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1898ref. 54774Boston: Privately Printed 1898. First Thus. Sextodecimo 15cm; sewn; issued in stiff paper wrappers lettered from the types of the title page; 4 leaves- title and text; frontispiece; vignette designed by E.J Clark printed in red is repeated throughout occupying half of each page; light rubbing; upper rear corner of back cover has tiny nick; Very Good lacking the envelope. Inspiration for the 1909 Broadway production A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne and subsequently the 1915 silent film "A Fool There Was" starring Theda Bara. LIVINGSTON 151; wikipedia. Privately Printed unknown
1890ref. 52434New York: Lovell 1890. First Edition. Octavo. First Authorized Edition; 19.5cm; blue cloth covered boards titled in gilt on spine; top textblock in gilt; 771pp.; a Near Fine or better copy. A classic collection of 36 short stories. Lovell 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
1900ref. b44726New York: S.S. McClure & Co. 1900. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Very good in original wrappers with wear at the spine extremities and a tiny sticker on the front panel. S.S. McClure & Co. paperback
1919ref. 51583Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1919. First Edition. One of 70 copies printed for copyright purposes. Slim octavo 20.5cm; publisher's original wrappers bound into full navy blue crushed morocco by The French Binders with five raised bands titles stamped in gilt on spine and covers with double-ruled borders and decorative corner pieces tooled in gilt on covers; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt; 8pp padded with 11 blank terminal leaves. Pinpoint wear else Fine. A poem first published in the Daily Telegraph 29 January 1919 concerning the young naval officers who were sent to Cambridge University for two terms between 1919-1922. LIVINGSTON 437. cf.Kipling Society website. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
ref. 140819Calcutta: Thacker Spink & Co. 1888. 1st edn 2nd issue catalogue dated July 1888.8vo. Original gilt and black lettered decorated dark olive cloth recased withblack cloth and original spine neatly relaid with new endpapers - otherwisebright VG in protective glassine cover. Pp. xii 283 31 advts withmisplaced page number p. 192; spelling error on contents p. 98; small marks atfore-edge of front prelims; no inscriptions. Calcutta: Thacker Spink & Co., 1888 unknown
1909ref. 3767London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909. First trade edition. Original blue cloth with front cover pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt others uncut. Large quarto 10 15/16 x 8 5/8 inches; 278 x 219 mm. 64 leaves. Thirty color plates including frontispiece mounted on leaves with color border decorations. Descriptive tissue guards each with a miniature line illustration. Pictorial title and fifty-nine black and white line illustrations in the text half-page or smaller. Title printed in red and black. An excellent copy of the first trade edition. "This poem originally appeared in The English Illustrated Magazine May 1893 prior to its inclusion in The Seven Seas 1896" Martindell. It is classic Kipling beautifully illustrated by Robinson. Beare 61b. Lewis 215. Livingston 321. Martindell 133 giving the date of publication as 1913. Stewart 151. Hodder & Stoughton unknown
1903ref. 011529London: MacMillan 1903 red cloth with profuse black decoration spine ends frayed corners rubbed back and frayed spine sunned and rubbed spot of discolouration to fep top corner of title torn off no text loss 62pp Kiplings words set to music by Edward German first UK issue. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. MacMillan hardcover
1895ref. b44194New York 1895. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Will H. Drake illustrator. Very good in original wrappers with wear at the base of the spine and some darkening. paperback
1894ref. b44174New York 1894. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. W. Van Schaick illustrator. Near fine in original wrappers with light edgwear. paperback
1900ref. b41167Boston: Alfred Barlett 1900. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Near fine in original wrappers. The facsimile of a note signed by Kipling is present as is the laid-in portrait of Kiplingc. Includes 14 poems by Kipling. The pagination for this issue is page 35 through 63 Alfred Barlett paperback
1912ref. 2354Garden City: Doubleday Page and Company 1912. First Edition. Fine/Very Good . A Fine copy of the book that has been exquisitely preserved in its original dust jacket. Dust jacket is Very Good with a large chip at the base of the spine and price-clipped but otherwise in excellent condition. A rare survivor. Kipling's compilation of songs from his various children's books. This is the authoritative guide to Kipling's charming poetic works; and it provides an opportunity for readers to indulge in nursery rhymes and songs outside of their narrative contexts. Songs from Books has become a perennial family bedtime favorite. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Doubleday, Page and Company unknown
1935ref. b40685Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1935. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very good slipcase. Fine in marbled paper-coverd boards wtih a black cloth spine. The original glassine dust jacket is present but in tatters and fragile. The red paper-covered slpcase is in very good condition with wear at the extremities and a one inch portion missing from the bottom edge. One of 950 copies. Doubleday, Doran hardcover
1973ref. 9025772Avon: Limited Editions Club 1973. Hardcover. Fine. Charles Raymond. Bound in publisher's original full half and half green and blue buckram. Spine and cover stamped in gilt. Publisher's original matching slipcase wrapped in matching blue and green paper. Signed by Charles Raymond. One of 2000 numbered copies. Limited Editions Club hardcover
ref. 77106Simbach am Inn Miniaturbuchverlag Leipzig 2014. . Neuware.- The jungle book dt. - Erste Auflage. - Gutes sauberes Exemplar. [Simbach am Inn], Miniaturbuchverlag Leipzig, 2014. unknown
ref. 101177George Newnes 1899. 8vo. Original pictorial paper covers creased at corners of upper and lower covers housed in cloth-backed clamshell box with gilt lettered morocco labels and marbled edges with Chas Sawyer's stamp on inside of lid and wrapped in matching chemise. Pp. 126 advts small closed tears at top edges of pp. 125 to end; no inscriptions. George Newnes, 1899 unknown
1906ref. 23024New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. First American Edition. Octavo 21cm.; original grey blind-ruled cloth lettered in gilt color plate mounted to upper cover top edge gilt others uncut; 680pp.; color frontispiece 14 tissue-guarded plates. Cloth a bit soiled extremities toned light rubbing to spine ends else Very Good. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
1890ref. 22293New York: Harper & Brothers 1890. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; original printed wrappers in custom blue cloth double slipcase gilt-lettered spine; xii1822adspp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Wrappers chipped and worn along extremities with several shallow losses not affecting text contemporary ownership signature to upper wrapper spine quite darkened and cracked with small losses; interior near fine. An About Very Good copy of this fragile piece. Harper's Franklin Square Library no. 680. Harper & Brothers unknown
1905ref. b33302New York 1905. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Very good in original wrappers with edgewear and chips at the spine extremities. paperback
ref. 73240Paris Delagrave 1939/1949. . The Jungle Book franz. - Louis Fabulet 1862-1933 Übersetzer aus dem Englischen Thoreau Kipling; Aymeric EugÄne Robert d'HumiÄres 1868-1915 Schriftsteller u. Übersetzer. - Roger Reboussin 1881-1965 französischer Maler u. Illustrator besonders bedeutend als Tierzeichner lehrte Zeichnen am Naturhistorischen Museum in Paris. - Papier von Bd. 2 zeitbedingt gebräunt; gute saubere Exemplare Paris, Delagrave, 1939/1949. unknown
1900ref. b32486Philadelphia: Henry Altemus n.d. circa 1900 1900. First printing of this edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Near fine in cloth-covered boards with green and gilt decorations. Light rubbing at the tips and the spine a bit dulled. Small bookplate on the front pastedown with the date 1900. Henry Altemus, n.d. [circa 1900] hardcover
1892ref. b32638New York: Collier 1892. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Complete original disbound issue in near fine condition with light wear. Collier paperback
1897ref. 19618London: Macmillan and Co 1897. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19cm; royal blue cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; all edges gilt; 245pp 1 2 ads. Previous owner's name and date opposite half-title; edges lightly rubbed gilt has dulled bit of sunning to spine with a tiny patch of sticker-pull at front pastedown 2 small glue spots on rear endpaper and a 2" crack at lower rear hinge; Very Good. One of the great 19th century adventure stories basis for Victor Fleming's Oscar-winning adaptation in 1937 starring Spencer Tracy Lionel Barrymore and Freddie Bartholomew. Macmillan and Co unknown
1893ref. b31477New York: Harper & Bros 1893. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Near fine in original wrappers. Complete original disbound issue. Harper & Bros paperback
