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1898ref. 121444London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1898. First edition of this collection of articles written by Kipling when he joined the fleet of the Royal Navy at sea in 1898. Octavo original illustrated cloth. In very good condition. Cover illustration by Norman Wilkinson. Kipling's account of the recently strengthened fleet of the British Royal Navy at the turn of the 20th century first appeared as a group of five articles in the Morning Post in November 1898. Allowed to join the Fleet at sea Kipling here offers an intimate portrait of the ships and their crew. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1897ref. 321595London: Macmillan 1897. First edition. With illustrations by I.W. Taber. viii 245 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt a.e.g. Almost fine. Bookplate of F. Storck. Taber I.W. First edition. With illustrations by I.W. Taber. viii 245 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Richards A103; Stewart 160; Livingston 136; Martindell 68; Ballard LXXXI B; Grolier 224 Macmillan unknown
1923ref. 123116London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1923. First English edition of Kipling's October 1923 address delivered to the students of St. Andrews discussing the challenges and necessity of individuality and independence. Octavo original wrappers. In very good condition. 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
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
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
1898ref. 752R55London: Macmillan And Co. 1898. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". None. A well-preserved first edition of this account of the Royal Navy at sea by Rudyard Kipling. Most renowned for 'The Jungle Book' 'Kim' and 'Just so Stories' Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 is seen as a pioneer for the short story form and a classic author of children's fiction. He was born in India the inspiration behind a vast amount of his writings which include 'The Jungle Book' 'Just So Stories' and 'Kim'. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 becoming the youngest ever recipient and first English language writer to do so.'A Fleet in Being' is a series of military articles on the subject of the Royal Navy in 1898.In the publisher's original paper wrap bindings with a pictorial cover. In paper wraps. Externally generally smart a touch of discolouration to the front board and spine with some loss to the paper of the tail of the spine and a chip to the head. Internally firmly bound pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed Macmillan And Co. 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
1925ref. 210615-MB48Doubleday Page and Company 1925. Good red cloth cover with gilt decorations 1925 Color and black and white illustrations. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Cover. Illus. by Kipling J Lockwood; C. I. E.; Drake W. H. Doubleday, Page, and Company Hardcover
1932ref. 147638London: MacMillan 1932. Vintage Copy. Hardcover. Good in boards. Owner personalization on front pastedown. "4" inked on FEP. Open tear on front spine edge. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian. MacMillan hardcover
1912ref. LTH26-B-5London: Hodder and Stoughton 1912. Vellum. Very Good. 10.5" by 8". None. A scarce edition de luxe of the Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling. In a lovely vellum binding Limited edition number thirty-one of a limited print run of five-hundred signed by the publishers. Printed on English hand-made paper. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a English journalist novelist poet and short story writer. Born in colonial India Kipling spent his school days in England. Though for a time Kipling returned to India he eventually settled in England. One of the leading authors of the 19th and 20th century he is perhaps famous for his charming novel 'The Jungle Book'. In a paper vellum binding with gilt lettering to the spine and front board. Externally a trifle rubbed. Boards are warped. Top tie is broken. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
1893ref. GEN26-C-24London : Macmillan and Co. 1893. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5";. None. Two works by Rudyard Kipling. Uniformly bound in publisher's blue cloth bindings. Being the November 1893 second reprint of Many Inventions published the same year as the first edition and the february 1893 reprint of Life's Handicap. This is the fourth reprint issued two years after initial publication. With 54 pages of publisher's adverts to the rear of Life's Handicap. Life's Handicap is a collection of short stories about the British in India. Many Inventions is another anthology of short stories 12 of which had previously appeared in various publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and The Strand Magazine. In original cloth bindings with gilt stamped detailing to the head of boards and to spine. Externally generally smart with bumping to the extremities and to the head and tail of spines. Patches of rubbing to the joints and extremities. Front hinge to Life's Handicap is strained but firm. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown of both volumes Angus &Robertson. Internally binding to both volumes is slightly strained in places particularly to Many Inventions. Pages are generally bright with spotting to the first and last few pages heaviest to endpapers. Otherwise occasional light spots. Very Good Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1920ref. GEN19-I-4London : Macmillan and Co 1920-1932. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". None. Two works by Rudyard Kipling of travel writing and short stories. First editions. Rather uncommon in the original dustwrappers. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and to date he remains its youngest recipient. In cloth covered bindings with original unclipped dustwrappers. Externally very smart with just slight bumping to head and tail of spines. Dustwrappers are generally smart with slight chipping and the odd small closed tear. One very small hole to the spine panel of one dustwrapper. Internally firmly bound bright and clean. Near Fine Macmillan and Co hardcover
1899ref. GEN26-C-23London : Macmillan and Co. 1899-1926. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5". None. A two volume set of Rudyard Kipling first editions. Comprising of Stalky and Co. as well as Debits and Credits the works here show the breadth of Kipling's abilities with the former book a novel and the latter a collection of short stories poems and scenes for a play. Both volumes are decorated with Kipling's signature elephant to the boards a nod to his time in and love for India something also related to in the Hindu symbols found to the endpages. Stalky and Co. features the bookplate of one G.W. Bell. In decorative cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally quite smart there is some wear to the boards extremities and joints as well as some sunning to spines. The hinge of Stalky and Co. is tender. Internally the pages are generally firmly bound although there is some light strain in places and are bright and clean throughout aside from the odd instance of spotting throughout. Very Good Indeed Macmillan and Co. 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
ref. 85110New York M. F. Mansfield No date ca1898. Hardback 8vo. 7.5 x 5 inches. In maroon polished full morocco leather fine binding by “G.P. Putnam & Sons.” Raised banding and gilt lettering and paneling to spine. Gilt paneled boards. Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. In stunning near fine condition. Some minor darkening to edges of endpapers. Gilt binders stamp to bottom edge of front board. No penned inscriptions or marks. Occasional foxing spots to early few pages. Page edges rough cut. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 93pp. With B&W frontis portrait and 6 coloured plates. New York, M. F. Mansfield, No date (ca1898) hardcover
1930ref. 732K19London: Macmillan 1930. Cloth. Near Fine. 8" by 6". G. L. Stampa. An exceptional early copy of this charming humorous work from noted author Rudyard Kipling. Fourth impression published the same year as the first edition. With charming vignette illustrations throughout by G. L. Stampa. Lacking the original dustwrapper. Thy Servant a Dog is a charming collection of short stories told from the perspective of Black Aberdeen Terrier Boots. In the original red cloth binding with pictorial detail to the front board. Externally in excellent condition with just minor bumping to the extremities and the head and tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with marginal age toning due to paper used. Near Fine Macmillan 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
1926ref. 61424London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1926. 8vo. vi 416 pp. Contemporary red half calf over red cloth. Raised bands to spine with gilt devices & lettering. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bound by Ramage. Fading to spine. Bookplate to front pastedown. Boards clean. Internally clean. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1926. Macmillan and Co., Limited 1926 hardcover
1919ref. 2130476Published by Hodder & Stoughton 1919 Circa. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Robinson W. Heath. Very good condition with no wrapper. Large format 9.75 x 7.5". Blue cloth gilt titles and green decorations. 16 tipped-in colour plates. B/w text illustrations. Spine is faded. Some spotting to covers. Bumping to some cover edges. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers outer page edges and page margins. All plates present. Published by Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
1909ref. 61187London: Hodder & Stoughton N.d. 1915. 4to.Illustrated. 124 pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth with decoration in pale green & lettering in gilt to front board & spine. Spotting to fore-edge and prelims. With sixteen tipped-in colour plates by W. Heath Robinson. Plates complete. Bright and clean copy. . Very Good. Decorated Cloth. 1909. Hodder & Stoughton N.d. [1915] hardcover
2011ref. x-1598845209Libraries Unltd Inc 2011. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 269 pages. 10.50x8.25x1.00 inches. Libraries Unltd Inc paperback
2018ref. x-1108476422Cambridge Univ Pr 2018. Hardcover. New. 439 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
2015ref. x-1108072224Cambridge University Press 2015. Paperback. New. 198 pages. 11.57x8.19x0.55 inches. Cambridge University Press paperback
1903ref. 1579London: Methuan and Co. 1903. Very Good. FIRST TRADE EDITION. 8vo pp. xvi 216 38 catalogue July 1903 as called for plus 'David' on p.56 line 9 later changed to 'Saul'. Red cloth gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt others untrimmed a few pages unopened. Spine sunned a little rubbed and soiled. Foxing to front edge front and rear occasionally to margins. Endpapers browned. Else bright and tight. Very good. Methuan and Co. hardcover
