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1919Best.-Nr. 149313London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1919. Exceptionally rare first edition of this pamphlet honoring every British soldier who died in World War I. Oblong octavo original publisher's pictorial wrappers illustrated with black and white drawings of the cemeteries and memorials as they will appear completed throughout. In near fine condition. Illustrated by Mr. Douglas Macpherson. Housed in a custom red portfolio with gilt titles to the front panel and string ties. Rudyard Kipling’s The Graves of the Fallen 1919 written for the Imperial War Graves Commission articulates the moral and aesthetic vision behind the design and commemoration of British and Commonwealth soldiers’ graves after World War I. Serving as the Commission’s literary adviser Kipling helped shape its guiding principles of equality in death—ensuring that all soldiers regardless of rank or class were memorialized with identical headstones and inscriptions. The text blends solemn prose with restrained idealism reflecting both personal grief—Kipling’s son was killed in the war—and a collective commitment to remembrance. His Majesty's Stationery Office unknown
1919Best.-Nr. 150552London: Methuen & Co 1919. First British edition of this broadside poem in six stanzas with two on front and remaining four on back. Octavo stiff cream paper printed in black on both sides with exterior double frame rule and interior single rule "between which the names of towns and villages laid waste by the Germans in World War I are printed in capitals" Richards A315. In very good condition. Methuen & Co unknown
1904Best.-Nr. 150551Boston: Alfred Bartlett 1904. Second edition but the first edition to be printed by the Goudys at their Village Press. Duodecimo original boards frontispiece drawing by E. B. Bird. In fine condition. Alfred Bartlett hardcover
Best.-Nr. 73310London: C.A. Pearson January - June 1897. Science Fiction LEATHER-BOUND FIRST APPEARANCE of this title; this version has the bonus of illustrations none of which featured in the book-form edition. Two volumes. Octavo 25 x 18cm pp.712; pp.754. Consecutive half-yearly volumes uniformly bound in half deep red oasis morocco over matching cloth sides twin black leather title labels lettered in gilt to spine five raised bands sewn endbands edge speckled red. Edges a little dusty contents clean exterior as new. A near fine pair in attractive recent leather bindings. The book-form edition followed in 1898. The volumes contain the complete serial appearance of Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' with exclusive illustrations as well as pieces by Conan Doyle Tales of The High Seas Rudyard Kipling Captains Couageous Cutliffe Hyne The Adventures of Captain Kettle. Geoffrey H. Wells 14. Listed in BBC's Big Read 200 Best Novels 2003. London: C.A. Pearson, January - June 1897 unknown
1937Best.-Nr. 9032828New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine. Bound in publisher's original burgundy cloth with spines and covers stamped in illustrated gilt covers pressed with embossed medallions. Frontispiece illustrations with tissue guards. Several volumes feature illustrations maps and photographic reproductions in black white and red. All text blocks are in fine condition. Set is near uniformly fine except for minor wear to cloth at head of four spines. A handsome set. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
2025Best.-Nr. x-9371169966JollyJoy Books Pvt Ltd 2025. Hardcover. New. 392 pages. 5.00x1.00x8.00 inches. JollyJoy Books Pvt Ltd hardcover
Best.-Nr. 149559Rare pamphlet of Kipling's humorous and ironic poem. Duodecimo original wrappers frontispiece of Kipling pictorial initials six pages. In very good condition. Rare with none appearing at auction in the last 100 years. Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The Betrothed” 1886 first published in Departmental Ditties and Other Verses exemplifies his early mastery of wit irony and social observation. Written during his years in British India the poem humorously explores masculine indulgence and moral choice through the narrator’s mock-serious decision to favor cigars over marriage parodying Victorian ideals of romance and respectability. Beneath its comic tone “The Betrothed” reveals Kipling’s emerging interest in the conflicts between personal pleasure social convention and the disciplined self—a tension that would later define his broader literary treatment of duty and individualism. unknown
1899Best.-Nr. 149578England and The United States: The Daily Mail Publishing Co 1899. First illustrated facsimile edition of Kipling's poem The Absent-Minded Beggar a souvenir specially printed by The Daily Mail. Quarto original wrappers six pages with two pages of facsimile stanzas cover portrait of Kipling by John Collier. Printed as a single folded sheet forming six printed pages in triptych format. The souvenir marked the 100th performance of Sydney Grundy's The Degenerates at the Garrick Theatre on Friday 24th October 1899 when Lillie Langtry who was playing Mrs. Trevelyan in the production recited Kipling's poem The Absent-Minded Beggar from the stage after the final curtain. The proceeds of the sale of the poem benefited the wives and children of the reservists. In very good condition. Interior illustration of "A Gentleman in Kharki" by R. Caton Woodville. Rudyard Kipling’s The Absent-Minded Beggar first published at the outbreak of the Second Boer War 1899–1902 is a notable example of patriotic literature mobilized for imperial causes. Written to rally support for British troops and their families the poem was quickly transformed into a piece of popular ephemera with the first illustrated edition marketed through The Daily Mail as part of a charitable appeal. The publication’s sales generated significant funds for the reservists’ families illustrating how literature journalism and philanthropy intersected within the culture of British imperialism. The Daily Mail Publishing Co unknown
2025Best.-Nr. x-9371258101JollyJoy Books Pvt Ltd 2025. Hardcover. New. 252 pages. 5.00x0.69x8.00 inches. JollyJoy Books Pvt Ltd hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 149539New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1930. Signed limited edition of the definitive collection of Kipling's poetry. Quarto three volumes original japon-backed boards with red paper labels to spines lettered gilt gilt motifs to front covers top edges gilt tissue-guarded frontispiece to volume one of a "The Thousandth Man" in Kipling's hand specially reproduced for this edition in facsimile. One of 525 copies signed by Kipling on the limitation page this is number 96. In good condition. One of the finest editions of Kipling's verse. “As a virtuoso in verse Kipling had more than one style at his command” Baugh et al. 1505 from earnest cockney dialect to soaring prophetic proclamation. This handsome three-volume collection presents all of Kipling’s poetry—including such memorable works as “Mandalay” “Gunga Din” and “If”—set in Baskerville type and printed on handmade paper at the Chiswick Press. With frontispiece portrait of Kipling in Volume I signed in pencil by the artist Francis Dodd. Livingston 545. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover
Best.-Nr. 73536London: Macmillan and Co. 1899. Literature LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 21 x 14cm pp.ix 3 272 2. Recent red half-calf red cloth over sides. Gilt titles and raised bands to spine. Top edge gilt. Advertisements to rear. Light internal toning a few marks here and there. Gentle marking to top and fore edge. Binding crisp and fresh with a few faint scuffs. Near fine. Kipling's famous tales about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. These controversial short stories which feature elements of revenge the macabre dead cats bullying violence and hints on sex made them far from childish or idealised unlike the then typical school story. London: Macmillan and Co., 1899 unknown
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Best.-Nr. 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
1916Best.-Nr. 187357New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1916. First standalone edition of Kipling's poem which was collected in Sea Warfare in Britain the same year. The poem is also known under the title "The Question". Octavo pp. 8. Original yellow wrappers front cover printed in green wire-stitched. Housed in custom green cloth chemise and slipcase. Bookplate of Henry C. Taylor 1873-1969 agricultural economist inside chemise. Creasing to wrappers and contents very good. Livingstone 407; Stewart 403. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 73577London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1904. Short Stories / Strange Tales FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 21 x 14cm pp.2 vi; 393 23. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt elephant motif stamped to upper. Top edge gilt. With the plain typographic dust-jacket various prices affixed to spine. Toning to edges with some spotting to endpapers otherwise internally clean. Jacket toned especially to spine with moderate general wear and chipping to edges and a large loss to front panel. Various publisher's price labels to jacket spine. Rarely seen with the jacket. Very good. A quality collection of short stories including the remarkable 'Mrs. Bathurst' with its theme of destructive power and obsessive love plus the strange tale 'Wireless' which concerns spirit possession as well as the classic ghost story 'They'; an unsettling tale about a lost motorist and his encounter with a blind woman at the isolated 'House Beautiful' being a companion rather than a sequel to the earlier 'Brushwood Boy' fantasy which sees the reappearance of the characters 'Them'. Adept at short fiction Kipling penned many 'uncanny tales' some being subtle fantasies They The Brushwood Boy The Eye of Allah whilst others were more overtly supernatural or scientific romances in the manner of Edgar Allan Poe The Phantom 'Rickshaw The Mark of the Beast The Night Mail. Kipling wrote of new inventions and future wars warned of the social consequences of technological change and exerted an the most lasting influence on modern science fiction and fantasy writing according to leading SF writer Poul Anderson; indeed his stories of India with notions of an earthly alien in a strange world are the most salient predecessors of golden age sci-fi. Kipling later stressed he was 'not diving after physical experiences' although he was exposed to and described uncanny events and was much aware of the irrational premises and feelings of others; his formative professional years were spent in India a country with a widespread belief in ghosts and spirit reincarnation and at a time when matters 'psychic' were fashionable throughout Europe. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904 unknown
1915Best.-Nr. 149769London 1915. First edition of this short patriotic speech. Quarto unpaginated single sheet of stiff white paper folded once. Delivered at the Mansion House on January 27 1915. In very good condition. Rudyard Kipling’s National Bands 1915 is a wartime pamphlet preserving a speech he delivered at London’s Mansion House to support the Daily Telegraph’s National Bands Fund an initiative aimed at sustaining military music as a vital component of morale and public ritual during World War I. Issued as a small separately circulated tract—and often later encountered as an insert to fundraising editions of A Song of the English—the pamphlet exemplifies Kipling’s broader mobilization of literary authority in service of patriotic and civic causes. unknown
1900Best.-Nr. 149566Boston: Alfred Bartlett 1900. Rare August 1900 issue of The Cornhill Booklet containing Rudyard Kipling's "Occasional Poems." Duodecimo original wrappers volume one number two printed in red and black illustrated with the original detached portrait of Kipling from an etching by William Strang laid in. In very good condition. Illustrated and designed by H.W. Colby. Rudyard Kipling’s occasional poems reflect his distinctive ability to merge public commentary with poetic craft transforming topical or ephemeral subjects into enduring reflections on empire duty and human character. Written primarily during his years in British India and later reprinted in collections such as Departmental Ditties and Other Verses 1886 these works—originally composed for newspapers and limited pamphlets—combine wit irony and moral insight to capture the social texture of colonial life. Alfred Bartlett unknown
1913Best.-Nr. 187925New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1913-1926. A stately array of bindings The Seven Seas Edition number 63 of 1050 sets printed on watermarked paper and signed by the author on the half-title of Volume I. Intended as the American counterpart to Macmillan's Bombay Edition this deluxe signed limited edition was issued in 27 volumes. This set has been finely bound likely by the publishers in 51 slimmer and more readable volumes. 27 vols expanded to 51 octavo. Title pages printed in red and black rubricated initials in some vols illustrations to text of children's works. Likely publisher's deluxe red crushed morocco spines lettered in gilt compartments and corners of boards richly gilt wide turn-ins with multiple gilt rolls dark blue crushed morocco doublures with richly gilt frames cream silk flyleaves top edges gilt fore and bottom edges uncut cream bookmarkers. Bookplate of John Francis Neylan 1885-1960 attorney to William Randolph Hearst to first blanks. Spots of rubbing hear hinge of From Sea to Sea volume I part II cracked. Overall a fine set. Richards D15; Stewart pp. 573-4. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 73679Cleveland & New York: International Fiction Library no date 1920s/30s. Strange tales Omnibus. Octavo 22 x 14cm pp.iv; 168; 3-149; 'American Notes'; 5 blank. Publisher's red cloth hardcovers blocked in green illustrated dust-wrapper. Contents clean slightly toned no inscriptions inside paper joint cracked jacket with a few small chops to extremities. A very good copy. Kipling's chapters on his time in Calcutta originally serialised in the Allahabad 'Pioneer' in 1888 together with other tales including 'At Vulcan's Forge' The Perils of The Pits' and 'In an Opium Factory'. Cleveland & New York: International Fiction Library, no date [1920s/30s] unknown
Best.-Nr. ANAIS-052135515XCambridge University Press. hardcover. Good. 5.8x1x8.8. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Cambridge University Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. 73662London: Macmillan and co. 1901. Adventure thriller FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 21 x 14cm pp.8 413 3. With 10 black and white illustrated plates. Publisher's red cloth gilt titles to spine and gilt elephant Ganesha motif stamped to upper cover top edge gilt. With the extremely scarce dust-wrapper printed in red on grey paper stock. This is the correct jacket listing fourteen 'uniform edition' titles starting with 'Kim' without printing statement and ending with The Naulahka. Contents clean no inscriptions light spotting to endpapers bump at crown jacket gently toned with light chipping to top edge and a long archivally repaired tear to rear panel extending to spine. Shows extremely well housed in a leather-spined cloth clamshell. Kipling's famous Indian adventure and one of the author's most enduring thrillers. Basis for the classic 1950 movie starring Erroll Flynn and Dean Stockwell. An early spy novel which undoubtedly influenced Ian Fleming and a whole generation of spy writers; the British spy Harold 'Kim' Philby was so nicknamed by his father after elements from this text. This is novelist Michael Sadleir's copy with his elegant oval nameplate to pastedown. Sadleir 1888-195 was a noted collector of Victorian fiction a nineteenth century bibliographer close friend of Ian Fleming and author most notably of the grimy backstreet story Fanny by Gaslight 1940. His remarkable collection of Victorian fiction now at the UCLA Department of Special Collections was the subject of a catalogue published in 1951. Richards A174. London: Macmillan and co., 1901 unknown
1913Best.-Nr. 141035London: Macmillan & Co. 1913-38. A handsomely bound set signed by the author on the half-title The Bombay Edition one of only 500 possible complete sets signed by the author on the half-title. The Bombay edition was initially published in 20 volumes and limited to 1000 copies. Kipling continued to write and the edition eventually grew to 31 volumes but the last 11 volumes were limited to 500 copies only. Because later volumes were issued separately and at a lower limitation complete sets such as this one are rare. 31 vols octavo. Attractively bound in recent burgundy morocco green morocco labels centre tool to spines gilt raised bands roll to boards gilt marbled endpapers top edges gilt others untrimmed. Mild partial toning to a couple of the half-titles an excellent set. hardcover
Best.-Nr. ANAIS-0385044070Doubleday. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Doubleday hardcover
1894Best.-Nr. 175281London: Macmillan and Co. 1894 & 1895. Handsomely bound set First editions. Based on folk tales and legends that Kipling learned during his childhood in India The Jungle Book was first published in periodicals in 1893-4 before it was printed in book form in 1894. An immediate success on publication the book was reprinted twice the same year and twice again in 1895. Kipling won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907; he was the first English-language writer and the youngest ever to receive the prize. The present book and its sequel The Second Jungle Book 1895 inspired the 1967 and 2016 Disney movies of the same name. 2 vols octavo 181 x 116 mm. Illustrated by J. L. Kipling W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco spines gilt-lettered raised bands single rule to boards gilt pictorial block to front boards gilt twin rule to turn-ins gilt burgundy endpapers gilt edges. Housed in a matching dark blue leather entry slipcase. The occasional minor blemish else an excellent set. Stewart 123 & 132; Martindell 61 & 63. hardcover
1924Best.-Nr. 151070London: Hodder & Stoughton 1924. First edition this classic selection of Kipling's songs for children. Octavo original cloth illustrations by Leo Bates with 8 tipped-in color plates. Boldly signed by Rudyard Kipling on the title page. Letter of provenance laid in which states that the book was signed for the then-owner's father who attended Caterham School in Surrey near Batermans. The book was signed by Kipling at an old boys day and then gifted as per the inscription to his future wife an admirer of Kipling's work. In good condition. Rare and desirable signed. 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. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
