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1899Best.-Nr. 35064New York: Doubleday & McClure Company 1899. 2 volumes. First American Edition and the first complete authorized book publication of the collection preceding the English edition of 1900. 8vo publisher's original green cloth the upper covers lettered and nautically decorated in black the spines lettered in gilt and with a small gilt nautical device. xiii 460; ix 400 pp. A very fine and handsome set both volumes in remarkable condition. FIRST EDITION OF KIPLINGS JOURNALISM AND TRAVEL WRITING FROM 1887-1889 writings full of humor sharp observation and self-awareness. Many of these pieces were originally written as special correspondence for the 'Civil and Military Gazette' and the 'Pioneer'. Kipling himself explains in the preface that he assembled the pieces because unauthorized publishers had been digging up his newspaper writings and sometimes altering or interpolating them. Thus the 1899 edition represents Kipling's attempt to establish an authorized text of his early travel journalism. The two volumes include: Letters of Marque — Kipling's journey through Rajputana in India; the 37 From Sea to Sea travel letters; The City of Dreadful Night; Among the Railway Folk; The Giridih Coalfields; In an Opium Factory; and The Smith Administration. The principal 'From Sea to Sea' narrative records the extraordinary journey Kipling made when he left India for England in 1889. Instead of simply sailing west the 23-year-old Kipling took the long way around. He left Calcutta on March 9 1889 traveled through Rangoon Moulmein Penang and Singapore went on to Hong Kong and Canton then through Japan—Nagasaki Kobe Kyoto and Yokohama. He sailed from Yokohama for San Francisco arriving May 28 and then wandered across North America before eventually sailing from New York for England in September. The American portion is particularly entertaining. Kipling writes about San Francisco Oregon and the Clackamas River Yellowstone Salt Lake City Omaha and Chicago among other places. There is even a chapter recounting his interview with Mark Twain. Doubleday & McClure Company hardcover

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Rudyard Kipling's Works

1899Best.-Nr. 943Y60London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1899-1937. Cloth. Good. 8" by 5.5". None. A smart collection of Rudyard Kipling's beloved works including the first editions of 'Traffics and Discoveries' 'Debits and Credits' and others. A terrific selection of Rudyard Kipling's short stories poems and travel writings. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth binding. With Kipling's signature elephant head stamped in gilt to the front boards. Kipling was an English journalist novelist poet and short-story writer perhaps best remembered for 'The Jungle Book' a short-story collection depicting the adventures of Mowgli a boy raised in the jungle by wolves. Kipling wrote many popular volumes of poetry and short stories as well as a book of articles about his 1889 travels from India to Burma China Japan and the U.S. en route to England included here in two volumes. The entirety of this set comprises the following works:'Wee Willie Winkie Under the Deodars The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Stories' 1899 - The first impression of the Uniform Edition. 'From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches: Letters of Travel Volume I' 1900 - The first UK edition.'From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches: Letters of Travel Volume II' 1912 - Sixth impression. 'Kim' 1902 - Third impression. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine plates by the author's father J. Lockwood Kipling. Collated complete. 'Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People' 1903 - Third impression of the Uniform Edition.'Many Inventions' 1904 - Third impression of the Uniform Edition. 'Traffics and Discoveries' 1904 - First edition with no further impression remarks. 'Puck of Pook's Hill' 1906 - First edition with no further impression remarks. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nineteen plates. Collated complete. 'The Jungle Book' 1906 - Seventh impression of the Uniform Edition. With illustrations by J. L. Kipling W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny.'The Second Jungle Book' 1906 - Fourth impression of the Uniform Edition.'The Naulahka: A Story of West and East' 1906 - Co-authored by Kipling with Wolcott Balestier. The second impression of Macmillan's edition first transferred in 1901. 'Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsby's in Black and White' 1909 - Fifth impression of the Uniform Edition. 'Actions and Reactions' 1910 - Third impression. 'The Light That Failed' 1916 - Tenth impression of the Uniform Edition. 'The Day's Work' 1918 - Ninth impression of the Pocket Edition. 'Debits and Credits' 1926 - First edition with no further impression remarks. 'Limits and Renewals' 1932 - First edition with no further impression remarks.'Something of Myself: For My Friends Known and Unknown' 1937 - First edition with no further impression remarks. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original red cloth binding. Externally smart. With rubbing and bumping to the extremities and fading to the spines. With the rubbed bookplate of one Dudley Borron Myers to the front pastedown of 'Wee Willie Winkie'. Marks to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with several instances of offsetting and light spotting to the endpapers. Good Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover

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CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS. A Story of the Grand Banks

1897Best.-Nr. 154961897. With Illustrations by I.W. Taber. London: Macmillan and Co. 1897. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt all page edges gilt. First English Edition published about a month after the American. This is Kipling's great novel about the cod fishing fleet of Gloucester Massachusetts written while the newlywed Kiplings lived in Vermont. Kipling freely acknowledged that the book owed much to Dr. James Conland of Brattleboro who brought the Kiplings' elder daughter into the world -- for Conland had been a member of the Massachusetts fishing fleet and it was he who took Kipling to explore the wharves and quays of Boston and Gloucester. The American edition in fact is dedicated to Conland; this English edition bears no dedication. This is the only book of Kipling's which is set entirely in America. All the characters are American. Not only that but the heart of the book -- its moral in a single sentence -- is one of Kipling's main beliefs of this period expressed in terms essentially American or perhaps more particularly New England. He put it later in verse: ".If you don't work you will die!" It is a saga of hard physical work in conflict with natural forces. It is a book which could hardly have been written by anyone who did not admire Huckleberry Finn; it is a book whose claim to survival rests mainly on detail and it is all American detail Mason. CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS was the fourth and last volume to be bound in Macmillan's attractive gift binding style used for the JUNGLE BOOKs in 1894-1895 and for SOLDIER TALES in 1896. In 1937 forty years after publication this tale was made into a film starring Freddie Bartholomew Spencer Tracy who won an Oscar Lionel Barrymore and Mickey Rooney. This is a near-fine copy spine less than bright slight rubbing at the extremities light foxing; the original black-coated endpapers are not cracked. Richards A103; Stewart 163. unknown