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réf. 160151New York: Manhattan Press. Good. N.D. Hardcover. A good conditioned edition with normal shelfwear and some slight discoloration. There is a signature from a previous owner inked on the front flyleaf ; The Gadsbys are a quirky endearing family of nine children who love to spend their summers on their family's remote farm. One summer the youngest Gadsby Willie falls in love with Dinah the daughter of the farm's hired hand. Dinah is already in love with another boy but she is determined to find a way to court Willie. Along the way the Gadsbys must overcome obstacles such as the fact that Dinah and Willie come from very different backgrounds and Dinah's father doesn't approve of her suitors. In the end Dinah and Willie are able to overcome their differences and are married.; 32mo; 103 pages . Manhattan Press hardcover books
réf. 160148New York: Manhattan Press. Fair. N.D. Hardcover. An edition in fair condition. The spine is becoming loose and the volume bears general shelfwear. There is an ink signature of a previous owner on the front flyleaf; Kipling's Wee Willie Winkie is a story of a mischievous little boy who gets into all sorts of mischief. It is a delightful read that is sure to keep children entertained.; 32mo; 177 pages . Manhattan Press hardcover books
réf. 160147New York: Manhattan Press. Good. N.D. Hardcover. A good edition with general shelfwear and slight discoloration. There is aprevious owner's ink signature on the front flyleaf; This book is a collection of short stories set in the fictional hill station of Simla. The stories are about Indian men and women who live in the station and their interactions with Europeans.; 32mo; 302 pages . Manhattan Press hardcover books
réf. 160149New York: Manhattan Press. Good. N.D. Hardcover. An edition in good condition with normal shelfwear and slight discoloration. There is a previous owner's pencil signature on the front flyleaf; The Light That Failed is a story of love loss and redemption. The novel follows the journey of two families the Mee family and the Chough family as they are both affected by the Great War. The Mee family is a wealthy family that is struggling to keep their business afloat while their son Rudyard is away fighting in the war. The Chough family is a family of coal miners who are struggling to make ends meet while their son Willie is away fighting in the war. Rudyard and Willie meet each other while they are both in the trenches and become friends. Willie tells Rudyard about the horrors of the war and Rudyard tells Willie about his dreams of becoming a writer. The two families are able to connect through their shared experiences of the war and they are able to heal their wounds. The Light That Failed is a story of hope and redemption.; 32mo; 313 pages . Manhattan Press hardcover books
réf. 160152New York: Manhattan Press. Fair. N.D. Hardcover. An edition in fair condition. The spine is loose and there is normal shelfwear to the exterior. A signature from a previous owner is inked on the front flyleaf; Kipling's Departmental Ditties Ballads Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses are poems about life in the military. They are full of humor and are often about the simple things in life.; 32mo; 255 pages . Manhattan Press hardcover books
réf. 160150New York: Manhattan Press. Good. N.D. Hardcover. A volume in good condition with normal shelfwear and slight discoloration. There is a previous owner's ink signature on the front flyleaf; After Rudyard Kipling's death in 1936 his widow Josephine decided to destroy all of his unpublished work. However in 1975 she donated American Notes to the University of Vermont. The book is a collection of Kipling's thoughts on the United States written in 1898.; 32mo; 267 pages . Manhattan Press hardcover books
réf. 160146New York: Manhattan Press. Good. N.D. Hardcover. An edition in good condition with some general wear from life on the shelf and discoloration. A prior owner's signature is inked on the front flyleaf; Introduction by Henry James. ; 32mo; 249 pages . Manhattan Press hardcover books
1928réf. 124505Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. Very Good. 1928. Hardcover. A Very Good edition that has bumping to the very corners and general shelfwear to the board surfaces ; Kim is a young man who is kidnapped by the British and taken to India to become a fighting soldier. He is mistreated and is forced to do things he doesn't want to do. He escapes and makes his way back home.; 8vo; 284 pages . Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc. hardcover books
1899réf. 24788Cleveland New York: International Fiction Library. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. c1899 1930. Cloth. An attractive publication of the International Fiction Libary in Very Good condition minor staining and foxing chiefly to endpapers in little chipped dust-jacket. While copyright stating 1899 this wasn't published until 1930 as indicated by mention of Edgar Wallace's "The Stretelli Case and Other Mystery Stories" and "Silinski Master Criminal" on the dust-jacket ; In November 1887 Kipling was transferred from the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore to the Pioneer in Allahabad. The results were these nineteen articles which can be said to be Kipling's description of life in the semi-independent States of India; 8vo; 254 pages . International Fiction Library hardcover books
1924réf. 29731Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1924. Second Edition. Hardcover. A most handsome Second American edition in just about Fine condition with only limited signs of edgewear. Issued in sage-green boards the front cover lettered in green upon a white paper label. Lightly browned dust-jacket shows portrait of Kipling on front and original price of $1.00 on inside flap. Livingston 487; Rectorial address delivered at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland on October 10 1923. Originally published as "Man's Desire for Independence" in The London Times. Kipling became Rector of St. Andrews in 1922. "You know that there is no loneliness equal to the loneliness of youth at war with its surroundings in a world that does not care." ; 8vo; 33 pages . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1923réf. 34337Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1923. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Cloth. An attractive set of first American editions in two volumes. Both volumes in Near Fine condition with minor rubbing to edges paper labels on spine lightly chipped. Top edges gilt. Lacking the rare dust-jackets. Richards A341 Livingston 483 Stewart 504; Kipling's history of the Irish Guards in World War I recounting details of various engagements. Meticulously researched from primary sources including several maps ; Vol. 1 & 2; 8vo; viii ix-xviii 334; xiv 307 1 pages . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1915réf. 14454London: MacMillan & Company Ltd. Fine. 1915. First Edition; First Printing. Original Wraps. A most handsome clean first edition/first printing with only limited signs of wear. "Collected edition" versus the pamphlets pusblished separately. Issued in yellow wrappers the front cover lettered in red list of the Service Kipling on the back. This book was not published in America. Livingston 391. Contains separate advertisement sheet for the Collections of all the Books on the War; Rudyard Kipling winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1907 issued this collection with the previously separately issued stories of The New Army The Men at Work The Quality of the Machine Guns and Supply Canadians in Cap Indian Troops A Territorial Battalion and A Conclusion ; 8vo . MacMillan & Company , Ltd. paperback books
1891réf. 49259Allahabad India: A.H. Wheeler & Co 1891. Very Good -. Allahabad India: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1891. First Published Edition following the suppressed edition of which only three copies were said to have survived. Octavo; original illustrated wrappers; viii 108 xpp. Housed in a red linen folder and a crimson half morocco slipcase. Wear and chipping to wraps with exposure along spine; binding holding; ownership inscription of an Arthur Wilson dated 1894 to title page; a Good to Very Good copy of a scarce Kipling title the English edition being much more common. Livingston 70. A.H. Wheeler & Co unknown books
1920réf. 338454New York: Scribner 1920. hardcover. very good. 25 volumes. Frontispieces with tissue guards; other illustrations. 8vo older 3/4 green morocco marbled boards ornately gilt spines top edges gilt some wear at extremities/ New York: Scribner's 1920-1923. A very good attactive set. Near Fine. Scribner unknown books
1919réf. 54835London: Methuen and Co. LTD 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Octavo. xiii 159 1 31 1pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering on spine in original illustrated dustjacket black lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated title page. A collection of poems written during the period from just after the Boer War until the aftermath of World War I with topics including war life death and God. Index of first lines at front. At rear a listing of Methuen titles on thirty-two pages. Inside flaps with publisher's Kipling titles. Minor sunning along edges of binding. Dustjacket with three-quarter inch chip. Methuen and Co. LTD hardcover books
réf. 67981Np. nd. The photograph is a reprint of the 1892 Bourne & Shepherd portrait of Kipling in formal pose with cigar in his left hand. Original signature in ink on 4.5 x 8 cm slip of cream paper. Matted with a 12 x 11 cm glossy copy print of a portrait of Kipling. Fine. unknown books
1930réf. 158381930. Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Company 1930. Original light yellow wrappers lettered in green. First Edition of this short story being the American copyright issue -- 75 copies printed and privately distributed in August 1930 in order to secure copyright protection in America. The main story is the voyage generally reckoned to have taken place in or shortly after 60 AD during which St. Paul was shipwrecked on the island of Malta then called Melita -- the account of which given in Acts 27-28 has been said to be the most vivid account of a voyage and shipwreck in the whole of Greek and Latin literature. In Kipling's story that voyage is described in the conversation of three reminiscing seamen whose meeting provides a typically Kiplingesque "frame" for the main story kipling.org. This tale then appeared in the September issue of London Magazine and was subsequently collected in 1932 in LIMITS AND RENEWALS the last collection published during Kipling's life. A fine copy. Richards A389; Stewart 592. Housed in a morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. unknown books
1895réf. 159041895. Kipling J. Lockwood. With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling C.I.E. London: Macmillan and Co. 1895. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt all page edges gilt. First English Edition published three days after the American of the sequel to THE JUNGLE BOOK which had been published the year before. It continues with more tales of Mowgli that exemplify "The Laws of the Jungle" -- with illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling Rudyard's father. This was the second of the four Kipling gift books bound similarly by Macmillan with SOLDIER TALES and CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS coming out the following two years respectively. This is an attractive copy very good-plus or possibly near-fine volume slightly askew as usual very light wear at the extremities; atypically other than the endpapers there is no foxing on the leaves within. Richards A85; Stewart 132. unknown books
1891réf. 157181891. Hugh Walpole's copy Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1891. 4 pp preliminary plus 9 pp terminal ads undated with prices in rupees. Original grey-green pictorial wrappers First Published Edition technically the second Indian edition following the suppressed 1890 edition which had considerably different contents and of which only six copies are known. This 1891-dated Allahabad edition printed there came next followed by the 1891 edition with joint Allahabad / London imprint the first English edition printed in the UK. This was issued as No. XIV in the "Indian Railway Library" -- though Wheeler published this THE SMITH ADMINISTRATION and LETTERS OF MARQUE without authority after Kipling had left India for England. As is typical for this volume that is extremely fragile more delicate than the authorized titles condition is good-to-very good -- with about half of the wrapper's spine perished and with chips at some corners. Livingston says of this edition "although it is very scarce copies can be found." Richards A52 mistakenly showing this edition as undated; Stewart 93; Martindell 42; Livingston 70. Housed in a cloth clamshell case. Provenance: 1 there is an indecipherable signature with the date 1891 written across the front cover; 2 at the top of the title page is the signature of Hugh Walpole 1884-1941 the English novelist born in New Zealand; he also added his "Brackenburn" leather bookplate to the inside of the front wrapper. The interior of the clamshell case bears the label of W. & G. Foyle Ltd of Charing Cross Road. unknown books
1891réf. 265647Allahabad: Wheeler 1891. paperback. good. 96pp thin 8vo printed gray green wrappers; lightly edge-chipped. Allahabad & London: A.H. Wheeler & Sampson Low Marston n.d. 1891. First English Edition. Volume XIV of the Indian Railway Library. Errata slip attached to title page. Wheeler unknown books
1901réf. 140947705London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1901. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing of Rudyard Kipling's picaresque novel about an orphaned Irish boy adrift in India. vi 413 pp. 2 advertising pages. Bound in publisher's red cloth gilt lettering to spine and gilt embossed device to front board top edge gilt; lacking dust jacket. Near Fine with light rubbing and tanning to spine and extremities foxing to textblock edges and dust-soiling to upper edge. Contents lightly toned foxing to endpapers and prelims. Publisher's advertisement slip laid in. A fantastic copy. Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown books
1976réf. 140946715Easthapmton MA: The Chamberlain Press 1976. Limited Edition. Fine. Limited edition. Number 21 of 75 copies signed by Sarah Chamberlain. Bound in publisher's marbled boards with stamped leather spine label. Trivial rubbing at extremities else Fine. An endearing fine press edition of Kipling's fable with six tipped-in illustrations by Chamberlain. The Chamberlain Press unknown books
1896réf. 140944705New York: The Century Co 1896. Early Printing. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition early reprint with "Thirtieth Thousand" on the title page. Bound in publisher's original olive green cloth decoratively embossed and stamped in gilt. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper contents lightly tanned and occasionally foxed else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with light chipping at the edges toning and a scratch to the front panel. A stunning and bright copy with sharp gilt no doubt protected by the dust jacket over all these years. A remarkable survival. The Century Co unknown books
1886réf. 140941952Lahore: Civil and Military Press Gazette 1886. First Edition. Very Good. First edition of Kipling's first published book. Bound in publisher's original tan printed wrappers imitating the form of an Indian civil service envelope with an overlapping flap. Wear to spine and a short split at the bottom end of the overlapping flap fold. Kipling was serving as sub-editor of the Civil and Military Gazette and this volume collects his poetry which was published in the paper. Housed in a chemise custom dark blue straight grain morocco slipcase. Civil and Military Press Gazette unknown books
1902réf. 140937189New York: John Lane The Bodley Head 1902. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. viii 565 10 ads pp. Original ribbed blue cloth decorated in gilt gilt topstain. Very Good with slightly soiled and scratched cloth spine gilt dulled hinges starting offsetting and foxing to prelims name on paste down and a few pencil marks in margins. A scarce poetry anthology featuring Rudyard Kipling Bliss Carman A. E. Houseman William Butler Yeats and 29 other younger poets with incongruously antiquated Arts-and-Crafts-style woodcut portraits mini-biographies and selections of their work. It was conceived as a follow-up to the scandalous The Yellow Book aimed at a similar readership and took around five years for the editor to realize. See Parker Sarah "Framing the Woman Poet: William Archer's Poets of the Younger Generation.". John Lane The Bodley Head unknown books
