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1920ref. 32924Macmillan 1920. 8vo. First Edition with title in red and black; red buckram upper board with 'elephant's head' medallion blocked in gilt gilt back gilt top a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With 4pp of publisher's advertisements at end. Collects three groups of letters originally published in periodicals: 'From Tideway to Tideway' The Times 'Letters to the Family' The Morning Post and 'Egypt of the Magicians' Nash's Magazine. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Livingston 454. Macmillan, hardcover
1915ref. 027815London: Hodder & Stoughton for The Daily Telegraph 1915. Special Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. large quarto. Robinson W Heath. Type: Book Prior owner details to flyleaf. 16 excellent tipped in colour plates and numerous line illustrations within the text National Bands A 1915 Rudyard Kipling speech 4pp included. End papers foxed otherwise fine. Hodder & Stoughton for The Daily Telegraph hardcover
1930ref. 65459New York:: The Grolier Club 1930. First edition; No. 278 of 325 copies. publisher's buckram-backed gilt boards; printed paper label on spine; slipcase. A very fine copy but the slipcase is splitting at joints and creased at one end. . 8vo. Illustrated. The Grolier Club, hardcover
1890ref. 1019E015Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1890. 4th Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 93 3 8 85 3 96 104 96. Very Good Minus. 5.5 x 8.5 inches 14 x 21.5 cm. Quarter red cloth with marbled boards rubbing to board edges light wear to corners. Light foxing to endpapers previous owner's name to front pastedown endpaper. Some light patches of foxing to text outside margin of two pages in Soldiers Three have slight damage from a label appears to be an original binding flaw. Original wraps priced at 1 Rupee are bound in with all issues and have varying degrees of damage - most have small sections of loss to edges and/or corners rear cover of Soldiers Three has a large section of loss rear cover of Wee Willie Winkie has a hole to the centre. All issues are the fourth Indian edition published in 1890 this includes Soldiers Three despite it stating Second Indian Edition to the title page. This edition used the same sheets as the first English Edition pagination is the same as the English edition but some of the ads are omitted. Each of these titles had a total Indian issue of 3000 copies. Roberts notes that the fourth Indian edition did not sell well and some copies are known to be stamped to the cover margin in purple ink: 'To still further popularize this Celebrated Series the price is reduced to Eight Annas per volume.' This is stamp is present to front wrappers of all issues in this collection. A rare group of Indian editions including the sought after 'Phantom Rickshaw' a collection of supernatural tales. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches 14 x 21.5 cm. A.H. Wheeler & Co. hardcover
1909ref. 1309776Published by Hodder & Stoughton 1909. 1st edition. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Robinson W. Heath. Very good condition with no wrapper. Deluxe limited to 500 copies. Large format 32 x 26cm. White vellum binding with gilt titles and vignettes. 30 lovely tipped-in colour plates mounted on cream card with green decorative borders and captioned paper guards. Top edge gilt others untrimmed. SIGNED by the artist this is copy no. 304. Spine and corners are slightly bumped and slightly grubby. Ties missing. Bookplate to front pastedown. There is slight bookworm or silverfish damage to the front endpaper and some slight foxing to contents but generally a lovely copy. This copy would make a wonderful gift. Published by Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
1935ref. 24646Macmillan 1935. 8vo. First Edition Deluxe with a coloured frontispiece and 32 full-page monochrome plates; original red full limp calf upper board blocked with large image of Puck in gilt backstrip lettered and blocked in gilt all edges gilt orange silk marker a very good bright crisp copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue at end. With a personal prize bookplate on front free endpaper and school name blocked in gilt on upper board. Published simultaneously with the trade edition. The deluxe edition is scarce. Bleiler 277. Macmillan, unknown
1899ref. 24818Newnes 1899. 8vo. Newnes Edition; strongly bound in contemporary red buckram upper board lettered in gilt backstrip and lower board mildly and unevenly sunned else a very good bright clean copy. The sole Newnes edition. Newnes secured rights of publication from Thacker and issued the only cheap editions in the UK. Kipling himself purchased the rights from Newnes and thereafter appointed as his publishers Methuen in the UK and Doubleday in the US. Livingston 19. Newnes, hardcover
1926ref. 52351Cleveland: The Rowfant Club 1926. First edition in book form. Number 85 of 176 copies printed for The Rowfant Club by Bruce Rogers. Marbled boards with printed label; dark-blue paper chemise and matching slipcase with printed label. Faint shadow to pastedown otherwise fine. In near fine chemise and good slipcase missing few edge pieces and "g" from "fishing" on spine label. AN ANGLING NARRATIVE The Rowfant Club unknown
1927ref. 58499London:: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1927. First edition; one of five hundred large paper copies signed by Rudyard Kipling. publisher's quarter vellum over blue boards t.e.g. in dust jacket and slipcase with printed paper label. A very fine copy in a dust jacket with a few tiny chips not affecting any printed area and some light overall tanning. Light sunning and use to slipcase. Very attractive. . 4to. Illustrated in color by Donald Maxwell. Macmillan and Co., Limited, hardcover
ref. 53916London: Macmillan 1899. First edition. Red cloth spine lettered in gilt elephant device in gilt on front cover. Top edge gilt. One leaf of ads at rear. A bit of shelf wear to edges and corners end papers foxed spine a bit darkened hinges becoming slightly loose but still intact; a very good copy. Stewart 195. Livingstone 216. hardcover
ref. 029695New York Ny U.S.A.: P. F. Collier & Sons. Very Good Clean Tight In Red Cloth With Gilt To Spine And Decorative There As Well Square With Light Extremity Wear To All Interior Tight Square And Very Clean. Frontis With Tissue Guards Slight Moisture Stain From Cover Reddish To Page Edges Of Vol. Vii Only.Slight Spotting To A Few Page Blocks.Nice Attractive Set. I. Plain Tales From The Hills Ii. The Phantom Rickshaw And Other Stories Iii. The Light That Failed Iv. Soldiers Three And Other Stories V. The City Of The Dreadful Night Vi. Under The Deodars American Notes Vii. A Story Of The Gadsbys In Black And White Viii. Mine Own People And Other Stories Ix. Letters Of Marque . Very Good. Hardcover. Sahib. P. F. Collier & Sons hardcover
ref. 53138London: Heinemann 1897. Colonial Edition. Red cloth spine and front cover lettered in black publishers device in black on lower rear cover. The front end papers are ads for Heinemann's Colonial Library including Forthcoming Volumes 1897 which lists this book as forthcoming in July; five leaves of ads at rear and the rear end papers bear ads for Popular Novels. Stain at base of spine some repair to inner rear hinge a bright and attractive copy otherwise. An indistinct rubber stamp on the front end paper indicates that this copy was from a shop in Bombay. First published in 1892 this appears to be the first Colonial issue. hardcover
1891ref. 12563London: MacMillan. Very Good. Hardcover. short stories; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 351 pages . 1891. MacMillan hardcover
1917ref. 54969London:: Macmillan and Co. 1917. First edition. publisher's red gilt cloth t.e.g. in dust jacket. A near fine copy in a jacket with shallow chipping at the top of the spine not affecting lettering and some very light use. 8vo. Macmillan and Co., hardcover
1896ref. 19238Macmillan 1896. 8vo. Second Impression thus bookplate scar on front paste-down; original blue cloth upper board blocked in gilt and blind gilt back uncut black endpapers backstrip very lightly sunned else a remarkably well-preserved bright clean copy. With 6pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end and a small printed portrait of the author mounted on front free endpaper verso. For the first Macmillan edition of the previous year the text was revised and two stories - 'Of Those Called' and 'The Wreck of the Visigoth' - added. To Soldiers Three. In this second impression these two tales were omitted and a new story - 'L'Envoi' - added to The Story of the Gadsbys. Scarce especially in this condition. Livingston 119 recording the first edition of the previous year. Macmillan, hardcover
1897ref. 50976New York:: The Century Co 1897. First US edition. publisher's green decorated cloth t.e.g. Slight use to cloth at extremities; tight and sound. 8vo. The Century Co, hardcover
1931ref. 51241London:: James Tregaskis & Son 1931. First edition thus; one of 500 copies. publisher's full leather in partial slipcase. Bookplate on pastedown; very slightest of rubbing to binding at extremities. The slipcase is lacking the top and bottom sides. Large 8vo. With an Introduction by Sir Walter Scott and a Benediction by Rudyard Kipling incorporated in a Foreword by E. V. Lucas James Tregaskis & Son, hardcover
1890ref. 51399New York:: John W. Lovell Company 1890. First American edition. publisher's gilt-lettered cloth t.e.g. Armorial bookplate; front hinge starting to split structure still sound; a bright attractive copy with the tiniest areas of rubbing at the tips of the corners. 8vo. Richards A48. John W. Lovell Company, hardcover
1925ref. 51609New York:: Privately Printed 1925. First edition in book form; No. 22 of 66 copies. original printed boards preserved in a quarter red morocco slipcase and chemise. Fine. 12mo. Livingston 501. Privately Printed, hardcover
1918ref. 51612Garden City:: Doubleday Page & Company 1918. First American edition - copyright. . original printed wrappers in a custom cloth slipcase and chemise. Very very slightest of light dust-soiling; a beautiful copy. 8vo. Richards A302. Privately distributed; one of 83 copies. Doubleday, Page & Company, hardcover
ref. 50329No place no date. Popular edition. self wrappers preserved in a custom quarter morocco slipcase. A little worn at edges and lightly creased where formerly folded into quarters. 8vo. Stewart p. 630. An unauthorized piracy; possibly the first of two printings the other bears the date 1904. unknown
1926ref. 44499London:: Macmillan 1926. First edition. publisher's blue cloth in dust jacket. Some minor bubbling to the cloth and slight use at extremities; otherwise a nice copy in a dust-soiled jacket with a few tiny chips and some minor edgewear. 4to. Illustrated in color by Donald Maxwell. With an Introductory Poem by Rudyard Kipling. Macmillan, hardcover
1928ref. 45238London:: Macmilland and Co. 1928. First edition. publisher's red cloth in dust jacket. A bright fine copy in a very nice jacket with a 1/2" chip at the top of the spine not touching the lettering . 12mo. Macmilland and Co., hardcover
ref. 46372N.p. n.d. Some light use; pinholes old pin still present. About 1 x 4 inches. unknown
1926ref. 44372London:: Macmillan 1926. First edition. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. A fine copy in a very fresh jacket with the slightest of chipping to the extremities of the spine. . 8vo. Macmillan, hardcover
