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1906Best.-Nr. 330709New York: Doubleday 1906. First. hardcover. fine. Rackham Arthur. 4 colored Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 8vo original green cloth stamped in gilt & black. New York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1906. First American Edition. Fine copy in a 1/2 green morocco slipcase. Doubleday unknown
1899Best.-Nr. 652180Charles Scribner's Sons 1899. Later Printing. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. SIGNED BY RUDYARD KIPLING on title page beneath his printed name which he has lined out. A fair copy in the original plum-red cloth stamped in gilt with white lozenge on front cover top edge gilt spine faded with chips tears wear and old glue repairs and residue of old tape; tape repairs to inner hinges with some chipping to endpapers; printed bookplate with later owner's name in ink. A later owner has inscribed the title page at foot ink ink: 'Mr. Kipling made this an autographed copy in March 1925.' Issued as Writing in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling Volume I. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1906Best.-Nr. 01AIR1358.Original cloth rubbed and spine a bit faded some edge-wear including knocked corners. Binding a bit loose but sound though canted forward. Name of 'Gilkison' a New Zealand author on free front end-paper. Top edge gilt other edges tanned end-papers lightly foxed text block generally clean but a few grubby marks mostly in margins. Monochrome frontispiece and 19 drawings by H.R. Millar collated all present one with a creased corner. Inter-page adhesion affects two words on p. 304. The 10pp. booklist at rear is dated 10.10.06. Ten short stories and 16 poems. Macmillan and Co., Limited. hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. 166Chicago: Black Cat Press 1939. Fine. Fine. 28pp. String-tied stapled decorated red wraps 5-1/4" x 8". A limited edition Christmas present provided by the publisher directly to a select few. Signed by the publisher to the recipient. The Mother Hive by Rudyard Kipling is a dark allegorical tale exploring decay conformity and societal collapse through the lens of a beehive. A striking piece of Kipling's later work ideal for collectors of literary satire and early 20th-century fiction. . Black Cat Press unknown
1906Best.-Nr. 612549New York: Doubleday Page 1906. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition. Octavo. Gray cloth gilt with applied illustration on paper. A little foxing mostly contained to tissue guards and frontispiece else near fine copy. Stories including the famous title story about ghosts of children. Bleiler Checklist title. Doubleday Page hardcover
1932Best.-Nr. 941London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1932. First Edition First Impression. Publisher's Burgundy Cloth Gilt Detailing. Near Fine/Very Good. A Near Fine Book in a Very Good or Better Dust Jacket Unclipped Priced 7/6 Net to Spine. Book is lightly rubbed and bumped to extremities. Top edge gilt remains vibrant despite light soiling text block otherwise moderately toned. Text is unmarked. Binding is tight and square though spine cloth gently pulled at head. Dust jacket is moderately shelf worn with bumps to corners tail and crown including a few small chips to crown. One small tape repair to verso at crown. Hardcover. Octavo. vi 2 3-400pp. Macmillan & Co. Limited 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
1899Best.-Nr. 018835Macmillan & Co Ltd 1899. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Red hardcover. spine faded spine ends rubbed. Corners bumped. A few marks to cover. Presentation copy. Pages toned. Two pages of adverts at rear. Macmillan & Co Ltd hardcover
1894Best.-Nr. 76789London: Macmillan 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition. First impression with slate grey endpapers. This copy has a slight lean to the spine the boards have some marks and the cloth at the top and bottom of the spine is slightly torn and a bit frayed. The interior has some occasional foxing and a couple of pages only have some coloured-pencil marks by the hand of a child. The frontispiece page is detached for the bottom half with a 1cm tear where it rejoins the binding not effecting the image. Size: Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Children. Inventory No: 76789. . Macmillan hardcover
1953Best.-Nr. 936M21London: Macmillan and Co. 1953. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 7". Rudyard Kipling. Rudyard Kipling's classic short story collection for children in the original decorative cloth binding. A new edition of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding.Previous owner's ink inscription to the front free end paper dated 1956.Illustrated with twenty-two monochrome plates and twelve chapter initials by the author. Collated complete.Rudyard Kipling's classic work Just So Stories first published in 1902 is a collection of origin stories; for example how the leopard got his spots. The book was inspired by his bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine; she insisted that they must be told "just so" in exactly the same words each time. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally smart with just a little bumping to the corners. Slightly faded to the spine. Front hinge is slightly strained but remains firmly held. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1905Best.-Nr. 944M16London: Macmillan and Co. 1905. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 6". F. H. Townsend. The first separate UK edition of Rudyard Kipling's haunting story 'They'; the first impression printed by Bemrose Dalziel with illustrations by F. H. Townsend. The first separate UK edition first impression of this work with "Printed by Bemrose Dalziel Ltd. London and Watford" to page 80. Bound in the publisher's original cloth binding with pictorial gilt to the front board.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and fourteen colour plates complete with tissue guards. Collated complete.Kipling's semi-autobiographical story concerning grief and ghost children with beautiful illustrations by Frederick Henry Townsend 1868-1920 the first Art Editor of Punch Magazine.This work was first published in Scribner"s Magazine for August 1904 and collected in Traffics and Discoveries in the same year. This is the first UK edition to be published separately. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally generally smart though faded with handling marks. Pencil mark to the front board. Hinges are starting but remain firmly held. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with offsetting to the end papers and from the browned tissue guards. The occasional handling mark. Very Good Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1891Best.-Nr. 006845London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 1891. This is a Very Good Plus copy of the First American Edition. First issue red cloth binding with titling and a decoration in gilt. New York printer on the copyright page. Clean text; xvi 351 pages with an unpaginated poem at the end; eight-page publisher's catalog. Spine has faded to pink; a bit of rub to the margins; gilt on spine has dulled but remains perfectly clear. In an archival plastic protector. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Macmillan and Co. Hardcover
1957Best.-Nr. 74292London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1957. 12mo. Pocket edition. 413 pp. Publisher's red full limp leather with gilt device to front board and gilt decoration & lettering to spine in plain red card slipcase. Top edge gilt. Extremities of slipcase and head of rubbed spine a bit worn. Internally quite clean. . Very Good. Full Limp Leather. Reprint. 1957. Macmillan and Co., Limited 1957 hardcover
1903Best.-Nr. mon0000967993Doubleday 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Pages clean and bright no markings. Light wear to edges. Doubleday hardcover
1913Best.-Nr. 27393London: Macmillan and Co. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1913. Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription dated Xmas 1915. Later owner's label "Glen Historic Collection / Southland". Chips tear and abrasions to margins of dust-jacket. Rubbing and abrasions to dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket has large piece of white paper reinforcement pasted to reverse side. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Colonial Edition "The Dominions Edition". Uncommon in dust-jacket. An early colour illustrated dust-jacket. ix 1 387 1 blank. 1 advertisement 1 blank pages. Light blue cloth boards with dark blue decoration on spine and front board. Gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 191 x 122mm. Dust-jacket with colour illustration on front panel red lettering on spine and front and rear panels. Rear panel of dust-jacket with advertisements for "The Dominions Edition. The Works of Rudyard Kipling" listing 14 titles published by Macmillan and Co. and 4 titles published by Methuen and Co. . Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1902Best.-Nr. 27402London: Macmillan and Co. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Ends of spine rubbed. 11mm tear to cloth at head of front joint. 20mm tear to cloth at tail of front joint. Some rubbing to joints and edges of boards. Rear board with some flecking to cloth. Front hinge loosened with split to gutter at page 1. A 6mm tear to lower margin of one leaf pp.9-19 with paper tape repair. Some foxing. Some fingermarks to margins. Previous owner's rubber name stamp on front endpaper. ; First printing. 2 blank 6 249 2 1 blank pages. Red cloth boards with white lettering on spine and front board white and black illustrations to boards. Page dimensions: 232 x 173mm. Illustrated by the author. 12 stories: How the Whale got his Throat; How the Camel got his Hump; How the Rhinoceros got his Skin; How the Leopard got his Spots; The Elephant's Chld; The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo; The Beginning of the Armadilloes; How the First Letter was Written; The Crab that Played with the Sea; The Cat that Walked by Himself; The Butterfly that Stamped. Reference: Livingston 267 . Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1895Best.-Nr. 35938London: Macmillan and Co 1895. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. J. Lockwood Kipling. 1st edition 1895. A Very Good copy. 12mo. 238 pp. bound in publishers blue cloth with gilt snake on front cover titles in gilt on spine all edges gilt. Spine is tanned and dulled minor rubbing to tips. Front hinge starting. Previous owners brief inscription on end paper otherwise text appears unmarked. Macmillan and Co hardcover
1902Best.-Nr. 049302New York: Doubleday 1902. Hardcover Original Cloth. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Original green cloth worn at corners front joint is weak and cracked and the front blank endpaper is loose but present. Scattered light finger smudges in the margins but otherwise very good internally. The third printing of the 1st US edition. Contemporary inscription on front endpaper dated Christmas 1902. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Inventory No: 049302. Doubleday hardcover
1893Best.-Nr. 060123MacMillan 1893. Book. G/VG. Hardcover. First printing of the revised 1893 edition with new poems. A G/VG copy in blue cloth with gold decorations. . MacMillan Hardcover
1897Best.-Nr. 060122MacMillan 1897. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First printing. A fair to good copy in blue cloth with gold decorations. Basis for the 1937 film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Spencer Tracy Freddie Bartholomew and Lionel Barrymore. MacMillan Hardcover
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