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rif. 25882London: Macmillan and Company Limited. 1908. First edition with these illustrations first printing. First edition with these illustrations first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt illustration to the upper board and gilt titles to the spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with a tissue guarded frontispiece 15 further full page colour plates and chapter headings illustrated in black and white by the Detmold brothers. A very good copy the binding square and firm with some softening and mild fraying at the spine tips and corners. The cloth is a touch faded to the spine and board edges. The contents are entirely complete and without loose or torn pages. There is some foxing and offsetting to the endpapers and a few isolated spots to the margins throughout. A few of the plate pages have a faint moisture mark to the very upper edge of the blank margin not affecting any text or illustration. The pages are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. An attractive example of this beautifully illustrated classic. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: Macmillan and Company Limited. 1908 hardcover
rif. 120460London Macmillan and Co. 1895. . First edition; 8vo 195 x135 mm; 39 text illustrations including head and tail-piece vignettes and historiated initials unobtrusive ownership signature in ink to ffep usual age-toning intermittent spotting throughout occasionally intrusive; publisher's blue cloth decoratively ruled and pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover spine lettered in gilt all edges gilt embossed front cover shelf wear to extremities of spine corners are bumped gilt cover design well preserved very good condition; 2 blank 6 238pp 2 advertisements. The Jungle Book is a 'collection of stories published in 1894; it's sequel The Second Jungle Book published in 1895 contains stories linked by poems. The stories tell mostly of Mowgli an Indian boy who is raised by wolves from infancy and who learns self-sufficiency and wisdom from the jungle animals. The book describes the social life of the wolf pack and more fancifully the justice and natural order of life in the jungle. Among the animals whose tales are related in the work are Akela the wolf; Baloo the brown bear; Shere Khan the boastful Bengal tiger who is Mowgli's enemy; Kaa the python; Bagheera the panther; and Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose.' Merriam-Webster's Encyclopaedia of Literature. Livingston 116 London, Macmillan and Co., 1895. hardcover
1933rif. 032362UK: Macmillan 1933. First Edition Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 1st Edition 1933 Signed by the author to the title page. Signed trade editions are very uncommon. Book is near fine and very bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good and quite bright. A few long closed repaired tears Edges rubbed and nicked. Excellent provenance. A really nice example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18468 Macmillan hardcover
1900rif. 229603London Macmillan and Co. Limited 1900. 1900. First English edition. 8vo. 1 page preface by Kipling. Attractively bound in 3/4 blue morocco over light blue/gray marbled boards spine with 5 raised bands with each compartment gilt ruled with small floral design in the corners two compartments with a gilt drum and 2 compartment with a gilt horn a.e.g.; light blue/gray marbled endpapers. Very good. 2 volumes complete. No signatures or bookplates. Livington 228. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1900. hardcover
1902rif. 74806New York:: Doubleday Page & Company 1902. First American edition. publisher's green pictorial cloth. Old ink signature on front free endpaper; small area of spotting at the edge of the front board; 1/4" split at the top of the front joint; overall light soiling to cloth; tight and sound; contents clean. Large 8vo. Illustrated by the Author. Richards A182. Doubleday, Page & Company, hardcover
1919rif. 54024London: Methuen and Co. no-date 1919. First UK edition preceded by the 1918 U.S. copyright edition. Broadside poem in six stanzas with two on front and remaining four on back. SIGNED BY KIPLING on back beneath the final stanza. 5.5 x 8" stiff cream paper printed in black on both sides with exterior double frame rule and interior single rule "between which the names of towns and villages laid waste by the Germans in World War I are printed in capitals" Richards A315. Near fine with rubbing to top of double rule on front and mild smudge towards end of Kipling's signature on back. Housed in green cloth chemise and gilt-stamped quarter leather green cloth slipcase leather toned from green to brown otherwise near fine. Scarce especially signed. Methuen and Co.) unknown
1901rif. 54794London: Macmillan 1901. First U.K. Edition. First printing. 16mo 20cm. In original red cloth titled in gilt on spine with elephant badge on front top edge gilt; plain endpapers; 2pp of publisher's ads at rear; vi 413 3pp; 10 illustrations by J. L. Kipling. With 1901 ownership inscription of George D. Herron and later bookplate of Dartmouth College Library to front endpapers. Bookseller's ticket of Brentano's Paris to rear pastedown. A pleasantly bright copy lacking the dustjacket gently rubbed front hinge largely cracked but holding: Very Good. George Davis Herron 1862-1925 was a clergyman Christian Socialist and advocate for the Social Gospel and the Socialist Party of America. Four months before the date of this inscription Herron was defrocked for divorcing his first wife and remarrying. The consequent scandal overshadowed his activity in the formation of the Socialist Party of America leading him to take his new family abroad ANB. LIVINGSTON 250. Macmillan unknown
1926rif. 52351Cleveland: The Rowfant Club 1926. First edition in book form. Number 85 of 176 copies printed for The Rowfant Club by Bruce Rogers. Marbled boards with printed label; dark-blue paper chemise and matching slipcase with printed label. Faint shadow to pastedown otherwise fine. In near fine chemise and good slipcase missing few edge pieces and "g" from "fishing" on spine label. AN ANGLING NARRATIVE The Rowfant Club unknown
1906rif. 317848New York: Doubleday 1906. First. hardcover. fine. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Handsomely rebound in full green morocco using the original pictorial cover New York: Doubleday 1906. First American edition. Fine. Doubleday unknown
1906rif. 26605London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1906. Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo. Pp. x 306 10 - publ. adverts. dated 20.9.06 with 20 black & white illustrations by H.R. Millar. Original maroon cloth with a gilt embossed "Ganesha" roundel - an elephant head with a lotus in its mouth a recognizable Kipling "logo" which symbolizes wisdom foresight and good luck. Another ancient symbol Kipling used for over 40 years was the swastika a Hindu good luck symbol. In Sanskrit the word means "fortunate" or "well-being". Once the Nazis had usurped the swastika Kipling ordered that it should no longer adorn his books. Covers lightly rubbed and scuffed corners bruised spine ends starting shaken rear hinge split revealing the mull front hinge split between p. x and title of first story. Tanning to endpapers else interior clean and bright. A nice copy of the first edition. Macmillan and Co., Limited Hardcover
1906rif. RK010London: Macmillan and Co. 1906 First edition. Near fine in publisher's original red cloth with some fading to the spine and darkening of the boards and a former owner's bookplate. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. London: Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1899rif. 020471Boston MA: C. R. Gibson Company 1899. Privately Printed. Hardcover. Good/Very Good/No Jacket. Goodling Sally . Type: Book This book is a recessional by the famous writer Kipling. The book was printed privately. It is a very small book of five pages. The cover is blue with gold gilt and black blank inlaid decoration. There is slight edge wear on the upper and lower spine/ corner tips. The book is in very good condition for being published in 1899. The first blank page has the corner tip missing. There is an inscription on the third blank page as a gift from son to father dated February 27 1899. This book is a collector's item. There are No Marks No Underlining and No Writing in the reading text of the book. The book is clean and tight. The book is in very good readable condition. C. R. Gibson Company hardcover
1904rif. 587851London: Charles Sheard & Co 1904. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Composer's name stamp and "file copy" stamp on the front cover outer bifolium separating a bit at both ends of the fold light edgewear and toning a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "Lichenberg. E." The following note is printed above the music "The blossoms of the Australian Wattle Tree a species of Acacia emit a remarkably fragrant perfume more particularly after rain: the sudden recognition of this scent on an occasion during the Transvaal campaign awakens thoughts of 'Home sweet home' in the breast of an Australian Trooper." Gerard F. Cobb is primarily remembered for his musical settings to Kipling's words this perhaps being his last such composition as he passed away in March of the year it was published. This song is unrecorded by OCLC and appears equally scarce in the trade; in fact the only references we can find to the piece online are are The Kipling Society citing a record of it in Rudyard Kipling A Bibliographical Catalogue by James McGregor Stewart and a 2005 recording released by ABC Records-Australia on an album titled When the Empire Calls. A rare and intriguing piece. Charles Sheard & Co unknown
1927rif. 58499London:: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1927. First edition; one of five hundred large paper copies signed by Rudyard Kipling. publisher's quarter vellum over blue boards t.e.g. in dust jacket and slipcase with printed paper label. A very fine copy in a dust jacket with a few tiny chips not affecting any printed area and some light overall tanning. Light sunning and use to slipcase. Very attractive. . 4to. Illustrated in color by Donald Maxwell. Macmillan and Co., Limited, hardcover
1903rif. 211194London: Methuen 1903. First. hardcover. fine. 12mo artfully bound in dark olive green morocco; gilt lettered spine with raised bands & floral devices stamped in gilt and red on the covers; inner dentelles. London: Methuen 1903. First English Edition. First issue with "David" on p.56. Methuen unknown
1915rif. 2943Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1915. First U.S. Edition First Printing. Soft cover. Near fine. 8vo 20 x 14 cm. 1/75. Light yellow wraps with light green titles to uppers. Each pamphlet includes a new poem by Kipling and a description of the smaller units of The Royal Navy. In red leather and cloth slipcase with wear to edges. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
1992rif. 1401001Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 1992. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Octavos Four Volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's dark blue black green and red decorated leather boards respectively. All with paneling and gilt lettering to spines. Mild general shelf wear. Edges of textbock gilt lightly worn on top edges of all four volumes causing small visible tears in various places throughout interiors. With silk endpapers and silk ribbon bookmarks. Shelved above Easton Press. Copyright dates 1992 in all except Tales of East and West 1973. 1401001. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Easton Press hardcover
1914rif. 000016850Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co. 1914. First American Edition 1st Printing. softcover. Fine. Six pamphlets octavo uniformly bound in paper wrappers the front covers lettered in green. Copyright issues-- just a few copies of each were printed. Precedes the British edition. Livingston 390. The titles are: infantry The Men At Work; II: The Quality of the Machine; III: Guns and Supply; IV: Canadians in Camp; V: Indian Troops; VI: A Territorial Battalion and a Conclusion. In a custom red chemise and slipcase with leather spine and gilt spine titles that is a bit sunned at the top edge of rear panel. 042407B Doubleday, Page & Co. paperback
1896rif. Lopes003First English edition. Poems published the year Kipling returned to England after living four years in Vermont. Stewart J. M. Kipling 140. Hardcover. xv 230 pages; 19 cm. This copy is bound in red Oasis leather handsomely gold-tooled by Worsfold; fine. stock#Lopes003/h. Methuen hardcover
1890rif. 17889London:: Sampson Low MArston Searle & Rivington 1890. First English edition. original illustrated wrappers. Lacks initial blank; old ink ownership signature on title page; a few small chips closed tears and light wear to wrappers. . 8vo. Stewart 56. Sampson Low, MArston, Searle & Rivington, unknown
1998rif. 6293San Francisco: The Arion Press 1998. Limited Edition. One of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the artist this being copy no.160. Octavo 25.5cm; full beige canvas cloth with printed title label mounted across spine and front cover; publisher's original reinforced string-tied envelope with printed labels; ii45-1197pp with an applied frontispiece portrait of Kipling and 32 illustrations by Vincent Perez. Fine in a Near Fine envelope with some mild external wear and some very faint creasing along one edge. Fine press edition of Kipling's science fiction story set in the year 2000 first published in the November 1905 issue of McClure's Magazine. With an introduction by Thomas Pinney. Arion No.54. The Arion Press unknown
1900rif. 229603London Macmillan and Co. Limited 1900. 1900. First English edition. 8vo. 1 page preface by Kipling. Attractively bound in 3/4 blue morocco over light blue/gray marbled boards spine with 5 raised bands with each compartment gilt ruled with small floral design in the corners two compartments with a gilt drum and 2 compartment with a gilt horn a.e.g.; light blue/gray marbled endpapers. Very good. 2 volumes complete. No signatures or bookplates. Livington 228. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1900. hardcover books
1901rif. 54794London: Macmillan 1901. First U.K. Edition. First printing. 16mo 20cm. In original red cloth titled in gilt on spine with elephant badge on front top edge gilt; plain endpapers; 2pp of publisher's ads at rear; vi 413 3pp; 10 illustrations by J. L. Kipling. With 1901 ownership inscription of George D. Herron and later bookplate of Dartmouth College Library to front endpapers. Bookseller's ticket of Brentano's Paris to rear pastedown. A pleasantly bright copy lacking the dustjacket gently rubbed front hinge largely cracked but holding: Very Good. George Davis Herron 1862-1925 was a clergyman Christian Socialist and advocate for the Social Gospel and the Socialist Party of America. Four months before the date of this inscription Herron was defrocked for divorcing his first wife and remarrying. The consequent scandal overshadowed his activity in the formation of the Socialist Party of America leading him to take his new family abroad ANB. LIVINGSTON 250. Macmillan unknown books
1906rif. 317848New York: Doubleday 1906. First. hardcover. fine. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Handsomely rebound in full green morocco using the original pictorial cover New York: Doubleday 1906. First American edition. Fine. Doubleday unknown books
1906rif. RK010London: Macmillan and Co. 1906 First edition. Near fine in publisher's original red cloth with some fading to the spine and darkening of the boards and a former owner's bookplate. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. London: Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
