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1956rif. 44775London Macmillan 1956. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHARLES E. BROCK. 8vo. xii338pp. Illustrated. Original cloth. Good condition. FROM THE LIBRARY OF RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL son of Winston Churchill WITH HIS BOOKPLATE inside the front and back covers. hardcover
rif. 0413H381918Jefferson Press. Very Good. Book is in nice shape no tears scribbles or underlining from a smoke-free environment. Library binding has a pocket in the back with typical library marking. Jefferson Press unknown
1918rif. 3580London "In the Field": For the 4th Canadian Division by the Carlton Studio 1918. Paperback. Good. Published just one month after the armistice was signed on Nov. 11th 1918 this Christmas-themed magazine was a mailable gift to send to loved ones back home in Canada - and beyond. Note the inscription at top of front cover. Contains literary and artwork contributions by Rudyard Kipling and "Chinese Labour" artwork by Frank Reynolds among many others. Side stapled printed wraps 4to 10-3/4 inches tall pp. 1-60 illustrated throughout w. B&W and color photo reproductions portraits line drawings and ads. Volume with some honest wear and soil both covers off but present bottom cover w. a 2" closed tear text unmarked. OCLC locates just a handful of copies held worldwide Stanford University UBC LAC Canadian War Museum Thomas Fisher RBL and McMaster University. For the 4th Canadian Division by the Carlton Studio paperback
1927rif. 1230Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1927. First American Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Donald Maxwell. Blue cloth over boards title stamped in gilt onto upper board and spine teg 4to 9-7/8 inches tall pp. xi 99 stated first edition verse index illustrated in B&W and color throughout. Volume with spine ends softened gutter crack at p. 58 one small closed tear at p. 77 not affecting text or images. DJ slightly toned with soil and a few stray marks light edge wear and tiny chips to corners and spine ends three small tape repairs to top edge of bottom panel. A nice copy in the uncommon jacket. Ref. Richards A370. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
rif. 1005X9YEJ45Hardcover. Very Good. hardcover
1896rif. 1351210London: MacMillan and Co. Limited 1896. 1896 Reprints. Hardcover. Octavo three volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in full navy leather armorial bindings with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spines. Mild shelf wear and soiling to all volumes. All corners bumped and rubbed and mild wear to all joints. Some wear to crowns and tail of spines. Upper edges of text blocks gilt. Original owner Henry Arthur Johnstone's ex libris in blind tooled leather as front free endpaper for all volumes and previous owner's bookplate at all front pastedowns. Some age-toning to textblocks. Pages clean. Shelved above Homer/Virgil. 1351210. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. MacMillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1906rif. 004331London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Harold R. Millar. This is a magnificent copy of the British first edition second printing in the exceptionally scarce dust jacket. The second printing was issued the same month as the first printing and is nearly identical. The dust jacket differs from that of the first printing only in adding Puck of Pook's Hill to the list of Kipling titles on the rear panel. The volume differs only in the copyright page notation of the second printing. Puck of Pooks Hill is Kiplings abidingly English collection of ten stories and sixteen poems informed by English history and animated by English mythology for a youthful audience this British first edition published with twenty illustrations by Harold R. Millar. This is the first publication of the sixteen poems. Preceding the British and American first editions the stories had appeared in Strand Magazine as well as in Ladies Home Journal and McClures Magazine in America. Several minor changes were made in the story texts as printed in book form and there are numerous but unimportant textual differences between the English and American Editions. Richards A205 This copy is rare thus fine in a very good dust jacket. The red cloth binding is improbably bright and clean tight with sharp corners vivid gilt and no appreciable wear. The contents are pristine crisp and bright with no previous ownership marks no spotting clean fore and bottom edges and bright gilt top edge. The endpapers show differential toning corresponding to the dust jacket flaps. A single leaf verso and recto bound in at the rear advertises other works by Kipling. The sole previous ownership mark is a tiny Times Book Club sticker affixed to the lower rear pastedown. The dust jacket shows only trivial loss at the spine head and corners with moderate overall soiling and short closed tears to the upper hinges and upper edge of the rear panel. The spine shows mild toning but the red print remains distinct. The dust jacket is protected beneath a removable archival quality clear cover. When first published Kipling referred to the first four stories as part of scheme of mine for trying to give children not a notion of history but a notion of time sense which is at the bottom of all history that rightly understood means love of ones fellow man and the land one lives in. Letters 3 p.189 Siblings Dan and Una of rural Sussex are reciting A Midsummer Nights Dream to one another on Midsummer Eve near the titular Pooks Hill when they summon Puck a small brown broad-shouldered pointy-eared person with a snub nose slanting blue eyes and a wicked twinkle in his eye. Puck introduces himself as the oldest Old Thing in England and introduces a procession of figures from English history among them a Roman centurion a Saxon monk a Norman knight a Viking sea captain and so on. Rewards and Fairies published in 1910 added additional stories and poems. Joseph Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 was an English poet short-story writer and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism stories and poems of British India and his tales for children. Despite this reputation Kiplings extraordinary body of work eludes all labels in its range and variety Kipling's work is not only of the highest artistic excellence it is deeply humane and fully expresses the sense of one of his favourite texts: Praised be Allah for the diversity of his creatures. ODNB Kipling was in his twenties when his stories of Anglo-Indian life made him a literary celebrity and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 the year after this book was published. This book has two instances - on the gilt front cover device and on the half title verso of the swastika symbol prevalent in Kiplings published works an ancient symbol of good fortune used at least 5000 years before being perverted by Hitlers Reich. Reference: Richards A205 Macmillan & Co., Ltd. hardcover
rif. 87985The Daily Mail Ca. 1899. Held in gilded wooded frame behind glass Framed size 47cm x 59cm. Embroidered Surface approx 47cm x 47cm. In good condition. Some foxing & a few small marks. Portraits of Lord Roberts commander of the British troops and Queen Victoria frame the text and a detailed map of the region being fought over: Natal Cape Colony Orange Free State and South African Republic. Authentic Boer War item. Part of an appeal by The Daily Mail this item was one of a large quantity of merchandise sold to raise money for soldiers fighting in the South African War and their families. The fund was the first charitable effort in Britain for a war. The Daily Mail Ca. 1899 unknown
1935rif. 054713London: Macmillan and Co. Limited St. Martin's Street 1935. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Colour frontispiece and BW illustrated. FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1935. Rare publisher's leather binding. Soft-bound in full dark-red leather. Gilt lettered and decorated spine. Gilt Puck to front-cover. Colour frontispiece; illustrated throughout. All edges gilt. Bright tight and clean. No owner name or internal markings. Minor wear only; rear hinge worn and nicked - unfaded and strong. Internally near fine. VERY GOOD. x 670 pages. 8vo. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books CHS Cumberland Everyman GKC Inklings Keswick Literature MacDonald Rarities Theology and History. . SCARCE. Macmillan and Co., Limited, St. Martin's Street, paperback
1898rif. mon0003363415New York: R. H. Russell 1898. Hardcover. Good. . Cover shows moderate wear tear chipping edgewear rubbing and tanning. Name of former owner on the front pastedown. Pages tanned. New York: R. H. Russell hardcover
rif. B23800-FAlex Grosset. Collectible - Acceptable. Small softcover booklet. No date given. Cream covers w/orange design and black lettering. Bound w/small piece of ribbon. Covers are spotted and soiled. 1 inch tear to 'spine' at heel. B/w frontis of Kipling. 5 page poem. Pages are uncut at top edge. Text is clean. Alex Grosset paperback
rif. 8508Macmillan & Co. First edition-2nd reprint. Hardcover. Very good/No Dj cover. VGC.Macmillan1896.First edition-2nd reprintNovember 1896.Blue hardbackgilt illustration on the front covergilt illustration and lettering to the spinevery small tearsome small nicks and dents on the edges of the cover and spine in VGC no Dj cover.Illustrated with b/w plates.Illustrations by A.S. Hartrick.Nice and clean pages with some creases and small foxing marks on the edges of the pagesprevious owner's name and date1900 written inside the half-title page.The book is in VGC for its age with light shelf wear.175pp including List of illustrations.A collectable book. Macmillan & Co hardcover
1926rif. 012007New York: Doubleday Page and Co 1926. 94pp with 24 beautiful color plates. Large quarto. Parchment and boards t.e.g. Color plates by Donald Maxwell tipped in. A few patches of very faint foxing to spine otherwise a fine copy without slipcase. First American edition limited issue. One of 150 numbered copies specially printed and bound and signed by Kipling on the limitation page. Text clean. 1st Edition. Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket - Issued. Illus. by Maxwell Donald. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Doubleday, Page and Co Hardcover
1921rif. 006988Prague Czech Rep: Slavic Publishers 1921. 81pp/illus. Kipling's famous book in Russian. Nice cover. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Slavic Publishers hardcover
1899rif. 22571San Francisco: San Francisco Examiner 1899. Issued as a single sheet by the San Francisco Examiner and here folded into 32pp as intended by the publisher this unusual piece shows the interest of the American public in Kipling. Brief sketches and observations of American culture include: His Visit to California; Kipling Describes his Fight with a Salmon; Kipling on San Francisco; Recklessness in the Air; the Negro Problem; and Kipling's Drinking Men. This example in very good condition staple bound with no chipping just the usual browning associated with newspaper. 16mo 32pp illustrations. Portrait of Kipling at front wrapper. OCLC: 7378700. San Francisco Examiner unknown
1925rif. BIBLIO-51299Privately printed New York first unauthorized edition 1925. Limited edition of 66 numbered copies. Thin gray boards black cover-title 8vo 20 cm. 16 leaves on handmade paper. A scarce unauthorized first separate edition the story having first appeared in St. Nicholas Magazine for January 1893. The publisher has never been identified but was also responsinble for a similar unauthorized printing in the same year of 'Collah-Wallah and the Poison Stick'. Richards A357. John McGivering summarized the content for the Kipling Society website as follows: "This is an amusing little trifle that might well entertain adults as well as the children for whom it was intended being a fairy-tale with echoes of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves from The Arabian Nights with a message indicating that the simplest way of doing something is probably the best. Fine copy in rubbed quarter-morocco slipcase with gilt spine-title and cloth chemise. Privately printed, New York, first (unauthorized) edition, 1925 hardcover
rif. 26963Allahabad and London: A. H. Wheeler & Co.; Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington Ld. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. N.D. First Edition . 1. Leather. First UK editions of these three volumes beautifully bound. Contemporary half green leather over marbled boards spine in six compartments separated by raised bands gilt lettering in one red and one burgundy label in two compartments gilt borders and decoration in remainder; blind-stamped borders on covers all edges marbled marbled endpapers. nd c. 1890. Former owner's armorial bookplate Richard Henry Tidswell on fep otherwise unmarked. Covers and edges very lightly rubbed else fine; tight square and clean. A beautiful volume. NEAR FINE. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 96 96 vi 85 1 2-adverts pp . A. H. Wheeler & Co.; Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ld. hardcover
1956rif. 16780Garden City: Doubleday & Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1956. Book Club Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full black cloth gilt lettering and blue decoration on spine t.e.g. red fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with color frontispiece in each volume B&W drawings throughout. . Both volumes are in excellent condition tight square and clean. Both volumes show light shelf-wear mostly around heads and heels of spines black mark on top edge of each volumes else fine. Both unclipped dust jackets now wrapped in Mylar show only mild wear and chipping around heads and heels of spines else near fine. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. ix 531; vii 505 pp . Doubleday & Company hardcover
rif. BIBLIO-19454Whittington Press. Limited edition of 125 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. Printed wrappers mounted hand-coloured cover illustration 4to 30 cm slipcased. Illustrated with hand-coloured linocuts. Kipling's famous poem -including the oft-quoted lines "Our England is a garden and such gardens are not made / By singing:'Oh how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade" - gloriously illustrated by Judith Verity with linocuts based on the garden at Whittington Court where the book was printed. Seventeen of the linocuts are full-page and they are printed with one verse of the poem per page. The double leaves in the book are joined at the inner margin and form a concertina-folded continuous strip measuring 30 x 470 cm Although the limitation page states that copies 1-25 contain an additional set of the linocuts this copy - numbered 5 - is one of the ordinary copies without additional proofs. From the colophon: ".set in 24-point Caslon and printed on Oxford laid paper with linocuts of Whittington Court garden hand-coloured by the artist. Copy No. 5 signed by Judith Verity. Fine in slipcase. Whittington Press, unknown
1937rif. BIBLIO-12267Macmillan and Co. Ltd London Sussex Edition 1937. From the limited edition of 525 sets of which 500 were for sale. Full russet Niger morocco contrasting black-and-gilt title panes on spine handmade paper gilt top other edges untrimmed as issued marbled endpapers royal 8vo. vii-viii 373 2 pp. The Sussex Edition is the finest edition of Kipling's works sumptuously produced and also containing his final thoughts on the text having been revised by Kipling in his last years. Kipling died in 1936 and the edition was published posthumously. Complete sets of the 35 volumes are rare and desirable : only 525 sets were produced and many of these were destroyed when the publisher's warehouse was bombed in 1941. Single volumes such as that offered here are in practice still harder to find : we have a handful only of such volumes. This volume collects together the contents of three of Kipling's "Railway Library" volumes first published at the start of his career in India : Soldiers Three the first collection of the adventures of Mulvaney Learoyd and Ortheris 1888; The Story of the Gadsbys 1888 and In Black and White 1889. Fine. Macmillan and Co. Ltd, London, Sussex Edition, 1937 unknown
1937rif. BIBLIO-13244Macmillan and Co. Ltd London Sussex Edition 1937-39. Limited edition of 525 sets of which 500 signed by the author were for sale. However many of these were destroyed when the publisher's warehouse was bombed in 1941. 35 vols royal 8vo full russet Niger morocco handmade paper top edges rough-gilded other edges untrimmed. several thousand pages. The Sussex edition is the definitive edition of Kipling's works splendidly produced and much sought after by collectors. Some contemporary Macmillan advertising material described it thus: "The Sussex Edition had been planned some years before the author's death and was designed to rank as the definitive edition of all his works in prose and verse in the most complete and handsome form. Kipling had undertaken a detailed revision of the text for this purpose and had autographed and numbered the first volume of each set. He left behind him careful instructions regarding the unpublished or uncollected writings which are so conspicuous and interesting a feature of the Sussex Edition. This material includes over sixty stories articles and speeches besides such groups of papers as The War in the Mountains Eyes of Asia and Brazilian Sketches none of them previously published in book form if at all in this country and the whole of his early or uncollected verse." From a contemporary review in the TLS: "The publishers are justified in the use of the epithet "superb" to describe this edition. The fine hand-made paper and Bembo type are equally satisfactory : but perhaps the binding is still more notable. It is . Niger leather lettered and simply ornamented in gold. The volumes though ten inches by six and three quarter inches in size are comparatively slim and so easy to hold; and they have an air of durability and of being meant for reading as well as for keeping which is not always the case with éditions de luxe. Set No. 15 signed by Kipling. Unobtrusive 1 cm scratch to spine of volume 7 some spine bands just a trifle rubbed otherwise a splendid Fine set. Contents exceptionally clean with many volumes largely unopened. Macmillan and Co. Ltd, London, Sussex Edition, 1937-39 unknown
1941rif. BIBLIO-14612Doubleday Doran & Co. Inc. Garden City Burwash edition 1941. Limited edition of 1010 numbered sets the first volume signed by Kipling. 28 vols full green morocco covers ruled in gilt upper covers stamped with gilt facsimile of Kipling's signature spines lettered and tooled in gilt in compartments five raised bands blindstamped turn-ins marbled endpaperstop edges gilt 23 cm. many thousand pages. I. Plain tales from the hills.-II. Soldiers three. The story of the Gadsbys. In black and white.-III. Wee Willie Winkie. Under the deodars. The phantom rickshaw and other stories.-IV. Life's handicap.-V. Many inventions.-VI. The day's work.-VII. Traffics and discoveries.-VIII. Debits and credits. Actions and reactions.-IX. A diversity of creatures.-X. Limits and renewals. "Thy servant a dog."-XI. The jungle books.-XII. Just so stories.-XIII. Puck of Pook's Hill. Rewards and fairies.-XIV. Stalky & Co. Land and sea tales.-XV. The light that failed. The naulahka.-XVI. Captains courageous. Kim.-XVII-XVIII. From sea to sea and other sketches.-XIX. Letters of travel 1892-1927.-XX. The war. A fleet in being.-XXI-XXII. The Irish guards in the Great War.-XXIII. Uncollected prose.-XXIV. A book of words. Souvenirs of France. Something of myself.-XXV. Departmental ditties and Barrack-room ballads.-XXVI. The seven seas. The five nations. The years between.-XXVII. Songs from books and Later songs from books.-XXVIII. Early verse. The muse among the motors. Miscellaneous. Set No. 60 signed by Kipling. A Fine set splendidly bound. Doubleday, Doran, & Co., Inc., [Garden City], Burwash edition, 1941 hardcover
1902rif. 017047New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1902. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Rudyard Kipling. Hardcover first American edition third printing. 249 pages. Re-bound. Green cloth boards no dust jacket. Some pages show repair. Pages show some sunning. Book retains faint smoke odor. All illustrations present. Questions welcome. We ship internationally from the United States and Canada every week. If buying internationally please be aware that additional charges may apply for heavier books. We guarantee a safe quick and secure transaction. 10 years in online bookselling experience. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
rif. R1610Green cloth covers spine faded not dated rough cut edge top edge stained pages tanned pp177. International Publishing Company hardcover
1898rif. AQ20407London: Published by William Heinemann 1898. 12 Lithographs in colour on cartridge paper Original publisher's cloth-backed pictorial paper boards contemporary original glassine dustwrapper. A trifle marked short tears to dustwrapper at spine. Endpapers browned light offsetting else internally immaculate. A fine copy. A remarkably well-preserved copy of the first edition issued in 1897 with title pages postdated 1898 of this scarce sporting plate book illustrated by William Nicholson 1872-1949 with text by Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936. The 12 marvellous plates one for each month depict: Hunting January Coursing February Racing March Boating April Fishing May Cricket June Archery July Coaching August Shooting September Golf October Boxing November and Skating December. . First edition. Quarto. Published by William Heinemann hardcover
