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1889rif. 100206Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1889. 1889. Fair. - Quarto 8-11/16 inches high by 5-7/16 inches wide. Softcover bound in greyish-green pictorial wrappers with the lettering in black. The front cover is detached and the spine has perished and is thus lacking. The front wrapper is heavily chipped with large pieces out and with tape repairs on the verso. The rear cover is chipped and soiled aith pieces out from the edges. Both covers are fragile and will easily chip. Collation: 5 leaves pp. 100 i leaf: advertisements with "Opinions of the Press" on verso title page with "REPRINTED IN CHIEF FROM THE 'WEEK'S NEWS.'" on verso Dedication Preface Contents 5 leaves; text pp. 1 - 97 p. 98 being blank; "L'Envoi" p. 99 p. 100 being blank; "Opinions of the Press" with advertisements on verso 1 leaf. There is offsetting to the first leaf from the bookplate and some minor slight chipping and minor creases to the corners to the first few pages with offsetting to the last page from the rear cover. Second Indian edition. Stewart 29; Richards 39. From the library of Edmund Gosse with his bookplate on the verso of the front wrapper. Inscribed & signed on the first page "Edmund Gosse from J.A. Symonds". "Gosse was happily married for over 50 years and had three children but did acknowledge to John Addington Symonds around the time Symonds was working on A Problem in Modern Ethics that he was attracted to men thus confirming the suspicions Symonds had voiced earlier. 'Either way I entirely deeply sympathize with you. Years ago I wanted to write to you about all this' Gosse wrote to Symonds 'and withdrew through cowardice. I have had a very fortunate life but there has been this obstinate twist in it! I have reached a quieter time--some beginnings of that Sophoclean period when the wild beast dies. He is not dead but tamer; I understand him & the trick of his claws.' Gosse had love affairs possibly not consummated with a school friend John Blaikie and the handsome young sculptor Wiiliam Hamo Thornycroft.After Symonds' death Gosse burnt all of Symonds' letters and diaries and papers that had been bequeathed to him." Quoted from the LGBT Archive in the UK. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co., 1889. paperback
rif. 06188London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903. Beauty That Hath Terror in It" The Detmold Brothers' Sublime and Unsettling Vision of The Jungle Book The Magnificent Original 1903 Folio Portfolio with Sixteen Superb Color Plates KIPLING Rudyard. DETMOLD Maurice & Edward J. illustrators. Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's "Jungle Book" by Messrs. Maurice & Edward Detmold. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903. First edition. Reportedly limited to 500 copies for England and America. Folio 21 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches; 543 x 394 mm. Title-page contents leaf and sixteen magnificent color plates tipped onto white boards within gray window mounts each accompanied by a protective cover sheet bearing the title and a short extract from Kipling's text. Title-page and list of illustrations expertly repaired at folds; second plate description with short marginal tear; some light foxing to text leaves and mounts only. The plates themselves are remarkably clean fresh and beautifully preserved. Original publisher's green cloth portfolio front cover decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt retaining one of the two original green silk ties. An excellent example of one of the most magnificent and celebrated achievements of Edwardian book illustration exceptionally scarce complete with all sixteen plates. Published in 1903 when the extraordinary twin brothers Maurice and Edward Julius Detmold were just twenty years old this monumental portfolio represents the culmination of their artistic collaboration and one of the finest visual interpretations of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book ever produced. The sixteen superb compositions reveal an astonishing maturity of conception and execution. Combining meticulous natural history observation with an intensely personal decorative imagination the Detmolds created a world at once beautiful mysterious and faintly menacing in which the distinction between the natural and the supernatural seems perpetually uncertain. Animals are rendered with extraordinary anatomical precision their musculature fur scales and movement observed with almost scientific exactitude. Yet these are far more than zoological studies. Wolves possess an almost monumental dignity; panthers move with a sinister effortless grace; serpents coil with hypnotic inevitability; and the great tiger Shere Khan emerges as an embodiment of majestic and terrifying power. The brothers' remarkable understanding of animal character is matched by their sensitivity to atmosphere and composition. Their creatures appear not merely as participants in Kipling's narratives but as independent beings endowed with intelligence memory and an almost human consciousness. Particularly striking are the representations of Mowgli whose slender youthful figure is repeatedly contrasted with the formidable creatures surrounding him. His vulnerability is balanced by a quiet assurance suggesting his extraordinary position between the human and animal worlds. The Detmolds avoid the sentimentality often associated with illustrations of childhood instead emphasizing Mowgli's intimate identification with the jungle and its inhabitants. In the celebrated scenes depicting Bagheera Baloo Akela and the Monkey People the artists achieve an extraordinary balance between narrative drama and decorative design. The Monkey People particularly in their ruined architectural surroundings are among the most unsettling creations in the series their restless gestures and grotesque attitudes suggesting a strange parody of human society. Equally remarkable is the brothers' use of color. Their sumptuous yet carefully controlled palette of burnished browns smoky grays subdued greens and golden ochres lends the compositions an almost dreamlike quality. Subtle gradations of tone together with intricate patterns of foliage fur and stone produce a richness and unity of design seldom equaled in contemporary illustration. The original large-format plates possess a depth delicacy and painterly quality that cannot be fully appreciated in the considerably reduced reproductions of the later book edition of 1908. Presented individually within their original window mounts they have the presence and visual authority of original watercolors. Indeed so successful were these images as independent works of art that many portfolios were subsequently broken up their individual plates removed for framing. The survival of a complete portfolio particularly one retaining its original publisher's cloth case and with the plates in such fresh condition is consequently especially desirable. The contemporary critical reception was enthusiastic. Reviewing the London exhibition of the original paintings the Manchester Guardian of November 5 1903 declared that the brothers: "are able to prevent their work from ever sinking to the level of mere illustration". The reviewer particularly admired the depiction of the Monkey People in the Cold Lairs describing it as: "full of character subtle observation and invention". Of the representation of Bagheera in Mowgli and the Red Flower the reviewer memorably observed that it possessed: "something of that beauty which hath terror in it". The same review praised the convincing and engaging portrayals of Baloo Nag Kaa and Akela recognizing in the Detmolds' work an extraordinary fusion of imaginative invention and naturalistic observation. A report published in the New York Times on December 5 1903 stated that the edition was strictly limited to 500 copies for England and America emphasizing the exclusivity of this magnificent production from the outset. The portfolio is particularly significant in the history of the Detmold brothers' careers. Born in 1883 Maurice and Edward developed their exceptional artistic talents together displaying an early and remarkable aptitude for the representation of birds animals and the natural world. Their close collaboration produced some of the most distinctive illustrated publications of the opening years of the twentieth century. Tragically Maurice took his own life in 1908 bringing their artistic partnership to a premature end. Edward continued to enjoy a distinguished career as an illustrator but the works produced jointly by the brothers retain a unique place in the history of British illustration. As Richard Dalby observed the paintings were admired for their realistic detail and decorative arrangement while Diana Johnson identified the extraordinary tension between their scientific naturalism and ornamental imagination a combination capable of producing images both fanciful and profoundly disturbing. A masterpiece of the Golden Age of Illustration this spectacular portfolio stands among the finest achievements of the Detmold brothers and one of the most beautiful and psychologically compelling interpretations of Kipling's immortal jungle stories. Complete examples of the original 1903 folio portfolio are increasingly difficult to obtain and the present copy with all sixteen plates clean and fresh and preserved in its original gilt-decorated publisher's portfolio is an especially attractive survival. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1903 unknown
1909rif. 78748New York:: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. publisher's red ribbed gilt-decorated cloth. The original W. Heath Robinson watercolor is very fine. The book is near fine with some light use to the cloth. Folio. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. This copy is accompanied by the original artwork by W. Heath Robinson for the Plate XIX "Madras" measuring 16-1/2 x 8 inches framed to an overall size of 25 x 16 inches signed lower right. Doubleday, Page & Company, hardcover
1944rif. 310968Garden City New York: Doubleday Page later Doran & Company 1944. First American copyright editions generally published in editions of 50-75 copies. 76 vols. 8vo. Publisher's printed stapled wrappers printed in green or black. Light foxing and shelfwear to wrappers. Navy blue cloth folding box. First American copyright editions generally published in editions of 50-75 copies. 76 vols. 8vo. A substantial collection of Kipling American copyright editions comprising 57 of the 74 such editions published from 1910-1944. All of the multi-part issues - The New Army 6 parts The Fringes of the Fleet 6 parts Tales of "The Trade" 3 parts Destroyers at Jutland 4 parts - are complete save for The War in the Mountains 5 parts which is missing the first part. A complete listing available on request. "Contributing to the multiplicity of editions was the failure of the United States to enact international copyright protection until 1891 resulting in some American issues being the "true firsts" of Kipling's books. And while Kipling's trade editions soon began to be published in large numbers after the American international copyright law's foundation date of July 1 1891 his London literary agent A.P. Watt and his New York publisher Frank N. Doubleday made extensive use of limited printings - as few as 8 to 25 copies - to establish copyright in each country" David Alan Richards "Collecting Kipling". Provenance: Frank Nelson Doubleday Doubleday, Page [later Doran] & Company unknown
1913rif. ab 22LONDON: MACMILLAN 1913. Book. Fine. Hardcover. FIRST. Limited edition of 1050 sets . Signed on the half-title of volume 1. full red Morocco Finely bound in deep red half morocco raised bands and gilt rules to spines matching cloth sides top edge gilt others untrimmed. Printed from Florentine Press type on hand-made paperA BEAUTIFUL SET. MACMILLAN Hardcover
1894rif. 339632London: Macmillan 1894. First. hardcover. near fine. Illustrated by J.L. Kipling & others. 2 vols. blue cloth with cover design & lettering in gilt; all edges gilt with dark green coated endpapers. London: Macmillan 1894-1895. First Editions. A nice tight set with minimal binding wear & dulled gilt on the first volume. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell case. Macmillan unknown
1894rif. 330918London: Macmillan 1894. First. hardcover. Illustrated by J.L. Kipling & others. 2 volumes. 8vo blue cloth with cover design & lettering in gilt all edges gilt. London: Macmillan 1894-1895. First Editions. A tight set with light rubbing on the bindings leaving the gilt somewhat dulled; bookplate. Preserved in a 1/2 leather double slipcase with Jean Hersholt bookplates. Macmillan unknown
1944rif. 310968Garden City New York: Doubleday Page later Doran & Company 1944. First American copyright editions generally published in editions of 50-75 copies. 76 vols. 8vo. Publisher's printed stapled wrappers printed in green or black. Light foxing and shelfwear to wrappers. First American copyright editions generally published in editions of 50-75 copies. 76 vols. 8vo. Publisher's Copies. A substantial collection of Kipling American copyright editions comprising 57 of the 74 such editions published from 1910-1944. All of the multi-part issues - The New Army 6 parts The Fringes of the Fleet 6 parts Tales of "The Trade" 3 parts Destroyers at Jutland 4 parts - are complete save for The War in the Mountains 5 parts which is missing the first part. A complete listing available on request. "Contributing to the multiplicity of editions was the failure of the United States to enact international copyright protection until 1891 resulting in some American issues being the "true firsts" of Kipling's books. And while Kipling's trade editions soon began to be published in large numbers after the American international copyright law's foundation date of July 1 1891 his London literary agent A.P. Watt and his New York publisher Frank N. Doubleday made extensive use of limited printings - as few as 8 to 25 copies - to establish copyright in each country" David Alan Richards "Collecting Kipling". Provenance: Frank Nelson Doubleday Doubleday, Page [later Doran] & Company unknown books
rif. 06180Lahore: The "Civil and Military Gazette Press 1885. One of Rudyard Kipling's Earliest Publications Containing the First Appearance of "The Phantom Rickshaw" KIPLING Rudyard. 1885 Quartette. The Christmas Annual of the Civil & Military Gazette by Four Anglo-Indian Writers. Lahore: The "Civil and Military Gazette Press 1885. First Edition. Tall octavo 9 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 245 x 146 mm. 2 blank 2 title printed in red and black verso blank 2 Contents verso blank 1-125 1 blank seven leaves of advertisements: 2 pink 2 gray 3 thinner cream-colored. Handsomely bound by C. Fox of London ca. 1885 with their stamp on verso of free endpaper. Full green morocco covers decoratively bordered in gilt. Spine with five shallow raised bands decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt ruled board edges decorative gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate "Think and Thank" on front pastedown. Original front and rear printed wrappers bound in. Front wrapper with design by the Mayo School of Art Lahore with early ink signature "L.C. Ibbetson" on top blank margin. This is a complete copy of the first edition first impression of a book authored by members of the Kipling family. Published in a limited run of 250 copies it was bound around the time of publication and it is particularly rare to have its original wrappers and advertisements at the end. The book marks the first appearance of The Phantom 'Rickshaw and The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes C.E. Rudyard Kipling later described the origins of this work in his 1937 autobiography Something of Myself recalling that "in the cold weather of 1885 we four made up a Christmas annual which pleased us a good deal and attracted a certain amount of attention. Later much later it became a 'collector's piece' in the US book-market and to that extent smudged the memories of its birth." The collection consists of 16 pieces-eight in prose and eight in verse-written by "four Anglo-Indian writers" as stated on the title page. The authors who remained anonymous throughout were Kipling himself his father mother and sister. Kipling took the initiative to publish the book through the Civil and Military Gazette selling it by subscription. At just 19 years old he contributed half of the content using this opportunity to bring his work into print. His ghost stories gained wider recognition when they were later reprinted in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales 1890. Kipling's father however was somewhat reluctant about the publication. He wrote to Margaret Burne-Jones expressing his hope that someone would "rap Rudyard's knuckles for the unwholesomeness of The Phantom 'Rickshaw and the coarseness of The Tragedy of Teeth." The book's binding process was notably chaotic. Kipling recalled that the work took place at night by candlelight with workers on overtime incentivized with brandy and free tobacco to keep production moving. Over forty men including binders were involved in assembling Quartette. The publication was officially announced on 19 December and its cover design is believed to have been created by Kipling's father John Lockwood Kipling who was then the first principal of the Mayo School of Art in Lahore. Livingston 5; Stewart 7. Lahore: The "Civil and Military Gazette Press, 1885 unknown
1903rif. 72975London:: Macmillan & Co. 1903. First edition. laid into publisher's olive green gilt-stamped portfolio as issued. There is some chipping and use to some of the captioned overleaves which are tanned around the edges. A few of them are foxed and one has long repaired tears. A few small chips to the corners of the mats. The color plates are all very fine. The title page and list of plates are chipped at the corners and creased along the lower edge with repairs to short tears. The flaps and spine of the portfolio have been re-lined and the corners are worn; the joints split. . Oversized folio . 16 large color plates each in the publisher's mat with captioned overleaf. . Additional postage applicable. Macmillan & Co., unknown
1895rif. 7926London: Macmillan and Co 1895. First editions. Very Good Near Fine. A handsome set. Publisher's blue cloth bindings stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Dark green endpapers. Slight wear to the spine ends and corners of The Jungle Book a little foxing internally otherwise very clean and fresh throughout. A Very Good copy. The Second Jungle Book presenting very well indeed front hinge a little tender bookeller's ticket to foot of front free endpaper verso. A Near Fine copy overall. Both volumes illustrated throughout with contributions by J. L. Kipling W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny in The Jungle Book; the author's father Lockwood Kipling C.I.E. illustrated The Second Jungle Book. This set contained in a custom blue cloth slipcase. Few books have shaped the imagination of childhood quite like Kipling's Jungle Books. First published in 1894 and 1895 these two volumes introduced the world to Mowgli Baloo Bagheera Kaa and Shere Khan. The timeless stories blended fable folklore and imperial adventure into one of the most enduring classics of English literature. The Jungle Book 1894 includes the first appearance of "Mowgli's Brothers" "Kaa's Hunting" and "Tiger! Tiger!" alongside such favorites as "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi." The Second Jungle Book 1895 continued the talesdeepening the Mowgli cycle and adding enduring pieces like "The King's Ankus" and "Red Dog." Together the two books form the complete Mowgli canon. First edition sets in original cloth are increasingly scarce especially when both volumes present well. These are the foundational works of Kipling's career - the stories that earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature 1907 and secured his place in the canon of English storytelling. Based on folktales and legends that Kipling learned during his childhood in India the Jungle Books were met with huge success upon publication and continue to enthrall readers of all ages to this day. According to Professor Edwin L. Miller their publication "caused even severe critics of Kipling's previous work to admit that he is a writer of inspired genius." Largely focused on man's relationship to nature the Jungle Books in part narrate the tales of Mowgli a human "man-cub" raised by wolves as he tries to find his proper place in the world. As he struggles with his own identity he finds allies and adversaries among the animal communities through which he travels. They also include the story of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the heroic mongoose who would later inspire an animated short voiced by Orson Welles. For contributions like these Kipling became the first English-language writer and the youngest ever to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Very Good Near Fine. Macmillan and Co unknown
rif. 51-4740Lausanne: Gonin et Cie 1930. 4to. 25 x 32 cm. Volume II only. Magnificent morocco binding designed by Schmied and executed by Poëncin: Kim in gold surrounded by a red lattice work of morocco bands onlaid onto the morocco binding with morocco and mahogany paper chemise and slipcase. One of 30 copies with a second suite of the 20 color wood-engravings all signed together with a suite of the wood-engravings in black.Luc Monod Manuel de l'amateur de livres illustrés modernes no. 6539. .Lausanne Gonin et Cie 1930. Tome II fort volume in-4320 x 261 mm 263 pp. Maroquin noir orné d’un décor de tramemosaïqué oblique de listels rouges couvrant les plats et le dos lissetitre doré au premier plat tranches dorées sur témoins gardes demoire lie-de-vin couverture et dos sous chemise au dos titré en demimaroquinnoir à bandes et à recouvrement étui bordé de maroquin noirreliure signée É. Poëncin.Édition illustrée d’après François-Louis Schmied dont 13 plancheshors texte 7 grandes vignettes 7 lettrines et 3 culs-de-lampe gravéspar Philippe Gonin.Tirage à 160 exemplaires sur japon un des 30 comportant une doublesuite des gravures dont 20 en noir sur vélin et 20 en couleurs sur japon réalisées et signées par Schmied.Superbe réalisation d’Emile Poëncin de style Art Déco. Mr Poëcinétait alors le directeur de l’atelier de reliure de Mr Schmied.Uniquement le Tome II. L’un des derniers livres illustrés par François-Louis Schmied.Provenance : Collection Marcel Aubreton 1934-2019. Lausanne: Gonin et Cie, 1930. unknown
1897rif. 9900028063London: Pearson's Magazine 1897. 1st edition. Leather Bound. black-&-white illustrations. 85 pp. Slim 8vo. Handsomely bound in 3/4 reddish-brown niger morocco over reddish-brown cloth t.e.g. The five parts are bound without any preliminary leaves containing 85 pages from the magazine. The binding is by Sangorski and Sutcliffe of London. The spine is in compartments with delicate gilt lettering and the date 1896-7 at bottom. The leather of the front board is a bit spotted more so near the top than elsewhere and the top of the hinge is rubbed. The boards are also slightly bumped. The front free endpaper shows some scuffing. There are four small spots to the rear endpaper of no particular consequence. The contents are generally clean if slightly edge-worn. Overall the book is in very good condition in a most attractive binding. Martindell 68. Written when Kipling was but 31 and not long married to the sister of his American agent this is his only book to be set entirely in America. This unique item contains the December 1896; and the January to April 1897 parts of Pearson's Magazine which constituted the first appearance in print of Kipling's famous novella. The first book publication was by Macmillan London later in 1897 with 21 illustrations by I. W. Taber. The first American book publication was also in 1897 by The Century Co. New York City. This true first printing also contains 16 illustrations by I. W. Taber as well as an additional 21 illustrations by Fred T. Jane the founder of 'Jane's Fighting Ships ' and two by Swain. Pearson's Magazine unknown
1949rif. 1521Paris, Maxime Cottet-Dumoulin Éditeur, 1949. 1 volume in-4 (330 x 255 mm),70 pp. + ffnch., en feuilles sous couverture imprimée rempliée, chemise-étui bordé recouvert d'un papier ciré imitant la peau de serpent. Édition illustrée de 67 compositions originales par Paul Jouve gravées sur cuivre par Raymend Haasen, soit : 13 HORS-TEXTE GRAVÉS EN COULEURS, dont 3 à double page et 54 bandeaux noir et or. Chaque page de texte est encadrée d'un filet rouge, la typographie étant dûe à Jacques Beltrand. Tirage unique à 123 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin d'Arches teinté filigrané au nom de l'artiste, celui-ci n° 115 est l'1 des 110 avec UNE SUITE EN NOIR DES 13 GRAVURES HORS-TEXTE. Exemplaire à l'état de neuf bien signé à l'encre par Paul Jouve et l'éditeur Cottet-Dumoulin.
rif. 139497Unique foldout Artist Book by Barry McCallion. Fine in fine clamshell box. Signed and dated by the artist on the title page. From the colophon: "Excerpts from Kim Rudyard Kipling's novel occupy the recto pages of this book. The verso pages begin as a large emply circle where page after page images slowly accrete by the addition of common objects: a begging bowl prayer beads an arrow a chair a leaf a cloud. The verso and recto pages face each other developing and advancing as consectutive narratives one visual and the other verbal. I used Richard de Bas cream wove paper for the endpapers and white Rives BFK paper for the text block. The drawings are made with India ink pens and brushed Winsor Newton metallic inks and colors. The book has forty-five text pages and forty-five image pages. Rhonda Miller of myhandboundbooks in Halifax Nova Scotia bound the book in a simple brown leather cover. B McCallion 2013" From the artist's website: "Barry McCallion was born in the Bronx New York and received degrees from Columbia University English Literature and Claremont Graduate University Sculpture. His natural inclination to travel has been officially sponsored by the DAAD artist in residence program to Berlin the Cite des Arts Atelier in Paris and most recently by the Visual Arts Board of the New Zealand and Australian Arts Councils. The artist currently lives and works on the east end of Long Island New York." East Hampton NY: Barry McCallion 2013; 8vo. full limp leather with a leather wrap-around cloth-covered slipcase paper color illustration on front panel paper spine label which the artist has signed in ink; thirteen hinged pages unpaginated but each is a full-page spread with one page colophon at rear. Book # 139497 Barry McCallion
1913rif. 145328London: MacMillan and Co. 1913-19. Hardcover. Near fine. Bombay Edition. Octavo. 25 volumes. Bound in half grey cloth and blue paper covered boards. Paper label on the spine. Top edge gilt. Other edges untrimmed. Top edge a bit dust soiled. Corners generally square with only slight bumping. A bit of slight foxing on the boards but the text block is very clean. Original blue silk book mark in each volume. Original printed dust wrappers for all volumes. Most in fine condition with a few having slight tears and two are missing a small piece from the base of the dust wrapper. A much superior set of this famous edition of Kipling's works. The Bombay edition of Kiplings works was limited to 1050 copies with Kipling signing below the half title. The works of Rudyard Kipling contains his poetry novels stories travel writings children s tales military tales and essays. Kipling became the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize 1907. 1913 MacMillan and Co. hardcover
1886rif. 315322Lahore: Civil and Military Press Gazette 1886. First Edition of Kipling's first published book. Tall narrow 4to. Bound original light brown printed wrappers in the form of an Indian civil service envelope overlapping flap. Laid into early straight blue grained morocco slipcase and chemise. With description from Charles Sessler's Bookshop. First Edition of Kipling's first published book. Tall narrow 4to. The first edition of Kipling's first published work. Kipling was made sub-editor of the Civil and Military Gazette an Anglophone newspaper in Lahore upon his return to India after his time at the United Service College; this volume collects his poetry printed therein. Richards A7; Stewart 8; Livingston 22 Civil and Military Press Gazette unknown books
1894rif. 68158First Edition ìJungle Booksî in the Original Bindings KIPLING Rudyard. The Jungle Book. With illustrations by J.L. Kipling W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. London: Macmillan and Co. 1894. First edition second printing with two dates on verso of title-page. Small octavo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 181 x 120 mm. vi 2 212 pp. With frontispiece and tissue guard. Numerous illustrations including many full-page illustrations included in pagination. Together with: KIPLING Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. With illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling. London: Macmillan and Co. 1895. First edition. Small octavo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 181 x 120 mm. vi 238 2 ads pp. Numerous illustrations including many full-page illustrations included in pagination. Title-page with vignette illustrations. With two pages of publisher's advertisements. Two volumes. Original bright blue cloth decoratively stamped in gilt on front covers and spines and lettered in gilt on spines. Volume one with elephants stamped in gilt on front cover and a gilt cobra on the spine. Volume II with a cobra in gilt on front cover and a man and snake in gilt on the spine. All edges gilt. Original dark blue-green coated endpapers. Extremities of the spine and corners of the second book with a bit of rubbing. Final ad leaf in second book with some light foxing. Overall an about fine set. Rudyard Kipling has been called "perhaps the most original genius among English-writing novelists of the latter 19th and early 20th centuries." Certainly no other has been so widely acclaimed so eagerly read so lastingly loved by readers on both sides of the Atlantic. The honors bestowed upon him all over the world were capped in 1907 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Livingston 104 and 116. Martindell 61 and 63. Stewart 123 and 132. HBS 68158. $4500 Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1895rif. 3200London: Macmillan 1895. First editions. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth bindings with gilt to spines and boards. All edges brightly gilt. Gentle bumping to extremities. Spine of The Jungle Book the slightest bit rolled. Small cloth repair near the crown of spine on The Second Jungle Book. Dark green endpapers. Internally both copies bright and clean with just a bit of scattered foxing to the second. An attractive pair of Kipling's most memorable works. Based on folk tales and legends that Kipling learned during his childhood in India but written while in Vermont. This work of several inter-related short stories met with huge success upon publication and continues to enthrall readers of all ages to this day. According to Professor Edwin L. Miller their publication "caused even severe critics of Kipling's previous work to admit that he is a writer of inspired genius." Largely focused on man's relationship to nature The Jungle Books in part narrate the tales of Mowgli a human man-cub raised by wolves as he tries to find his proper place in the world. As he struggles with his own identity he finds allies and adversaries among the animal communities through which he travels. They also include the story of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the heroic mongoose who would later inspire an animated short voiced by Orson Welles. For contributions like these Kipling became the first English-language writer and the youngest ever to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Near Fine. Macmillan unknown books
1894rif. 140940387London: Macmillan and Co 1894. First Edition. Near Fine. 1894 1895. Two volumes. 303; 238 pp. 2 ads. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original royal blue cloth elaborately stamped in gilt top edges gilt. Near Fine with light lean to spine light toning to spine cloth and light rubbing to extremities. Pages toned previous owner name to preliminary blank sheet of Volume I and small vintage bookseller ticket to front pastedown of Volume II. A lovely set. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1928rif. 110Book is in very fine condition both pages and binding. The outer cover looks flawless. This Book Is Hard To Find Will Be Packaged And Shipped Carefully To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection Or As A Gift This book contains a series of short stories including: His Majesty the King The Drums of the Fore and Aft Wee Willie Winkie Christmas in India Baa Baa Black Sheep Bimi The Ballad of the Clampherdown The Story of Muhammad Din and more. It is signed: Merry Christmas To Paul Tally from Wilbur Fredell Rand McNally and Company hardcover
1902rif. 884427London: Macmillan and Co. 1902. Magnificently bound by Bayntun in full deep red morocco spine in six compartments gilt onlay pictorial decoration of elephant and palm tree to the front board inner dentelles gilt marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Custom red cloth slipcase. A truly fine book. First Edition. Full Red Morocco. Fine/. Illus. by By the Author. 8vo. Macmillan and Co. Hardcover
1927rif. 2169Cercle Lyonnais du Livre, Lyon 1927. 1 volume in-4 (260 x 200 mm), en feuilles, couverture illustrée en couleurs, étui-chemise cartonné de l'éditeur. L’illustration comprend 56 COMPOSITIONS ORIGINALES DE FRANÇOIS-LOUIS SCHMIED GRAVÉES SUR BOIS EN COULEURS dont 24 à pleine page, 28 bandeaux et 4 fins de ligne. Typographies entièrement en capitales, texte encadré d'un filet doré doublé en tête ou en queue. Tirage limité à 165 exemplaires tous sur vélin d’Arches. L’un des 120 nominatifs imprimés pour les membres du Cercle Lyonnais du Livre.
1895rif. 2024London: Macmillan and Co 1895. First English Editions. Original cloth. Duodecimos. 212 & 238 pages. In custom box with chemises. Both books bound in navy blue cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spines and upper boards all edges gilt and dark green coated endpapers. 'The Jungle Book' has a slight lean to the spine minor extremity rubs a faint crack along inner margin of front endpapers a bookseller tag and a neat prior owner bookplate on front pastedown. A contemporaneous review is tipped to rear free endpaper. 'The Second Jungle Book' is in fine condition with just a few minor rubs to extremities. No prior ownership marks. A beautiful set already appropriately housed in a custom box with chemises. Kipling's classic collection of stories set in India featuring the young boy Mowgli and a cast of mostly animal characters that illustrate human nature. A beautiful set of both books in the desirable first states of their first editions. 'The Jungle Book' has the first state imprint "R. & R. Clark Edinburgh" on p. 212. 'The Second Jungle Book' has the first state indicators on p. 139--the abrupt end to the text of "The King's Ankus" at line 8 and the tailpiece of the ankus. Ref. RICHARDS A76 and A85. Macmillan and Co unknown
1886rif. 540FIRST EDITION tall narrow 4to half red morocco over marbled boards original light brown printed wrappers that double as an Indian civil service envelope preserved marbled endpapers bookplates of William Garth and William Marchbank Lahore the Civil and Military Press 1886. The First Edition of Kipling's first published work. Previous work was either printed privately offprints or collaborative books. Kipling was sub-editor of the Civil and Military Gazette an Anglophone newspaper reporting from Lahore on the life of the Civil Service and the Indian Army in Punjab. Thanks to his occupation and his family's social standing he had many opportunities to explore the full range of life in India. He remained keenly observant of the thronging spectacle of native India which had engaged his interest and affection from earliest childhood. He was quickly filling the journals he worked for with prose sketches and light verse. Kipling began inserting his own poems under the heading of Departmental Ditties into the newspaper and then produced this edition made up to look like a bundle of civil service memoranda. Richards A7; Stewart 8; Livingston 22 William Marchbank
