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2004ref. 45821Folio Society 2004. 8vo. First Edition thus with title-vignette and numerous illustrations in the text; printed cloth burgundy morocco back lettered in gilt red top red endpapers a near fine copy. Published in the Folio Poets series. The publisher's slip-case is not present with this copy. Folio Society, hardcover
1901ref. 74015New York:: Doubleday Page & Company 1901. First edition; second state. publisher's pictorial green cloth t.e.g. Former owner's name in ink at the center of the title page; slight use at extremities of cloth; clean tight and sound. 8vo. Illustrated. Doubleday, Page & Company, hardcover
1901ref. 74264New York:: Doubleday Page & Company 1901. First edition; first printing. publisher's pictorial green cloth t.e.g. A very slightly shaken and shelf-slanted copy; light use to cloth. 8vo. Illustrated. Doubleday, Page & Company, hardcover
1925ref. 74363Garden City NEw York:: Doubleday Page & Company 1925. First edition. publisher's red pictorial cloth. 1927 gift insctiption in ink on the front free endpaper; Tiny areas of rubbing to cloth at extremities; tight and sound. 8vo. With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling C. I. E. and W. H. Drake. Doubleday, Page & Company, hardcover
1903ref. 72975London:: Macmillan & Co. 1903. First edition. laid into publisher's olive green gilt-stamped portfolio as issued. There is some chipping and use to some of the captioned overleaves which are tanned around the edges. A few of them are foxed and one has long repaired tears. A few small chips to the corners of the mats. The color plates are all very fine. The title page and list of plates are chipped at the corners and creased along the lower edge with repairs to short tears. The flaps and spine of the portfolio have been re-lined and the corners are worn; the joints split. . Oversized folio . 16 large color plates each in the publisher's mat with captioned overleaf. . Additional postage applicable. Macmillan & Co., unknown
1912ref. 73010Garden City:: Doubleday Page & Company 1912. publisher's decorated cloth. A few light marks to cloth; clean tight and sound. 4to. Pictures by Joseph M. Gleeson; 12 color plates and numerous text illustrations. Doubleday Page & Company, hardcover
1928ref. 45470Macmillan 1928. 8vo. First Edition with title in red and black; red cloth upper board blocked in gilt gilt back gilt top a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter chafed at headband. With personal bookplate on front paste-down and 4pp publisher's catalogue at end. Macmillan, hardcover
1902ref. 73881New York:: Doubleday Page & Company 1902. First American edition. publisher's green pictorial cloth. Ink gift inscription on front free endpaper. Short 1" closed tear to the bottom edge of one leaf; binding just a little loose; light use to cloth at extremities and a 1" split to the bottom of the front joint; spine slightly sunned. 4to. Illustrated by the Author. Richards A182. Doubleday, Page & Company, hardcover
1899ref. 755P17London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1899. First edition. Leather. Near Fine. 7.5" by 5". None. A finely bound first edition second printing of Rudyard Kipling's school-based anthology showing the juvenile exploits of boys in boarding schools. The first edition second impression of this work published the month after the first impression.In a smart half calf fine binding.A collection of short stories set in boarding schools looking at the lives of the adolescent boys living at the schools and their juvenile adventures. They were less childish than other school tales with elements of bullying violence and revenge.Rudyard Kipling is best known for his novel 'The Jungle Book' however he was a prolific writer of poems novels and short stories. Being born in India inspired much of his work and he went on to become one of the most popular writers of his time. Bound without the publisher's adverts to the rear.Bookplate of F. G. L. Whiteaway to the front pastedown. In a half calf binding with cloth to the boards. Externally near fine. Spine is a little faded. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1890ref. 035083Allahabad: A H Wheeler 1890. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Type: Book pp 96 85 93. Re-backed. Prior owner details to FEP. Believed 2nd edition of Under the Deodars 1st edition of The Story of th Gadsbys and 4th edition of Soldiers Three. A H Wheeler hardcover
1897ref. 71784London:: Macmillan 1897. First edition. publisher's gilt blue cloth preserved in a custom cloth slipcase and chemise. Tiny bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown; slight cracking to inner hinges; small scratch to top edge of the gilt text block; lower corners slightly bumped; else a fresh bright unworn copy with only slight rubbing to the gold decoration. Really a spectacular copy. . 12mo. Macmillan, hardcover
1890ref. 41165A H Wheeler & Co. Allahabad 1890. 8vo. Third Edition thus; original illustrated wrappers sewed as issued wrappers with small losses at edges else a bright clean copy. In the pale green wrappers of Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington with Wheeler's Indian Railway logo on front. Collects seven tales: The God from the Machine Private Learoyd's Story The Big Drunk Draf The Solid Muldoon With the Main Guard In the Matter of a Private Black Jack. ALL EARLY ISSUES ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. A H Wheeler & Co., Allahabad, unknown
1933ref. 53959Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1933. First edition preceding the UK and French editions. Issued in two parts on March 1 and March 15 1933 respectively in an edition of only 75 copies each. Part 1 only. Richards A412. A childhood recollection of his trip with his father to the Paris Exhibition of 1878. Stapled cream paperwraps printed in green; 5 x 7.375"; 20 pages. Fine. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. unknown
1890ref. 54081Calcutta: Thacker Spink and Co. 1890. Fourth edition but the first edition printed in the UK. The adverts at the end are dated February 1890. This edition includes ten poems in addition to those included in the 1888 3rd edition and features revisions to others. Deep blue cloth with elaborate gilt device on upper board replicating a note from Kipling. About good with rubbing on edges bumping to corners tears on spine edges and tiny open tears on bottom edges of boards spine is shaken textblock has age toned edges price stamp by previous bookstore and previous owner's name on half title page cracked gutter between p.80 and 81 cracking on inner hinges end papers are olive green colored patters of leaves and oranges. Lacking dust jacket. Thacker, Spink and Co. unknown
1917ref. 53934London: Macmillan and Co. 1917. First edition. First issue binding with publisher's name at foot of spine measuring over one inch; in second issue dust jacket. Fourteen stories and 14 poems. First appearances for two of the stories and most of the poems. Page fore edges lightly foxed otherwise near fine in near fine dust jacket a little tanned at spine but with otherwise only minor wear. Macmillan and Co. unknown
1916ref. 54078London: Macmillan and Co. 1916. First edition. Compilation of 13 newspaper articles on the subject. 8vo blue cloth boards stamped in gilt on spine and in gilt and blind on front; page edges untrimmed; 222 pages; 4 pp of ads. Bright and near fine. Lacking dust jacket. Macmillan and Co. unknown
ref. 54171Zürich Artemis 1961. 4° 28 S. zahlr. teilw. farb. Abb. OHLwd. Kapitale min. bestossen min. fingerfleckig sonst schönes Exemplar. Bilder nach Monotypien von Helen Kasser. Mit Widmung der Illustratorin im Impressum. 010 Zürich, Artemis, 1961 unknown
1901ref. 37365Macmillan 1901. 8vo. First Edition First Issue with frontispiece original tissue guard present title in red and black and 9 plates tiny neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original red cloth upper board blocked with Ganesha elephant's head in gilt gilt back gilt top backstrip very faintly faded at extreme head and tail else an unusally bright clean crisp copy. With the nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of J. Chamberlain on front paste-down and complete with 2pp. publisher's advertisement at end showing price of 6s. The illustrations are by Kipling's father. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Livingston 250. Macmillan, hardcover
1909ref. 55046New York: B. W. Dodge & Company 1909. First U.S. edition. Though a pirated one it does precede the authorized Doubleday Page and Co. edition by a few months. First issue in gilt-lettered blue cloth boards with ship at sea illustration stamped In black. Spine a little shaken otherwise near fine. Issued without a dust jacket. B. W. Dodge & Company unknown
1903ref. 1180E215London: Methuen and Co. Ltd. 1903. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: xiii 215. Very Good Minus. 6 x 9 inches 14.5 x 22.5 cm. Large paper edition limited to 200 copies and printed on handmade paper. Quarter parchment with grey paper covered boards. Light marking to boards light stain to front board. Spine has paper title label with browning. Darkening and a few light marks to parchment. Top page edge gilt other edges untrimmed. Some scattered light foxing to text. Extra spine label tipped in before rear free endpaper. Engraved bookplate to front pastedown endpaper Lady D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 6 x 9 inches 14.5 x 22.5 cm. Methuen and Co. Ltd. hardcover
1899ref. 68654New York:: H. M. Caldwell 1899. Oriental Edition. publisher's elaborately decorated white cloth gilt-lettered and stamped in red green and blue t.e.g.; in dust jacket and publisher's two-part box. A fine copy in a very near fine jacket. The box is a little sunned. 8vo. With Original Illustrations by Victor A. Searles. H. M. Caldwell, hardcover
1896ref. 36191Macmillan 1896. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece original tissue guard present 20 plates and numerous wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces by A. S. Hartwick preliminaries very lightly spotted frontispiece guard moderately spotted and offset to title small neat signature on front free endpaper; original pictorial blue cloth gilt fife and drummer boys from plate facing p.58 elaborately blocked in gilt on upper board pictorial back gilt all edges gilt a very bright crisp clean copy. Collects seven stories first published between 1888 and 1890. Livingston 133; Martindale 67; Stewart 157. Macmillan, hardcover
1909ref. 68939New York:: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. Preceded by an unauthorized Dodge edition in the same year 1909. publisher's pictorial cloth in dust jacket. Lacking the front free endpaper which was neatly excised. The cloth is bright and unworn with just the slightest of use at the extremities of the spine; in a lightly chipped and dust-soiled jacket. . 8vo. Doubleday, Page & Company, hardcover
1932ref. 1180E141London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd 1932. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: viii 400. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 5.25 x 8 inches 13.5 x 20 cm. Dust jacket: Slight chipping to ends of spine some creasing to front flap. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good Plus. Book: Red buckram binding. Light foxing to page edges and endpaper otherwise excellent. Overall book condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 5.25 x 8 inches 13.5 x 20 cm. Macmillan and Co. Ltd hardcover
ref. 16059New York: Hurst and Company. Hard Cover. BOOK VERY GOOD. 16mo - over 5¾"" - 6¾"" tall. 144 pages. Undated - circa late 1800s. A VERY CLEAN ATTRACTIVE COPY. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. Decorative cover and spine. Tan cloth with black decoration. A Collection of Stories Setting Forth Certain Passages in the Lives and Adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney Stanley Ortheris and John Learoyd Hurst and Company hardcover
