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1910Quaderni della voce raccolti da Giuseppe Prezzolini p. 73
1923p. 256
2021br. Questo libro è per tutti gli amanti di Kim, il capolavoro con cui Ruyard Kipling celebrò la vita del subcontinente indiano, il "fardello dell'uomo bianco" imperiale e inglese, il duello fra la Corona e lo Zar nel "Grande Gioco", nome reso celebre proprio da lui, per il controllo dell'Asia centrale. Affascinato sin dall'adolescenza da questo strano racconto di un ragazzino orfano e del suo reclutamento nell'Indian Secret Service, Peter Hopkirk ripercorre le tracce di Kim nell'India di Kipling per vedere quanto di esse rimanga e dove portino. Rispetto a un eroe di finzione si tratterebbe di una ricerca vana, ma Kim è molto più di un romanzo inventato, perché fu ispirato da figure e luoghi reali che rendono impercettibile il confine fra verità e immaginazione. Libro di viaggi e insieme detective story letteraria, il libro di Hopkirk riporta alla luce le ombre di un passato pieno di intrighi e di colpi di scena, combina una sorprendente erudizione con una qualità di narratore, e ci consegna un'immagine indimenticabile dell'India di ieri, dell'India di sempre.
191512mo., First UK Edition, on laid paper; handsomely bound in full red morocco, gilt back, an attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Collects six articles originally published in two newspapers, the Daily Telegraph (London) and the Sun (New York). They were subsequently published as individual pamphlets in the US; this is their first appearance in book form. Livingston, 397.
19338vo., Second Impression, with several illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, sewed as issued, front wrapper mildly sunned, small label scar on rear wrapper, a good, clean copy. With a long A.L.s from the Rt. Revd Eric Treacy, Bishop of Wakefield, loosely inserted. Published in the same month as the first impression.
19728vo., First Edition thus, with a frontispiece and 13 full-page illustrations in the text; pictorial yellow cloth with wrap-around illustration blocked in brown, gilt back, blue top, blue endpapers, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy in publisher's card slip-case, the latter a little dust-soiled.
19058vo., First English Edition, First Issue, with a coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), and 14 fine coloured plates (all original tissue guards present), text on rectos only, free endpapers mildly browned; original ivory pictorial buckram, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, covers mildly age-soiled as often, backstrip faded (but all gilt just legible) else a very good, tight, clean copy. First Edition in book form. First Issue, with imprint 'Bemrose Dalziel'. Livingston, 287.
18988vo., Thirteenth Edition, on laid paper, with a title-vignette, endpapers very lightly browned, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original plum buckram, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip lightly sunned (but all gilt bright and entirely legible), a very good, bright, clean copy. With 40pp publisher's catalogue (dated February 1898) bound in at end. First published in 1892.
18968vo., Second Impression thus, bookplate scar on front paste-down; original blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, uncut, black endpapers, backstrip very lightly sunned else a remarkably well-preserved bright, clean copy. With 6pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end, and a small printed portrait of the author mounted on front free endpaper verso. For the first Macmillan edition of the previous year the text was revised and two stories - 'Of Those Called' and 'The Wreck of the Visigoth' - added. To Soldiers Three. In this second impression these two tales were omitted and a new story - 'L'Envoi' - added to The Story of the Gadsbys. Scarce, especially in this condition. Livingston 119 (recording the first edition of the previous year).
19368vo., Best Edition, on laid paper, with a facsimile as frontispiece and 7 facsimiles in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, some very mild spotting on preliminaries only; boards, buckram back gilt, a remarkably crisp, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly marked and frayed at extremities. First published in 1917 and revised in 1922, this is the most comprehensive edition of an uncommon work, especially in this condition.
19314to., First Illustrated Edition, with 24 coloured plates and several monochrome illustrations in the text, endpapers lightly browned; original boards, a very good, firm copy in the dustwrapper, the latter with two or three losses at edges. Elusive in the dustwrapper.
191816mo., First Edition, on laid paper, very neat contemporary signature on front cover and half-title; original printed wrappers, uncut, backstrip faintly browned else a remarkably bright, fresh copy. Livingston, 433.
19358vo., First Edition Deluxe, with a coloured frontispiece and 32 full-page monochrome plates; original red full limp calf, upper board blocked with large image of Puck in gilt, backstrip lettered and blocked in gilt, all edges gilt, orange silk marker, a very good, bright, crisp copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue at end. With a personal prize bookplate on front free endpaper, and school name blocked in gilt on upper board. Published simultaneously with the trade edition. The deluxe edition is scarce. Bleiler 277.
18998vo., Newnes Edition; strongly bound in contemporary red buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, backstrip and lower board mildly and unevenly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. The sole Newnes edition. Newnes secured rights of publication from Thacker and issued the only cheap editions in the UK. Kipling himself purchased the rights from Newnes and thereafter appointed as his publishers Methuen in the UK and Doubleday in the US. Livingston 19.
18933 works in 1 vol., 8vo., Mixed Editions, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; red cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, decorative endpapers, backstrip mildly sunned, very neatly recased,a very good, clean copy.
19318vo., with coloured frontispiece and 15 fine coloured plates, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; red buckram, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, small pull at headband else a near fine copy. A remarkably bright, clean copy. Kipling's most famous prose work was first issued with coloured illustrations in 1908. See Livingston, p.36.; Stewart 125.
19718vo., First Edition, small neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A valuable and wide-ranging collection of contemporary criticism assembled by a lifelong Kipling scholar. Published in the acclaimed and much sought-after 'Critical Heritage' series. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19378vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, and title in red and black; original red buckram, upper board blocked with elephant's head motif in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a near fine copy in unclipped, mildly age-soiled dustwrapper, the latter rubbed at extremities. With newspaper portrait mounted on front free endpaper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19208vo., First Edition, with title in red and black; red buckram, upper board with 'elephant's head' medallion blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With 4pp of publisher's advertisements at end. Collects three groups of letters originally published in periodicals: 'From Tideway to Tideway' (The Times), 'Letters to the Family' (The Morning Post) and 'Egypt of the Magicians' (Nash's Magazine). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Livingston, 454.
18968vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 20 plates and numerous wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces by A. S. Hartwick, preliminaries very lightly spotted, frontispiece guard moderately spotted and offset to title, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original pictorial blue cloth gilt, fife and drummer boys from plate facing p.58 elaborately blocked in gilt on upper board, pictorial back gilt, all edges gilt, a very bright, crisp, clean copy. Collects seven stories first published between 1888 and 1890. Livingston, 133; Martindale 67; Stewart 157.
19018vo., First Edition, First Issue, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, and 9 plates, tiny neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original red cloth, upper board blocked with Ganesha elephant's head in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, backstrip very faintly faded at extreme head and tail else an unusally bright, clean, crisp copy. With the nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of J. Chamberlain on front paste-down, and complete with 2pp. publisher's advertisement at end showing price of 6s. The illustrations are by Kipling's father. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Livingston, 250.
19968vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 8 coloured plates; pictorial red cloth, upper board blocked in black and lettered in gilt, gilt back, primrose endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
19998vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the separately printed errata slip loosely inserted.
19188vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present); handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with propellor motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, printed cloth from original upper board and backstrip mounted on new and separate leaves at front, a most atractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Kipling's letter does not appear in the US edition where it is replaced with a Preface by Theodore Roosevelt. Enser, p.122; Livingston 436; Noffsinger 143 (recording the US edition). SCARCE.
18908vo., Third Edition thus; original illustrated wrappers, sewed as issued, wrappers with small losses at edges else a bright, clean copy. In the pale green wrappers of Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington with Wheeler's Indian Railway logo on front. Collects seven tales: The God from the Machine, Private Learoyd's Story, The Big Drunk Draf, The Solid Muldoon, With the Main Guard, In the Matter of a Private, Black Jack. ALL EARLY ISSUES ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.