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1997ref. 15489Marina Del Rey: Bieler Press 1997. Edition limited to 150 copies oblong 4to pp. 65 frenchfold with inserted slips as issued which show through in silhouette; designed and printed letterpress by Gerald Lange with assistance from Robin Price; wrappers with pictorial pastedown on upper cover the binding executed by Allwyn O'Mara. Unusual production handsomely presented. Gerald Lange notes that only 79 copies were bound. Bieler Press unknown
1923ref. 7544London: Macmillan and Co. . Very Good. Second Edition. Hardcover. Boards with minor rubbing to extremities. Endpapers yellowed. Former owner's notes on front free endpaper.; Red boards with gilt vignette and gilt spine lettering. Top edge gilt. Kipling describes the battles that his son was killed in and that changed his life; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 344 310 pages . 1923. Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1893ref. 7608London: Macmillan and Co. . Very Good-. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine heels rubbed. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Bookplate. Hinges not tight but holding together. Slanted; 8vo; 365 pages . 1893. Macmillan and Co. hardcover
ref. 3929Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co. . Very Good. First English Edition. Hardcover. Pages a bit browned. Brochure a bit frail. Lacking wraps; In custom made blue case with gilt spine lettering.; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 104 pages . N.D. A. H. Wheeler & Co. hardcover
1891ref. 3962Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co. . Good. First British Edition. Flexible covers. Covers frail and with moderate chipping. Professionally repaired with japonese tissue paper. Errata slip nicely tape repaired.; Including errata sheet bound-in.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 96 pages . 1891. A. H. Wheeler & Co. unknown
ref. 500366890Librairie Stock. Sans date. Etat correct Librairie Stock unknown
1892ref. ABE-1617505805973Macmillan & Co New York 1892 Beautiful first American edition in first issue boards. Brown cloth with gilt decorations with virtually now wear. 379 pages plus ads octavo brown cloth with gilt titles and black fleuron pattern. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted padded box. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Macmillan & Co, New York hardcover
1925ref. ABE-1736978618430Privately Printed 1925 A nice example of the first appearance of this story in book form. The limitation states that only 66 copies of this edition have been printed and that the story was previously only published in 1893 and was excluded from the author's collected works. A nice item for the completist. Book is in near fine condition with toning to edges and very light chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Small octavo 16 pages card covers. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted padded box. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Privately Printed hardcover
1890ref. ABE-1617505242297John W. Lovell Company 1890 First American edition. An interesting edition being a salesman's sample volume with applique applied to paste down describing the other titles in the set the prices of each and so on. As is the case with many such early prospectuses the binding is subject to poor workmanship; this specific case including two rear boards bound together effectively sandwiching the rear paste down. Book is near fine minus showing rubbing mostly to edges and with some minor internal issues. Octavo 409 pages burgundy boards with gold titles. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted padded box. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. John W. Lovell Company hardcover
ref. FORT100122Charles Scribner's Sons. Used - Acceptable. Two volume set. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
ref. 500250081Editions N. R. B. Sans date. Etat correct Editions N. R. B unknown
1940ref. 11825London: Hodder & Stoughton 1940. Reprint. Hardcover. Good. Reprint. Hardcover. Inscription on fep: "To Oliver on the occasion of his Barmitzvah from Mr. and Mrs. Lyons." From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Light shelfwear shaken exposed gutter front/back but intact evenly toned else tight bright and unmarred. Red cloth. Lacking dj. 8vo xvi 844pp. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
2020ref. 12608London: Folio Society 2020. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. New/No Jacket. New copy still shrink-wrapped. Folio Society hardcover
ref. 42020thanking her for her "letter and for your news which I am glad to have although I am sorry it is not better. I know that you will understand that letter-writing is outside the possibilities these days; we are all so hard at work. I though of you when I was At Dartmouth. I was only there twenty-four hours; I went for a certain purpose and returned directly I achieved it. Trix is still at Jersey and the news is about the same. I have myself some hope that the war may serve to rouse here a little." 1 side 4to. Bateman's Burwash Sussex headed paper 22nd August Sybil Heeley was the daughter of Wilfred Lucas Heeley Kipling used to spell the surname Healey. He had been a schoolfriend of Edward Burne-Jones in Birmingham and had been engaged to Kipling's aunt Caroline. Trix is Kipling's younger sister Alice. At the beginning of the First World War like many other writers Kipling wrote pamphlets and poems enthusiastically supporting the UK war aims of restoring Belgium after it had been occupied by Germany together with generalised statements that Britain was standing up for the cause of good. In September 1914 Kipling was asked by the government to write propaganda an offer that he accepted. In 1914 Kipling was one of 53 leading British authors a number that included H. G. Wells Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy who signed their names to the "Authors' Declaration." This manifesto declared that the German invasion of Belgium had been a brutal crime and that Britain "could not without dishonour have refused to take part in the present war." unknown
ref. 42265regretting that he does "not see the least chance of being able to come up to London in time for your meeting but I do not think it is necessary to assure you of my very keen interest in the object of it. Nobody who has travelled even up and down the line from the colony to Pretoria can fail to see the enormous amount of work that there is to be done and of course away from the line that work is even more urgent." 1 side A4 Bateman's Burwash 6th June The recipient is the Irish poet architectural writer and artist Alys Fane TROTTER née Keatinge 1863-1961 whose husband Alexander Pelham TROTTER 1857-1947 was a major force in electrical engineering in the Cape Colony in southern Africa. For Kipling's friendship with the Trotters from his time at the Cape see Thomas Pinney ed. The Letters of Rudyard Kipling 1990 volume 4 page 393. There is an article about Kipling's involvement with the Trotters by Tanya Barben which includes the paragraph "The Kiplings were quickly absorbed into Cape Town's social scene often through Rhodes's contacts. Alys Fane-Trotter the doyenne of writers about Cape architecture at the time recalled that the 'Kiplings were charming to us and Rudyard would spend the afternoon sitting on our very humble stoep drawing wonderful pictures for the children and telling us first drafts of stories he expected to write". This may be the only surviving letter to Alys. unknown
ref. 41834sending "Very many thanks for the Mason Monks & the Power Alcohol - which latter I will read and hold at your service for recall. I'm very glad that the Don begins to move. My. there gives me the idea that he will hasten with an immense slowness - Express trains at 18 m.p.h. do not promise expedition. I'm horribly afraid I shan't be able to be in Oxford on the 17th June but even if I miss that I expect we'll be able to meet a little later on." 2 sides 8vo. Bateman's Burwash Sussex headed paper 2nd June In 1902 Kipling bought Bateman's a house built in 1634 and located in rural Burwash. Bateman's was Kipling's home from 1902 until his death in 1936. The house and its surrounding buildings the mill and 33 acres were bought for £9300. It had no bathroom no running water upstairs and no electricity but Kipling loved it: "Behold us lawful owners of a grey stone lichened house A.D. 1634 over the door beamed panelled with old oak staircase and all untouched and unfaked. It is a good and peaceable place. We have loved it ever since our first sight of it" The recipient is very likely Kipling's friend Sir Charles OMAN 1860-1946 who was an eminent historian and Member of Parliament for Oxford. Oman nominated Kipling for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 which he was then awarded. He is also remembered for having received a presentation copy of a book from Kipling in 1907 which contained on its flyleaf the holograph manuscript of an as-yet-unpublished and later celebrated poem of Kipling's titled "The Coin Speaks". "The Don begins to move" is a reference to the new express train built by Doncaster Works which entered into service in 1922 but which doesn't seem to have impressed Kipling very favourably. unknown
1903ref. 300005893Hachette 1903. 1903. Hachette unknown
1965ref. ABE-1679921906321Faber & Faber London 1965 First edition. Collects fifteen stories by John Collier Roald Dahl William Sansom Elizabeth Bowen Robert Louis Stevenson Rudyard Kipling Somerset Maugham Mann Rubin H. G. Wells Dorothy Sayers Aldous Huxley Davis Grubb Edgar Allan Poe Ray Bradbury and more. These are all excellent mostly macabre tales or dark suspense. A first edition hardback in a protected unclipped jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Faber & Faber London hardcover
1995ref. ABE-1682013915040Everyman 1995 This is the true first hardback edition with the 1995 first issue dust jacket. This is not price clipped. It is protected. A great issue with the exclusive introduction by the great John Bayley. Original beautiful design and livery which elicited high praise from Clive James who said this relaunched Everyman series was worth buying as a permanent reminder of classic literature in a desirable format. Updike declared it to be the editions of record. Clean and tight unread and new looking. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Everyman hardcover
ref. 1241203121.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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ref. 417371847-1938 American Author and Illustrator sending "a thousand thanks gracious Lady for your letter. We cherish your kind words which reached us this morning after our first night of 'snuffles'. My mother was attempting to convince us it was not pneumonia and quite usual and harmless when your testimony arrived. You will agree they sound serious won't you Our little maiden sends you love asking your pardon if she makes too bold and hopes to welcome you one day to her very own home. Which we think of a Naulakha. 'Crows Nest' was invented by that all wise newspaper man who knows all one does not do or think or feel. Your interest in Benefits Forgot touches us nearly for my brother cared so much that you should feel it to be an honest-word about the West. We used to arrange to make a pilgrimage to have a talk with you about the great delightful dreadful West. We know Colorado best and it was once while we were spending a few months there that Benefits Forgot was planned but it was worked out in London. On the whole London is nearer the West than New York it has always seemed to me. If I had been feeling up to rough travelling we should have returned from Vancouver slowly through all that fascinating part of our land my husband is more anxious to know it well than any other part of America. The daughter - we call her Josephine - thrives is strong and sturdy and we mean to keep her in the country so she may continue so. She has an English nurse who promises well - she wrote to ask for the position. I don't expect you the credit the Statement for I well know its a fairy story in appearance. She can't have the baby nights though because of the cold - if only she could. I am learning to keep awake and my husband to sleep but it was not easy. We are very quiet here and go to bed at eight ourselves often." 4 sides 8vo. on black edged paper Brattleboro 19th February Foote is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the turn-of-the-century American West and for her illustrations of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Longfellow's poems. Benefits Forgot was a novel published in 1895 co-written by Rudyard Kipling and his brother-in-law Charles Wolcott BALESTIER 1861-1891. He was an American Author and Publisher who visited England in 1888 to secure English manuscripts for Lovell the publishing company which had published his novel A Fair Device 1886. He is remembered for his collaboration with Rudyard Kipling. He wrote the American chapters for The Naulahka 1892 and Kipling dedicated his Barrack-Room Ballads to him in the same year. Caroline met Kipling via her brother. She had come to London to keep house and serve as hostess for him. She taught Kipling how to use a typewriter. When Wolcott Balestier died suddenly of typhoid in 1891 Kipling was distraught and spent time with Miss Balestier proposing to her via telegram and marrying her a week later. The couple were married in London on January 18th 1892. The bride was given away by Henry James who exclaimed "It's a union of which I don't forecast the future." The first child Josephine was born on 29th December 1892 and died at the age of 6 on 6th March 1899 of pneumonia. Kipling's friends and family maintain that he was never the same after Josie's death. unknown
