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1932rif. 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
1904rif. 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
1899rif. 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
1894rif. 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
1953rif. 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
1905rif. 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
1891rif. 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
1957rif. 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
1903rif. mon0000967993Doubleday 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Pages clean and bright no markings. Light wear to edges. Doubleday hardcover
1913rif. 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
1902rif. 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
1895rif. 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
1902rif. 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
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1894rif. 021785New York: The Century Co. 1894. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover green cloth lettered in gold on front cover and spine. Spine heavily blind-stamped with four small animal figures stamped in gold interspersed by title author and publisher while covers show larger gold elephant on front and tiger on rear both within elaborate blind-stamped frame. Top edge gilt. 303 pages. Illustrated with frontispiece and 34 additional plates and drawings in text. First American edition published simultaneously with the British. Previous owner's armorial style book-plate onside front cover. End-papers and half title heavily foxed with light to moderate foxing throughout text block. Cloth covers clean gold lettering and stamping bright. A tight sound and still attractive copy. A good or better copy. . The Century Co. Hardcover
rif. 967103Follio Society 1992 1994. Decoreated hard covers with slipcases. 191 231 pp. Blind stamps on title pages. Good attractive copies. hardcover
1895rif. kip129cAllahbad: A H Wheeler & Co / Indian Railway Library. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Original card wraps bound in decorative cloth boards with new endpapers inserted. Foxing to endpapers. Ink inscription to original illustrated card cover. 1895. Fifth Indian Edition. Green and white decorative hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 140mm 8" x 6". 96pp. No date - first Indian Edition dated 1890. . A H Wheeler & Co / Indian Railway Library paperback
1906rif. 023863London UK: Macmillan and Co 1906. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/N/A. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Millar H R. First edition first impression. x 306pp 10pp with frontispiece and 19 further full page illustrations all by H R Millar. In a later fine binding half bound in red leather over marbled boards five raised bands gilt rules and gilt decorations on spine. 8vo. Small nick in paper on rear lower edge. Text block edges a little toned. Hint of toning in page margins and the very occasional faint spot the final leaf of the publisher's adverts at end is browning. A very handsome first edition copy of Kipling's collection ten stories inspired by English history under the auspices of Puck the 'oldest Old thing in England'. Millar H R Beautiful Books Rudyard Kipling Fine Bindings Macmillan and Co hardcover
