KIPLING, RUDYARDABAA
1920Best.-Nr. 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
1909Best.-Nr. 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
1902Best.-Nr. 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
1927Best.-Nr. 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
1919Best.-Nr. 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
1904Best.-Nr. 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
1927Best.-Nr. 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
1909Best.-Nr. 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
1899Best.-Nr. 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
1904Best.-Nr. 9001New York: Doubleday Page and Co 1904. First American edition 8vo vi & 363pp.; slight water-staining affecting rear cover bottom spine and rear endpapers minor wear to top and bottom of spine else a near fine copy in original green cloth with caravel design on front cover in black and gilt lettering and spine. Livingston 290. Doubleday, Page and Co unknown books
1901Best.-Nr. 8997New York: Doubleday Page and Co 1901. First American edition 8vo 6 460pp. 10 illustrations; minor wear to spine hinges starting small white stains to rear cover else a very good copy or better in original dark green cloth with black design and lettering in gold on front cover and spine t.e.g. Livingston 248. Doubleday, Page and Co unknown books
1926Best.-Nr. 28292London: Macmillan & Co 1926. First edition 8vo pp. 2 vi 416; very good copy in original red cloth gilt medallion on upper cover gilt lettering on spine t.e.g. A collection of 14 stories and 21 poems. Livingstone 506; Stewart 519. Macmillan & Co unknown books
1909Best.-Nr. 8984New York: B.W. Dodge & Co 1909. First American unauthorized edition 8vo viii & 360pp.; minor rubbing to extremities binding slightly cocked else near fine in orig. blue cloth front cover stamped in black first issue later binding with lettering in red. Livingston 328. B.W. Dodge & Co unknown books
1912Best.-Nr. 28207London: Hodder & Stoughton 1912. Edition de Luxe printed on English handmade paper limited to 500 numbered copies this is no. 59 signed by the publisher Hodder & Stoughton and the printer T. Constable; 4to pp. xix 1 476 1; title-p. printed in blue and black initials printed in blue; original full limp vellum lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine t.e.g. yapp edges blue silk ties; some inevitable soiling of the vellum else near fine. Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
1906Best.-Nr. 28355London: Macmillan & Co 1906. First edition 8vo pp. x 306 4 ads; 20 plates; light shelf wear but generally a very good sound copy in original maroon cloth gilt medallion on upper cover gilt lettering on spine t.e.g. red cloth chemise and red cloth slipcase. Livingston 299. Macmillan & Co unknown books
1997Best.-Nr. 15489Marina Del Rey: Bieler Press 1997. Edition limited to 150 copies 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 bound. Bieler Press unknown books
1898Best.-Nr. 89732London: William Heinemann Ltd 1898. First Edition. Library edition on Japanese vellum. Quarto. Linen-backed pictorial laid paper over boards; unpaginated. Mild darkening to boards with a trace of wear at edges and corners; internally fresh and clean - a pleasing Very Good or better copy. One sport for every month of the year in Nicholson's signature style with text by Rudyard Kipling. In addition to this regular issue there were "a few copies" issued with hand-colored plates signed by the authors. This an attractive copy clean and sound better than usually seen. William Heinemann Ltd unknown books
1902Best.-Nr. 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
1899Best.-Nr. 90256London: Daily Mail 1899. Quarto printed on white satin. Oblong folio in triptych form opening to six panels with portrait of Kipling to cover reproduction of a sketch by R. Caton Woodville "A gentleman in kharki" at center panel; Kipling's poem is reproduced from manuscript on the first and third interior panels. A beautifully-preserved example a trifle aged at margins but free of perforations or loss; Very Good to Near Fine. A fundraising souvenir one of several versions of this text produced to benefit families of British soldiers in the Boer War. Copies printed on satin were hawked by programme girls throughout the theatres of London for the princely sum of One Guinea. Ours is the special issue noted by Richards produced for the actress Lilly Langtry and offered for sale at the Garrick Theatre on Nov. 24 1899. The rear panel bears the printed legend: "Presented by Mrs. Lilly Langtry on the occasion of the 100th performance of the "Degenerates" at the Garrick Theatre." Richards notes that a few copies were produced with a silk fringe not present on our copy. RICHARDS A147. Daily Mail unknown books
1909Best.-Nr. 90334New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. First American Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's deep blue cloth lavishly decorated in gilt and silver to spine and front board. 77pp. printed rectos only; 16pp. fictional advertisments to rear. Bright and straight with some light scuffing to spine ends and extremities a little darkened to the spine; internally clean and fresh color pictorial endpapers by Leyendecker color frontispiece with tissue guard color plates. A very good copy of a pretty book. A most unusual bit of Kipling in the shape of a fantastic vision of the future in which the majority of air travel is via dirigible public industrial or private and which takes the form of a journalistic account of the aerial mail service for some future magazine or other a little optimistic of Kipling to assume we would have journalism in the 21st century. This heady and dramatic vision of the year 2000 is embellished with a selection of advertisments and blurbs for private airships dirigible engineering equipment and classified ads looking for pilots "Must be a member of the Church of England." in a pseudo-documentary transmedial fashion. The end result is an entertaining and deeply unserious bit of speculative fiction. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 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
1895Best.-Nr. 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
1899Best.-Nr. 87497New York: Doubleday & McClure Co 1899. First Edition. First printings. Two octavo volumes. Green cloth hardcovers; xv460 x400pp. Mild trace of rubbing at spine ends and board corners; corners lightly tapped otherwise a clean tight and unmarked set very Near Fine. Collected dispatches from India most originally published in The Pioneer between 1887 and 1889. The American edition precedes the British by one year. Doubleday & McClure Co unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 54791London: Macmillan 1932. First Edition. First Printing. 16mo 20cm. In original red cloth titled on spine in gold with elephant badge to front board top edge gilt in original printed tan dust jacket; list of other publications facing the title page; viii 400pp. A clean square copy cloth slightly darkened at spine edges and corners lightly rubbed: Very Good. In the original dust jacket chipped at head with cellotape repairs to verso at head and upper flap folds: Good. Not in LIVINGSTON. Macmillan unknown books
1899Best.-Nr. 9032199New York: Alex. Grosset & Co 1899. 1st. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. Bound in publisher's original yellow-orange cloth with spine stamped in red cover stamped in red and illustrated black. Top edge gilt. Illustrated frontispiece. Two illustrated plates in black and white. Several pages unopened. Mild rubbing to corners and head and heel of spine not through cloth. Darkening to cloth front back and spine. 5 x 7 1/4 inches. Alex. Grosset & Co hardcover books
