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1902réf. 8119London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1902. First edition. Fine. A Fine copy. Finely bound in full red crushed morocco possibly by Asprey though unsigned with pictorial gilt elephant. Complete with twenty-two plates and text illustrations throughout. Spine in compartments with raised bands and elephant motif. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Original cloth cover bound in at rear. A very attractive example clean and bright throughout in a charming binding. A classic work of children's literature and one of Kipling's most beloved titles Just So Stories compiles origin tales like "How the Leopard Got its Spots" and "How the Elephant Got his Trunk" and "How the Camel Got His Hump." The book was charmingly illustrated by Kipling himself who reported that the stories were born of out the bedtime tales that he told his daughter. Kipling is of course best known for The Jungle Book and its sequel which earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 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. For contributions like these Kipling became the first English-language writer and the youngest ever to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Fine. Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown books
1902réf. 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
1894réf. 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 books
1937réf. 7813London: The Macmillan Co 1937. The Sussex Edition. Very Good . One of 575 numbered sets signed by the author in the first volume. Leaves measuring 240 x 160 mm with the set occupying 141 cm 55 in of shelf space. A Very Good set. Bound for the publisher by James Burn & Co. in full reddish-brown Niger morocco. Double ruled in gilt. Spine in six compartments with raised bands. Top edge gilt. Sunning and speckling to some spines and some rubbing to raised bands and edges. Very clean throughout. Printed in Edinburgh by R&R Clark Ltd. on handmade paper. The Sussex Edition which has become the most desirable collected edition of Kipling's works was edited by Kipling himself and including two volumes of previously uncollected prose. The edition published the year after Kipling's death was intended as a complete retrospective on Kipling's career and the definitive edition of his works. The superbly produced set of course includes Kipling's most lauded fiction - The Jungle Book Kim and Just So Stories - as well as his poems and nonfiction capturing the scope of his literary output. A contemporary review in the Times Literary Supplement lauded the production: "The publishers are justified in the use of the epithet 'superb' to describe this edition. The fine hand-made paper and Bembo type are equally satisfactory but perhaps the binding is still more notable. It is.Niger leather lettered and simply ornamented in gold. The volumes.are comparatively slim and so easy to hold; and they have an air of durability and of being meant for reading as well as for keeping which is not always the case with éditions de luxe." Very Good . The Macmillan Co unknown books
1895réf. 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 books
1911réf. 608406London: Charles sheard & Co 1911. Softcover. Very Good. Unknown edition stamped "File Copy." Folio. three nested bifolia making 12 pages. Outer most and middle bifolia separating a bit at the ends of the folds light soiling and toning to the exterior and bumping to the corners still a complete and very good copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "Solider soldier come from the wars. E flat." Features short samples of several other songs. The front cover states "To that illustrious soldier Lt. General Sir Evelyn Wood these setting of Soldier Ballads are dedicated by his former schoolfellow." OCLC locates five holdings and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. Charles sheard & Co unknown books
1911réf. 609102New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1911. Hardcover. Near Fine. Later printing. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Decorated green cloth printed in black and gilt. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped else fine. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1899réf. 611710New York: Doubleday & McClure 1899. Hardcover. Near Fine. Early American edition with the "o" half closed in the word 'into' on page 189. Green pictorial boards stamped in black and gilt top edge gilt. Edges of cloth lightly rubbed corners slightly bumped near fine. Twelve short stories. Doubleday & McClure hardcover books
1926réf. 612352London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. Octavo. xiii 169pp. Blue cloth with bright white printed spine label. Scattered foxing near fine in a very good dust jacket with spine ends and corners nicked light foxing housed in a green leather and cloth slipcase embellished in gilt. Containing "The Royal Society of Literature" by the Most Hon. The Marquess of Crewe K.G. President R.S.L.; Ballads by Mrs. Margaret L. Woods; "A Franciscan Poet - Jacopone da Todi" by Evelyn Underhill; "Christina Rossetti" by Walter De La Mare "Swinburne and Baudelaire" by the Hon. Harold Nicolson; "The Art of the Biographer" by A.C. Benson; and Address by Mr. Rudyard Kipling. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press hardcover books
1936réf. 612253Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1936. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Octavo. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards with frontispiece and plates in color. Slight age-toning at the hinges from the binder's glue else fine in price-clipped very good or better dust jacket with a couple of short tears a little rubbing on the spine and foxing on the rear panel. A nice fresh copy. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover books
1898réf. 613212Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company 1898. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition by this publisher likely a piracy. 12mo. Green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt. Offsetting on endpapers from jacket flaps near fine in lightly worn near fine dust jacket. Rare in jacket. Henry Altemus Company hardcover books
1913réf. 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
1900réf. 602540New York: Barse & Hopkins 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo. Owner label on front pastedown small chips and tiny tears at the margin of a few pages light foxing on pages very good. Barse & Hopkins hardcover books
1907réf. 554327New York: Review of Reviews 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. One volume of a six volume set. Black-and-white frontispiece. Blue-gray clothcovered boards stamped in black and gilt. Spine faded bumping to the spine ends and corners some soiling to the boards and the gutter neatly repaired very good. Review of Reviews hardcover books
2006réf. 537743New York: Little Simon Simon & Schuster 2006. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Paper engineering by Matthew Reinhart. Octavo. Fine in illustrated boards issued without a dust jacket. A Classic Collectible Pop-up. Little Simon (Simon & Schuster) hardcover books
1898réf. 501512London: William Heinemann 1898. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Woodblocks by William Nicholson. Words by Rudyard Kipling. Quarto. Quarter linen and tan pictorial paper-covered boards printed in black illustrated with twelve full-page color lithographs by Nicholson. Covers are moderately worn at corners with a small chip at the tips of two corners a very good or better copy. A pictorial Almanac representing twelve different sports one for each month each with a full-page color lithograph by Nicholson each monthly sport introduced by a whimsical poem by Rudyard Kipling. The twelve sports are Hunting Coursing Racing Boating Fishing Cricket Archery Coaching Shooting Golf Boxing and Skating. William Heinemann hardcover books
1900réf. 526952Cincinnati Ohio: No Publisher 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 547pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait of Grand Master E.L. Lyburger. Beveled blue cloth boards stamped in gilt. Covers have light wear at tips of spine and corners else a very good copy with gilt stamping bright; front and rear hinges are started due to quality of paper of endpapers text is fresh and clean. This publication also prints a poem by Rudyard Kipling The Mother Lodge on page 94-95 noting that Kipling was a Freemason. Most of the book pages 88 to 404 is devoted to 'Report of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence' including detailed information about 'English-speaking Grand Lodges' in the United States listed by each state and including 'Indian Territory' Canada by province Great Britain New Zealand Australia etc. and a section devoted to thirteen 'None English-speaking Grand Bodies' including Cuba Mexico and Puerto Rico. This publication for the year 1900 as well as previous 'Proceedings' include discussions of African-American masons see page 119 179 206 etc which includes discussion of "Negro Lodges and Grand Lodges" and the difficulties with acceptance in Washington page 119 and "Clandestine Negro Masonry" page 178 referencing Washington in the section devoted to the Indian Territory and further reference to Washington and former "Prince Hall Lodge" members in the Louisiana section page 206. Previous Grand Lodge publications also discussed rejection of 'colored' Grand Lodges by some white Grand Lodges with particular reference to the failure of 'Ohio recognition' in a specific instance in 1877 which stated: "As predicted in our last annual address the proposed recognition of our grand lodge by the grand lodge of whites of this state has failed. While I anticipated the result I must confess that the manner in which it was brought about surprised and disappointed me. followed by a long discussion of the events." OCLC locates no copies of this October issue. No Publisher hardcover books
1995réf. 456785New York: Dover 1995. Softcover. Near Fine. Dover Thrift Edition. Reprint. Octavo. 102pp. Near fine with some creasing. Dover unknown books
1906réf. 461878New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Decorated green cloth printed in black and gilt. Substantial chip on front fly else a bright very good copy. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1909réf. 3767London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909. First trade edition. Original blue cloth with front cover pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt others uncut. Large quarto 10 15/16 x 8 5/8 inches; 278 x 219 mm. 64 leaves. Thirty color plates including frontispiece mounted on leaves with color border decorations. Descriptive tissue guards each with a miniature line illustration. Pictorial title and fifty-nine black and white line illustrations in the text half-page or smaller. Title printed in red and black. An excellent copy of the first trade edition. "This poem originally appeared in The English Illustrated Magazine May 1893 prior to its inclusion in The Seven Seas 1896" Martindell. It is classic Kipling beautifully illustrated by Robinson. Beare 61b. Lewis 215. Livingston 321. Martindell 133 giving the date of publication as 1913. Stewart 151. Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
1985réf. 444004San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Oblong quarto. Fine in a very good dustwrapper with two large closed tears on top edges. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover books
1941réf. 4695bdNew York: Doubleday Doran & Co. 1941. Of an edition of 1100 sets this is No. 776. Twenty-eight volumes. Signed by the author. Octavo gilt-stamped burgundy buckram hardcover top edges gilt uncut. Frontis portrait in Volume I. Near-Fine. Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1941. Of an edition of 1100 sets, this is No. 776. hardcover books
1912réf. 2354Garden City: Doubleday Page and Company 1912. First Edition. Fine/Very Good . A Fine copy of the book that has been exquisitely preserved in its original dust jacket. Dust jacket is Very Good with a large chip at the base of the spine and price-clipped but otherwise in excellent condition. A rare survivor. Kipling's compilation of songs from his various children's books. This is the authoritative guide to Kipling's charming poetic works; and it provides an opportunity for readers to indulge in nursery rhymes and songs outside of their narrative contexts. Songs from Books has become a perennial family bedtime favorite. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Doubleday, Page and Company unknown books
1907réf. 392617New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Illustrated cream cloth stamped in gilt. Illustrated by F.H. Townsend. Detached frontispiece toning and bumped corners else very good minus with previous owner information on the front free endpaper. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1898réf. 387119New York: D. Appleton & Co 1898. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Reprint. Cover art by Evangeline Mary Daniell. Owner's neat name else very near fine without dustwrapper. D. Appleton & Co hardcover books