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1933ref. 032362UK: Macmillan 1933. First Edition Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 1st Edition 1933 Signed by the author to the title page. Signed trade editions are very uncommon. Book is near fine and very bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good and quite bright. A few long closed repaired tears Edges rubbed and nicked. Excellent provenance. A really nice example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18468 Macmillan hardcover
1902ref. 032371UK: Macmillan 1902. First Edition 1st Printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. R Kipling. 1st Edition 1st state 1902. Tipped in Kipling Burwash Letter to endpaper. Quite a bright book. A collection of Kipling's well-known animal stories including "How the Whale Got his Throat" "The Elephant's Child" and "The Butterfly That Stamped." With author's illustrations throughout. Book is very good with bright boards and spine. Spine tips/corners lightly rubbed. White printing is bright and much better than normal. Spine slightly faded. Contents good with foxing marking and thumbing to some pages. Much better example than normally appears. Ref Macmillan hardcover
1918ref. 032430UK: Methuen 1918. 3rd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 3rd Edition 1918. Includes the famous poem "If". The decorative book is very good and bright. Light edge rubbing. Contents good. Ref Methuen paperback
1905ref. 379368London: MacMillan 1905. First Edition First Issue. Frontispiece and 14 other fullpage color illustrations by F. H. Townsend. 80 pp. printed on rectos only. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pictorially gilt-stamped white cloth; some marking on front and back covers; spine sunned with minor stain; minor edge-wear. First Edition First Issue. Frontispiece and 14 other fullpage color illustrations by F. H. Townsend. 80 pp. printed on rectos only. 1 vols. 8vo. Stewart 303 preceded by an American copyright issue. Stewart 303 preceded by an American copyright issue MacMillan hardcover
ref. 69133045-20Used - Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. unknown
1910ref. 11869Doubleday Page and Company. New York. 1910. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION U. S. IN RARE PUBLISHERS DELUX IMITATION LEATHER BINDING. Precedes the first U. K separate edition by 4 years. Oblong 8vo. 4.4 x 6.4 inches. 8 double leaves uncut at the top. Each double leaf has a green rule and dot border the text printed in black with green initial letters. Half title has "IF" printed in green within an ornamental black panel the same as the design stamped onto the front board with the addition of the author's name. This version with the green colour printing is Richards' variant a. The Publishers note on page 5 appears in four different variants with priority unknown and this copy has variant ii. A couple of very light spots to one page but overall this is a very good bright and clean copy throughout. In the very rare original delux publishers dark red imitation morocco leather binding with gilt ruling and lettering to the front panel Richards binding variant ii. Some wear to the surface of the binding at the spine and corners and the gilt on the front board is a bit dulled as usual but overall this is a very good and attractive copy of this rare little book. This imitation leather bound issue is by far the rarest of the three variant bindings published. In 36 years of dealing in English Literature and handling many dozens of copies of this edition in the paper covered boards and 20 copies in the delux green leather this is only the eighth time I have come across a copy in this red variant binding. Published probably November 1910 very shortly after the Poem first appeared in the book Rewards and Fairies October 1910 this separate publication was issued to capitalise on the huge and instant popularity of what has become Kipling's most enduring work of verse. A poll taken by the BBC in the UK in 2005 voted it as Britain's favourite Poem polling twice as many votes as the number 2 choice Lord Tennyson's The Lady of Shallot. Originally written in 1895 IF was inspired by the actions of Dr. Leander Starr Jameson a British Officer whose forces were defeated by the Boers in 1895 but who was portrayed as a victorious hero by the British press the poem is a powerful masterclass in maintaining the British stiff upper lip. ------ David Alan Richards. Rudyard Kipling. A Bibliography. A244. Binding variant ii. Text Variants ii a. Doubleday, Page and Company. New York. 1910 hardcover
1920ref. 1519001920. Rare typed letter signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling. Dated July 20th 1920 on Kipling's Bateman's Burwash Sussex letterhead the letter reads: Dear Sir I am in receipt of you letter of July 13th. asking me to give you a date to speak at Christ's Hospital some time during the term from Sept 14th. to December 17th. I very much regret that it is not possible for me to give you a date. My plans are very uncertain for the time covering this period and I do not find it possible to make any appointments so far ahead. With many regrets Believe me Yours faithfully "Rudyard Kipling." In near fine condition. Double matted and framed with a portrait of Kipling. The entire piece measures 20.5 inches by 16 inches. Rare and desirable. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book 1894 Kim 1901 and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. unknown
2013ref. O2823hU VGh 3.4 4 01 68Palazzo Editions 2013 Very Good: the well used book shows signs of wear & has a few defect and faults as follows - Cover is in good condition W/ shelf wear. top and bottom. DJ is in "Good" condition has minor shelf wear and a few small Closed tears. Pages are clean and new looking. Spine is in straight & in excellent condition. We give you an honest evaluation & price Ships same day M-F when ordered before 12 PM PST provide tracking & exceptional customer service. We guarantee it! Make Wiz Books your go-to bookseller. Palazzo Editions hardcover
ref. 74253Allahabad: Messers. A. H. Wheeler and Co. and London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington Ltd. no date 1888-91. Strange Tales Octavos 21 x 14cm. 'Wheeler' pamphlets published in India at 1 Rupee or in the UK at 1 shilling. Mixed printings including TWO FIRST EDITIONS. Bound in the publisher's printed grey covers. Some dustiness and age-toning. Covers and spines rather chipped as usual some covers detached. 'Deodars' with ink ownership and cloth reinforced spine. Good only. Soldiers Three is 6th edition published by Sampson Low only remainder are English issues of the Indian edition; The Story of the Gadsbys no edition stated i.e. 1st; Under the Deodars 2nd edition; The Phantom 'Rickshaw no edition stated i.e. 1st; Wee Willie Winkie 10th edition. 'The Phantom Rickshaw' is a classic of 'the psychopathic state' and this tale along with 'The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes' originally titled 'The Village of the Dead' have been likened in manner to the weird tales of Edgar Allan Poe successfully re-created in a Simla rather than Gothic setting. This collection also includes the classic adventure 'The Man Who Would Be King' often cited as the best of the stories Kipling wrote in India or further as Kipling's masterpiece. 'In Black and White''s 'The Sending of Dana Da' is a 'miracle' tale being the first of Kipling's several short stories to use the elements of the supernatural and the psychic which was inspired by Madame Blavatsky and her 'occult phenomena'. Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature 243. Allahabad: Messers. A. H. Wheeler and Co., [and] London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington Ltd., no date [1888-91] unknown
ref. 73381Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co. n.d. Short stories A 'Wheeler' pamphlet published in India at 1 Rupee. Octavo 21 x 14 pp.1-96. Bound in the publisher's printed grey covers. Internally clean publisher's blue-inked rubber stamp carefully excised covers a little brittle with chips to spine and extremities. A good-very good copy of a fragile and cheaply-produced paperback. No edition stated not dated. Does not correspond to Richards' first edition A19 which has text numbered 2-112. Assumed later printing. Stewart See also Wilson; The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling Amis; Kipling and his World. Richards A10. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., [n.d.] unknown
1924ref. 017135London: Macmillan 1924. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Reprints. Both books in the uniform red cloth with gilt titling to spine and gilt elephant's head motif to upper board. Top edge gilt. Each 20 × 13cm vi 276pp &299pp 2pp ads. In his Mowgli stories Rudyard Kipling expertly interweaves myth morals adventure and powerful story-telling. Set in Central India Mowgli is raised by a pack of wolves and along the way he encounters tiger Shere Kahn Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear. The Jungle Book also includes other stories such as that of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi a heroic mongoose and Toomai a young elephant handler. The Second Jungle Book Kipling's sequel to The Jungle Book was first published in 1895 it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories with all but one set in India. Condition: Both books are in very good condition. There is a little bumping and rubbing to the board's tips and minor spotting to the page edges. Christ's Hospital school prize label to each volume to the same pupil. Internally the books are clean bar a very little marginal spotting and the bindings are secure. A very nice set. Macmillan hardcover
1891ref. 53658Philadelphia Pa: J B Lippincott 1891. First Edition. Original wraps. Very good. 97p octavo. Complete in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine January 1891 issue. Copyrighted in 1890 by Lippincott but first printed here. Front cover just hanging on. 32p ads plus 168p text plus 31p ads. Poet Eugene Field's copy with his small engraved bookplate. On the copyright page of "The Light that Failed" is inscribed "This copy of "The Light that Failed" came from the library of my father Eugene Field. Eugene Field II Sept 10 1923" Unique thus. Enclosed in a very good blue cloth and blue morocco slipcase gilt titled. Author's First Novel. J B Lippincott paperback
1913ref. 1008London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1913. Bombay Edition. Bound by Harcourt Bindery. Near Fine. From Sea to Sea And other Sketches By Rudyard Kipling 1913 From the Bombay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling Bound in Superb crushed Morocco gilt stamped bindings by The Harcourt Bindery Macmillan and co. Limited St. Martins Street London. 1913 Rudyard Kipling. Two volumes which contain From Sea to Sea and other sketches. From the greater Bombay Edition set limited to 1050 copies. Finely bound by the Harcourt Bindery in brown and black crushed Morocco the spines in gilt compartments titles in gilt the boards beautifully decorated with ornate gilt borders and circular elephant. all page edges in gilt. With dark green and brown gilt stamped inside boards. A luxury binding from the World renowned American book binders. The leaves printed on thick luxury paper. Royal 8vo's measuring; 9.5"x7". Printed by R & R Clark from the Florence Press Type. Condition: See photos as part of condition report: Nicely bound and holding firmly Volume 1 in black Morocco some discolouration to the rear board the upper board to volume 2 a darker brown with black rear boars. spines in a lighter brown. Gilt still bright. Some bubbling to the silk endpaper to volume 2. pages clean with the occasional spot. Text blocks firm. Very good. . Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown
ref. 123402London Macmillan and Co. 1902. . First edition; large 8vo 24 x 18.5 cm; 22 full-page black & white illustrations by the author smaller illustrations within text spotting to free endpapers small dent to page edges lightly affecting prelims some minor spots or marks throughout primarily affecting p.49 and pp82-87 none affecting legibility of text small tear to lower edge of p.87 and p.145 approx. 1-2cm otherwise good condition with bright illustrations; modern red morocco one-line gilt-panelled border spine in 6 compartments with gilt lettering to second and third gilt decoration to others original cloth cover bound in at rear top edge gilt some general signs of wear corners lightly rubbed otherwise a handsome fine binding; 249pp. A handsome copy of Kipling's famous collection of short stories and the only to be illustrated by himself. Kipling's famous stories include: "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 Child" "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo" "The Beginning of the Armadilloes" "How the First Letter Was Written" "How the Alphabet Was Made" "The Crab that Played with the Sea" "The Cat that Walked by Himself" and "The Butterfly that Stamped." London, Macmillan and Co., 1902. hardcover
2024ref. x-1843847191Ds Brewer 2024. Paperback. New. 206 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.44 inches. Ds Brewer paperback
2025ref. x-1843847515Ds Brewer 2025. Paperback. New. 178 pages. 9.21x6.14x9.21 inches. Ds Brewer paperback
2016ref. x-1359911545Palala Press 2016. Hardcover. New. 514 pages. 6.14x1.13x9.21 inches. Palala Press hardcover
2025ref. x-9363117049CBY PRESS 2025. Paperback. New. 540 pages. 8.50x1.22x11.00 inches. CBY PRESS paperback
ref. 120460London Macmillan and Co. 1895. . First edition; 8vo 195 x135 mm; 39 text illustrations including head and tail-piece vignettes and historiated initials unobtrusive ownership signature in ink to ffep usual age-toning intermittent spotting throughout occasionally intrusive; publisher's blue cloth decoratively ruled and pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover spine lettered in gilt all edges gilt embossed front cover shelf wear to extremities of spine corners are bumped gilt cover design well preserved very good condition; 2 blank 6 238pp 2 advertisements. The Jungle Book is a 'collection of stories published in 1894; it's sequel The Second Jungle Book published in 1895 contains stories linked by poems. The stories tell mostly of Mowgli an Indian boy who is raised by wolves from infancy and who learns self-sufficiency and wisdom from the jungle animals. The book describes the social life of the wolf pack and more fancifully the justice and natural order of life in the jungle. Among the animals whose tales are related in the work are Akela the wolf; Baloo the brown bear; Shere Khan the boastful Bengal tiger who is Mowgli's enemy; Kaa the python; Bagheera the panther; and Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose.' Merriam-Webster's Encyclopaedia of Literature. Livingston 116 London, Macmillan and Co., 1895. hardcover
1923ref. 49792Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 4 volumes in the series comprising: The Elephant's Child; The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo; How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin; and How the Alphabet Was Made. Printed at The Country Life Press Garden City N.Y. Oblong 8vo. Publisher's illustrated paper boards. Text blocks detached in three volumes. Corners bumped and worn with chipping and loss to portions of the spines; old clear-tape repairs to spines. Short marginal tear to one title page. Only one of the illustrations has been colored namely the first image in Book 4. Otherwise clean throughout with vibrant attractive illustrations. Boards remain clean and bright. A nice complete set of these colouring books for children. Doubleday, Page & Co hardcover
1896ref. 177127London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd 1896. First edition of this collection of short stories previously published in journals including "With the Main Guard" "Drums of the Fore and Aft" "The Man Who Was" "The Courting of Dinah Shadd" "The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney" "The Taking of Lungtungpen" and "The Madness of Private Ortheris". Octavo. Frontispiece and 20 plates illustrations within the text by Archibald Standish Hartrick. Original blue cloth titles and drum design to spine and drummer and fife player design to front cover in gilt blue endpapers gilt edges Spine cocked and toned ends and corners bumped occasional foxing to contents. A very good copy. Richards E1-12 Martindell 67 Livingston 133 Stewart 157. hardcover
2025ref. x-9371169966JollyJoy Books Pvt Ltd 2025. Hardcover. New. 392 pages. 5.00x1.00x8.00 inches. JollyJoy Books Pvt Ltd hardcover
1909ref. 017817New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. 1st Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Small 8vo 77pp. plus 7 leaves of ads in rear. Sharp First Edition Bound in navy cloth with gilt lettering and gilt and white illustration on front board. Illustrated end-papers. Color frontispiece and three additional full-color plates. Square tight and clean throughout with little if any toning or foxing. Hinges starting but firm. Mild wear to spine ends tips. A very pleasing collectable copy at a great price. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
2025ref. x-9371258101JollyJoy Books Pvt Ltd 2025. Hardcover. New. 252 pages. 5.00x0.69x8.00 inches. JollyJoy Books Pvt Ltd hardcover
ref. 0333327934-7-1MACMILLAN. Acceptable. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting as well as stains bent corners or any other major defect but the text is not obscured in any way. MACMILLAN unknown
