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1912Best.-Nr. 958Q1London: Hodder & Stoughton 1912 . Leather. Near Fine. 9.5" by 7". None. A beautifully bound second edition of Rudyard Kipling's celebrated anthology of verse. Second edition. First published in 1907.In an elegant half morocco binding with cloth boards. A charming collection of verses written by English journalist novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling. This anthology includes titles such as: The Sea-Wife White Horses The Lost Legion Before a Midnight Breaks in Storm and Gunga Din amongst others. With a stamp of Timbs Book Club referring to a group of Victorian gentlemen's clubs named after British author and journalist John Timbs. Bound in half morocco with cloth boards. Externally excellent with light rubbing to the extremities and the odd mark. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. 042246London: Macmillan 1937. Reprints. Soft cover. Very Good/No Dustjackets. small octavo. The Author and J Lockwood Kipling. pp All complete. Fully bound in soft red calf with gilt titles and decoration to spines and circular "Kipling elephant and Indian Swastika" to upper covers comprised of the following: Actions and Reactions 1932; Debits and Credits 1926 1st; The Naulahka 1928; "Captains Courageous" 1925; Many Inventions 1928; Soldiers Three The Story of the Gadsbys 1915; A Book of Words 1928 1st; Life's Handicap 1937 1st/2nd printing; Something of Myself 1937 1st/2nd printing; Rewards and Fairies 1924; Traffics and Discoveries 1924; Letters of Travel 1920 1st; The Light that Failed 1915; Songs from Books 1913 1st/3rd printing; Stalky & Co 1929; Plain Tales from the Hills 1918; Wee Willie Winkie and other Stories 1929; Limits and Renewals 1932 1st; A Diversity of Creatures 1917 1st 2nd; Kim 1913; The Jungle Book 1924; The Second Jungle Book 1924; Just So Stories for Little Children 1913; Puck of Pooks Hill 1916; From Sea to Sea and other Sketches Vol 1 1914; From Sea to Sea and other Sketches Vol II 1914; The Day's Work 1919; Souvenirs of France 1933 1st/2nd printing; 5 Kipling titles published by Methuen in matching binding; A Kipling Anthology of Verse 1922; The Five Nations 1910; Departmental Ditties 1928; Barrack-room Ballads 1917; The Seven Seas 1923 This is a most excellent set. Macmillan paperback
1923Best.-Nr. 635829Doubleday Doran 1923. Leather Binding. Fine. 5 volumes attractively and uniformly bound in quarter blue morocco over marbled boards spines titled in gilt with gilt rules at head and foot top edges gilt; housed in an attractive custom marbled slipcase edges in blue morocco. A Fine set. Includes Kipling's three most celebrated and beloved books. Doubleday, Doran unknown
1927Best.-Nr. 000754London: MacMillan & Co. 1927. 3/4 Morocco & Cloth. Near Fine. 7 5/8" x 5 1/8. London: Macmillan & Co. 1927. Fine binding edition by Dulau & Co. Ltd. of London. 7 5/8" x 5 1/8" 406 pp. 2 pp ads. Three quarter bound crimson morocco & cloth gilt ruled compartments on spine gilt lettered gilt-rolled raised bands marbled endpapers All Edges Gilt. Light rubbing to spine ends along joints and at corners else near fine; an extraordinarily bright handsome Dulau fine binding. See scans. Armorial bookplate at front pastedown of William George Riddell a descendant of the armigerous Clan Riddell based on the coat of arms. A collection of short stories originally published in 1898 the Day's Work is considered to be one of Kipling's better and most complex aggregations and is the subject of John Coate's recent scholarly treatment "The Day's Work: Kipling and the Idea of Sacrifice" 1997. Among the included stories is one with the title ".007" - though while Kipling certainly is at his adventurous best here that title bears no relation to the Ian Fleming character. Other tales include: The Bridge-Builders A Walking Delegate The Ship that found Herself The Tomb of His Ancestors The Devil and the Deep Sea William the Conqueror - Part I William the Conqueror - Part II .007 The Maltese Cat "Bread Upon the Waters" An Error in the Fourth Dimension My Sunday At Home and the Brushwood Boy. Striking looking volume on the shelf or cocktail table. Please see scans. l51n MacMillan & Co. hardcover
1902Best.-Nr. 2138093Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1902. 1st edition. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Kipling Rudyard. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Red and black and white pictorial cloth with white titles. B/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Colour to titles and decorations on spine has worn away and spine is browned. A few marks to covers and more fading to cover edges. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd. hardcover
1908Best.-Nr. 955P23London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1908. Leather. Near Fine. 8" by 5.5". Rudyard Kipling. A smartly bound early edition of Rudyard Kipling's influential and popular collection of tales for children. Bound by Henry Sotheran and Morrell.A collection of children's short stories a classic of children's literature. The stories explain 'just so' how animals obtained their own distinctive features.Including 'How the Camel got his Hump' 'How the Leopard got his Spots' 'The Beginning of the Armadilloes' 'How the Alphabet was Made' and more.Illustrated with nineteen plates and in-text illustrations.Written and illustrated by Rudyard Kipling a novelist best known for his influential 'The Jungle Book'.Bookplate of H. Noel Whiting to the front paste down. In a half calf binding with cloth to the boards. Externally smart. A few light marks to the boards and spine spine is faded. Bookplate to the front paste down. Gift inscription to the recto of the front blank. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with a few light handling marks. Near Fine Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1978Best.-Nr. 53510DISNEYLAND 1978. ND. LP. Dschungelbücher Die 12seitiges Bilderbuch mit allen Texten! DISNEYLAND unknown
1976Best.-Nr. 3068EUROPA 1976. 1. LP. Dschungelbücher Die EUROPA unknown
1904Best.-Nr. 942London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1904. First Edition First Impression. Publisher's Burgundy Cloth Gilt Detailing. Very Good/Very Good. A Very Good Book in a Very Good Dust Jacket Unclipped Priced 7/6 Net to Spine. Book is moderately shelf worn to extremities with pronounced bumps to bottom corners of both boards. Top edge gilt vibrant despite some soiling text block otherwise toned and lightly soiled. Front matter is moderately foxed and soiled. Binding string loose and present in gutter before title page. Text is unmarked binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is bumped to corners tail and crown causing small chips to tail and crown. Spine panel has several small spots of discoloration. Hardcover. Octavo. 4-393pp. 8 16 Advertisements. Macmillan & Co. Limited unknown
1935Best.-Nr. feb02460JUL. GIURGEA 1935. First. Used book For more details and availability please contact me JUL. GIURGEA unknown
1898Best.-Nr. feb1156251898: First Finnish Edition of Jungle Book Otava hardcover
1972Best.-Nr. feb786991972: First Mexican Edition of Jungle Book El libro de las tierras vírgenes Porrua
2010Best.-Nr. feb536422010: First Icelandic Edition of Jungle Book Frumskógarbókin Uppheimar
1994Best.-Nr. feb495181994: First Colombian Edition of Jungle Book El libro de la selva Norma
1996Best.-Nr. feb1254001996: First Chinese Edition of Jungle Book 丛林传奇 Children's Publishing House
1938Best.-Nr. feb02456Nationala Ciornei 1938. First. Used book For more details and availability please contact me Nationala Ciornei unknown
1932Best.-Nr. feb02458ELS 1932. First. Used book For more details and availability please contact me ELS unknown
1906Best.-Nr. 33412New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. First edition and the first with illustrations. Four illustrations in colour by Arthur Rackham. 8vo publisher’s original green cloth the spine and upper cover lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black with the design of the famous caravelle sailing ship. t.e.g 8 277 pp. A very pleasing copy the gilt and cloth bright. FIRST EDITION AND THE FIRST WITH THE RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS. The English edition was not illustrated. Stories from English history told by romantic characters to two children over whom Puck the fairy had cast a midsummer spell. It can count both as historical fantasy – since some of the stories told of the past have clear magical elements and as contemporary fantasy – since it depicts a magical being active and practicing his magic in the England of the early 1900s when the book was written. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1901Best.-Nr. 395London: Macmillan 1901. First edition first printing. Original publisher's dark red cloth. VG. Considered one of Kipling's best novels the story follows the adventures of an Irish orphan in British India blending espionage cultural exploration and spiritual mentorship. Condition: VG Complete. Original cloth. BOOK INFO Published in 1901 by Macmillan in London. First edition first printing. In its original dark red cloth covered boards with gilt spine lettering and an inset gilt medallion of an elephant on the front board. Top edge gilt. Octavo 8" x 5.25". Collated and complete including half-title publisher ads and all plates: vi 413 3 10 b&w plates. ABOUT THE AUTHOR & WORK Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer poet and novelist celebrated for works like The Jungle Book Kim and the poem If-. Born in British India in 1865 his vivid storytelling often drew on Anglo-Indian life and British imperial themes. Awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature he was the prize's first English-language recipient. KIM - The protagonist Kimball O'Hara known as Kim is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and mother. He grows up as a street vagabond in Lahore blending seamlessly into local society despite being white. Kim befriends a Tibetan lama who is on a spiritual quest and becomes his disciple traveling with him along the Grand Trunk Road. This journey introduces Kim to the world of espionage as he occasionally works for Mahbub Ali a Pashtun horse trader and British secret service operative. The novel explores Kim's dual identity as both a sahib and a streetwise native highlighting his struggle between freedom and duty CONDITION REPORT The book is in VG condition. Exterior and binding: Slightly cracked front hinge and frond a board a little loose otherwise firmly bound. Cloth is colorful and unfaded scarce to find. Spine is not sunned. Gilt spine lettering is vivid and bright. Rubbed spine tips lightly rubbed extremities. Light rubbing to gilt elephant medallion. Interior: Pages are clean and bright. An occasional light smudge or sign of light handling. A few pages with some light dust soiling. Moderate foxing to endpapers and an infrequent light spot within text. Dated in faded contemporary ink on FFEP. All in all a collectible copy in much nicer condition than normally found one of Kipling's best and most famous novels. Macmillan unknown
1891Best.-Nr. 54124Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co. 1891. First edition. Nineteen newspaper articles describing Kipling's life in an area of India semi-independent from British rule. 1000 copies printed and bound with all but 100 reportedly destroyed when Kipling suppressed the book's release but bibliographer estimates there are more. Publisher's purple stamp with "27 Nov 91" dispatch date on endpaper and signature of A. R. Lawrence with short illegible notation and date "25/12/91" on pastedown. Good or better with first gathering literally holding by a thread and covers somewhat soiled and quite possibly touched up. Housed in custom top-loading two-piece sliding blue-and-red cloth slipcase backed in red leather with five raised bands and gilt-stamped lettering and design. Very attractive. A. H. Wheeler & Co. unknown
1906Best.-Nr. Pa635London: Macmillan and Co. 1906. 1st edition 1st issue . Red Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. half-title frontis. 306pp. with gilt device of elephant Maroon cloth gilt. Trifle toned to the spine and some minor foxing esp.the end-papers but a sound tight copy in the publisher's original buckram binding. A couple of tiny cloth nicks. A collection of ten stories and sixteen poems. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS. Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1895Best.-Nr. MJ126London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 1895. 1st UK edition . Hardcover. Vg. 8vo. J.Lockwood Kipling. 238ii pub. ads. pp. Original blue cloth gilt with cobra device to the front board and spine. Wavy rules to the upper and lower cover. All edges gilt. B/w illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling. Neat owners signature 'Margaret Theodosia Batten' in ink and contemporary to the issue. 1874-1930. An attractive copy near fine except for cracked inner green end-papers but a sound strong binding. Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1977Best.-Nr. 28318LIST PAUL 1977. 6. hardcover. Dschungelbücher Die LIST, PAUL hardcover
1926Best.-Nr. 010943Signed by Authors 0 Rudyard Kipling Signed Limited Large Paper edition of 500 copies. Illustrated by Donald Maxwell. With Dustjacket and original slipcase. No marks or inscriptions. Owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Mild browning to endpages. Very clean and bright Quarter Vellum and paper boards with bright Gilt. Dustjacket very clean with just couple spots to front and small loss to spine. Protected in archive cover. Clean slipcase with minimal wear. Macmillan & Co. hardcover
1909Best.-Nr. 12027Toronto: The Musson Book Co 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. W. Heath Robinson. No date. 1909 First Canadian edition using the sheets of the first British trade edition. 4to. Publisher's original bright rich blue/purple cloth with bright gilt lettering and decorations to the front board and spine virtually as new and without wear fresh and as new throughout with the original glassine intact but split half way at the spine housed in the original card box in blue paper bearing the Musson imprint on the side label and an illustrated title mounted to the lid. The box is worn and broken at the corners but still holding well two pieces of tape were used at one corner of the lid but overall the box is good scarce in this condition and in box. The Musson Book Co hardcover
