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1932réf. 607814Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1932. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Slight scattered foxing on first and last couple of leaves and on bottom page edges else a fine bright copy in lightly faded very good or better dust jacket. Doubleday Doran hardcover books
1932réf. 54791London: Macmillan 1932. First Edition. First Printing. 16mo 20cm. In original red cloth titled on spine in gold with elephant badge to front board top edge gilt in original printed tan dust jacket; list of other publications facing the title page; viii 400pp. A clean square copy cloth slightly darkened at spine edges and corners lightly rubbed: Very Good. In the original dust jacket chipped at head with cellotape repairs to verso at head and upper flap folds: Good. Not in LIVINGSTON. Macmillan unknown books
1893réf. 7548London: Macmillan 1893 Dark blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Octavo. Lower corners lightly bumped spine a trifle cocked. A very good bright copy. Macmillan, hardcover books
réf. 4011GC DOUBLEDAY 1917. COPYRIGHT COPY VERY GOOD. GC, DOUBLEDAY, 1917 unknown books
1906réf. RK072New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906 Illustrated with four color plates by Arthur Rackham including a frontispiece. First edition first printing published two months before the first UK edition. Publisher's green cloth with boat illustration in blind to front board lettered in gilt and top edge gilt. Near fine with clean and bright boards light wear to spine ends joints and corners and small marks to pp. 46-47 lines 15-21 on both pages slightly affected. Overall an excellent copy. In Puck of Pook's Hill two children playing in the English countryside are approached by the magical fairy Puck from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Over the course of the summer Puck introduces them to notable events and characters from British history told through ten connected short stories. Interspersed between the stories are poems by Kipling some of which were later selected by T.S. Eliot for inclusion in A Choice of Kipling's Verse 1941. Notably this first American edition includes illustrations by the legendary book illustrator Arthur Rackham whereas the first UK edition was illustrated by Harold R. Millar. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Rackham Arthur. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1890réf. 531280New York: John W. Lovell Company 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Illustrated pale brown boards. Owner's name on first blank some rubbing and modest soiling spine lettering dull else very good copy. John W. Lovell Company hardcover books
réf. 4015GC DOUBLEDAY 1918. COPYRIGHT COPY VERY GOOD. GC, DOUBLEDAY, 1918 unknown books
1898réf. 7547London: Macmillan 1898 First edition. Dark blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Octavo. . Light shelfwear. A near fine copy bright and tight. Macmillan, hardcover books
1929réf. 220838San Francisco Windsor Press 1929. 1929. First edition so stated on colophon page. 8vo. Original 1/2 blue cloth spine stamped in gilt over patterned boards. Enclosed in publishers board slipcase. Very good-fine fresh copy. No signatures or bookplates. #60/100 numbered copies. Stewart 569. F. Hardcover. San Francisco, Windsor Press, 1929. hardcover books
1930réf. 26622Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co. 1930. First edition. American copyright edition. Stapled pale yellow paper wrappers lettered in green. One inch slit to spine wrappers lightly soiled leaves fine overall a very good or better copy of this scarce item. 16 pp. 8vo. Scarce. Only a few copies were issued for copyright purposes. Later collected in Limited and Renewals 1932. Livingston 557. Stewart 594. Doubleday, Doran & Co. unknown books
1895réf. 1397515New York: The Century Co 1895. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 324 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Spine and extremities faded to black. Fraying with some material loss to cloth at head and tail of spine. General shelf wear to edges and corners of boards. Top edge of textblock gilt. Previous bookseller's sticker adhered to front pastedown. Minor staining to front free endpaper and pastedown. Shelved in Case 14. 1397515. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Century Co hardcover books
1899réf. 583068London: Enoch & Sons / The Daily Mail 1899. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. 9pp. Wrappers. Notched along the spine with the pages numbered in ink by hand from once being bound within an album music shop stamp on the front wrapper rubbing to the exterior still a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "E & S 2703." "For every copy sold of this song one shilling goes to The Daily Mail fund for the relief of the sufferers by the war" from the front cover. This charitable effort by The Daily Mail to raise money for soldiers and their families during the Second Boer War was reportedly the first of its kind. Kipling wrote the lyrics specifically to be used in this fashion and is quoted as saying "It's catchpenny verse and I want it to catch just as many pennies as it can" going on to remark that it is not something he would ever care to reprint "so there is no need of copyrighting it in America. If anyone wants to sing it take care that the proceeds go to our men" Victoria and Albert Museum. The song was an enormous hit and though the exact amount raised is unknown it certainly succeeded in catching a lot of pennies. Enoch & Sons / The Daily Mail unknown books
1893réf. 607443London: C. Sheard & Co 1893. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Three nested bifolia making 12 pages. Outer most bifolium separated along the bottom half of the fold "File Copy" stamp on the front cover and edgewear still a complete and very good copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "The Widow at Windsor." OCLC locates only three holdings and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. C. Sheard & Co unknown books
1906réf. 589623London: Charles Sheard & Co 1906. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Composer's name stamp and "File Copy" stamp on the front cover a bit of separation at the top and bottom of the fold of the outer bifolium else near fine. For voice and piano. One of Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads. OCLC locates only two copies and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. Charles Sheard & Co unknown books
1895réf. 016477The Century Co. 1895. Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First Edition 1895 In First Issue Binding Orange With Pineapple. Great Children's Classic. The Century Co. Hardcover books
1969réf. 49612Chicago: Follett Publishing Company 1969. Very Good/Good. Chicago IL: Follett Publishing Company 1969. First Kampmann Edition First Printing. Slim oblong quarto 21x26cm; publisher's boards in green pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 48pp.; full color illus. throughout. Dust jacket rather worn and soiled with soiling faintly bleeding through to boards contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper else a Good example textblock clean and sound in the scarce dust jacket. Follett Publishing Company unknown books
1891réf. 137341891. Authorized Edition. New York: Lovell Coryell & Company n.d. 1892. Original maroon cloth beveled. First Combined Edition later issue with Lovell Coryell rather than United States Book Co. as the publisher. These two pieces first appeared in 1888 as the second and fourth numbers in the Indian Railway Series Allahabad; John Lovell issued each in wrappers in 1890 in his "Westminster Series" before combining the two in the present volume U.S. Book Co. in 1891 Lovell Coryell in 1892. This would be a fine copy were it not for the slight fading of the maroon spine -- almost unavoidable for this color. See Richards A42 note; Stewart 50. This is the George Barr McCutcheon copy with his bookplate housed in a morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. unknown books
1901réf. 8997New York: Doubleday Page and Co 1901. First American edition 8vo 6 460pp. 10 illustrations; minor wear to spine hinges starting small white stains to rear cover else a very good copy or better in original dark green cloth with black design and lettering in gold on front cover and spine t.e.g. Livingston 248. Doubleday, Page and Co unknown books
1932réf. 46768New York: Doubleday Doran & Co 1932. First American edition 8vo pp. v 1 371; fine copy in original green embossed cloth gilt-lettered on upper cover and spine near fine clipped dust jacket. Doubleday, Doran & Co unknown books
1909réf. 9029020New York: B. W. Dodge & Company 1909. Hardcover. Very good. Unauthorized edition; precedes the first edition. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with horizontal designs printed the spine and cover with spine and cover lettered in orange silhouette of sailing ship on the cover.Minor wear at extremities otherwise fine. 360 pages. B. W. Dodge & Company hardcover books
1909réf. 77845New York: B.W. Dodge & Company 1909. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American pirated edition third issue with blue cloth printed with seascape in black and printed red lettering. A trifle rubbed at the extremities still near fine in an attractive very good plus dustwrapper with tiny nicks and tears. Scarce. A collection of short stories. B.W. Dodge & Company hardcover books
1932réf. 34312London: Macmillan and Co. Limited. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1932. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. First English and true first edition published two weeks before the American edition on 7 April 1932. Near Fine condition with lightly rubbed extremities in alike dust-wrapper with light edgewear. Richards A402 Livingston 577 Stewart 588; Kipling's final collection of short stories published shortly after the death of his only son. Limits and Renewals contains fourteen short stories and nineteen poems three of the stories were published here for the first time; 8vo; vi vii-viii 2 3-400 pages . Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1917réf. 2222350First edition. Octavo. Original stiff yellow wrappers stamped in green. No dust jacket. Very good. 5 pages. Livingston 421. Only a few copies printed to secure copyright. Actor Jean Hersholt's copy with his signed bookplate. Doubleday, Page & Company paperback books
1914réf. 12834King Albert's Book: A tribute to the Belgian king and the people from representative men and women throughout the world The Daily Telegraph in conjunction with The Daily Sketch The Glasgow Herald and Hodder and Stoughton 1914 first edition some foxing to the page edges some minor stains to a small area of the front cover and the head of the spine off-setting to the end-papers no doubt due from the dust-wrapper flaps else just about fine in the publishers original scarce printed vg tissue dust-wrapper with some wear and tear and chipping. Contains poems and prose from Edith Wharton Jack London Winston Churchill Claude Debussy Rudyard Kipling H. Rider Haggard Thomas Hardy G. K. Chesterton et.al. as well as tipped in full color full page illustrations by Arthur Rackham Maxfield Parrish Edmund Dulac Kay Nielsen et.al. Uncommon in dust-wrapper to be sure. The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Sketch, The Glasgow Herald, and Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
réf. 500364Address delivered by Kiping as Chairman at the Festival Dinner of The Royal Society of St. George given at Connaught Rooms London April 23 1920. 8vo. 8 pages. Stiff stapled tan wrappers upper cover with the society seal of St. George and the Dragon embossed in red. Very good; Price on cover: 6 pence; Includes the certificate of membership on verso of last page perforated which is often lacking; Livingston 452. Signed by Authors. Soft cover. paperback books