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1937ref. UKIPCAP00drpSun Dial 1937. Very Good. Kipling Rudyard. Captains Courageous. Garden City NY: Sun Dial 1937. 322pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Blue cloth. Book condition: Very good with rubbing and bumping. Weak rear hinge. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with rubbed and chipped edges. In DJ protector. Sun Dial hardcover books
1917ref. 607844London: Macmillan 1917. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Red cloth gilt. Rear hinge neatly repaired corners a little bumped very good or better. Macmillan hardcover books
1897ref. RK070London: W. Thacker & Co. 1897 With illustrations by Dudley Cleaver. Ninth edition Deluxe edition. One of 150 copies printed with two extra illustrations signed and numbered by publisher on tipped-in limitation slip this being number 68. Publisher's vellum spine and red cloth-covered boards with gilt illustration to front board spine lettered in gilt and tissue-guarded plates. Very good with a couple of tiny spots of dampstaining to front board a touch of toning to top part of rear board corners very lightly bumped light offsetting to endpapers previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper and some exposed webbing to pp. 96 and 97. Overall a sturdy and attractive copy. Departmental Ditties is Rudyard Kipling's first collection of poetry which he published when he was only 21. The poems which explore British military life first appeared in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore where Kipling worked as assistant editor. Kipling continued to revise and expand the collection in subsequent editions. Some of the poems included in the collection are: "Army Head-quarters" "Study of an Elevation in Indian Ink" "Pink Dominoes" "The Lovers' Litany" "As the Bell Clinks" and "Christmas in India.". Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Dudley Cleaver. London: W. Thacker & Co. hardcover books
1892ref. 157451892. London: William Heinemann 1892. 8 pp undated ads. Original salmon cloth decorated in brown. First Edition of Kipling's only serious attempt at literary collaboration. A Vermonter Wolcott Balestier was an American author and publisher's agent in London; in fact in 1890 he and Heinemann had founded the Heinemann & Balestier publishing house in Leipzig books in English for the Continental market. He had written about the American "Wild West" and Kipling of course had written about India. THE NAULAHKA a misspelling of "naulakha" which in Hindu means nine lakhs i.e. 900000 rupees is an odd tale that combines these two environments into "A Story of East and West" -- a man from a Western boom-town attempts to get possession of a fabulous jewel in India. In December 1891 six months before this was published Balestier suddenly died at age 29 of typhoid fever in Dresden. Kipling had met Wolcott's sister Carrie and just a month after Wolcott died she became Kipling's wife; the Kiplings built their first home in Vermont and in memory of her brother named it "Naulakha" -- spelled correctly. The newlywed Kiplings lived in Vermont for four years toward the end of which Kipling wrote CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS about the Massachusetts fishing fleet; but it all came crashing down when Wolcott's brother Beatty was arrested for assaulting Kipling -- there was an altercation after Kipling had created a little garden on land he owned but had allowed Beatty to hay: the Kiplings fled to England. This is an unusually clean copy just about fine a hint of rubbing at the spine ends; such condition is scarce for this book in view of its soil-prone salmon-colored binding. Richards A66; Stewart 105; Livingston 85. unknown books
1992ref. 1401001Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 1992. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Octavos Four Volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's dark blue black green and red decorated leather boards respectively. All with paneling and gilt lettering to spines. Mild general shelf wear. Edges of textbock gilt lightly worn on top edges of all four volumes causing small visible tears in various places throughout interiors. With silk endpapers and silk ribbon bookmarks. Shelved above Easton Press. Copyright dates 1992 in all except Tales of East and West 1973. 1401001. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Easton Press hardcover books
1891ref. 611699London and New York: Macmillan and Co 1891. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. First issue sheets without "October" but with "Robert Drummond Electrotyper and Printer New York" printed on copyright page. Octavo. xvi 351pp. 1pp. poem 8pp. catalogue in rear. First issue binding in red pebbled cloth both blind and gilt-stamped. Gutters cracked lacking front fly spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped a good only copy. Macmillan and Co hardcover books
1899ref. 611025London: Macmillan and Co 1899. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Red cloth gilt. Spine a little toned gilt device on front board a bit rubbed else a near fine copy. Macmillan and Co hardcover books
1898ref. 611705London: Macmillan 1898. Hardcover. Fine. First English edition. Octavo. Blue cloth gilt. A fine copy. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. Slipcase shows some wear but it has protected the book which is bright and fresh splendidly. Macmillan hardcover books
1906ref. 330709New York: Doubleday 1906. First. hardcover. fine. Rackham Arthur. 4 colored Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 8vo original green cloth stamped in gilt & black. New York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1906. First American Edition. Fine copy in a 1/2 green morocco slipcase. Doubleday unknown books
1932ref. 612265Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1932. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. First American edition. Stain on the jacket resulting on a small paper remnant adhering to the front board and the rear panel of the jacket attached to the rear board thus only fair in an about fair dust jacket. Doubleday Doran hardcover books
1906ref. 612549New York: Doubleday Page 1906. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition. Octavo. Gray cloth gilt with applied illustration on paper. A little foxing mostly contained to tissue guards and frontispiece else near fine copy. Stories including the famous title story about ghosts of children. Bleiler Checklist title. Doubleday Page hardcover books
1920ref. 374461Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Comapny 1920. Limited Edition. No. 117 of 377 copies numbered and signed by Kipling. Photographically Illustrated by Lewis R. Freeman. pp. xxiv 44 unnumberred leaves. 8vo. Vellum spine ansd boards. Very good. Limited Edition. No. 117 of 377 copies numbered and signed by Kipling. Photographically Illustrated by Lewis R. Freeman. pp. xxiv 44 unnumberred leaves. 8vo. Livingston 449; Richards A331 Doubleday, Page & Comapny unknown books
1994ref. 601046Englewood Cliffs New Jersey: Prentice Hall 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine. Third edition. 804pp. Illustrated in color. Tiny bump on front board sunned spine near fine. Although not marked in any way this copy is from the library of contributor Charlotte Zolotow with a publisher's complimentary letter laid in. Zolotow was an editor and publisher at Harper’s celebrated children’s books department and the acclaimed author of over 65 children’s books. A collection of short stories by Charlotte Zolotow Isaac Bashevis Singer Jack London Isaac Asimov Rudyard Kipling Ray Bradbury Beverly Cleary F. Scott Fitzgerald C. S. Lewis and more. Prentice Hall hardcover books
1996ref. 601051Upper Saddle River New Jersey: Prentice Hall 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine. Fourth edition. 804pp. Illustrated in color. Sunned spine near fine. A collection of short stories by Charlotte Zolotow Isaac Bashevis Singer Jack London Isaac Asimov Rudyard Kipling Ray Bradbury Beverly Cleary F. Scott Fitzgerald C. S. Lewis and more. Prentice Hall hardcover books
1989ref. UKIPKIM00drpPenguin 1989. Very Good. Kipling Rudyard. Kim. Said Edward W. London: Penguin 1989. 366pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gentle rubbing and bumping. Penguin paperback books
1899ref. 9032199New York: Alex. Grosset & Co 1899. 1st. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. Bound in publisher's original yellow-orange cloth with spine stamped in red cover stamped in red and illustrated black. Top edge gilt. Illustrated frontispiece. Two illustrated plates in black and white. Several pages unopened. Mild rubbing to corners and head and heel of spine not through cloth. Darkening to cloth front back and spine. 5 x 7 1/4 inches. Alex. Grosset & Co hardcover books
1937ref. 016631London: Macmillan 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 237pp. Beautiful First Edition of this autobiography from the author of The Jungle Books Kim Captain's Courageous and so many more classic tales for children4 and adults. Bound in red cloth with titles in gilt on spine and elephant head motif stamped in gilt on the front board. Square tight and clean throughout with a little or no wear. Some mild off-setting to end-papers from the dust-jacket. Equally attractive unclipped though unpriced dust-jacket has some moderate toning but still fresh and bright with no creasing tears or chipping. A gorgeous collectable copy and though not uncommon much more so in such nice condition. Macmillan hardcover books
1911ref. 596772London: Macmillan and Co 1911. Softcover. Very Good. Later printing. Quarto. 2 62pp. Red cloth covered boards stamped in black and gilt. Owner name on the front free endpaper light scattered foxing owner sticker on the front board and wear to the boards and spine still a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. For voice and piano. Plate number 11754. Includes 12 songs: "When the Cabin Portholes" "The Camel's Hump" "This Uninhabited Island" "I Keep Six Honest Serving-Men" "I Am the Most Wise Baviaan" "Kangaroo and Dingo" "Merrow Down" "Of All the Tribe of Tegumai" "The Riddle" "The First Friend" There Was Never a Queen Like Balkis" and "Rolling Down to Rio. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1950ref. UKIPBAR00drpPeter Pauper Press c.1950. Very Good. Kipling Rudyard. Barrack-Room Ballads and Departmental Ditties. Kredel Fritz. Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press c.1950. 78pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Pictorial hardcover in slipcase. Book condition: Very good with gently bumped spine ends. Slipcase missing portion of top edge with rubbed edges and faint soiling. Peter Pauper Press hardcover books
1898ref. 016678London: Macmillan 1898. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Slim 12mo.84pp. Solid First hardcover edition there was also an edition published in wraps of Kipling's account of ".Two trips with the channel squadron". This was a series of articles originally appearing in The Morning Post. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with lettering in black on spine and front board with illustration of ship in black Square tight and clean throughout with no toning or foxing. Wear to edges and tips. Boards lightly soiled. Spine mildly toned. A very respectable collectable copy at a great price. Macmillan hardcover books
1904ref. 587851London: Charles Sheard & Co 1904. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Composer's name stamp and "file copy" stamp on the front cover outer bifolium separating a bit at both ends of the fold light edgewear and toning a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "Lichenberg. E." The following note is printed above the music "The blossoms of the Australian Wattle Tree a species of Acacia emit a remarkably fragrant perfume more particularly after rain: the sudden recognition of this scent on an occasion during the Transvaal campaign awakens thoughts of 'Home sweet home' in the breast of an Australian Trooper." Gerard F. Cobb is primarily remembered for his musical settings to Kipling's words this perhaps being his last such composition as he passed away in March of the year it was published. This song is unrecorded by OCLC and appears equally scarce in the trade; in fact the only references we can find to the piece online are are The Kipling Society citing a record of it in Rudyard Kipling A Bibliographical Catalogue by James McGregor Stewart and a 2005 recording released by ABC Records-Australia on an album titled When the Empire Calls. A rare and intriguing piece. Charles Sheard & Co unknown books
1896ref. ST19567-086London: Methuen and Co 1896. First British Edition. 185 x 120 mm. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4". xv iii 230 pp. VERY ATTRACTIVE SCARLET POLISHED CALF GILT BY FROST stamp-signed on front flyleaf covers with double fillet border raised bands spine compartments with antique scrolling cornerpieces and centerpiece green and maroon morocco labels richly gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Engraved title page. Stewart 140; Livingston 131; Martindell 59. A group of seven leaves lightly foxed otherwise a virtually mint copy inside and out the decorative binding exceptionally bright. This is a very pleasing copy in quite an attractive leather binding of a collection of 51 Kipling poems including "Song of the English" "The Rhyme of the Three Sealers" and "The Story of Ung." Day writes that "people uninterested in poetry 'qua' poetry were thrilled by the splendor and spread of empire as glorified in this work. Kipling's Toryism made the mediocre Alfred Austin the poet laureate in 1896 but Kipling was the unofficial laureate of the British empire." One of Britain's best-known writers Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 is most famous for his works portraying the lives of the native population and colonialists on the Indian subcontinent. He was born in Bombay where his father ran an art school and he lived in India until the age of six. He was sent to school in England but chose to return to the East at 18. He proved to be a prolific author writing novels tales for children and adults and many poems. Kipling's wife was American and they lived for a time in Vermont but from 1896 the couple settled in England. Among his many honors are a Nobel Prize 1907 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature 1926 which had previously only been awarded to Scott Meredith and Hardy. Copies of the present book are easy to find but they are not so readily available in reasonably priced pretty bindings like the one offered here. Methuen and Co unknown books
1973ref. 2345215Avon Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club 1973. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 0x0x0. Raymond Charles. Signed by illustrator. Limited edition #920 of 2000 copies. Signed by illustrator on limitation page. Includes publisher's slipcase. A few scuffs to slipcase. 1973 Hard Cover. xiii 1 375 3 pp. Color and black-and-white illustrations by Charles Raymond. A selection of short stories by the author of The Jungle Book who was also known for his poetry with an introduction by editor Bernard Bergonzi. Includes: Lispeth; The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case; The Madness of Private Ortheris; The Phantom 'Rickshaw; Baa Baa Black Sheep; On Greenhow Hill; The Man Who Was; Without Benefit of Clergy; The City of Dreadful Night; At the End of the Passage; The Finest Story in the World; Love-o'-Women; The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot; The Bridge-Builders; The Ship That Found Herself; Wireless; They; Mrs. Bathhurst; Mary Postgate; The Wish House; The Gardener; The Eye of Allah; Dayspring Mishandled. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1898ref. 201207London: William Heinemann 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Features words by Rudyard Kipling the author of "Captains Courageous" and "The Jungle Book." Includes 12 color lithographic plates by William Nicholson. A very good plus copy in paper covered boards with cloth spine but with some splitting to the front and rear internal hinges some other minor wear and with a vintage bookstore stocker to the rear pastedown. Plates in fine condition with some slight offsetting to the facing pages. No dust jacket. A very nice copy of this classic. William Heinemann unknown books
1899ref. RKIPWRI00tpmCharles Scribner's Sons 1899 - 1904. Very Good. Kipling Rudyard. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling. 22 volume set The Works of Rudyard Kipling. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons 1899 - 1904. 8vo. Book condition: Very good with gently rubbed and faintly soiled extremities. A few volumes have lightly bumped and slightly frayed spine ends. Previous owner's name and date on the front free endsheet of volume 1. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
