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1919Best.-Nr. mon0000991605Methuen And Co. Ltd. 1919. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. First impression. Pages clean and bright no markings light wear to edges. Dust Jacket unclipped. Methuen And Co. Ltd. hardcover
1895Best.-Nr. 498Macmillan and Company. London. Set of two. The Jungle Book 1895 later printing/first printing. The Second Jungle Book 1895 first printing. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to spine and front boards. All edges gilt. Dark blue/green endpapers. Both show spines faded generalized shelf wear to boards former owener signature on flyleaf foxing throughout slight lean to spine ends of spine rubbed and hinges starting. see photos. Kipling's The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book are classic story collections set in the Indian wilderness. They primarily follow Mowgli a "man-cub" raised by wolves as he learns the Law of the Jungle from mentors like Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. Beyond Mowgli's adventures the books include famous standalone tales like "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" blending moral fables with vivid depictions of nature. Numberous illustrations by J. L. Kipling W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. Each 5x7.5 in. 212pg/238 pg. Macmillan and Company hardcover
1935Best.-Nr. 32329AB1935. Later Edition. London MacMillan and Co. Ltd. 1935. Small-Octavo 11.5 cm wide x 17.5 cm high. 413 pages with Illustrations throughout by Rudyard Kipling's father John Lockwood Kipling. Hardcover / Absolutely stunning original Publisher's binding with gilt letering and ornament to spine and gilted cover-illustration armorial embossing "Unto God Only Be Honour And Glory". Unusual excellent and firm condition. The book is in protective Mylar. A very very rare example of this beautiful "elephant binding" the iconic pictorial cover design used by the publisher Macmillan for various works by Rudyard Kipling first used in the Jungle-Book bindings. With a name of the preowner on the endpaper. Gift-Bookplate for pre-owner to pastedown from "Howell's School in Llandaff". Kim is a picaresque novel by English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901 and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co. Ltd in October 1901. The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of the people culture and varied religions of India: "The book presents a vivid picture of India its teeming populations religions and superstitions and the life of the bazaars and the road." The story unfolds against the backdrop of the Great Game the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. The novel popularized the phrase and idea of the Great Game. Wikipedia hardcover
1913Best.-Nr. 1476183139722First edition thus first impression with coloured illustrations London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1913. Originally published in 1902. Quarto. Original dark blue cloth gilt-lettered and elaborately gilt-decorated on the upper board and spine with an elephant medallion design; gilt rules to boards. Top edge gilt. The binding is somewhat tender but all holding firm and square with only light rubbing to extremities and a couple of knocks to corners. The gilt remains notably bright and well defined. Internally the text is clean and sound with the occasional faint spot of foxing chiefly to the preliminary and terminal leaves. A little loss to top corner of first three leaves with an early gift inscription - unobtrusive and neatly penned - to the front free endpaper. The coloured plates by Joseph M. Gleeson remain fresh and vivid. A handsome example of the first coloured illustrated edition of Just So Stories incorporating Gleeson's celebrated colour plates for the first time. Macmillan & Co. hardcover
1897Best.-Nr. 111111114313The Century Co 1897. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. The Century Co.; New York 1897. Hardcover. First US Edition. Captains Courageous is Kiplings 1897 maritime adventure novel about Harvey Cheyne Jr. a wealthy and spoiled teenager who falls overboard from an ocean liner and is rescued by a crew of Gloucester fishermen. Forced to work alongside them on the Grand Banks he learns discipline humility and the value of honest labor. This first American edition captures the novels blend of adventure nautical realism and coming of age themes making it a classic of late nineteenth century sea literature. A Good green cloth binding with illustrated front board gilt lettering on front board and spine emblem on rear board cracked hinges some handling/scuffing to boards and spine TEG with blemishes deckle fore-edge and bottom text block edge some age toning to pages rubbing along board edges few prelims partially detached from text block rubbing along joints list of illustrations page detached from binding and laid in crimping to spine edges without Dust wrapper. 12moduodecimo or approx. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. 323pp. b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scans are available for any item please inquire. The Century Co hardcover
1917Best.-Nr. 019402London: Macmillan And Co 1917. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Green hardcover. Spine and edges of the cover are darkened. Corners lightly bumped. Endpapers are darkened. Foxing to the first few pages. Rare in the Greens Cloth for British first editions. Macmillan And Co hardcover
1973Best.-Nr. FB146 /8Green cloth binding with red title plates gilt decoration and lettering on the spine. Gilt elephant head on the front board. A good clean edition. The Barrack Room Ballads look behind the scenes of the glory days of empire to look at the realities of the ordinary rank and file squaddies who made up the ranks of the armies of the day. The rough justice for Danny Deever and the conflicting contempt and adulation of Tommy clearly reflect this. Joseph Rudyard Kipling 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936 was an English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist. He was born in India which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book 1894 Kim 1901 and many short stories including "The Man Who Would Be King" 1888. His poems include "Mandalay" 1890 "Gunga Din" 1890 "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" 1919 "The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands" 1899 and "If—" 1910. He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift." Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers. Henry James said "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius as distinct from fine intelligence that I have ever known." In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first English-language writer to receive the prize and at 41 its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood but declined both. Following his death in 1936 his ashes were interred at Poets' Corner part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey. Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed with the political and social climate of the age. The contrasting views of him continued for much of the 20th century. Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: "Kipling is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes he is recognised as an incomparable if controversial interpreter of how empire was experienced. That and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts make him a force to be reckoned with." Methuen hardcover
1952Best.-Nr. 37141London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1952. Reprint. Leather. Near Fine. Reprint 1952. A Near Fine copy. 8vo. 228 pp. bound in half green leather with decorative paper covered boards with matching end papers. Title in gilt on six compartment spine top edge gilt. Spine is tanned to brown minor rubbing to tip and top/base of spine. Text appears unmarked. Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown
1896Best.-Nr. 656840Macmillan 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A Very Good copy of the First Edition in original gilt stamped pictorial blue cloth all edges gilt black coated endpapers cloth has minor spotting and wear; front inner hinge just starting; a few minor marginal smudges to text; tiny ink stamp from an Irish bookseller of the period at inner margin of half title at foot. Macmillan hardcover
1908Best.-Nr. 115398Macmillan 1908. Softcover. Very good/No jacket. leather binding worn along edges. Gift inscription on half-title page. Macmillan unknown
1933Best.-Nr. 158391933. Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Company 1933. Original light yellow wrappers lettered in green. First Editions being the American copyright issues -- 75 copies each issued two weeks apart in March 1933 to coincide with their periodical appearances in French and in English. This is a series of sketches that together form a personal memoir documenting Kipling's lifelong affection for France from a childhood trip with his father to the Paris Exhibition of 1878 to beyond the Great War. This title was published four months later in England bound in blue cloth. Both volumes are in fine condition. Richards A412; Stewart 600. unknown
1905Best.-Nr. mon0000995051Macmillan and Co. 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Pages clean and bright no markings light wear to edges. Complete with 15 illustrations by F. H. Townsend. Inscribed by previous owner. Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1906Best.-Nr. RK072New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906 Illustrated with four color plates by Arthur Rackham including a frontispiece. First edition first printing published two months before the first UK edition. Publisher's green cloth with boat illustration in blind to front board lettered in gilt and top edge gilt. Near fine with clean and bright boards light wear to spine ends joints and corners and small marks to pp. 46-47 lines 15-21 on both pages slightly affected. Overall an excellent copy. In Puck of Pook's Hill two children playing in the English countryside are approached by the magical fairy Puck from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Over the course of the summer Puck introduces them to notable events and characters from British history told through ten connected short stories. Interspersed between the stories are poems by Kipling some of which were later selected by T.S. Eliot for inclusion in A Choice of Kipling's Verse 1941. Notably this first American edition includes illustrations by the legendary book illustrator Arthur Rackham whereas the first UK edition was illustrated by Harold R. Millar. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Rackham Arthur. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
2005Best.-Nr. mon0000995840Folio Society 2005. Gardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. 5 volume set. Clean copy. Pages clean and bright no markings. Housed in slipcase. Complete with numerous illustrations by Philip Bannister. Folio Society unknown
1898Best.-Nr. mon0001616182Macmillan 1898. hardcover. Good. . Hardback. Minor crease marks to spine and cover. No dust jack et. Edge if spine torn Macmillan hardcover
1897Best.-Nr. mon0001580980Macmillan and Co. 1897. Hardcover. Acceptable. . First Edition Sixth Printing. Previous owner name inside. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is one of the most celebrated works of Victorian children's literature bringing together a collection of unforgettable stories set in the Indian jungle. Featuring the adventures of Mowgli alongside memorable characters such as Baloo Bagheera and Shere Khan the book combines thrilling adventure with timeless themes of courage loyalty and the relationship between humanity and the natural world. This 1897 sixth printing represents an early issue of Kipling's classic published just a few years after the first edition of 1894 and remains highly sought after by collectors of classic literature and illustrated books. An enduring literary masterpiece The Jungle Book continues to captivate readers of all ages more than a century after its first publication. Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. mon0001618584Macmillan 1899-1924. Hardcover. Good. . Rudyard Kipling. 7 Hardbacks. Gilt title & decoration on red cloth cover boards. Bumping to spine and cover board edges. Titles include: The Day's Work The Light That Failed & Puck Of Pook's Hill and more. Macmillan hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. mon0001614865Macmillan 1928. Hardcover. Good. . Some tanning and foxing to pages and dust jacket. Some wear and tear to dust jacket. Macmillan hardcover
1903Best.-Nr. mon0001629820Macmillan and Co 1903. hardcover. Good. . Hardback. No dust jacket. Macmillan and Co hardcover
Best.-Nr. M09B-03005Weathervane Books. Used - Like New. Like New condition. Very Good dust jacket. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects. Weathervane Books unknown
1992Best.-Nr. mon0000997448The Folio Society 1992. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Pages clean and bright Binding firm Light wear to edges Book in slipcase. The Folio Society hardcover
1994Best.-Nr. mon0000997511The Folio Society 1994. Hardback. Very Good. in x in x in. First thus. Pages clean and bright no markings light wear to edges. Binding tight. With original slipcase. Green pen on spine of slipcase. The Folio Society hardcover
1897Best.-Nr. 2352703New York: The Century Co 1897. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First American edition. Crease on rear board corner causing minor split to rear endpaper spine slightly toned ink name and a few small spots on front endpapers rear hinge just beginning to weaken. 1897 Hard Cover. 323 pp. Olive cloth gilt titles and decorations with black and red borders and accents engraved frontispiece and plates. "First published in 1897 'Captains Courageous' follows the adventures of Harvey Cheyne a spoiled rich young man who is accidentally washed overboard from a luxury ocean liner and is rescued by the Portuguese captain of a fishing boat and his hard scrabble crew. Kipling drawing on his own experiences living in Vermont fills this classic coming of age story with period details of late nineteenth-century American fishing whaling and railroad travel. Forced to work for his place on the ship fifteen-year-old Harvey must overcome his own stubbornness and privileged up-bringing as he learns to survive and even thrive in the harsh demanding and often dangerous life at sea. Through hard work and discipline Harvey learns the values of self-reliance and friendship as he becomes a skilled fisherman and an accepted and equal member of the crew. The novel is both a thrilling test of Harvey's character and an examination of class and privilege in nineteenth-century America. Exhilarating and ultimately redemptive the novel was heralded by Theodore Roosevelt in his 1900 essay 'What We Can Expect of the American Boy' as describing in the 'liveliest way just what a boy should be and do. The Century Co hardcover
1926Best.-Nr. mon0000997758Macmillan and Co 1926. Hardback. Very Good. in x in x in. 1926 reprint. Toning to spine. Rubbing to corners and edges Some splitting to hinge of spine. Previous owners name in pen on FFEP. Macmillan and Co hardcover
1926Best.-Nr. mon0000997878Macmillan and Co. Limited 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. First edition Some light spotting to pages Binding firm Light wear to edges Some rubbing to spine. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
