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1897Best.-Nr. 2358London and New York: Macmillan and Co. and The Macmillan Company 1897. I.W. TABER. FICTION. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited and New York: The Macmillan Company 1897. I.W. TABER illustrator. R. & R. Clark Limited Edinburgh printer. First British edition. 12mo 7 7/16" x 5"; viii 1-245pp; red goat over board double gilt fillet with corner flower ornaments 6 spine compartments with gilt ornaments and date "1897" onlaid gilt-lettered labels; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles with marbled boards owners bookplate "Josephine B. Crane / Sugar Hill / Dalton Mass." on front pastedown; binder's stamp on verso ffep "Bound by Zaehnsdorf"; engraved fp 20 plates and one illustration in text; light shelf wear to edges spine sunned a few spots; very good plus. A beautifully bound copy of Rudyard Kipling's 1865-1936 exciting tale about a 15-year-old boy Harvey Cheyne Jr. who is washed overboard from a trans-Atlantic steamship and picked up by a fishing schooner off the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. First published in McClure's magazine from November 1896 to May 1897 it was published as a book first in the U.S. by Doubleday and then by Macmillan in London. Bound by Joseph Zaehnsdorf 1816-1886 an Austrian Hungarian binder who moved to London by 1837. Macmillan and Co. and The Macmillan Company unknown books
1890Best.-Nr. 158361890. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. January 1891 actually Dec 1890. Original printed wrappers. First American Appearance of this novel occupying almost the entirety 97 pages of this monthly issue. Lippincott's Monthly Magazine was on a roll! Over the course of twelve months they introduced readers to three amazing novels: Arthur Conan Doyle's THE SIGN OF FOUR complete in the February 1890 issue Oscar Wilde's THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY complete in the July 1890 issue and then this one. In February 1890 Kipling's agent A.P.Watt had negotiated for Kipling to deliver to Lippincott this novel -- for which they issued a UK copyright edition in November 1890 the true first edition. New York publishers John Lovell / United States Book Co. with London agent Wolcott Balestier and Kipling in-law were all set to publish this in early December 1890 when. The book's publication was held up until the American magazine version. could appear on the newstands in late December in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine cover-dated January 1891" Richards. This is a remarkably bright copy fine except for chipping away of the bottom quarter-inch of the spine. Quite uncommon in this condition. Richards E1-E3 plus see his A49-A51. Housed in a worn folding cloth case which bears the bookplate of Oliver Brett later 3rd Viscount Esher. unknown books
1917Best.-Nr. 022153Burwash Sussex 8 January 1917. Framed Letter. Not examined out of frame. Appears Fine. Handwritten two-page letter SIGNED "Rudyard Kipling" on his Bateman's Burwash Sussex stationery to Monsieur Paul Lambotte. In full: "I am of course honoured to be on the Committee of the Emile Verhaeren's memorial but it seems to me that if he is to be adequately honoured by England it should be officially and for that purpose you must have the Poet Laureate Robert Bridges to deliver the oration and I think you would find Mr. Edmund Gosse would agree with this. I hope before long that we may have the pleasure of meeting you again at -- our common London home." Attractively and professionally matted and framed to an overall size of 15" x 12-1/2." unknown books
1518Best.-Nr. 022154Naulakha Waite Vermont 15 June 1896. Framed Letter. Not examined out of frame. Appears Fine. Humorous handwritten one-page letter SIGNED "Rudyard Kipling" on his Naulakha Waite Vermont stationery to William Livingston Alden. In full: "Many thanks for your kind little note. It's a rummy land this side but there's a heap of material that I've got out of it. however i shall be clearing out in the Fall to get the taste out of my mouth. You see the devil of it is that a reporter once found out from a hired Swede girl that I occasionally sat down to dinner in that kind of rig which the downtrodden subjects of an effete monarchy call evening dress. Since then I have been considered with suspicion. But you'll see me come along in time back to civilization with a bicycle and a fishing-rod." Attractively and professionally matted and framed with a photographic reproduction of Kipling to an overall size of 15-1/2" x 13." Alden was an American journalist humorist and writer of fiction. He had been Consul General in Rome 1885-89 and from 1892 until his death in 1908 he lived in London where he was a regular contributor to magazines. The letterhead is of interest as in 1895 the U. S. Postmaster General authorized a special post office since Kipling received more mail than the largest business in the area. Waite Vermont existed solely in the home of and was named for the Kiplings' neighbor Anna F. Waite who was appointed Postmistress. The Kiplings left Vermont not long after this letter was written never to return Waite Vermont ceased to exist the following year. Today philatelists prize the Waite postmark being the only post office ever created for an individual. Kipling wrote THE JUNGLE BOOK and CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS in Vermont. It is said that Kipling's Naulakha is where skiing was introduced to Vermont and the site of the state's first tennis court. unknown books
1901Best.-Nr. 021965London: Macmillan and Co. 1901. First British Edition. Hardcover. About Fine. Published in the U.S. 16 days prior to the British publication. Bound by Bayntun in full red calf leather with gilt rules on the covers gilt-decorated spine with gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels gilt dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt 5" x 7-3/4". Considered to be Kipling's greatest work and the finest novel about the India of the British Empire. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1899Best.-Nr. 14169London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1899. First Edition First Issue. Quarter Leather. Near fine. First edition first issue of Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling. Octavo ix iii 272pp 2pp ads. Finely bound in three-quarter red morocco top edge gilt. Five raised bands title in gilt on spine. Publisher's original cloth covers laid in place with author's emblem in gilt on front cover. New endpapers. No additional printings listed. Light wear to original cloth faint soiling to gilt edge. Previous ownership inscription on second free endpaper dated "1899." Small loss to corner on page vii. A bright and attractive example. Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown books
1895Best.-Nr. 140941518London: Macmillan & Co 1895. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original royal blue cloth elaborately stamped in gilt all edges gilt. Near Fine with light lean to spine light wear and light soiling to cloth. Pages heavily foxed and with perforations to front free endpaper and the following blank sheet. Macmillan & Co unknown books
1982Best.-Nr. 196544New York: Bantam 1982. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Mass market paperback. Interior covers darkened chip on front cover corner very good. The boys’ classic of a pampered rich lad who accidentally falls in with a crusty fishing crew and has some sense knocked into him. Basis for the excellent Victor Fleming film featuring Freddie Bartholomew and Spencer Tracy who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the Portuguese fisherman. Bantam unknown books
1890Best.-Nr. 125195New York: United States Book Company 1890. Hardbound. Good- general fragility and wear. Publishers blue cloth. 771pp. no illustrations. A most noteworthy copy bearing the copper-engraved bookplate of Henry Van Deventer Black which was designed by Mr. Black and engraved by Edwin Davis French. The book is signed by Henry Van Deventer Black and he has dated it Dec. 1892. He has also written that "This book has spent a winter on the Nile and been around the world" on the ffep. A few pencil lines to the contents perhaps indicating favorite passages. The bookplate is stunning in it's detail and beauty. United States Book Company hardcover books
1904Best.-Nr. 324349London: Macmillan 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good with top edge gilt some fraying at the spine ends light wear to the corners a bookplate on the front pastedown lacking the dustwrapper. Macmillan hardcover books
1904Best.-Nr. 324706London: Macmillan 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good with top edge gilt some fraying at the spine ends corners bumped endpapers foxed a bookplate on the front pastedown lacking the dustwrapper. Macmillan hardcover books
1904Best.-Nr. 324708London: Macmillan 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good with top edge gilt spine is lightly faded corners bumped endpapers foxed foxing on the page edges lacking the dustwrapper. Macmillan hardcover books
1909Best.-Nr. 162393London: Macmillan 1909. First. hardcover. near fine. vi 301 plus 12pp of ads. Thick 8vo 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 uncut edges t.e.g. Original wrappers are bound-in at rear. London: Macmillan and Co. 1909. First edition. Slightest edgewear otherwise a near fine copy. Macmillan unknown books
1898Best.-Nr. 89732London: William Heinemann Ltd 1898. First Edition. Library edition on Japanese vellum. Quarto. Linen-backed pictorial laid paper over boards; unpaginated. Mild darkening to boards with a trace of wear at edges and corners; internally fresh and clean - a pleasing Very Good or better copy. One sport for every month of the year in Nicholson's signature style with text by Rudyard Kipling. In addition to this regular issue there were "a few copies" issued with hand-colored plates signed by the authors. This an attractive copy clean and sound better than usually seen. William Heinemann Ltd unknown books
1902Best.-Nr. 69666London: Macmillan and Co 1902. BAYNTUN-RIVIÈRE; KIPLING Rudyard. BAYNTUN-RIVIÈRE binder. KIPLING Rudyard illustrator. Just So Stories for Little Children. Illustrated by the Author. London: Macmillan and Co. 1902. Full Description: KIPLING Rudyard. Just So Stories for Little Children. Illustrated by the Author. London: Macmillan and Co. 1902. First edition of Kipling's famous collection of twelve stories and twelve poems including "How the Camel Got His Hump" and "How the Leopard Got His Spots." Small quarto 8 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches; 224 x 170 mm. 6 249 1 blank 1 printer's device 1 blank pp. Bound without the initial blank leaf. Twenty-two full-page illustrations. With the original publisher's red cloth bound in at the back. The cloth is with the first issue flaked white ink. Bound by Bayntun in full red levant morocco. Gilt-rule border on covers. Front cover stamped in gilt with an elephant and a palm tree. Spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt in compartments. Gilt board edges and turn-ins. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some minor finger smudging. A small closed repaired tear to contents page not affecting text. A near fine copy. "These twelve stories with an equal number of poems written 'for little children' were drawn from the store of 'make believe' tales that Kipling told to his own children. All of the stories but one "How the Alphabet Was Made" had appeared in periodicals between 1897 and 1902 but none of the verses had been published before 1902" Stewart. This book has the distinction of being the only one illustrated by Kipling. Gumuchian 3526. Livingston 267. Martindell 99. Osborne Collection I pp. 362-363. Stewart 260. HBS 69666. $1000. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1899Best.-Nr. 90256London: Daily Mail 1899. Quarto printed on white satin. Oblong folio in triptych form opening to six panels with portrait of Kipling to cover reproduction of a sketch by R. Caton Woodville "A gentleman in kharki" at center panel; Kipling's poem is reproduced from manuscript on the first and third interior panels. A beautifully-preserved example a trifle aged at margins but free of perforations or loss; Very Good to Near Fine. A fundraising souvenir one of several versions of this text produced to benefit families of British soldiers in the Boer War. Copies printed on satin were hawked by programme girls throughout the theatres of London for the princely sum of One Guinea. Ours is the special issue noted by Richards produced for the actress Lilly Langtry and offered for sale at the Garrick Theatre on Nov. 24 1899. The rear panel bears the printed legend: "Presented by Mrs. Lilly Langtry on the occasion of the 100th performance of the "Degenerates" at the Garrick Theatre." Richards notes that a few copies were produced with a silk fringe not present on our copy. RICHARDS A147. Daily Mail unknown books
1909Best.-Nr. 90334New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. First American Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's deep blue cloth lavishly decorated in gilt and silver to spine and front board. 77pp. printed rectos only; 16pp. fictional advertisments to rear. Bright and straight with some light scuffing to spine ends and extremities a little darkened to the spine; internally clean and fresh color pictorial endpapers by Leyendecker color frontispiece with tissue guard color plates. A very good copy of a pretty book. A most unusual bit of Kipling in the shape of a fantastic vision of the future in which the majority of air travel is via dirigible public industrial or private and which takes the form of a journalistic account of the aerial mail service for some future magazine or other a little optimistic of Kipling to assume we would have journalism in the 21st century. This heady and dramatic vision of the year 2000 is embellished with a selection of advertisments and blurbs for private airships dirigible engineering equipment and classified ads looking for pilots "Must be a member of the Church of England." in a pseudo-documentary transmedial fashion. The end result is an entertaining and deeply unserious bit of speculative fiction. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 50247New York: Willey Book Company 1930. Very Good-/Very Good. New York: Willey Book Company n.d. ca. 1930s. Later Printing. Octavo 19cm; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 6249pp. Cloth unevenly discolored from damp along spine edge bleeding into boards shallow chipping and closed tears to jacket margins spine panel mottled; still a Very Good sound example. Uncommon reprint of the author's first novel originally published in 1891. OCLC locates three examples of this edition as of October 2026 at Columbia Shippensburg and UBC. Willey Book Company unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 9032828New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine. Bound in publisher's original burgundy cloth with spines and covers stamped in illustrated gilt covers pressed with embossed medallions. Frontispiece illustrations with tissue guards. Several volumes feature illustrations maps and photographic reproductions in black white and red. All text blocks are in fine condition. Set is near uniformly fine except for minor wear to cloth at head of four spines. A handsome set. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1926Best.-Nr. 9033449London: Macmillan 1926. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Illustrated by Maxwell with an introductory poem by Kipling. Stunningly illustrated throughout by Maxwell in color. Bound in blue cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. Book is in fine condition. Dust jacket has wear and sunning to spine. 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches. 94 pages. Macmillan hardcover books
1899Best.-Nr. 87497New York: Doubleday & McClure Co 1899. First Edition. First printings. Two octavo volumes. Green cloth hardcovers; xv460 x400pp. Mild trace of rubbing at spine ends and board corners; corners lightly tapped otherwise a clean tight and unmarked set very Near Fine. Collected dispatches from India most originally published in The Pioneer between 1887 and 1889. The American edition precedes the British by one year. Doubleday & McClure Co unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 54791London: Macmillan 1932. First Edition. First Printing. 16mo 20cm. In original red cloth titled on spine in gold with elephant badge to front board top edge gilt in original printed tan dust jacket; list of other publications facing the title page; viii 400pp. A clean square copy cloth slightly darkened at spine edges and corners lightly rubbed: Very Good. In the original dust jacket chipped at head with cellotape repairs to verso at head and upper flap folds: Good. Not in LIVINGSTON. Macmillan unknown books
1913Best.-Nr. 69306London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1913. Full Description: KIPLING Rudyard. The Works of Rudyard Kipling. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1913-1938. Bombay Edition. Limited edition signed by Rudyard Kipling in volume I. Complete in thirty-one small quarto volumes 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches; 240 x 165 mm. As all sets are volumes 1-25 are from an edition of 1050 volume 26 is from an edition of 1000 and volumes 27-31 are from an edition of 500. Title pages and limitation pages printed in blue and black. Decorative initials printed in blue. Publisher's original paper spine labels bound in to the back of each volume. Bound uniformly in full red morocco. Boards tooled in gilt with a wavy border. Spines spines decoratively tooled in compartments and lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt others uncut. Marbled endpapers. A small neat black number stamp to the top margin of each title-page. The final leaf of each volume with a small note in red ink. Still an about fine set. HBS 69306. $8500. Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown books
1899Best.-Nr. 9032199New York: Alex. Grosset & Co 1899. 1st. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. Bound in publisher's original yellow-orange cloth with spine stamped in red cover stamped in red and illustrated black. Top edge gilt. Illustrated frontispiece. Two illustrated plates in black and white. Several pages unopened. Mild rubbing to corners and head and heel of spine not through cloth. Darkening to cloth front back and spine. 5 x 7 1/4 inches. Alex. Grosset & Co hardcover books
1898Best.-Nr. 201207London: William Heinemann 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Features words by Rudyard Kipling the author of "Captains Courageous" and "The Jungle Book." Includes 12 color lithographic plates by William Nicholson. A very good plus copy in paper covered boards with cloth spine but with some splitting to the front and rear internal hinges some other minor wear and with a vintage bookstore stocker to the rear pastedown. Plates in fine condition with some slight offsetting to the facing pages. No dust jacket. A very nice copy of this classic. William Heinemann unknown books
