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1898ref. 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
1919ref. 324354London: Methuen and Co 1919. Hardcover. Very Good. First trade edition. Very good top edge gilt with a faded spine light soiling lacking the dustwrapper. Methuen and Co hardcover books
1903ref. 324702London: Methuen and Company 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. First state with misprint 'David' for 'Saul' on page 56 line 9 ads dated July 1903. Very good with a faded spine and some fading at the bottom front corner light edgewear endpapers browned. Methuen and Company hardcover books
1899ref. 324709New York: Doubleday & McClure Company 1899. Hardcover. Near Fine. First trade edition. Two volumes. Both volumes bound in green cloth but volume two cloth is a lighter shade. Near fine with very light wear at the spine ends and corners an ink notation on the front endpaper of volume II. Doubleday & McClure Company hardcover books
1899ref. 41937New York: Alex Grosset and Co 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition thus. Offsetting to the endpapers boards soiled and lightly rubbed else very good. Alex Grosset and Co hardcover books
1893ref. 41940New York: D. Appleton 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition with changes from the British edition. Scattered foxing spine tanned and a stain to the rear board else very good. D. Appleton hardcover books
1891ref. 49457London: A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston & Company 1891. Very Good. London: A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston & Company 1891. First English Edition. Slim octavo 21.5cm; publisher's green-grey pictorial wrappers; 96pp. A few small shallow chips to wrapper margins foxing to final few leaves else Very Good and sound nicer than often encountered. Kipling's oppressive novella of a man's sleepless night spent walking the streets of Lahore. This edition part of A.H. Wheeler & Co's Indian Railway Library No. XIV preceded by an Allahabad printing. Livingston 71. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low, Marston & Company unknown books
1973ref. 011544Avon CT: Limited Editions Club 1973 375 pgs. Green & Blue cloth decorative stamped and titled in gilt housed in a blue & green paper covered slip case with small nicks. A selection of shorter works by Kilpling illustrated in color and b&w by Charles Raymond. #1303 / 2000 copies signed by the artist. Signed by Artist. Signed Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Charles Raymond. Thick 4to. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1901ref. 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
1889ref. 613723Allahabad: Messers A. H. Wheeler & Co 1889. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 96pp. Rebound in early half red cloth and marbled paper covered boards. Original printed front wrapper affixed on front board. Rear wrap and ads lacking. Bookplate of Victor Scharrer on verso of titlepage small name stamp of a previous owner partly effaced on titlepage boards modestly rubbed and worn a pleasing very good copy. Issued in A. H. Wheeler & Co’s Indian Railway Library No. 4. Messers A. H. Wheeler & Co hardcover books
1909ref. 157971909. One page on Kipling's "Bateman's Burwash Sussex" stationery. 14th Aug. 1909. This letter addressed to "Dear Sir" but with the recipient's name and address "9 King's Cross Road W.C." typed below reads: I have received your letter of the 12th together with the file of correspondence which I return herewith. I am only sorry that as I know nothing about the business side of inventions it is out of my power to assist you. Yours truly signed: Rudyard Kipling. We do not know who John Proctor was; nor did Kipling -- but Proctor had apparently sent a whole file regarding some invention he was working on. Perhaps he contacted Kipling because he knew the famous author had written an 1893 book titled MANY INVENTIONS The letter is in very good condition a couple of small holes and tape-marks not affecting print. Basic content but a fine example of Kipling's signature. unknown books
1933ref. 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 books
1897ref. 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 books
1932ref. 607814Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1932. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Slight scattered foxing on first and last couple of leaves and on bottom page edges else a fine bright copy in lightly faded very good or better dust jacket. Doubleday Doran hardcover books
1892ref. 157451892. London: William Heinemann 1892. 8 pp undated ads. Original salmon cloth decorated in brown. First Edition of Kipling's only serious attempt at literary collaboration. A Vermonter Wolcott Balestier was an American author and publisher's agent in London; in fact in 1890 he and Heinemann had founded the Heinemann & Balestier publishing house in Leipzig books in English for the Continental market. He had written about the American "Wild West" and Kipling of course had written about India. THE NAULAHKA a misspelling of "naulakha" which in Hindu means nine lakhs i.e. 900000 rupees is an odd tale that combines these two environments into "A Story of East and West" -- a man from a Western boom-town attempts to get possession of a fabulous jewel in India. In December 1891 six months before this was published Balestier suddenly died at age 29 of typhoid fever in Dresden. Kipling had met Wolcott's sister Carrie and just a month after Wolcott died she became Kipling's wife; the Kiplings built their first home in Vermont and in memory of her brother named it "Naulakha" -- spelled correctly. The newlywed Kiplings lived in Vermont for four years toward the end of which Kipling wrote CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS about the Massachusetts fishing fleet; but it all came crashing down when Wolcott's brother Beatty was arrested for assaulting Kipling -- there was an altercation after Kipling had created a little garden on land he owned but had allowed Beatty to hay: the Kiplings fled to England. This is an unusually clean copy just about fine a hint of rubbing at the spine ends; such condition is scarce for this book in view of its soil-prone salmon-colored binding. Richards A66; Stewart 105; Livingston 85. unknown books
1992ref. 1401001Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 1992. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Octavos Four Volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's dark blue black green and red decorated leather boards respectively. All with paneling and gilt lettering to spines. Mild general shelf wear. Edges of textbock gilt lightly worn on top edges of all four volumes causing small visible tears in various places throughout interiors. With silk endpapers and silk ribbon bookmarks. Shelved above Easton Press. Copyright dates 1992 in all except Tales of East and West 1973. 1401001. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Easton Press hardcover books
1898ref. 611705London: Macmillan 1898. Hardcover. Fine. First English edition. Octavo. Blue cloth gilt. A fine copy. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. Slipcase shows some wear but it has protected the book which is bright and fresh splendidly. Macmillan hardcover books
1932ref. 612265Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1932. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. First American edition. Stain on the jacket resulting on a small paper remnant adhering to the front board and the rear panel of the jacket attached to the rear board thus only fair in an about fair dust jacket. Doubleday Doran hardcover books
1906ref. 612549New York: Doubleday Page 1906. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition. Octavo. Gray cloth gilt with applied illustration on paper. A little foxing mostly contained to tissue guards and frontispiece else near fine copy. Stories including the famous title story about ghosts of children. Bleiler Checklist title. Doubleday Page hardcover books
1994ref. 601046Englewood Cliffs New Jersey: Prentice Hall 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine. Third edition. 804pp. Illustrated in color. Tiny bump on front board sunned spine near fine. Although not marked in any way this copy is from the library of contributor Charlotte Zolotow with a publisher's complimentary letter laid in. Zolotow was an editor and publisher at Harper’s celebrated children’s books department and the acclaimed author of over 65 children’s books. A collection of short stories by Charlotte Zolotow Isaac Bashevis Singer Jack London Isaac Asimov Rudyard Kipling Ray Bradbury Beverly Cleary F. Scott Fitzgerald C. S. Lewis and more. Prentice Hall hardcover books
1996ref. 601051Upper Saddle River New Jersey: Prentice Hall 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine. Fourth edition. 804pp. Illustrated in color. Sunned spine near fine. A collection of short stories by Charlotte Zolotow Isaac Bashevis Singer Jack London Isaac Asimov Rudyard Kipling Ray Bradbury Beverly Cleary F. Scott Fitzgerald C. S. Lewis and more. Prentice Hall hardcover books
1992ref. 1394303Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 1992. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. In Very Good condition. Sealed in original plastic shrink wrap. Bound in publisher's decorated green leather with paneling and gilt lettering to spine. Edges of textblock gilt. Shelved in Easton Press. 1394303. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Easton Press hardcover books
1895ref. 1397515New York: The Century Co 1895. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 324 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Spine and extremities faded to black. Fraying with some material loss to cloth at head and tail of spine. General shelf wear to edges and corners of boards. Top edge of textblock gilt. Previous bookseller's sticker adhered to front pastedown. Minor staining to front free endpaper and pastedown. Shelved in Case 14. 1397515. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Century Co hardcover books
1897ref. 1397627New York: The Century Co 1897. Early Edition. Hardcover. Octavo viii 323 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Sunning to spine. Spine cocked. General shelf wear primarily to head and tail of spine and to corners of boards. Mild soiling to rear board. Top edge of textblock gilt. Previous bookseller's stamp to front pastedown. Previous owner's signature to front free endpaper. Age toning throughout. Shelved in Case 14. 1397627. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Century Co hardcover books
1896ref. 1397631New York: D. Appleton and Company 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo vii 209 pages. In Very Good condition Spine grey cloth with gilt lettering and inlay. Spine darkened by UV damage head of spine worn. Minor shelfwear and soiling board corners bumped. Top of textblock gilt moderatly worn. Textblock exterior agetoned interior clean. Former owner's inscription on front endpaper. Shelved case 0. 1397631. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books