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1904rif. 2222360Second edition. 4 ¾" x 4". Frontispiece drawing by E. B. Bird. Title page in red and black. Original dark green boards printed paper label on upper cover. No dust jacket. Very good. 10 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Printed by Fred & Bertha Goudy at The Village Press Hingham Mass. Livingston 293. Alfred Bartlett hardcover books
1904rif. 020443London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Light bumping to corners. Near Fine. Literary Ephemera. Publisher's red cloth with gilt elephant on front cover and small swastika symbol. Laid in is a small promotional folded leaflet from the publisher advertising this book as well as books by Edith Wharton H. G. Wells and others. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1926rif. 524London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1926. First Edition. Boards. Very good . Donald MAXWELL. First edition. 8vo; xiv i 94pp 2; gilt-stamped title author and illustrator to front board on royal blue buckram; 24 color half-tone illustrations tipped in; heavy cream-colored stock; bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown; scuffing to head & tail of spine with small tear to head glue burn to ffep; very good plus. Lacking dust jacket. Beautiful illustrations to accompany some of Kipling's most popular verse. Macmillan and Co. Limited unknown books
1896rif. ST13170bLondon and New York: Macmillan and Co 1896. FIRST EDITION. 190 x 122 mm. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4". viii 172 pp. with the half title. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt pictorial design on upper cover and on flat spine all edges gilt. Vignette headpieces and tailpieces frontispiece and 20 plates by A. S. Hartrick. Verso of front free endpaper with ink owner's inscription of Constance Reynolds dated 14 February 1898. Stewart 157. ◆Spine a bit cocked and faded with a little fraying at tail edge extremities lightly rubbed a couple of small stains to upper cover text slightly open at gutter at gathering D occasional mild marginal foxing or faint fore-edge dampstain to plates not affecting image but a very good copy clean and fresh with nothing approaching a fatal defect. Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 is most famous for his works portraying the lives of both natives and colonialists on the Indian subcontinent. An opponent of female suffrage and a staunch supporter of British imperialism Kipling nonetheless had great sympathy for the traditions of India as well as the literary ability and desire to present it as a land of beauty and enchantment. He was born in Bombay where his father ran a school of art and he lived in India until the age of six. He was sent to school in England but chose to return to the East at 18. His father had become director of the Lahore Museum in what is now Pakistan and Rudyard became a journalist for the "Lahore Civil and Military Gazette." His first two collections of stories "Plain Tales from the Hills" and "Soldiers Three" depict the lives of the British military in India; he proved to be a prolific author writing novels tales for children and adults and many poems. Kipling's wife was American and they lived for a time in Vermont but from 1896 the couple settled in England. Among his many honors are a Nobel Prize 1907 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature 1926 which had previously only been awarded to Scott Meredith and Hardy. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1932rif. 427502London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1932. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint of the Uniform Edition. 282pp. 21 black-and-white illustrations. Gilt-stamped red cloth top edge gilt. Spine cocked near fine in a very good very lightly stained dustwrapper short nicks on spine ends. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1919rif. 427453London: Macmillan and Co 1919. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. Octavo. 219pp. 4pp. Illustrations by Rudyard Kipling. Red cloth with gilt embossed stamp of elephant and swastika on front board gilt-stamped spine title top edge gilt. Gutter cracked small stain on pages 192-193 at the very foredge spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped a very good copy in a very good lightly age-toned dustwrapper with "7/6 Net" sticker on spine short tears on spine ends and corners. Macmillan and Co hardcover books
1898rif. TB30230London: Macmillan And Co. 1898. First Edition. First Printing Very good in blue pebbled cloth covered boards with faded gilt text on the spine and bright gilt ornamental band across the upper edge of the front board. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches with a 1/4" deep by 3/4" long chip to the cloth at the head of the spine which is tanned a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down and a book seller's name and notation of "First Edition" on the first free end page. Without its issued dust jacket. 381 pages of text followed by the publisher's ads of 16 pages dated "15.9.98". A collection of 12 short stories. Richards A116 Macmillan And Co. hardcover books
1898rif. 6649London: Macmillan and Co 1898. First Edition First Issue. Original Wraps. Very Good. Small Octavo. 84 pages. Bound in original blue pictorial wrappers. Minor wear at fore-edge of front wrapper; very good in a handsome cloth covered slipcase. Macmillan and Co paperback books
1919rif. 004965England 1919. Cloth. Near Fine. Lovely meticulously rendered vignette illustrations framing the key letter on each page and on a few pages two vignettes. Oblong 9 by 13 cm. 28 pp. The album opens to a particularly nice pen and ink drawing of a schooner framed with highly decorative foliate baroque ornamentation. The first poem is Kipling's "If" each letter device accompanied by a painting of a different type of sail boat or ship. Ship motives are used again in "Love at Sea" by Swinburne. Another Kipling poem "The Explanation" is enlivened with paintings of colorful expressive fish. In our judgment these are the most charismatic of the illustrations. Other poems include Swinburne's "Rondel" "Before Sunset" "Song" and "Child's Song"; and some verses by Sappho. Other illustrative motives take in dragons flowers and floral daipers butterflies and coasts. The poems are rendered in a neat calligraphic hand and it is very easy to imagine this manuscript as something that might have been published as a gift book. unknown books
1919rif. biblio1First edition one of 200 large paper copies. Octavo. Original vellum back blue boards toning to edges corners worn t.e.g. No dust jacket. Very good. 159 pages. Stewart 434. Title page in red and black with illustration by A. Trotter of a service man seated smoking while he reads of letter. Methuen and Co. Ltd. hardcover books
1976rif. TB28072Avon Conn.: The Limited Editions Club 1976. Limited Edition. Fine in green and purple cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt decorations around the author's initials on the front board. A small quarto measuring 10 1/2" by 8". Without a dust jacket as issued; however the book is contained within a fine paper covered slip case. One of only 2000 copies printed with this copy identified as number 435 and signed by the illustrator Charles Raymond. Selections by Bernard Bergonzi. 375 pages of text and illustrated with line drawings and color lithographs by Charles Raymond. A very tight clean and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1910rif. 227986New York: A.L. Burt 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Red cloth gilt spine titles. Short stories. One volume only of an eight volume set. Pages browned Long thin yellowish stain on title page very good. A.L. Burt hardcover books
1915rif. 376390London: Macmillan 1915. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 12mo. Original decorated wrappers. Chip on front wrap tears on the spine a near very good copy. Stewart 387. Macmillan unknown books
1924rif. 179886Garden City NY: Doubleday 1924. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American trade hardcover edition. Small octavo. 33pp. Green papercovered boards with green-lettered white label laid on front board. Swastika with "Rudyard Kipling" in circle on copyright. Owner's decorative bookplate laid on front pastedown small stamp on front fly still near fine in a very good dustwrapper with spine lightly tanned short tears along the edges. Doubleday hardcover books
1932rif. 34312London: Macmillan and Co. Limited. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1932. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. First English and true first edition published two weeks before the American edition on 7 April 1932. Near Fine condition with lightly rubbed extremities in alike dust-wrapper with light edgewear. Richards A402 Livingston 577 Stewart 588; Kipling's final collection of short stories published shortly after the death of his only son. Limits and Renewals contains fourteen short stories and nineteen poems three of the stories were published here for the first time; 8vo; vi vii-viii 2 3-400 pages . Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1906rif. RK010London: Macmillan and Co. 1906 First edition. Near fine in publisher's original red cloth with some fading to the spine and darkening of the boards and a former owner's bookplate. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. London: Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1904rif. 324349London: Macmillan 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good with top edge gilt some fraying at the spine ends light wear to the corners a bookplate on the front pastedown lacking the dustwrapper. Macmillan hardcover books
1904rif. 324706London: Macmillan 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good with top edge gilt some fraying at the spine ends corners bumped endpapers foxed a bookplate on the front pastedown lacking the dustwrapper. Macmillan hardcover books
1904rif. 324708London: Macmillan 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good with top edge gilt spine is lightly faded corners bumped endpapers foxed foxing on the page edges lacking the dustwrapper. Macmillan hardcover books
1893rif. 324699New York: Macmillan 1893. Hardcover. Good. New edition with additional poems. Good in blue cloth with gold stamping top edge gilt chipping at the spine ends wear at the corners rear hinge is starting foxing. Macmillan hardcover books
1898rif. 324697London: Macmillan 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in blue cloth with gold decorative stamping top edge gilt light wear at the spine ends and corners a little scuffing along the edges of the spine spine cracked in the center. Macmillan hardcover books
1895rif. 330312London: Macmillan and Co 1895. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Blue cloth with gilt decoration on top edges. Pages age-toned gutter before half-title page cracked rear hinge cracked spine faded and extremities worn else very good. Macmillan and Co hardcover books
1903rif. 224704First edition first issue p. 56. Octavo. Original maroon gilt stamped cloth t.e.g. 38 publishers catalogue at end dated July 1903. Very good. Bookplate of Edward F. Burke on the front pastedown. Enclosed in a 1/2 red morocco slipcase with folding chemise. Methuen & Co. hardcover books
1903rif. 211194London: Methuen 1903. First. hardcover. fine. 12mo artfully bound in dark olive green morocco; gilt lettered spine with raised bands & floral devices stamped in gilt and red on the covers; inner dentelles. London: Methuen 1903. First English Edition. First issue with "David" on p.56. Methuen unknown books
1909rif. 162393London: Macmillan 1909. First. hardcover. near fine. vi 301 plus 12pp of ads. Thick 8vo artfully bound in dark olive green morocco; gilt- lettered spine with raised bands & floral devices stamped in gilt and red on the covers; inner dentelles uncut edges t.e.g. Original wrappers are bound-in at rear. London: Macmillan and Co. 1909. First edition. Slightest edgewear otherwise a near fine copy. Macmillan unknown books
