KIPLING, RudyardABAA
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1980Best.-Nr. 64198Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 1980. Limited Edition. 8vo. 27cm x 18.5cm. Publisher's full green leather titled and decorated in gilt to spine and boards. Clean and bright a fine unread copy. 383pp. Internally clean. Yellow silk endpapers. All edges gilt. Illustrated throughout by David Gentleman. Part of the "One Hundred Greatest Books Ever Written" series. The Easton Press unknown books
1909Best.-Nr. 191633London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909. First trade edition. Hardcover. An attractive edition of this work by Kipling. Features 30 tipped in color plates along with some additional black and white illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. A close to near fine copy in illustrated blue cloth boards with all tissue guards present and with some scattered foxing to the page edges and internally some very minor fraying to the base of the spine and a small vintage bookstore sticker to the rear pastedown. No dust jacket. Despite the minor flaws a very pleasing copy. Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
1942Best.-Nr. 159797Los Angeles: Walt Disney Productions 1942. Three vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1942 film. Printed mimeo snipes and photographer stamps on the versos. Based on the 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. A Technicolor live-action version of the classic Kipling stories made by the Hungarian-born filmmaking team of director Zoltan Korda producer Alexander Korda and art director Vincent Korda. The production brilliantly utilized live exotic animals and featured Indian actor Sabu as Mowgli the boy raised by wolves who can communicate with the animals of the jungle. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography. Shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. 9 x 12 inches. Fine. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 30. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 151560Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1937. Vintage reference photograph of director Victor Fleming and script clerk Bill Lewis on the set of the 1937 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel. The spoiled young son of a business tycoon falls overboard on a steamship trip to Europe and is picked up by a fishing schooner where he is made to earn his keep. Shot on location in Massachusetts and California in the US and Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1901Best.-Nr. 54794London: Macmillan 1901. First U.K. Edition. First printing. 16mo 20cm. In original red cloth titled in gilt on spine with elephant badge on front top edge gilt; plain endpapers; 2pp of publisher's ads at rear; vi 413 3pp; 10 illustrations by J. L. Kipling. With 1901 ownership inscription of George D. Herron and later bookplate of Dartmouth College Library to front endpapers. Bookseller's ticket of Brentano's Paris to rear pastedown. A pleasantly bright copy lacking the dustjacket gently rubbed front hinge largely cracked but holding: Very Good. George Davis Herron 1862-1925 was a clergyman Christian Socialist and advocate for the Social Gospel and the Socialist Party of America. Four months before the date of this inscription Herron was defrocked for divorcing his first wife and remarrying. The consequent scandal overshadowed his activity in the formation of the Socialist Party of America leading him to take his new family abroad ANB. LIVINGSTON 250. Macmillan unknown books
1942Best.-Nr. 1605Garden City N.Y.: Garden City Publishing Company Inc 1942. First edition thus. Boards. Near fine/very good . F. ROJANKOVSKY illustrator. First edition thus. 8vo; 26pp; color pictorial boards; pictorial endpapers in black and yellow; color pictorial title page; illustrations throughout both in b&w and color; light edge scuffing of boards; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket edge creasing and small closed tears; near fine in very good plus dj. The classic Kipling story of the curious elephant the crocodile and how he got a long trunk. Lively illustrations by Russian immigrant and Caldecott Award winner and illustrator Feodor Rojankovsky 1891-1970. Garden City Publishing Company, Inc unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 156674Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1939. Vintage studio still photograph of director William Wellman and a camera crew filming on location in New Mexico for the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1891 novel by Rudyard Kipling. An artist whose sight is failing struggles to complete his final painting while also grieving his broken relationship with his childhood sweetheart. Shot on location in Abiquiu Santa Fe and Espanola New Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1899Best.-Nr. 60443New York: The Century Company 1899. Early printing of the American edition. Octavo 19.75cm; original sage green cloth with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt black and blind on spine and covers; top edge gilt; x3242pp; illus. Hint of sunning to spine with a faint diagonal crease to upper right corner of first four leaves else a clean very Near Fine copy. The Century Company unknown books
1941Best.-Nr. 57419Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1941. Limited Edition. No. 148 of one thousand sets signed by Kipling in the first volume. Twenty-eight octavo volumes; red gilt-blocked beveled cloth top edges gilt fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; in uniform dustjackets. Front endpapers with printed bookplates of Harry Bishop Clapp to each pastedown and James Glen Mead to each free endpaper. The latter have caused some mild rippling to the endleaves else a fresh fine set in the original printed dustwrappers uniformly fine and free of darkening or wear. The authoritative edition of Kipling's works rarely found in the original dustwrappers and almost unheard of in this condition certainly the finest set to reach the market in the past twenty or more years. RICHARDS D25. Doubleday, Doran & Company unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 154970N.p.: Walt Disney Productions 1975. Vintage British program for the 1975 re-release of the 1967 film. Based on the 1894 collection of "Mowgli" stories by Rudyard Kipling. One of Disney's classic animated films and the last film Walt personally oversaw. 8.25 x 11 inches. 6 pages side stapled. Near Fine with some light rubbing to the wrappers. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1909Best.-Nr. 9029020New York: B. W. Dodge & Company 1909. Hardcover. Very good. Unauthorized edition; precedes the first edition. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with horizontal designs printed the spine and cover with spine and cover lettered in orange silhouette of sailing ship on the cover.Minor wear at extremities otherwise fine. 360 pages. B. W. Dodge & Company hardcover books
1890Best.-Nr. 55971London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington Ld 1890. First U.K. Edition. Octavo 21.5cm. Grey pictorial paper wraps printed in black; vi 7-96pp. A straight and handsome copy 5" split to front joint minor tear at head of spine wrappers browned at edges internally clean: Very Good. One of the Railway Library series the paperbacks that "made Kipling's name in India and soon enough in England and America" ODNB. The first and second editions of 1889 were published in Allahabad. LIVINGSTON 36. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ld unknown books
1898Best.-Nr. 54774Boston: Privately Printed 1898. First Thus. Sextodecimo 15cm; sewn; issued in stiff paper wrappers lettered from the types of the title page; 4 leaves- title and text; frontispiece; vignette designed by E.J Clark printed in red is repeated throughout occupying half of each page; light rubbing; upper rear corner of back cover has tiny nick; Very Good lacking the envelope. Inspiration for the 1909 Broadway production A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne and subsequently the 1915 silent film "A Fool There Was" starring Theda Bara. LIVINGSTON 151; wikipedia. Privately Printed unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 152130N.p.: N.p. 1937. Vintage reference photograph from the 1937 film showing actor Sabu Dastagir commonly known only by his given name Sabu. With a mimeo label snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamps of National Film Archive library. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Rudyard Kipling's story "Toomai of the Elephants" which originally appeared in Kipling's 1895 collection "The Jungle Book." A young Indian boy helps guide his father and a government elephant hunter to the secret elephant camp in the jungle. A breakthrough role for Sabu who would go on to work under exclusive contract for film mogul Alexander Korda in "The Thief of Bagdad" 1940 "Arabian Nights" 1942 and "The Jungle Book" 1942. Set in colonial India shot on location in Gwynedd Wales. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown books
1890Best.-Nr. 52434New York: Lovell 1890. First Edition. Octavo. First Authorized Edition; 19.5cm; blue cloth covered boards titled in gilt on spine; top textblock in gilt; 771pp.; a Near Fine or better copy. A classic collection of 36 short stories. Lovell unknown books
1928Best.-Nr. 52436London: Macmillan 1928. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo. 20cm.; red cloth w stamped elephant in gilt on cover /titles gilt on spine; top edge gilt; dustjacket; 299pp.; light wear only a Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped with a short closed tear at crown of spine; small spot of soiling to front panel; a Near Fine or better DJ. This collection has thirty-one speeches. Macmillan unknown books
1918Best.-Nr. 52415New York: doubleday 1918. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm.; green cloth over dark gray boards; paper title plate on cover and spine; dustjacket; 101pp.; A Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped with tears to the extremities; Very Good only. The book consists of four stories that read as letters home from soldiers from India and the North-West Frontier which take place in 1915 and 1916. "A Retired Gentleman" and "The Fumes of the Heart" are both fictionalized letters written from the perspective of wounded Indian soldiers a Rajput and a Sikh to their families. The second is cast as a dictated letter from a Sikh soldier to his brother and has dramatic asides and digressions from the injured soldier punctuating the text. As for the remaining two stories "The Private Account" is presented as a scene showing an Afghan family reading and responding to a letter from their son on the Western Front and the final story "A Trooper of Horse" takes the form of a letter from an unwounded Muslim soldier in France to his mother. doubleday unknown books
1899Best.-Nr. 1215New York: D. Appleton and Company 1899. Cloth. Very good. 12mo; 209 1 6pp publisher's ads; gilt-stamped green-grey metallic thread cloth; upper edge gilt fore-edge and bottom deckle; gift inscription to ffep; sunning to rear board age-toning to paper; very good. Collection of Kipling's poetry including 18 Barrack-Room Ballads. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1919Best.-Nr. 51583Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1919. First Edition. One of 70 copies printed for copyright purposes. Slim octavo 20.5cm; publisher's original wrappers bound into full navy blue crushed morocco by The French Binders with five raised bands titles stamped in gilt on spine and covers with double-ruled borders and decorative corner pieces tooled in gilt on covers; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt; 8pp padded with 11 blank terminal leaves. Pinpoint wear else Fine. A poem first published in the Daily Telegraph 29 January 1919 concerning the young naval officers who were sent to Cambridge University for two terms between 1919-1922. LIVINGSTON 437. cf.Kipling Society website. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
1942Best.-Nr. 149132Los Angeles: Walt Disney Productions 1942. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph on the set of the 1942 film. "Photograph by Coburn" stamp and "Bison Archives" stamp on verso. Based on the 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. The stunning Technicolor live-action version of the classic Kipling stories made by the Hungarian born filmmaking team the Korda brothers director Zoltan Korda producer Alexander Korda and art director Vincent Korda which brilliantly utilized live exotic animals on huge lush sets and featured Indian born actor Sabu as Mowgli the boy raised by wolves who can communicate with the animals of the jungle. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography. Set in a village in India shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 30. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1926Best.-Nr. 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
1973Best.-Nr. 9025772Avon: Limited Editions Club 1973. Hardcover. Fine. Charles Raymond. Bound in publisher's original full half and half green and blue buckram. Spine and cover stamped in gilt. Publisher's original matching slipcase wrapped in matching blue and green paper. Signed by Charles Raymond. One of 2000 numbered copies. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1891Best.-Nr. 148051891. KIPLING RUDYARD. Life's Handicap. Being Stories of Mine Own People. London 1891. xvi 351 9 p. Two-color green cloth. Lacks half-title leaf else very good. In a chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. First American edition in the scarce two-color green cloth. Livingston 79 Stewart 99. unknown books
1899Best.-Nr. 148041899. KIPLING RUDYARD. Stalky & Co. London: MacMillan 1899. ix 3 272 2 p. Red cloth. Spine darkened light overall soiling. In a chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. First English edition. Livingston 216; Stewart 195. unknown books
1906Best.-Nr. 23024New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. First American Edition. Octavo 21cm.; original grey blind-ruled cloth lettered in gilt color plate mounted to upper cover top edge gilt others uncut; 680pp.; color frontispiece 14 tissue-guarded plates. Cloth a bit soiled extremities toned light rubbing to spine ends else Very Good. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
