1939ref. 156674Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1939. Vintage studio still photograph of director William Wellman and a camera crew filming on location in New Mexico for the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1891 novel by Rudyard Kipling. An artist whose sight is failing struggles to complete his final painting while also grieving his broken relationship with his childhood sweetheart. Shot on location in Abiquiu Santa Fe and Espanola New Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures 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
2012ref. DADAX1455166065Blackstone Publishing 2012-09-20. Unabridged. audioCD. New. 5.20x1.50x5.70. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Blackstone Publishing unknown
ref. 61388London: Macmillan and Co. 1906. Fantasy Tales LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 21 x 14cm pp.4 x; 306 12. With 20 black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar including a frontispiece. Advertisements dated 15.8.06. Elegantly hand-bound in red half morocco with raised bands gilt titles to spine and the original cloth with gilt elephant medallion to upper board. Top edge gilt. Light toning to edges. A nice clean copy in an attractive recent leather binding. Very good. Kipling's popular series of tales set in different historical eras including Roman Britain Anglo-Saxon England The Norman Conquest The Middle Ages and the Tudor Period. The stories are all told to two children living near Pevensey East Sussex by characters magically plucked out of history by 'Puck'. Traditionally the term 'Puck' referred to 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. Although 'Puck' is seen as a children's book in the same way 'Treasure Island' or 'King Solomon's Mines' are viewed the story-tellers are adults and the romances they describe would only be suitable for older readers. London: Macmillan and Co., 1906 unknown
ref. 273986James Johnston ltd / MacMillian and Co Ltd circa 1915 . 25 VOLUMES octavo blue buckram boards quarter bound leather gilt stamped lettering to spines gilt embossed motiff to front boards top page edges gilt patterned eps 218 - 497 pp illust VG 'Rudyard Kipling' written in ink to all front & rear fep's heavy fading to spines moderate tanning & foxing to page edges light chaffing to boards & embossed motiffs light bruising to spine edges & board corners light scuffing to boards & edges slight scuffing to page edges v slight foxing to some pages throughout moderate staining to fep's light staining to front board of 'Action's and Reactions' vol moderate scuffing to front board & light cracking to front gutter & 5 cm insect damage with loss to fep of 'From sea to sea' vol slight fading to pages edges of 'The Naulahka' vol name 'Edar' written in pencil to fep & prelim of 'Stalky & Co' vol slight cracking to front gutter & moderate foxing to prelims of 'Traffics and Discoveries' vol moderate foxing & tanning to rear pages of 'Debits and Credits' vol slight insect damage to front gutter of 'The Days Work' vol light staining to front pastedown & very slight creasing to lower prelim page edges to page 31 of 'The Second Jungle Book' vol slight staining to page edges of 'Many Inventions' vol light creasing to top corner prelims of 'Captains Courageous' vol light creasing from page 272 to rear ep of 'The Jungle Book' vol light cracking to rear gutter & former owners name written in pen to prelim of 'Kim' vol v slight insect damage to front gutter of 'Land and Sea Tales' vol moderate insect damage to rear ep of 'Soldiers Three' vol James Johnston ltd / MacMillian and Co Ltd ( circa 1915 ) hardcover
ref. SONG178243710XMichael O'Mara 2017-10-01. New. paperback. Used: Good. 4.25x0.50x5.75. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Michael O'Mara paperback
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1906ref. 147583London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1906. First edition first impression of one of Kipling's major books very rare in the dust jacket. Puck of Pook's Hill brings together ten stories and 16 poems which had previously appeared in journals. Octavo. Frontispiece and 19 full-page monochrome illustrations by H. R. Millar 4 pp. of publisher's advertisements at end. Original red cloth spine lettered in gilt gilt Ganesha device to front cover top edge gilt. With dust jacket. Corners a touch bumped the binding otherwise bright and firm internally clean and fresh. A very good copy in good only jacket small tape repairs to verso slight wear to extremities spine panel toned. Richards A205; Stewart 306. hardcover
ref. 59073London: 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. Armorial bookplate of Cyril Hamilton Aitken to front pastedown. Toning to endpapers with spotting to facing leaves preliminaries and edges. Light wear to binding with heavy sunning to spine. Very good. London: Methuen and Co., 1903 unknown
1937ref. 152130N.p.: N.p. 1937. Vintage reference photograph from the 1937 film showing actor Sabu Dastagir commonly known only by his given name Sabu. With a mimeo label snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamps of National Film Archive library. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Rudyard Kipling's story "Toomai of the Elephants" which originally appeared in Kipling's 1895 collection "The Jungle Book." A young Indian boy helps guide his father and a government elephant hunter to the secret elephant camp in the jungle. A breakthrough role for Sabu who would go on to work under exclusive contract for film mogul Alexander Korda in "The Thief of Bagdad" 1940 "Arabian Nights" 1942 and "The Jungle Book" 1942. Set in colonial India shot on location in Gwynedd Wales. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown
1938ref. 72066Paris: Paul Hartmann 1938. Fine. Paul Hartmann Paris 1938 12 x 19 cm broché First edition of the French translation one of 20 numbered copies on pur fil paper ours one of the few hors commerce a deluxe issue. Endpapers lightly and entirely toned. A fine copy with full margins. Paul Hartmann unknown
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
1930ref. 29690London: Macmillan & Co 1930. Book. Illus. by G. L. Stampa. Near Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo. Black lettered red cloth wrapped in pictorial dust jacket. Three dog stories. A particularly nice copy with jsut some edgewear. Macmillan & Co Hardcover
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
1977ref. 149846London: Hodder & Stoughton 1977. reprint. Nice copy. octavo. dust jacket xv 845pp. index Some light browning to end papers o/w nice copy in bright black cloth boards with a nice dust jacket Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
1942ref. 149132Los Angeles: Walt Disney Productions 1942. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph on the set of the 1942 film. "Photograph by Coburn" stamp and "Bison Archives" stamp on verso. Based on the 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. The stunning Technicolor live-action version of the classic Kipling stories made by the Hungarian born filmmaking team the Korda brothers director Zoltan Korda producer Alexander Korda and art director Vincent Korda which brilliantly utilized live exotic animals on huge lush sets and featured Indian born actor Sabu as Mowgli the boy raised by wolves who can communicate with the animals of the jungle. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography. Set in a village in India shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 30. Walt Disney Productions unknown
ref. 35383LONDON SAMPSON LOW MARSTON AND CO.1892. 1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD COPY IN BLUE BOARDS. LONDON, SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON AND CO.,1892 hardcover
1919ref. 54024London: Methuen and Co. no-date 1919. First UK edition preceded by the 1918 U.S. copyright edition. Broadside poem in six stanzas with two on front and remaining four on back. SIGNED BY KIPLING on back beneath the final stanza. 5.5 x 8" stiff cream paper printed in black on both sides with exterior double frame rule and interior single rule "between which the names of towns and villages laid waste by the Germans in World War I are printed in capitals" Richards A315. Near fine with rubbing to top of double rule on front and mild smudge towards end of Kipling's signature on back. Housed in green cloth chemise and gilt-stamped quarter leather green cloth slipcase leather toned from green to brown otherwise near fine. Scarce especially signed. Methuen and Co.) unknown
1925ref. 68446Paris: René Kieffer 1925. Fine. René Kieffer Paris 1925 14.50 x 20.50 cm broché New edition of the French translation illustrated with decorations by Jeanne-Henriette Tirman one of 1000 copies on tinted laid paper. Spine slightly discolored. Signed gift inscription at the head of an endpaper. René Kieffer unknown
1932ref. 5062London: Macmillan & Co 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 400pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt medallion to the front board top edge gilt upper corners lightly bumped and foot of spine a little chipped. Dust jacket with a few water spots on the spine otherwise a near fine jacket. Macmillan & Co hardcover
2006ref. 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
1896ref. cfe17645USA: Appletons 1896. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A very good copy in green cloth with gold gilt lettering and giltdecorations to the front board and spine--in addition there is gold gilt to the top edge. Very good condition--tight binding with moderate foxing throughout and some moderate edgewear to the exterior edges and tips. There is a gift inscription from 1897 to the front free endpaper and a previous owner name to the front pastedown. A nice copy of Kipling's verse from an early Appleton's edition. 209 pp with 6 pp of advertising at the verso. Appletons hardcover
1899ref. 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
1904ref. 002021New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1904. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. vi 363 p.p. Original green cloth. No jacket. Top edge gilt with ship stamped on front board. Rubbing to extremities worse to spine ends. Corners bruised. General wear. Interior clean a near fine copy of book. Kipling was an English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist. His birthplace India was an inspiration to much of his work. Features 24 short stories. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
