edition separate edition. Very good in its original green cloth covered boards with slightly tarnished gilt text on the spine and with bold gilt text black designs and silver colored crescent moon and stars on the front board. A small octavo of 7 5/8 by 5 inches with decorated end sheets fore and aft. There is a gift inscription at the upper fore edge of the fly title page with a date of "May 8 1899". The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is worn of it color as is the cloth at the tips of the boards. Without a dust jacket if it ever had one. 119 pages of text and illustrated with a color frontispiece printed in orange and black and 16 full-page black and white plates printed on recto only with many vignettes throughout and floral page decorations all by Orson Lowell and American illustrator 1871-1956. What is interesting about this copy is the date of the gift inscription of :"May 8 1899". This title was not copyrighted until November 22 1899 according to David Alan Richard's in-depth bibliography: Rudyard Kipling Bibliography. Richards Rudyard Kipling A Bibliography A149 Doubleday and McClure Company hardcover books
1933rif. 10929Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran 1933. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo 8 pp. Original cream wrappers printed in green fine. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo 8 pp. One of a small number of copies printed for American copyright. Stewart 616; Livingston 591 Doubleday, Doran unknown books
1896rif. 1397631New York: D. Appleton and Company 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo vii 209 pages. In Very Good condition Spine grey cloth with gilt lettering and inlay. Spine darkened by UV damage head of spine worn. Minor shelfwear and soiling board corners bumped. Top of textblock gilt moderatly worn. Textblock exterior agetoned interior clean. Former owner's inscription on front endpaper. Shelved case 0. 1397631. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
