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1932ref. 206976London: Macmillan. 1932. vg. Hardcover. flexible maroon leather covers; gilt circle with elephant & swastika. symbol; 6.75" tall; spine covered with gilt floral decoration & text;. top edge gilt; silk ribbon place-markers bound in; red decoration on. title page & page facing. Macmillan hardcover
1919ref. 206975London: Macmillan. 1919. vg. Hardcover. flexible maroon leather covers; gilt circle with elephant & swastika. symbol; 6.75" tall; spine covered with gilt floral decoration & text;. top edge gilt; silk ribbon place-markers bound in; red decoration on. title page & page facing; gifters' inscription & long list of names on. 1st page of volume 1. Macmillan hardcover
1920ref. 206993London: Macmillan. 1920. vg. Hardcover. flexible red leather cover; gilt circle with elephant & swastika symbol;. 6.75" tall; spine covered with gilt floral decoration & text; top edge. gilt; b/w ;ates; red decoration on title page & page facing; gifters'. inscription with long list of names of front endpage. Macmillan hardcover
2016ref. x-1359911545Palala Press 2016. Hardcover. New. 514 pages. 6.14x1.13x9.21 inches. Palala Press 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
1894ref. 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
ref. 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
ref. 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
2011ref. DADAX1241193681British Library Historical Print Editions 2011-03-17. paperback. New. 7.44x0.78x9.69. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. British Library, Historical Print Editions paperback
1990ref. DADAX0333360869MACMILLAN 1990-11-01. 1990. hardcover. New. 5.50x1.06x8.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. MACMILLAN hardcover
ref. DADAX1731702337Simon & Brown 2018-10-31. hardcover. New. 6.00x0.63x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Simon & Brown hardcover
ref. DADAX1780762739Bloomsbury 2014-04-15. hardcover. New. 5.58x1.05x8.65. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Bloomsbury hardcover
1938ref. 164605London: Hodder & Stoughton 1938. 5th imp. Very Good. octavo. hardback with dust jacket xviii 824pp. index Very nice copy in bright red boards in a nice unclipped dust jacket in a yellow card box with bright red titles. Scarce in this condition Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
1938ref. 164592London: Hodder & Stoughton 1938. 5th imp. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket xviii 824pp. index Very nice copy in bright red boards in a nice unclipped dust jacket in a yellow card box with bright red titles. Scarce in this condition Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
1916ref. 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
ref. 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
1913ref. 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
ref. 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
ref. ANAIS-184169424XPsychology Press. hardcover. Good. 6.6x1x9.3. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Psychology Press hardcover
ref. 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
ref. 44550LONDON MACMILLAN AND CO. LTD. 1909. A VERY GOOD COPY IN RED BOARDS DECORATED IN GILT. AGE-TONING TO THE FRONT AND REAR. ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY MAURICE AND EDWARD DETMOLD. LONDON, MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD., 1909 hardcover
1913ref. 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
1988ref. ANAIS-0385260881Doubleday 1988-12-27. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Doubleday hardcover
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