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1906rif. 13138New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine. First edition of Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Octavo 277pp. Green cloth title stamped in gilt on spine illustrations stamped in black on front cover. Stated "Published October 1906" on copyright page. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's signature in ink on front free endpaper. Complete with frontispiece and three color illustrations by Arthur Rackham. A near fine example. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
2005rif. 12242Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xx 386pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A very presentable first edition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book presents ground-breaking research by leading international researchers on the nature functions and characteristics of social motivation. Its contributors focus on a variety of issues such as the functions of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and the subtle roles that habits and goals play in producing and maintaining motivated social behaviors. Recent discoveries in the psychology of motivation relevant to everyday social behaviors and clinical organizational educational and counseling practices receive particular attention.Publisher -Most comprehensive and up-to-date book currently available to offer an integrative treatment of social motivational phenomena -The contributors are all leading researchers who have made a major contribution to the field -The chapters represent a highly integrated approach and present new and previously unpublished work. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xx 386pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A very presentable first edition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book presents ground-breaking research by leading international researchers on the nature functions and characteristics of social motivation. Its contributors focus on a variety of issues such as the functions of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and the subtle roles that habits and goals play in producing and maintaining motivated social behaviors. Recent discoveries in the psychology of motivation relevant to everyday social behaviors and clinical organizational educational and counseling practices receive particular attention.Publisher -Most comprehensive and up-to-date book currently available to offer an integrative treatment of social motivational phenomena -The contributors are all leading researchers who have made a major contribution to the field -The chapters represent a highly integrated approach and present new and previously unpublished work. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
1975rif. 154970N.p.: Walt Disney Productions 1975. Vintage British program for the 1975 re-release of the 1967 film. Based on the 1894 collection of "Mowgli" stories by Rudyard Kipling. One of Disney's classic animated films and the last film Walt personally oversaw. 8.25 x 11 inches. 6 pages side stapled. Near Fine with some light rubbing to the wrappers. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1937rif. 152130N.p.: N.p. 1937. Vintage reference photograph from the 1937 film showing actor Sabu Dastagir commonly known only by his given name Sabu. With a mimeo label snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamps of National Film Archive library. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Rudyard Kipling's story "Toomai of the Elephants" which originally appeared in Kipling's 1895 collection "The Jungle Book." A young Indian boy helps guide his father and a government elephant hunter to the secret elephant camp in the jungle. A breakthrough role for Sabu who would go on to work under exclusive contract for film mogul Alexander Korda in "The Thief of Bagdad" 1940 "Arabian Nights" 1942 and "The Jungle Book" 1942. Set in colonial India shot on location in Gwynedd Wales. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown books
1942rif. 149132Los Angeles: Walt Disney Productions 1942. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph on the set of the 1942 film. "Photograph by Coburn" stamp and "Bison Archives" stamp on verso. Based on the 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. The stunning Technicolor live-action version of the classic Kipling stories made by the Hungarian born filmmaking team the Korda brothers director Zoltan Korda producer Alexander Korda and art director Vincent Korda which brilliantly utilized live exotic animals on huge lush sets and featured Indian born actor Sabu as Mowgli the boy raised by wolves who can communicate with the animals of the jungle. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography. Set in a village in India shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 30. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1901rif. 73381London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1901. First English edition 8vo pp. 4 413 3; frontispiece and 9 plates; original full red cloth t.e.g.; light edgewear to boards and ends of spine owner's note in pencil on free endpaper upper hinge starting text clean good and sound. Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown books
1901rif. 158791901. From The Times March 15 1900. Published by the Imperial South African Association. London: Printed by George Edward Wright The Times Office 1901. First Edition following its appearance in March 1900 both in The Times of London and in The Mail of Cape Town. The Imperial South African Association was founded "to uphold British supremacy and to promote the interests of British subjects in South Africa."; specifically this piece "inveighs against the supposedly friendly or neutral Boers and their liberal sympathizers as 'traitors' to the Cape and the Orange Free State quotes by Richards. It was never collected in any other Kipling book. This is a near-fine copy slight discoloration around the sole rusted staple. Richards A167. Housed in a morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. unknown books
1962rif. 59936New York: The Limited Editions Club 1962. Limited to 1500 copies this no. 113 signed by the artist Robin Jacques; 4to pp. ix 3 283 1; full-page illustrations in color introduction by Charles Edmund Carrington; book plate on front free endpaper verso small section of fore-edge stained bookplate of James Mead Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian on pastedown else very good or better in leather-backed beige cloth decorated in gilt on covers and spine publisher's slipcase worn and soiled. LEC monthly newsletter laid in. LEC Bibliography 337. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1997rif. 50338Marina del Rey: Bieler Press 1997. Edition limited to 150 copies this no. 42 oblong 4to pp. 65 frenchfold with inserted slips as issued which show through in silhouette; designed and printed letterpress by Gerald Lange with assistance from Robin Price; wrappers with pictorial pastedown on upper cover the binding executed by Allwyn O'Mara. Unusual production handsomely presented. Gerald Lange notes that only 79 copies were ever bound. Bieler Press unknown books
1932rif. 46768New York: Doubleday Doran & Co 1932. First American edition 8vo pp. v 1 371; fine copy in original green embossed cloth gilt-lettered on upper cover and spine near fine clipped dust jacket. Doubleday, Doran & Co unknown books
1960rif. 35737n.p. n.d. Saigon 1960. Bifoliate leaflet approx. 8" x 5¼" folded printed on 2 sides 3 panels bearing Kipling's iconic poem "If" in three languages: English Vietnamese as translated by Anh Minh and French as translated by Andre Maurois; and the first a decorative panel with the title: Neu / Anh Minh. Some soiling; very good. Not located bibliographically. unknown books
1904rif. 41430New York: Doubleday Page and Company 1904. First American edition 8vo pp. vi 363; title page line borders in red and black; original green cloth with caravel design on front cover stamped in black gilt lettering; near fine. Livingston 290. Doubleday, Page and Company unknown books
1899rif. 40970New York: Dodge Publishing Company 1899. Oriental Edition 8vo pp. 150; photographic portrait frontispiece 4 black and white plates; contemporary three-quarter brown morocco over drab boards gilt-lettered spine stamped in black and gilt t.e.g.; corners and edges bumped and worn spine head and foot frayed boards toned along edges; some newspaper shadowing to a few pages else interior very good. Related newspaper clippings in mylar sleeve laid in. Dodge Publishing Company unknown books
1891rif. 343404Allahabad / London: A.H. Wheeler & Co. / SampsonLow Marston 1891. Softcover. Good. First English edition. 12mo. Illustrated green wrappers. 96pp. Errata slip bound-in. Small owner's name and small chip on front wrap a couple of modest chips on rear wrap spine somewhat eroded another small embossed stamp of an American author on title-page a good copy in custom cloth chemise and slipcase. Scarce. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson,Low, Marston unknown books
1898rif. 29619New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1898. 24mo pp. 95; illustrations by W. St. John Harper and George T. Tobin; original blue cloth upper cover elaborately gilt spine lettered in gilt; small chip to ffep shaken with one page loose upper hinge starting; a good copy. Frederick A. Stokes unknown books
1929rif. 9027London: Macmillan and Co 1929. First English edition 8vo pp. xv 1 447 1; 17 plates; top of spine worn extremities rubbed lightly binding slightly askew short tear to front endpaper else a very good copy in original decorated maroon leather binding stamped in gilt a.e.g. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1920rif. 28357London: Macmillan 1920. First edition 8vo pp. vi 284 4 ads; title within red ruled border; very good sound copy in orig. red cloth gilt stamp on upper cover title in gilt on spine. Missives from Monadnock to Yokohama. Livingston 454; Stewart 478. Macmillan unknown books
1909rif. 28356New York: Doubleday Page and Company 1909. First American edition 8vo pp. 8 324; 8 plates; light wear to extremities else a very good copy or better in original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt and black. Livingston 324; Stewart 321. Doubleday, Page and Company unknown books
1902rif. 24541London: Macmillan and Co 1902. First edition large 8vo pp. 6 249 2; 22 plates by Kipling; full red niger morocco t.e.g. gilt lettered direct on gilt paneled spine original pictorial red cloth front cover bound in at the back. "Just So Stories has achieved nursery immortality because a genius has married two of the most tried and trusted media - the fable and the fairy-story" Muir 107. Livingston 267. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1927rif. 29708London: Macmillan & Co 1927. Edition de Luxe limited to 1050 sets volumes 22-26 were limited to 775 copies; volumes 27-33 were limited to 1000 copies 33 of 39 volumes 8vo etched frontispiece portrait in vol. I titles printed in red and black contemporary half blue crushed levant by Stikeman gilt-paneled spines in 6 compartments gilt lettered in 2 t.e.g.; some minor wear at the corners upper joint on vol. I a little rubbed else near fine throughout. The set extended to 39 volumes by 1937. See Livingston p. 447. Macmillan & Co unknown books
1919rif. 28354London: Methuen and Co 1919. First edition small 8vo pp. xii 159 1 32-p. publisher's catalogue; very good copy in original maroon cloth gilt-lettered spine t.e.g. red cloth chemise. Livingston 442. Methuen and Co unknown books
1904rif. 9044London: Macmillan and Co 1904. First English and American edition housed together in custom leather box set 8vo 394 & 364pp.; first English edition in original red cloth with Ganesha device on front cover and lettering on spine in gold spine sunned rear hinge starting else a very good copy t.e.g. First American edition with minor wear to extremities else fine in original green cloth t.e.g. Livingston 289 290. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1927rif. 20540San Francisco: The Windsor Press 1927. First edition number 288 of 500 copies 8vo pp. 2 18 1; full-page color woodcut illustration by Howard Simon half-title and headlines printed in purple; original blue paper covered boards cover printed in green and pink; a few tiny spots to upper cover foot of spine with a bit of wear hinge loose at first gathering else very good. Ransom Private Press p. 448. The Windsor Press unknown books
1909rif. 20212London: Macmillan and Co 1909. First English edition 8vo pp. 6 302 12 ads; light soiling to spine and light wear to extremities else a very good copy or better in original maroon cloth. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1899rif. 9025New York: Doubleday & McClure Co 1899. First American edition 8vo 12 & 310pp. 8 illustrations by L. Raven-Hill; extremities rubbed hinges starting else a very good sound copy in original green cloth with caravel design in black on front cover and lettering in gold on front cover and spine t.e.g. Livingston 215. Doubleday & McClure Co unknown books
