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1941ref. 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
1941ref. 155599New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1941. The definitive text of his works signed by Kipling The Burwash edition number 892 of 1010 copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf in volume I as issued; the final and definitive text of Kipling's works. In the final years of his life Kipling undertook a complete revision of his works. These definitive revised texts were published with different arrangement of materials as the Sussex edition in Britain and the Burwash edition in the US. Both sets were posthumously published using sheets signed by Kipling before his death in 1936. 28 vols octavo. Illustrated frontispieces. Attractively bound in recent burgundy half morocco spines lettered in gilt with centre tools raised bands burgundy cloth sides with gilt vignettes original endpapers with Kipling's monogram top edges gilt others untrimmed. Original coated endpapers a little rubbed the occasional minor blemish an excellent set. hardcover
1919ref. 121882London: Hodder and Stoughton 1919. First trade edition of the Inclusive Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Verse. Octavo three volumes original publisher's full vellum gilt titles to the spine gilt ruling to the front and rear panels top edge gilt titles in red and black. 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. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
1901ref. 134755London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1901. First English edition of what many consider Kipling’s masterpiece. Octavo original cloth. Illustrated with photographs of clay reliefs by John Lockwood Kipling including tissue-guarded frontispiece two pages of advertisements at rear. In near fine condition. An exceptional example. Kim unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. The novel made the term "Great Game" popular and introduced the theme of great power rivalry and intrigue. It is set after the Second Afghan War which ended in 1881 but before the Third probably in the period 1893 to 1898. The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of the people culture and varied religions of India. "The book presents a vivid picture of India its teeming populations religions and superstitions and the life of the bazaars and the road." Considered by many to be Kipling's masterpiece opinion appears varied about its consideration as children's literature or not. Roger Sale in his history of children's literature concludes "Kim is the apotheosis of the Victorian cult of childhood but it shines now as bright as ever long after the Empire's collapse." It was the basis for the 1950 film starring Errol Flynn Dean Stockwell and Paul Lukas. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel." Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1923ref. 135674London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1923. First edition of Kipling's October 1953 address delivered to the students of St. Andrews discussing the challenges and necessity of individuality and independence. Octavo bound in full cloth with gilt titles to the front panel. 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. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
ref. 135005Allahabad: Published by Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co n.d. Later printing of this classic collection of Kipling's tales for children. Octavo original cloth. Contains Wee Willie Winkie Baa Baa Black Sheep His Majesty the King and The Drums of Fore and Aft. In very good 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. Published by Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co hardcover
1891ref. 135029London: Macmillan and Co 1891. First edition of Rudyard Kipling's father John Lockwood Kipling's best-known work. Octavo original illustrated cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel illustrated. In very good condition. Rare. In addition to his two major works Inezilla: A Romance in Two Chapters 1873 and Beast and Man in India 1891 John Lockwood Kipling illustrated Edward Emerson Oliver's Across the Border: Or Pathân and Biloch and his son Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books 1894-1895. Macmillan and Co hardcover
1892ref. 135051London: William Heinemann 1892. First British edition of Kipling's ambitious narrative. Octavo original publisher's decorative cloth. In very good condition. The Naulahka: A Story of West and East was originally serialized in Century Magazine from November 1891 to July 1892. Written in by Kipling in collaboration with American writer and publishing agent Wolcott Balestier and set in the fictional state of "Rahore" believed to be based on Rajputana it is an intriguing story of ambition love and royal court trappings. Kipling would later name his historic Shingle Style house in Dummerston Vermont Naulakha where he resided from 1893 to 1896 and wrote Captains Courageous The Jungle Book The Day's Work and The Seven Seas and did work on Kim and The Just So Stories. William Heinemann hardcover
1932ref. 135221London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1932. Later printing of Kipling's Two Jungle Books in one volume. Octavo original red cloth decorated in gilt with illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling and W.H. Drake. In very good condition. Bookplate and small ownership inscription. Kipling's Jungle Books center on the story of Mowgli an orphaned 'man-cub' who is raised in the jungle of India by wolves where he comes to learn the Laws of the Jungle. A major theme throughout the books is abandonment followed by fostering as in the life of Mowgli echoing Kipling's own childhood. Another is law vs. freedom; the stories are not about animal behavior but about human archetypes in animal form. The books remain popular to this day and have been adapted several times for film and other media including the classic Walt Disney 1967 animation and its 2016 remake. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1932ref. 135404London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1932. First edition of this fine collection of fourteen short stories. Octavo original publisher's cloth with central gilt elephant emblem to the front panel. Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good 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. Limits and Renewals contains fourteen stories three of which appear here for the first time: "The Tie" "Aunt Ellen" and "Uncovenanted Mercies" each with introductory and sometimes supplemental verses. These include eighteen poems which are here published for the first time. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1913ref. 135262London: Macmillan & Company 1913-38. The Bombay edition of Rudyard Kipling's collected works. Octavo 31 volumes bound in full morocco by Riviere & Son gilt titles to the spine gilt tooling and ruling to the spine front and rear panels raised bands inner dentelles top edge gilt marbled endpapers. One of 1050 sets with volume one signed by Rudyard Kipling. In fine condition. A very sharp set. The works of Rudyard Kipling contains his poetry novels stories travel writings childrens tales military tales and essays. Kipling in 1907 became the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize. Macmillan & Company hardcover
1914ref. 136202London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1914. First edition of The Kipling Index. 12mo bound in cloth covered boards with the original wrappers bound in. In very good condition. The Kipling index is a guide to the uniform and pocket editions of Rudyard Kipling's works and the verses by Rudyard Kipling in J. L. Kipling's "Beast and Man in India" to the editions of the author's poems published by Methuen and Co. Ltd. and to the verses in Fletcher and Kipling's "History of England" published by the Clarendon Press. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1901ref. 136986London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1901. First English edition of what many consider Kipling’s masterpiece. Octavo original cloth. Illustrated with photographs of clay reliefs by John Lockwood Kipling including tissue-guarded frontispiece two pages of advertisements at rear. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco made by Asprey and Garrard. An exceptional example. Kim unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. The novel made the term "Great Game" popular and introduced the theme of great power rivalry and intrigue. It is set after the Second Afghan War which ended in 1881 but before the Third probably in the period 1893 to 1898. The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of the people culture and varied religions of India. "The book presents a vivid picture of India its teeming populations religions and superstitions and the life of the bazaars and the road." Considered by many to be Kipling's masterpiece opinion appears varied about its consideration as children's literature or not. Roger Sale in his history of children's literature concludes "Kim is the apotheosis of the Victorian cult of childhood but it shines now as bright as ever long after the Empire's collapse." It was the basis for the 1950 film starring Errol Flynn Dean Stockwell and Paul Lukas. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel." Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1888ref. 012140Allahabad: A H Wheeler 1888 sewn sheets in remains of printed paper wrappers 96pp lacks rear wrapper front wrapper well chipped to edges contents; Wee Willie Winkie Baa Baa Black Sheep His Majesty the King The Drums of the Fore and Aft contents generally tidy one page has some marginal ink scribbles not too unattractive some leaves of the final signature are detached but present a binding copy original pictorial greyish-green wraps titled & illustrated in black "Indian Railway Library No. 6" First English Edition sixth printing of the second issue of the first edition without the period after the H i.e. A.H Wheeler on the cover. undated 1888 states No 6 on the cover but is listed as number 4 on the advertisement 500 gram rate . reprint. Original Wraps. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. A H Wheeler paperback
1891ref. 008252LEIPZIG LONDON: HEINEMANN AND BALESTIER 1891. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Early title. Half calf Boards and spine rubbed and worn with some light marks prelims lightly foxed otherwise clean throughout. Good. HEINEMANN AND BALESTIER hardcover
1917ref. 157865Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1917. First US copyright edition of Kipling's series of articles written after a visit to the Italian front during the First World War. The publisher's archives note that 89 89 88 93 and 121 copies of each pamphlet were printed. Complete sets in this condition are rare. In his after-dinner speech at the Kipling Society annual lunch in May 1999 David Alan Richards noted that Kipling's "London literary agent A. P. Watt and his New York publisher Frank N. Doubleday made extensive use of limited printings. to establish copyright in each country". The present pamphlets represent the true first editions. The text would later be collected for the Sussex edition of the author's work. The articles were simultaneously published within The Daily Telegraph in the UK and within The New York Tribune in the US on 6 9 13 16 and 20 June 1917. The sub-titles of the pamphlets comprise: "The Roads of an Army" "Podgora" "A Pass a King and a Mountain" "Only a Few Steps Higher Up" and "The Trentino Front". 5 vols octavo. Original pale yellow wrappers lettered on front covers in light green or black. Housed in a custom red cloth chemise and red morocco-backed slipcase. Very minor ink mark and crease on back cover of volume 1; near-fine and crisp copies. Livingston 415; Stewart 638A-E; Grolier 479; Ballard CLXXI p. 198; Richards A297. hardcover
1885ref. 155839Lahore: The "Civil and Military Gazette" Press 1885. An early Kipling rarity and first appearance of a classic ghost story First edition first impression of the book written by members of the Kipling family. Published in an edition of 250 copies it is rare in original wrappers and with advertisements at the end. The book includes the first appearance of "The Phantom 'Rickshaw'" and "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes C. E.". Kipling described the conception of this work in his autobiography Something of Myself 1937. He noted that "in the cold weather of 1885 we four made up a Christmas annual. which pleased us a good deal and attracted a certain amount of attention. Later much later it became a 'collector's piece' in the US book-market and to that extent smudged the memories of its birth". The 16 pieces comprising eight in prose and eight in verse were written by "four Anglo-Indian writers" as described on the title page and remaining anonymous throughout the book who were Kipling his father mother and sister. Kipling had initiated the publication with the Civil and Military Gazette and it was sold by subscription. This slim volume gave the 19 year old writer an opportunity to publish his work and he contributed half of the texts. The ghost stories would become better-known and were reprinted within The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other tales in 1890. Kipling's father had been somewhat against publication of Quartette and wrote to Margaret Burne-Jones that he had hoped that someone would "rap Rudyard's knuckles for the unwholesomeness of 'The Phantom 'Rickshaw' and the coarseness of the 'Tragedy of Teeth'". The binding of the publication was particularly chaotic. According to Kipling the work took place at night by candlelight and he provided workers on overtime with tots of brandy and plugs of free tobacco to encourage the "forty odd men besides binders to keep Quartette going". Publication was announced on 19 December and the front cover was possibly designed by John Lockwood Kipling then serving as the first principal of the Mayo School of Art in Lahore. Richards notes that the advertisements "sometimes vary in number". He states "copies are known with only three leaves or four leaves or six or even eight with a blank final yellow leaf instead of the more standard seven. Copies were also bound without advertisements at Kipling's direction for family members. In some copies the last of the seven leaves of advertisements is pink rather than pale yellow". Additionally "the rear endsheet has been excised from some copies. with the stub pasted to the terminal leaf of advertisements". The present copy carries seven leaves of which the final leaf is pink. Octavo. Original wrappers printed in black. Housed in a red cloth chemise with a red morocco-backed slipcase. Ownership signature on front wrapper. Loss to most of spine minor chip at top right corner of front wrapper some slight rust-staining; a very good copy and a particularly attractive example. Martindell 4; Livingston 5; Stewart 7; Ballard VII; Grolier 18; Richards A4. hardcover
1914ref. 157803Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1914. First US copyright edition of Kipling's series of articles written after visiting army training camps during the First World War. The publisher's archives note that 50 copies of each pamphlet were printed. Complete sets in this condition are rare. In his after-dinner speech at the Kipling Society annual lunch in May 1999 David Alan Richards noted that Kipling's "London literary agent A. P. Watt and his New York publisher Frank N. Doubleday made extensive use of limited printings. to establish copyright in each country". Richards in his bibliography notes that it was reported that "most of the few copies printed" of this title "were mailed to newspapers and destroyed being separated into leaves for the convenience of linotype operators". The present pamphlets represent the true first editions and provide slightly edited versions removing colloquialisms for an American audience of articles simultaneously published within The Daily Telegraph on 7 10 14 19 21 and 24 December 1914. The sub-titles of the pamphlets comprise: "The Men at Work" "The Quality of the Machine" "Guns and Supply" "Canadians in Camp" "Indian Troops" "A Territorial Battalion and a Conclusion". 6 vols octavo. Original pale yellow wrappers lettered on front covers in light green. Housed in a custom red cloth chemise and red morocco-backed slipcase. Occasional light dust-soiling to wrappers minor indentation to front cover of volume 2 else near-fine and crisp copies. Martindell 137; Livingston 390; Stewart 382; Grolier 452; Ballard CLXXI; Ashley Vol. III p. 36-7; Richards A275. hardcover
1890ref. 157591New York: United States Book Company successors to John W. Lovell Company 1890 1891. Rare in this near-fine condition First American edition first printing of the first trade book edition of Kipling's novel. This semi-autobiographical work deals with the theme of unrequited love; the elusive character Maisie is based on the Slade artist Flo Garrard who Kipling was unsuccessful in courting following the breakdown of his engagement to Caroline Taylor in 1890. The true first edition comprises a copyright edition which was filed for copyright in the US on 7 November 1890 and the serial rights were acquired by Lippincott's Monthly Magazine for its January 1891 issue appearing in Australia the UK and the US. On 12 November 1890 a copy of the present book the first US edition was deposited in the Library of Congress. It was not sold however until Lippincott's had been published. This edition prints the 12-chapter version with the "happy ending". Although Kipling originally wrote the novel with a "sad ending" the "happy ending" was the first to appear in print. The 14-chapter "sad ending" version in which the hero dies in battle was deposited in the Library of Congress on 26 November. Octavo. Original orange wrappers lettered and illustrated in black 22 vols in "Lovell's Westminster Series" listed on inside of rear wrapper. Housed in a custom red cloth chemise and red morocco-backed slipcase. Head and foot of spine together with top edge of front wrapper slightly chipped minor creasing to spine gatherings unopened; a near-fine and bright copy. Livingston 62; Stewart 84; Grolier 122; Richards A50. hardcover
1909ref. 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
1922ref. 123604Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1922. Rare first American edition of Kipling's classic work on the Sorbonne. Octavo original publisher's half vellum text in French and English. One of fifty copies. In near fine condition. Scarce. 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 & Company hardcover
1890ref. 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
ref. 157494Hodder and Stoughton 1941. Definitive edition 2nd printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered full morocco top edge gilt boards lightly marked - otherwise near Fine in rather battered box. Pp. xvi 844 on india paper previous owner's light pencil inscription on front paste-down. Hodder and Stoughton, 1941 unknown
1903ref. 154195London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903. Magnificent illustrations for Kipling's classic and considered by some to be the finest book illustrations ever published First edition sole impression. Macmillan issued this sumptuous portfolio at five guineas advertising the illustrations as reproductions "in colour from the Original Drawings in the highest style of Lithography". The 16 watercolours had been exhibited at the Dutch Gallery in London and were subsequently incorporated in reduced format into Macmillan's 1908 edition of The Jungle Book. The illustrations rank among the Detmold brothers' most celebrated work. A modern study of British book illustration describes the series as a "masterpiece of Edwardian era" singling out Shere Khan in the Jungle for its synthesis of Japanese pictorial influence anatomical observation and elaborate detail. Quoting Rodney Engen's study of the golden age of illustration it notes how the brothers' understanding of nature enabled them to create the "mythology and harshness of the natural world". Folio. 16 coloured chromolithograph prints on thin card sheet sizes: 330 × 430 mm tipped onto white board with grey window mounts mount sizes: 393 × 545 mm with cover sheet to each illustration providing the title and a short extract from the book. Original green cloth chemise front cover lettered and with illustration in gilt containing title page contents leaf and 16 loose prints. Housed in a custom grey cloth folding box. Chemise worn with loss front cover detached bookplate removed lacking ties occasional chips and tears to extremities of cover sheets light browning to sheets fold to title page and contents leaf strengthened prints bright and unfaded; a good set. Nicholas Alfrey & Richard Verdi Charles Maurice and Edward Julius Detmold: A Centenary Exhibition 1983; Rodney Engen The Age of Enchantment 2007; Iain MacPhail "The Detmold Twins" The Book Collector Autumn 2024 pp. 48193; Tessa Morris-Suzuki Nature War and the Art of the Detmold Twins 2026; David Alan Richards Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliography 2010. hardcover
1933ref. 121048Aldershot: Gale & Polden Ltd. 1933. First edition of Tapp's history of Westward Ho! College with Kipling's The Song of the Exiles. Quarto original boards with gilt titles to the front panel marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. The author states in his introduction: "This short account of the United Services College has been written primarily for "Old Boys" to help perpetuate the memory of a great school and also with hope of providing something of interest to others. Doubtless older O.U.S.Cs. will note with pleasure the fortunes of the College after I left Westward Ho! while the younger ones will look back with interest on the happenings of the early days". Contains Kipling's The Song of the Exiles. Gale & Polden, Ltd. hardcover