1991réf. 132344London: The Folio Press 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. London The Folio Press 1991 first thus. Octavo 71 pages with numerous two-colour illustrations several full-page. Quarter cloth and papered boards lettered in gilt on the spine; top edge gilt others uncut; a fine copy with the original transparent acetate dustwrapper. With an introduction by Sue Bradbury and illustrations by Ian Ribbons. One of a small series of letterpress editions produced by The Folio Society under the Folio Press imprint. The Folio Press hardcover
réf. 44990909-nnew. unknown
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réf. 0265367115.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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réf. 0483033359.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 3337270921.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1992réf. 659947Easton Press 1992. First Thus. Leather Binding. Fine. An 'as new' copy - still in original shrinkwrap. Full red leather decorated in gilt all edges gilt silk moire endpapers. Easton Press unknown
1899réf. 99859NY:: Dodge Publishing Company. Very Good. 1899. Hardcover. With original illustrations by L. J. Bridgman and others. Oriental edition. Octavo bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and multicolored design top edge gilt. Fading along the spine minor edge wear else very good. Text is clean and binding is sound. ; 750 pages . Dodge Publishing Company, hardcover
1929réf. LPB010350RKDoubleday Doran & Company Inc 1929. First Edition/Later Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. A lovely later reprint also in green pictorial cloth with debossed illustration of sailboat on water and black and gilt to type and illustrations which has dulled to spine. A very bright copy with very little wear. Clean with sharp corners and tight binding. Previous owner's name and date to ffep and tiny bookstore sticker to front pastedown. One illustration has come lose and is laid in which has some short tears to front edge. Jacket is price-clipped which chips at spine ends and a lesser extent corners. Edgewear and some short tears. Tanning to spine. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover
1963réf. 012742Chicago: Illinois Gear & Machine Company 1963. Book. Illus. by Robin Jacques. VG. Leather. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Published especially for Illinois Gear & Machine Company Chicago presumed as a presentation/gift to valued customers using text block from the Heritage Press edition. Introduction by Charles Edmund Carrington . Light blue full leather with decorative gold tooling; silk end pages; top edge gilt. Slight wear at tips of corners; light fading on edges of silk end pages. Clean tight and unmarked text. Presentation line on title page NOT filled in. 284 pages. Illinois Gear & Machine Company, Hardcover
1926réf. TB30615Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1926. First Edition. First printing Very good in blue cloth covered boards with tarnished gilt text on the spine and bright gilt text on the front board. A small quarto measuring 9 7/8 by 7 1/2 inches with light rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and light rubbing to the cloth at the tips of the boards. There is a prior owner's name on the first free end page. In a good plain tan printed dust jacket with text on the spine and front panel with shallow chips at the upper and lower edges of the spine area with soiling to both panels and spine area. A small quarto measuring 9 7/8 by 7 1/2 inches containing 94 pages of text and 24 full color plate illustrations by Donald Maxwell. Facing each of the 24 color plates which show maritime scenes and landscapes of the English countryside is a selection of verse by Kipling. An attractive copy. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1926réf. 1347Garden City N.Y.: Doubleday Page & Co. 1926 94 pages very gently bumped really excellent tipped in plates. Doubleday Page & Co. hardcover
1896réf. 656840Macmillan 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A Very Good copy of the First Edition in original gilt stamped pictorial blue cloth all edges gilt black coated endpapers cloth has minor spotting and wear; front inner hinge just starting; a few minor marginal smudges to text; tiny ink stamp from an Irish bookseller of the period at inner margin of half title at foot. Macmillan hardcover
1973réf. 437058Avon Connecticut: Limited Editions Club 1973. Hardcover. Fine. Selected by Bernard Bergonzi. Illustrated by Charles Raymond. Quarto. Fine in lightly worn very near fine cardboard slipcase lacking the unprinted glassine dustwrapper. One of 2000 numbered copies Signed by Raymond. Prospectus for the book and LEC newsletter laid in. Limited Editions Club hardcover
1973réf. 9025772Avon: Limited Editions Club 1973. Hardcover. Fine. Charles Raymond. Bound in publisher's original full half and half green and blue buckram. Spine and cover stamped in gilt. Publisher's original matching slipcase wrapped in matching blue and green paper. Signed by Charles Raymond. One of 2000 numbered copies. Limited Editions Club hardcover
1955réf. 42920Rand McNally. 1955. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated paper over board hardcover binding. Shelf wear and some rubbing to the spine edges and corners with the corners slightly rubbed through.; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches . Rand McNally hardcover
1923réf. 29876London: MacMillan and Co. Limited. Near Fine. 1923. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A first English edition gilded title on original red cloth in just about near Fine condition showing little rubbing and sunning to spine. Also issued in gray paper wrappers. Livingston 486; Rectorial address delivered at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland on October 10 1923. Originally published as "Man's Desire for Independence" in The London Times. Kipling became Rector of St. Andrews in 1922. "The sole revenge that Maturity can take upon Youth for the sin of being young is to preach at it. When I was young I sat and suffered under that dispensation." ; 16mo; 32 pages . MacMillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1923réf. 29877London: MacMillan and Co. Limited. Fine. 1923. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. A charming first English edition in Fine condition grayish blue card wrappers. Ruled and lettered in dark blue. 20000 copies printed. Also issued in red cloth. Livingston 486 Richards A343; Kipling became Rector of St. Andrews in 1922 and gave this rectorial address at his inauguration the University of St. Andrews in Scotland on October 10 1923. Originally published as "Man's Desire for Independence" in The London Times. "The sole revenge that Maturity can take upon Youth for the sin of being young is to preach at it. When I was young I sat and suffered under that dispensation." ; Small 8vo; 32 pages . MacMillan and Co., Limited paperback books
1924réf. 29731Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1924. Second Edition. Hardcover. A most handsome Second American edition in just about Fine condition with only limited signs of edgewear. Issued in sage-green boards the front cover lettered in green upon a white paper label. Lightly browned dust-jacket shows portrait of Kipling on front and original price of $1.00 on inside flap. Livingston 487; Rectorial address delivered at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland on October 10 1923. Originally published as "Man's Desire for Independence" in The London Times. Kipling became Rector of St. Andrews in 1922. "You know that there is no loneliness equal to the loneliness of youth at war with its surroundings in a world that does not care." ; 8vo; 33 pages . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1899réf. 99859NY:: Dodge Publishing Company. Very Good. 1899. Hardcover. With original illustrations by L. J. Bridgman and others. Oriental edition. Octavo bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and multicolored design top edge gilt. Fading along the spine minor edge wear else very good. Text is clean and binding is sound. ; 750 pages . Dodge Publishing Company, hardcover books
1899réf. 24788Cleveland New York: International Fiction Library. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. c1899 1930. Cloth. An attractive publication of the International Fiction Libary in Very Good condition minor staining and foxing chiefly to endpapers in little chipped dust-jacket. While copyright stating 1899 this wasn't published until 1930 as indicated by mention of Edgar Wallace's "The Stretelli Case and Other Mystery Stories" and "Silinski Master Criminal" on the dust-jacket ; In November 1887 Kipling was transferred from the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore to the Pioneer in Allahabad. The results were these nineteen articles which can be said to be Kipling's description of life in the semi-independent States of India; 8vo; 254 pages . International Fiction Library hardcover books
1926réf. TB30615Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1926. First Edition. First printing Very good in blue cloth covered boards with tarnished gilt text on the spine and bright gilt text on the front board. A small quarto measuring 9 7/8 by 7 1/2 inches with light rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and light rubbing to the cloth at the tips of the boards. There is a prior owner's name on the first free end page. In a good plain tan printed dust jacket with text on the spine and front panel with shallow chips at the upper and lower edges of the spine area with soiling to both panels and spine area. A small quarto measuring 9 7/8 by 7 1/2 inches containing 94 pages of text and 24 full color plate illustrations by Donald Maxwell. Facing each of the 24 color plates which show maritime scenes and landscapes of the English countryside is a selection of verse by Kipling. An attractive copy. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1973réf. 437058Avon Connecticut: Limited Editions Club 1973. Hardcover. Fine. Selected by Bernard Bergonzi. Illustrated by Charles Raymond. Quarto. Fine in lightly worn very near fine cardboard slipcase lacking the unprinted glassine dustwrapper. One of 2000 numbered copies Signed by Raymond. Prospectus for the book and LEC newsletter laid in. Limited Editions Club hardcover books