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1907ref. 146537September 2 1907. Rare autograph letter signed from Rudyard Kipling to R. G. Von Berg. One page on Bateman's Burwash Etchingham letterhead the letter reads in full "Sep. 2 1907 Dear Sir: In reply to your letter of the 28th Aug. I am afraid that 'Kaspar's Song In Varda' is one of my own compositions and that you will not find it in the works of your great poet. Sincerely yours Rudyard Kipling R. G. Von Berg." Also known as 'Butterflies' 'Kaspar's Song in Varda' was a sister-poem that accompanied Kipling's short story 'Wireless' first published in Scribner's Magazine in 1902 and later collected in Traffics and Discoveries. Kipling claimed the poem to have been a translation of an old Swedish poem from the Swedish of Stagnelius. Double-matted with a portrait of Kipling. In fine condition. The entire piece measures 9.25 inches by 15.5 inches. 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
1930ref. 123470New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1930. First edition of Kipling’s beloved children’s classic as told by Boots the dog. Octavo rebound in new boards with gilt titles to the spine top edge gilt illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse frontispiece. Near fine in a custom slipcase. 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. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover
1897ref. 47908London: W. Thacker & Co 1897. Hardcover. Near Fine. Ninth edition. Blue cloth with gilt stamped lettering and device to the front cover. Illustrated by Dudley Cleaver. Front endpapers darkened from newspaper clipping Top edge gilt ads at end present. Very lightly bumped corners and spine ends but overall a bright and clean copy in a tight binding. W. Thacker & Co hardcover
ref. 69886London: William Heinemann 1892. Literature FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 19 x 14cm pp.4 276 8. Publisher's peach cloth with titles in gilt to spine and in black to upper. All edges untrimmed. Contents clean no inscriptions last few leaves of ads are poorly opened with some tears to top margin inside paper joints started binding is sound with some scattered light marks to front cover. Shows well. A thrilling adventure novel not well received by the literati including Henry James but suitably captivating to J.H. Millar who deemed it in his review in Blackwood's Magazine to be as exciting as Treasure Island. After his co-author Balestier's sudden death Kipling named the home he built for himself in Dummerston Vermont after the book in memory of his friend. London: William Heinemann, 1892 unknown
1980ref. 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
ref. 66460London: Macmillan and Company 1897. Classic seafaring adventure FIRST EDITION first impression. Crown octavo 20 x 14cm pp.viii; 245; 1 blank; 2 ads. With 22 engraved illustrations by Taber including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth front board shows gilt titles and a scene in gilt of Harvey at hauling on a line in apparently rough seas gilt titles and a portrait of Manuel blowing a horn to spine; all edges gilt black endpapers. Mopderate toning/spotting throughout gift inscription in ink to half-title. The cloth is exceptionally well preserved with one small bump at crown and a few tiny rubs to extremities. A particularly fresh and bright binding. One of Kipling's more moralistic adventure tales which tells the story of Harvey Cheyne the spoiled and perennially annoying son of a railroad magnate. When he falls overboard and is picked up by fishermen who don't believe the story of his origins he is forced to work his way back to land. By the time he reaches he shore and his parents arrive to pick him up he has become a worthy and industrious young man meeting the whole checklist of virtues outlined by Kipling in "If London: Macmillan and Company, 1897 unknown
2022ref. 1-1774920298Portage & Main Pr 2022. Paperback. New. 182 pages. 9.00x7.00x0.28 inches. Portage & Main Pr paperback
ref. 069452476X.Gcassette. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
ref. 66899London: Faber and Faber 1959. Driving anthology FIRST EDITION. Octavo 21 x 14cm pp.215. Publisher's red cloth in illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 15s. Contents clean no inscriptions. A fine copy in a very good jacket with one chip to the top edge of the front panel. Shows well. Contains 'James Bond Drives' being the thrilling motor chase originally published as chapter 20 of Moonraker entitled 'Drax's Gambit'. Fleming is also discussed at length within the introduction. Gilbert Jon. Ian Fleming: The Bibliography A3a page 115. London: Faber and Faber, 1959 unknown
ref. 179768Macmillan and Co. 1924. 1st thin paper edition. 8vo 7½ x 5 ins. Original gilt decorated red cloth top edge gilt spine faded and light wear on upper board - otherwise bright VG in protective cover. Pp. vi 576 illus with coloured frontispiece and b&w plates and drawings in text by J. Lockwood Kipling and W.H. Drake previous owner's neat inscription on front free endpaper. Macmillan and Co., 1924 unknown
1994ref. 1-0679435921Alfred a Knopf Inc 1994. Hardcover. New. 960 pages. 8.50x5.25x1.50 inches. Alfred a Knopf Inc hardcover
1937ref. 165903London: Macmillan and Company 1937-39. The most desirable collected edition The Sussex Edition number 72 of 525 sets only signed by the author in the first volume and containing two volumes of previously uncollected prose. Published after Kipling's death on 18 January 1936 this magnificent posthumous edition saw a small limitation and became even rarer following the destruction of many unsold sheets during the German bombing of London. In his last years and with his health failing Kipling remained determined to finish editing this "great retrospective work" which was first proposed in 1928. The edition was "fuller than that of any other. Kipling saw the proofs of at least 21 of the edition's 35 volumes before his death" and it is now "among the most prized and most expensive of all modern editions" Pinney p. 231. 35 vols large octavo. Printed on handmade paper with Ganesha watermark. Fly-titles printed in orange. Original full russet niger by James Burn & Co. spines lettered in gilt raised bands ruled in blind twin gilt fillet bordering covers turn-ins ruled in gilt and blind marbled endpapers top edges gilt and red on the rough other edges uncut. Bindings slightly darkened occasional light scuffs and internal marks otherwise clean. A near-fine set. Richards D23; Stewart pp. 577-80. Thomas Pinney The Letters of Rudyard Kipling vol. 6 1990. hardcover
ref. 207Alkmaar Zeglis 8 - No 207: Macmillian and Co. Good Print: 1 Binding: Hardcover Condition: Good Year: 1895 Keywords: Kipling Rudyard Kinderboek Macmillian and Co hardcover
1901ref. 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
ref. 62247London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd. 1935. Fantasy Tales FIRST EDITION THUS first impression. Octavo 19 x 12cm pp.x; 670 4 ads. With colour frontispiece and full page illustrations. Publisher's red cloth gilt with top edge gilt in pictorial dust-wrapper priced 10/6. Contents clean school prize label binding a little mottled fragile jacket mostly complete with a few chips to upper panel and to crown with a few neat tape strips to reverse side. Very good uncommon in jacket. Kipling's complete series of popular tales told by 'Puck' traditionally a name for a malicious spirit or demon of popular superstition and from the 16th century the name of a mischievous goblin or Hobgoblin similar to that appearing in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' the fairy scene from which is acted out here. Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature 277. BMC No.11984; 'Edwardian Children's Books'. London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd. 1935 unknown
ref. 63970London: The Daily Telegraph in conjunction with The Daily Sketch The Glasgow Herald and Hodder and Stoughton 1915. Wartime Illustrated Miscellany FIRST EDITION. Quarto 28 x 22cm pp.188. With 28 illustrations including a frontispiece portrait of King Albert and numerous colour plates by artists including Rackham Nielsen and Dulac. Contents also include musical notation. Publisher's cream cloth with dark green titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the matching typographic dust-jacket priced at 3s. Some toning and spotting to edges and endpapers otherwise a lovely near fine copy with a bright clean binding. Jacket is heavily browned with wear and chipping to all extremities as well as large losses to the spine and front cover. Rare in jacket. Featuring small morale-boosting contributions from a huge list of global statesmen artists novelists and other cultural figures including Kipling Haggard Churchill and Hardy. London: The Daily Telegraph, in conjunction with The Daily Sketch, The Glasgow Herald, and Hodder and Stoughton, 1915 unknown
1910ref. 141581New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1910. Signed limited edition of the collected verse of Rudyard Kipling beautifully illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. Quarto bound in three quarters crushed levant morocco over marbled boards gilt titles and tooling to the spine top edge gilt with others untrimmed illustrated by W. Heath Robinson with nine mounted color plates. One of one hundred and twenty five numbered copies signed by Rudyard Kipling this is number 108. In near fine condition. 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. Doubleday, Page & Co hardcover
ref. 64068London: Methuen and Co 1919. Poetry FIRST EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp. xii; 2; 29; 1. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine gilt top edge of textblock untrimmed edges. Ex-libris stamp front-paste down toning to edges of textblock wearing of gilt along top edge of textblock sunning to spine bumping to spine and corners. Very good. Rudyard Kipling was a poet novelist short story writer and journalist. In 1907 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. This poetry collection was built between the end of the Boer War and the aftermath of World War I. London: Methuen and Co, 1919 unknown
2008ref. 1-1606460293Audio Book Contractors Inc. 2008. Audio CD. New. unabridged edition. 6.50x6.75x0.75 inches. Audio Book Contractors, Inc. unknown
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ref. 63271London: Macmillan and Co. 1937. Film Tie-In ORIGINAL STUDIO PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS plus First Thus of the film tie-in book. Octavo 21 x 16cm pp.8 84. Heavily illustrated with black and white photographs. Publisher's tan paper over boards with black titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at 2/6 to spine. Also with two original black and white studio press photographs of Sabu in his first film role in Robert Flaherty's 1937 film 'Elephant Boy' 30 x 24cm. Photographs only lightly handled. Book shows toning to covers and endpapers otherwise internally clean. Jacket rubbed and chipped to edges. Very good. London: Macmillan and Co., 1937 unknown
ref. 83399Zürich Artemis Verlag 1961. Halbleinen; fester Einband farbig illustriertes Überzugspapier brauner Rücken / Anz. Seiten: unpaginiert / 266 x 344 cm / mit teils farbigen Illustrationen von Helen Kasser / Zustand: gut leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Einband etwas berieben Ecken bestossen Papier gebräunt Zürich, Artemis Verlag, 1961 unknown
1916ref. 45063London: Macmillan & Co 1916. Kipling wrote some fine pieces about . London: Macmillan & Co. 1916. Kipling wrote some fine pieces about "the sea" our own "Captains Courageous" among them. However this is the only analytical non-fiction writing he did on the topic of warfare at sea. It is a compilation of 13 newspaper articles on the subject. First edition in near fine condition unopened. 19.5 cm. 222 4 publisher's ads pp. . Macmillan & Co unknown
1900ref. 122350London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1900. First English edition of this collection of Kipling’s essays about his 1889 travels from India to Burma China Japan and the United States en route to England. Octavo original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt elephant emblem to the front panel top edge gilt. In very good condition with rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine. Ownership name. 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. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1998ref. 6293San Francisco: The Arion Press 1998. Limited Edition. One of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the artist this being copy no.160. Octavo 25.5cm; full beige canvas cloth with printed title label mounted across spine and front cover; publisher's original reinforced string-tied envelope with printed labels; ii45-1197pp with an applied frontispiece portrait of Kipling and 32 illustrations by Vincent Perez. Fine in a Near Fine envelope with some mild external wear and some very faint creasing along one edge. Fine press edition of Kipling's science fiction story set in the year 2000 first published in the November 1905 issue of McClure's Magazine. With an introduction by Thomas Pinney. Arion No.54. The Arion Press unknown