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1897rif. 321595London: Macmillan 1897. First edition. With illustrations by I.W. Taber. viii 245 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt a.e.g. Almost fine. Bookplate of F. Storck. Taber I.W. First edition. With illustrations by I.W. Taber. viii 245 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Richards A103; Stewart 160; Livingston 136; Martindell 68; Ballard LXXXI B; Grolier 224 Macmillan unknown
1897rif. B6551New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1897-1907. A very good set. Binding: publisher’s cloth title in gilt on flat spine flat spine with decorative gilt illustration upper board with gilt ruling and central gilt ruled device side and bottom edges uncut top edges in gilt. Notes: Joseph Rudyard Kipling 1865–1936 was an English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist. He was born in India which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book 1894 Kim 1901 and many short stories including "The Man Who Would Be King" 1888. His poems include "Mandalay" 1890 "Gunga Din" 1890 "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" 1919 "The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands" 1899 and "If—" 1910. He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. Size: Small quarto Volume: 20 volumes of 36 Category: Book Literature; Charles Scribner’s Sons. hardcover
2011rif. x-1598845209Libraries Unltd Inc 2011. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 269 pages. 10.50x8.25x1.00 inches. Libraries Unltd Inc paperback
2015rif. x-1108072224Cambridge University Press 2015. Paperback. New. 198 pages. 11.57x8.19x0.55 inches. Cambridge University Press paperback
2006rif. G0824965981I4N00Worthy Publishing 2006. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Worthy Publishing hardcover
1899rif. 004217Portland OR.: Dodge Publishing Co. 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. Fabulous early edition only date on copyright page is for the Caldwell issue. This perfect reprint is probably a bit later printing. Beautifully decorated red cloth book boards with top edge gilt barely dulled; crown cloth is just starting to fray. Lovely publisher's deckled fore-edge. Stated Oriental Edition. Frontispiece of author with tissue guard in place with b/w illustrations throughout. Clean NO markings at all. Gently 'overextended' gutter at half-title page only see photo otherwise a PERFECT volume. Includes "Wee Willie Winkie"; "Black Jack" and The "Phantom Rickshaw" and over 30 more short stories. Very last page is uncut. 750 pages. No jacket. Dodge Publishing Co. hardcover
1957rif. 003738Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good . A Near Fine - clean and tight Mid-Century edition noted "Young's People's Edition' in a clipped illustrated dust jacket. Originally issued in 1899 this is a wonderful reprint. It is a story about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. Volume has a small previous owner name stamp on front free end-paper else no other markings. Publishers tinted red top edge is in Excellent condition. Dust jacket has minute edge chips at both crown and foot of spine paper. Rear jacket panel lists other titles by author. 272 pages. Mylar protected jacket. Macmillan and Co., Ltd. hardcover
rif. 000450New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Harper William. St. John; Tobin George Timothy. 32mo 3.2 x 5.4 mm. 1898. Original grey cloth binding. Front board and spine illustrated in silver with floral design and silver paneled border. 95 p.p. 20 original illustrations by William St. John Harper and George Timothy Tobin incl. frontispiece. Light rubbing to spine edges. Bottom left corner of rear board very slightly bumped. Some soiling to rear board. Two small dotted stains on fore-edge. Yellow staining to inner edges along pastedown endpapers. Some small creases and sporadic nicks to pages but not affecting text or images. Otherwise in very good condition. Frederick A. Stokes Company hardcover
rif. GOR009207009Paperback. Very Good. paperback
1903rif. 1180E215London: Methuen and Co. Ltd. 1903. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: xiii 215. Very Good Minus. 6 x 9 inches 14.5 x 22.5 cm. Large paper edition limited to 200 copies and printed on handmade paper. Quarter parchment with grey paper covered boards. Light marking to boards light stain to front board. Spine has paper title label with browning. Darkening and a few light marks to parchment. Top page edge gilt other edges untrimmed. Some scattered light foxing to text. Extra spine label tipped in before rear free endpaper. Engraved bookplate to front pastedown endpaper Lady D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 6 x 9 inches 14.5 x 22.5 cm. Methuen and Co. Ltd. hardcover
1932rif. 1180E141London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd 1932. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: viii 400. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 5.25 x 8 inches 13.5 x 20 cm. Dust jacket: Slight chipping to ends of spine some creasing to front flap. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good Plus. Book: Red buckram binding. Light foxing to page edges and endpaper otherwise excellent. Overall book condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 5.25 x 8 inches 13.5 x 20 cm. Macmillan and Co. Ltd hardcover
rif. GOR007732035Paperback. Very Good. paperback
1945rif. 127021945. Paris Fernand Hazan 1945 et 1947. 2 forts vol. au format gd in-8 238 x 178 mm de 229 et 278 pp. brochs sous couvertures rabats remplis et tuis-chemises cartonns dos lisses titres frapps l'oser meraude sous coffrets cartonns. Ensemble comprenant Le Livre de la jungle ainsi que le Second livre de la jungle. Un des exemplaires numrots du tirage sur vlin de Voiron pour le premier volume. L'ensemble recÂle de dlicates compositions in et hors-texte en couleurs de Pierre Gandon. ''Gandon fut l'lÂve de Cormon et exposa aux Artistes franÂais o il remporta quelques rcompenses. Il a illustr de nombreuses oeuvres littraires''. in Bnzit. Bnzit IV Dictionnaire des peintres p. 604. LgÂres marques d'usage affectant les chemises. Une coiffe d'un des tuis partiellement dsolidarise. Dcharges d'adhsif en pied d'un des volumes. Nonobstant ensemble en belle condition. b42961 unknown
1890rif. 1019E015Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1890. 4th Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 93 3 8 85 3 96 104 96. Very Good Minus. 5.5 x 8.5 inches 14 x 21.5 cm. Quarter red cloth with marbled boards rubbing to board edges light wear to corners. Light foxing to endpapers previous owner's name to front pastedown endpaper. Some light patches of foxing to text outside margin of two pages in Soldiers Three have slight damage from a label appears to be an original binding flaw. Original wraps priced at 1 Rupee are bound in with all issues and have varying degrees of damage - most have small sections of loss to edges and/or corners rear cover of Soldiers Three has a large section of loss rear cover of Wee Willie Winkie has a hole to the centre. All issues are the fourth Indian edition published in 1890 this includes Soldiers Three despite it stating Second Indian Edition to the title page. This edition used the same sheets as the first English Edition pagination is the same as the English edition but some of the ads are omitted. Each of these titles had a total Indian issue of 3000 copies. Roberts notes that the fourth Indian edition did not sell well and some copies are known to be stamped to the cover margin in purple ink: 'To still further popularize this Celebrated Series the price is reduced to Eight Annas per volume.' This is stamp is present to front wrappers of all issues in this collection. A rare group of Indian editions including the sought after 'Phantom Rickshaw' a collection of supernatural tales. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches 14 x 21.5 cm. A.H. Wheeler & Co. hardcover
rif. 61127wheeler allahabad nd. 3 vols.bound as 1 VG blue cloth w.gilt titling to spinemod.rubbed and stainedsl.wear to extrems.blue epspublisher's slip tipped-in to title gutterprelims.and edges sl.soiled wheeler allahabad [nd] hardcover
rif. 61100wheeler allahabad nd. early reprints 4 vols.bound as 1 VG blue cloth w.gilt lettering to spinemod.rubbed and stainedsl.wear to extrems.blue epsprelims.and content edges sl.foxedspine cracked but tight wheeler allahabad [nd] hardcover
rif. 29588macmillan london 1917. first edition 442pp VG red clothsl.soiled w.spine sl.sunnedowner's bookplate to front pastedown - from the library of nz author and book collectorpat lawlor - minor marks to ffepedges sl.foxedteg in VG- d/w sl.soiled w.spine brownedchipping to extrems.w.sl.loss to head of spineminor closed tearsclosed tear to lower hinge repaired internally w.tape macmillan london 1917 hardcover
1891rif. 343404Allahabad / London: A.H. Wheeler & Co. / SampsonLow Marston 1891. Softcover. Good. First English edition. 12mo. Illustrated green wrappers. 96pp. Errata slip bound-in. Small owner's name and small chip on front wrap a couple of modest chips on rear wrap spine somewhat eroded another small embossed stamp of an American author on title-page a good copy in custom cloth chemise and slipcase. Scarce. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson,Low, Marston unknown
1896rif. 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
1894rif. 193167London: Macmillan and Co. 1894 & 1895. A beautifully presented pair First editions in book form. Kipling's adventurous stories were based on folk tales learned during his childhood in India. The Jungle Book was serialized between 1893 and 1894 and became increasingly popular upon its publication as a book prompting calls for a second instalment. The Second Jungle Book completed the Mowgli saga with five stories that "are essential to its emotional rounding-out" Grolier. 2 works octavo 180 x 199 mm. halftone frontispiece with tissue guard in Jungle Book both works with illustrations by William Henry Drake Paul Frenzeny and John Lockwood Kipling. Later 20th-century blue crushed morocco for the London bookseller Charles J. Sawyer spines lettered in gilt single gilt fillet framing compartments and boards small gilt roundels of elephants in profile to front boards double gilt fillet to turn-ins marbled endpapers gilt edges. Ownership inscription contemporary with binding to half-title of the second volume. Bindings bright and unblemished very mild foxing. A near-fine set. Grolier Children's 100 52; Martindell 54 & 56; Richards A76 & A85. hardcover
2016rif. C73009London 2016. First Edition Thus. Hardback In Slipcase. Near fine in near fine slipcase. 8vo. Pp: xiv 302. First Folio Society Edition. Publisher's green slipcase with red illustration at front. Publisher's turquoise cloth-covered illustrated boards lettered in gilt and white at spine with gilt and white illustration to front. Colour illustrations. hardcover
1897rif. 193165London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1897. First British edition of Kipling's only novel set entirely in America. The work was originally serialized in Pearson's Magazine between 1896 and 1897. It was written while the newlywed Kipling was living in Vermont. The American edition preceded the British publication by a month. Octavo. Frontispiece with tissue guard 21 plates by I. W. Taber. With 2 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. Original blue cloth spine and front cover lettered and with decorations in gilt black endpapers gilt edges. Armorial bookplate of Hugh Erat Harrison 1859-1909 designed by his brother Thomas Erat Harrison and dated 1892. Spine skewed cloth and gilt bright occasional foxing. A very good copy. Richards A103; Stewart p. 152. hardcover
2018rif. G1786750481I2N00Welbeck Editions 2018. Hardcover. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Welbeck Editions hardcover
1900rif. 179281Santiago de Chile: Hume & Co. Libreria Inglesa 1900. First edition one of approximately 400 copies pirated in Chile "from patriotic motives. Few copies were sold and in about 1906 in a shelf-clearing move the balance burnt. Alternatively according to Livingston and Stewart the remaining copies were pulped at a paper mill in 1911" Richards. This collection includes verses and newspaper reports by Kipling. Duodecimo. Original brown wrappers lettered in red and black leaves unopened. Housed in custom red cloth chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. Bookseller's typed cataloguing from James F. Drake loosely inserted. Light creases to wrappers and upper corners of contents overall a fine unopened copy. Richards A166. hardcover
rif. 75429London: Methuen and Co. 1892. Poetry FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.xx; 208 16. With a vignette illustration to title-page. Publisher's maroon buckram with gilt titles to spine top edge gilt and other edges untrimmed. Toned with some spotting to endpapers otherwise internally clean. Spine sunned with light wear to cloth. Very good. London: Methuen and Co., 1892 unknown