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1915ref. 122463London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1915. First edition of this collection of nautical essays and poems. 12mo original illustrated wrappers. In near fine condition. A very sharp example. 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 unknown
1924ref. 123514At the Sign of the George 1924. First Separate edition of Kipling's "After" the first draft of the poem that would later become The Recessional being a facsimile of a hand-written note retrieved from Kipling's wastebasket which was later donated to the Harvard College Library. One page folded. In 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. At the Sign of the George unknown
1943ref. 122437Cambridge Massachusetts: Houghton Library 1943. First edition in book form of this previously unpublished letter written by Kipling to William Joshua Harding seeking an army commission for his son John. Octavo original wrappers as issued. One of only seventy-five numbered copies this is number 32. In fine condition. Rare. Kipling's son John was about three years old when this letter was written. Despite his son's short-sightedness Kipling sought to get him an army commission when the First World War broke out in August 1914. John was killed in the Battle of Loos causing his family immense grief and placing a great strain on the marriage as Kipling's wife had strongly opposed his enlisting. Later Kipling wrote of him "I had a boy who came near writing stories about Kangaroos and Queensland pearl-fishers. But another call came and Johnny went to France where the stars are still shining although Johnny's drum has ceased to beat. Houghton Library unknown
1895ref. 123443London: James Clarke & Co. 1895. First edition of this humorous collection of poems for recitation including Rudyard Kipling's Tommy and Lewis Carroll's The Walrus and the Carpenter. Octavo original illustrated wrappers. In very good 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. Kipling's 1890 poem Tommy addresses the ordinary British soldier of Kipling's time in a sympathetic manner written from the point of view of such a soldier and contrasting the treatment he receives from the general public during peace and during war. James Clarke & Co. unknown
1909ref. 124551London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1909. First British edition of Kipling’s Actions and Reactions. Octavo original cloth with gilt elephant emblem to the front panel. In good condition. Ownership inscription. 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
1982ref. 124503New York: The Viking Press 1982. Rare unrevised proof of The Portable Kipling. Octavo original wrappers with the publisher's date and price inscribed on the front panel. In fine condition. Rare. 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. The Viking Press unknown
1891ref. 124119Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co 1891. Rare first edition of this collection of letters published without Kipling's permission and so quickly suppressed. Octavo original publisher's decorated cloth. One of one thousand copies many of which were destroyed at Kipling's behest. In near fine condition. Ownership stamp. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. 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. A. H. Wheeler & Co hardcover
1890ref. 52434New York: Lovell 1890. First Edition. Octavo. First Authorized Edition; 19.5cm; blue cloth covered boards titled in gilt on spine; top textblock in gilt; 771pp.; a Near Fine or better copy. A classic collection of 36 short stories. Lovell unknown
1928ref. 52436London: Macmillan 1928. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo. 20cm.; red cloth w stamped elephant in gilt on cover /titles gilt on spine; top edge gilt; dustjacket; 299pp.; light wear only a Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped with a short closed tear at crown of spine; small spot of soiling to front panel; a Near Fine or better DJ. This collection has thirty-one speeches. Macmillan unknown
1918ref. 52415New York: doubleday 1918. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm.; green cloth over dark gray boards; paper title plate on cover and spine; dustjacket; 101pp.; A Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped with tears to the extremities; Very Good only. The book consists of four stories that read as letters home from soldiers from India and the North-West Frontier which take place in 1915 and 1916. "A Retired Gentleman" and "The Fumes of the Heart" are both fictionalized letters written from the perspective of wounded Indian soldiers a Rajput and a Sikh to their families. The second is cast as a dictated letter from a Sikh soldier to his brother and has dramatic asides and digressions from the injured soldier punctuating the text. As for the remaining two stories "The Private Account" is presented as a scene showing an Afghan family reading and responding to a letter from their son on the Western Front and the final story "A Trooper of Horse" takes the form of a letter from an unwounded Muslim soldier in France to his mother. doubleday unknown
1906ref. 125313Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz 1906. First Tauchnitz edition of Kipling's collection of historical fantasy tales. Octavo original wrappers. In good condition. Set in multiple periods of English history Kipling's Puck stories are each narrated to two children living near Burwash in the High Weald of Sussex in the area of Kipling's own house Bateman's by people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck or told by Puck himself. Puck who refers to himself as "the oldest Old Thing in England" is better known as a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. The genres of the stories range from authentic historical novella A Centurion of the Thirtieth On the Great Wall to children's fantasy Dymchurch Flit. Each story is bracketed by a poem which relates in some manner to the theme or subject of the story. Bernhard Tauchnitz unknown
1900ref. b44726New York: S.S. McClure & Co. 1900. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Very good in original wrappers with wear at the spine extremities and a tiny sticker on the front panel. S.S. McClure & Co. paperback
ref. 58316London: Methuen and Co. 1903. Poetry FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE. Octavo 20 x 13cm pp.xvi; 215 41. Catalogue dated July 1903; with the misprint 'David' for 'Saul' on p.56. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Illustrated bookplate of Wilfred H. Osmond to front pastedown. Endpapers browned with some spotting and toning to edges. Spine sunned with heavy rubbing to head. Very good. London: Methuen and Co., 1903 unknown
1909ref. 144356New York: B. W. Dodge & Company 1909. First edition first issue with gilt lettering an unauthorized piracy by Dodge and Company reprinting Kipling's contributions from various Indian newspapers. The first issue can be distinguished by the gold lettering on the spine and front cover; in response to the piracy Kipling instructed his regular American publisher Doubleday to produce a rival publication to undercut the piracy. To compete with the new authorized version Dodge & Company bound remaining sheets of the book in a binding using a cheaper red lettering rather than gilt. Richards notes that the publisher apparently retained many unsold copies for the number of surviving fine dust jackets implies that a cache of copies was issued many decades later. Octavo. Original blue cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. A fine copy in near-fine jacket with only very light shelfwear. Richards A227; Stewart 324. hardcover
1895ref. 119977London: Macmillan and Co. 1895. First edition of Kipling's Second Jungle Book. Octavo original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt vignette to the front panel all edges gilt pictorial title pages illustrated. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Contemporary 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. hardcover
1919ref. 51583Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1919. First Edition. One of 70 copies printed for copyright purposes. Slim octavo 20.5cm; publisher's original wrappers bound into full navy blue crushed morocco by The French Binders with five raised bands titles stamped in gilt on spine and covers with double-ruled borders and decorative corner pieces tooled in gilt on covers; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt; 8pp padded with 11 blank terminal leaves. Pinpoint wear else Fine. A poem first published in the Daily Telegraph 29 January 1919 concerning the young naval officers who were sent to Cambridge University for two terms between 1919-1922. LIVINGSTON 437. cf.Kipling Society website. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
1909ref. 12027Toronto: The Musson Book Co 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. W. Heath Robinson. No date. 1909 First Canadian edition using the sheets of the first British trade edition. 4to. Publisher's original bright rich blue/purple cloth with bright gilt lettering and decorations to the front board and spine virtually as new and without wear fresh and as new throughout with the original glassine intact but split half way at the spine housed in the original card box in blue paper bearing the Musson imprint on the side label and an illustrated title mounted to the lid. The box is worn and broken at the corners but still holding well two pieces of tape were used at one corner of the lid but overall the box is good scarce in this condition and in box. The Musson Book Co hardcover
1892ref. 119266New York: United States Book Company 1892. Scarce early printing of perhaps Kipling’s most popular poetry collection. Octavo original wrappers as issued. In near fine condition. Exceptionally rare. Written in vernacular dialect Kipling's The Barrack Room Ballads contains some of Kipling's most well-known work including the poems "Gunga Din" "Tommy" "Mandalay" and "Danny Deever" which established his early fame as a poet. The first poems were published in the Scots Observer in the first half of 1890 and collected in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses in 1892. Kipling later returned to the theme in a group of poems collected in The Seven Seas under the same title. A third group of vernacular Army poems from the Boer War titled "Service Songs" and published in The Five Nations 1903 can be considered part of the Ballads as can a number of other uncollected pieces. United States Book Company unknown
1900ref. 120640Santiago: Hume & Co 1900. First edition of this unauthorized collection of seven Kipling poems and two articles. Octavo original wrappers. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase. Rare. Published in 1900 this unauthorized collection of seven Kipling poems includes A Song of the White Men With Number Three Surgical and Medical Auld Lang Syne Pharaoh and the Sergeant Kitchener's School White Horses and The Absent-Minded Beggar. Hume & Co unknown
1899ref. 120480London: F. Tennyson Neely 1899. First Neely's Booklet Library edition of Kipling's classic military tale. Octavo original wrappers as issued frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard 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. Kipling's The Drums of the Fore and Aft concerns an inexperienced Regular battalion on overseas service brigaded with a Highland Regiment and a Gurkha Regiment in Afghanistan. Unlike Kipling's other tales it concerns the disgrace of a battle almost lost rather than the glory of a battle won. F. Tennyson Neely unknown
1903ref. 120150London: Methuen and Co 1903. Large paper edition of Kipling's notable poetry collection. Large octavo original quarter parchment over paper-covered boards. One of 200 copies on handmade paper. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. First published in 1903 Kipling's The Five Nations included a number of new poems as well as several that had been previously published notably Recessional of 1897. In 1903 the United Kingdom consisted of four nations: England Ireland Scotland and Wales. It was soon suggested that Kipling's "five nations" were the "five free nations of Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa i.e. Cape Colony and 'the islands of the sea' i.e. the British Isles" - all dominated by Britons; and except in the last case by recent settlers. That suggestion was endorsed some one hundred years later. Methuen and Co hardcover
1892ref. 120549London: William Heinemann 1892. First British edition of Kipling's ambitious narrative. Octavo original publisher's decorative cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase. 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
1904ref. 120541New York: Doubleday Page and Company 1904. First American edition of this collection of twenty-four poems and short stories. Octavo original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel top edge gilt. In near fine condition. First published in 1904 this classic collection of Kipling's short stories and poems includes The Captive Poseidon's Law The Runners The King's Task Steam Tactics The Return of Children They and Our Fathers Also. Doubleday, Page and Company hardcover
1898ref. 119005Toronto: George N. Morang 1898. Rare unauthorized Canadian edition of this collection of 13 Kipling short stories mainly written between 1893 and 1896 while Kipling was living in Vermont. Octavo original wrappers. According to Stuart this unauthorized Canadian edition was printed from the same plates as the American edition published by Grosset and Dunlap and so this edition precedes both the first British and first Canadian trade edition Stuart 179. In very good condition. Housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell box. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard 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. Kipling's The Day's Work includes The Bridge-Builders The Ship that Found Herself The Devil and the Deep Sea The Maltese Cat and Bread Upon The Waters and The Brushwood Boy. George N. Morang unknown
1915ref. 120244Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1915. First American edition of Kipling's second collection of military poems and short stories. Octavo original boards with paper spine label and large paper label to the front panel decorated with the British Admiralty and French Flags. In fine condition. Small bookplate to the pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase. Kipling's second collection of military poems and tales France at War contains: Poem: France The Nation's Spirit and a New Inheritance Battle Spectacle and a Review The Spirit of the People Life in the Trenches on the Mountain Side and The Common Task of a Great People. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
