KIPLING, [Joseph] Rudyard (1865-1936)Biblio.com
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réf. 73381Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co. n.d. Short stories A 'Wheeler' pamphlet published in India at 1 Rupee. Octavo 21 x 14 pp.1-96. Bound in the publisher's printed grey covers. Internally clean publisher's blue-inked rubber stamp carefully excised covers a little brittle with chips to spine and extremities. A good-very good copy of a fragile and cheaply-produced paperback. No edition stated not dated. Does not correspond to Richards' first edition A19 which has text numbered 2-112. Assumed later printing. Stewart See also Wilson; The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling Amis; Kipling and his World. Richards A10. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., [n.d.] unknown
1902réf. 1012N33London: Macmillan and Co. 1902-1926. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8" by 5". Unknown. Six works from the prolific Rudyard Kipling including the first edition of Traffics and Discoveries early impressions and illustrations. Six volumes from the works of prolific British author Rudyard Kipling including the first edition of Traffics and Dicscoveries as well as early impressions of works such as Puck of Pook's Hill and Debits and Credits. In the publisher's original red cloth. Publisher's advertisements to the rear. While holding a somewhat controversial reputation due to his opionions on colonialism Rudyard Kipling remains one of Britain's most loved and celebrated authors and this group of both short stories and novels showcase his literary talent. - Kim. Third impression. Contains a frontispiece and all nine other illustrated plates. Collated complete. 1902 first published 1901. - Traffics and Discoveries. First edition. 1904. - Puck of Pook's Hill. Second Impression. Contains a frontispiece and all nineteen other full-page illustrations. Collated complete. 1906 first published in 1906. - The Light That Failed. Uniform Edition. Later printing. 1906 first published 1891. - Life's Handicap: Being Stories of My Own People. Later printing. 1891 first published 1907. - Debits and Credits. Second impression. 1926 first published 1926. In the publisher's original red cloth. Externally mostly smart with the odd faint mark to board extremities minimal to Traffic and Light and Handicap a little heavier to Kim and Puck. Slight fading to spines heavier to Kim and Puck. Slight bumping to the heads and tails of the spines and to the extremities heavier to Kim and slight rubbing to joints heavier to Kim with small split to center of front joint. Slight spotting and offsetting to end papers heavier to Puck minimal to Debits. Previous owner's bookplates to front pastedowns of Debits Light Handicap and Puck. Previous bookseller's stamps to rear pastedown to Debits and front pastedowns of Light and Handicap. Previous owner's ink inscriptions to end papers. Internally firmly bound. Pages are mostly bright and clean with the odd spot to leaf extremities of Traffics and Kim and slight browning to first leaves of Handicap and offsetting from newspaper clippings to first leaves of Debits. Good Macmillan and Co. hardcover
réf. 123402London Macmillan and Co. 1902. . First edition; large 8vo 24 x 18.5 cm; 22 full-page black & white illustrations by the author smaller illustrations within text spotting to free endpapers small dent to page edges lightly affecting prelims some minor spots or marks throughout primarily affecting p.49 and pp82-87 none affecting legibility of text small tear to lower edge of p.87 and p.145 approx. 1-2cm otherwise good condition with bright illustrations; modern red morocco one-line gilt-panelled border spine in 6 compartments with gilt lettering to second and third gilt decoration to others original cloth cover bound in at rear top edge gilt some general signs of wear corners lightly rubbed otherwise a handsome fine binding; 249pp. A handsome copy of Kipling's famous collection of short stories and the only to be illustrated by himself. Kipling's famous stories include: "How the Whale Got His Throat" "How the Camel Got His Hump" "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin" "How the Leopard Got His Spots" "The Elephant's Child" "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo" "The Beginning of the Armadilloes" "How the First Letter Was Written" "How the Alphabet Was Made" "The Crab that Played with the Sea" "The Cat that Walked by Himself" and "The Butterfly that Stamped." London, Macmillan and Co., 1902. hardcover
réf. 57087093-6EDC Publishing. Used - Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. EDC Publishing unknown
2024réf. x-1843847191Ds Brewer 2024. Paperback. New. 206 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.44 inches. Ds Brewer paperback
2025réf. x-1843847515Ds Brewer 2025. Paperback. New. 178 pages. 9.21x6.14x9.21 inches. Ds Brewer paperback
2016réf. x-1359911545Palala Press 2016. Hardcover. New. 514 pages. 6.14x1.13x9.21 inches. Palala Press hardcover
2025réf. x-9363117049CBY PRESS 2025. Paperback. New. 540 pages. 8.50x1.22x11.00 inches. CBY PRESS paperback
réf. 120460London Macmillan and Co. 1895. . First edition; 8vo 195 x135 mm; 39 text illustrations including head and tail-piece vignettes and historiated initials unobtrusive ownership signature in ink to ffep usual age-toning intermittent spotting throughout occasionally intrusive; publisher's blue cloth decoratively ruled and pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover spine lettered in gilt all edges gilt embossed front cover shelf wear to extremities of spine corners are bumped gilt cover design well preserved very good condition; 2 blank 6 238pp 2 advertisements. The Jungle Book is a 'collection of stories published in 1894; it's sequel The Second Jungle Book published in 1895 contains stories linked by poems. The stories tell mostly of Mowgli an Indian boy who is raised by wolves from infancy and who learns self-sufficiency and wisdom from the jungle animals. The book describes the social life of the wolf pack and more fancifully the justice and natural order of life in the jungle. Among the animals whose tales are related in the work are Akela the wolf; Baloo the brown bear; Shere Khan the boastful Bengal tiger who is Mowgli's enemy; Kaa the python; Bagheera the panther; and Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose.' Merriam-Webster's Encyclopaedia of Literature. Livingston 116 London, Macmillan and Co., 1895. hardcover
1896réf. 177127London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd 1896. First edition of this collection of short stories previously published in journals including "With the Main Guard" "Drums of the Fore and Aft" "The Man Who Was" "The Courting of Dinah Shadd" "The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney" "The Taking of Lungtungpen" and "The Madness of Private Ortheris". Octavo. Frontispiece and 20 plates illustrations within the text by Archibald Standish Hartrick. Original blue cloth titles and drum design to spine and drummer and fife player design to front cover in gilt blue endpapers gilt edges Spine cocked and toned ends and corners bumped occasional foxing to contents. A very good copy. Richards E1-12 Martindell 67 Livingston 133 Stewart 157. hardcover
1894réf. 193167London: Macmillan and Co. 1894 & 1895. A beautifully presented pair First editions in book form. Kipling's adventurous stories were based on folk tales learned during his childhood in India. The Jungle Book was serialized between 1893 and 1894 and became increasingly popular upon its publication as a book prompting calls for a second instalment. The Second Jungle Book completed the Mowgli saga with five stories that "are essential to its emotional rounding-out" Grolier. 2 works octavo 180 x 199 mm. Half-tone frontispiece with tissue guard in Jungle Book both works with illustrations by William Henry Drake Paul Frenzeny and John Lockwood Kipling. Later 20th-century blue crushed morocco for the London bookseller Charles J. Sawyer spines lettered in gilt single gilt fillet framing compartments and boards small gilt roundels of elephants in profile to front boards double gilt fillet to turn-ins marbled endpapers gilt edges. Ownership inscription contemporary with binding to half-title of the second volume. Bindings bright and unblemished very mild foxing. A near-fine set. Grolier Children's 100 52; Martindell 54 & 56; Richards A76 & A85. hardcover
réf. 123875New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1899 1900 1903 1904 1906 1909 1910 1917 1919 1920 1923 1926. . 31 vols 8vo 21.5 x 15 cm; engraved frontispiece portrait of the author to vol. I with red captioned tissue-guard various photogravures throughout remaining vols with red captioned tissue-guards black and white illustrations to some volumes sporadic light spotting to some tissue-guards minor tears to following leaves to corner of p.179 and p.340 of vol. VII to edge of p.13 of vol. VIII to lower edge of p.247 of vol. XIV to upper corner of p.83 of vol. XVI to top edges of pp277-88 of vol. XVII due to abrasion to page edges to edge of rear endpaper of vol. XXI to edge of p.207 of vol. XXVIII light purple pen mark to p.11 of vol. VIII slight foxing to p.123 likely from paper clipping once being kept there though not affecting legibility of text p.210 loose and newspaper clipping pasted to rear endpaper with pencil caption and corresponding offsetting of vol. XII inserted contemporary newspaper clipping to p.176 of vol. XIII mark to p.1 of vol. XIV light stain to pp314-17 of vol. XV pp55-58 loose and marks to p.330 of vol. XVIII tissue-guard opposite p.140 loose and inserted newspaper clippings to p.339 and p.347 with corresponding offsetting to vol. XXII pasted in newspaper clipping to rear endpaper with pen caption to vol. XXV otherwise occasional spot stain or mark throughout most volumes generally not affecting legibility of text overall very good condition with issues generally being minor; finely-bound by Stikeman & Co. near-contemporary half red morocco over red cloth boards lined in gilt spine in 6 compartments one-line gilt-panelled border with gilt lettering to second and fourth and ornate gilt decoration to others marble endpapers extreme edge offsetting of endpapers to all vols general signs of wear due to age including scuffs marks and scratches primarily to extremities though nothing drastically affecting integrity of the binding more noticeable scuffs to rear panel of vol. I liquid mark across upper board of vol. VII and vol. XIV black mark on rear board of vol. XII and upper board of vol. XX marks to upper board of vol. XIX vol. XXVIII and vol. XXXI overall very good with generally minor issues as a result of age a handsome set; xx 350pp x 307pp x 280pp xvi 386pp viii 387pp viii 368pp viii 341pp xiv 228PP x 329pp vi 377pp xx 359pp viii 242pp x 310 xii 303pp xiv 494pp xii 553pp xii 292pp xii 330pp vi 474pp vi 281pp xii 202pp vi 438pp viii 305pp viii 324pp viii 378pp x 515pp xii 189pp viii 328pp xxii 494pp x 449pp viii 452pp. This handsome thirty-one volume set was published across twenty-seven years and contains a large amount of the works of the writer Rudyard Kipling. The collection contains Kipling's most famous work The Jungle Book and its succeeding companion. Kipling won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for his enigmatic witty prose and poetry and his legacy endured as one of Britain's most eminent writers. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899, 1900, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1909, 1910, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1923, 1926. hardcover
1899réf. P-17766Doubleday McClure 1899. Hardcover. Very Good/First Edition. Octavo. A superb copy with the tissue interleavings and gilt foreedge. Doubleday McClure hardcover
1898réf. P-18391London: Macmillan 1898. Hardcover. Very Good/First Edition. Octavo. An unusually fine copy seldom found thus with bright gilt on spine and top foreedge tight hinges and no internal markings or foxing. Macmillan hardcover
1932réf. P-12099London: Macmillan 1932. Hardcover. Fine/First Edition. Octavo. Small chip to bottom and two very tiny chips at the top spine of a jacket which is bright clean and not clipped and protected by Brodart. No owner's inscription. A very nice copy clean bright and unmarked. Macmillan hardcover
1909réf. P-13119Doubleday Page 1909. Hardcover. Very Good/First Edition. Octavo. With extracts from McClure's Magazine where this story appeared serially. Color endpaper illustrations by Leyendecker. Decorative vintage Dolkart Library bookplate on e.p. else unmarked. A tight clean copy in bright cover gilt Doubleday Page hardcover
1916réf. P-19082London: Macmillan 1916. Hardcover. Very Good/First Edition. Octavo. Minor cover corner fading spots; bookplate. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards. Macmillan hardcover
1898réf. 1008G23New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1898-1910. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. A twenty five volume set of the prose and verse of popular author Rudyard Kipling with plates throughout. A twenty five volume set.In the publisher's original red cloth bindings with gilt to top edges.A set of the prose and verse of Rudyard Kipling an English journalist novelist poet and short-story writer. He was born in British India which inspired much of his work.Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers and is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature at 41 being its youngest recipient to date.Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece except Vol XX and numerous plates. Collated complete. This set includes:Volume I: 1898 Plain Tales From the Hills. With three plates. Volume II: 1898 Soldiers Three and Military Tales Part I. With two plates. Volume III: 1898 Soldiers Three and Military Tales Part II. With two plates. Volume IV: 1898 In Black and White. With two plates. Volume V: 1898 The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Stories. With two plates. Volume VI: 1898 Under the Deodars The Story of the Gadsbys Wee Willie Winkie. With two plates.Volume VII: 1898 The Jungle Book. With two plates. Volume VIII: 1898 The Second Jungle Book. With two plates. Volume IX: 1898 The Light That Failed. With two plates. Volume X: 1898 The Naulahka: A Story of West and East. Written in collaboration with Woolcott Balestier. With two plates.Volume XI: 1898 Verses 1889-1896. With two plates.Volume XII: 1898 "Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks. With two plates.Volume XIII: 1899 The Day's Work Part I. With two plates. Volume XIV: 1899 The Day's Work Part II. With two plates.Volume XV: 1899 From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Part I. With two plates. Volume XVI: 1899 From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Part II. With two plates. Volume XVII: 1900 Early Verse. With two plates. Volume XVIII: 1900 Stalky & Co. With two plates. Volume XIX: 1905 Kim. With nine plates. Volume XX: 1903 Just So Stories For Little Children. With illustrations by the author. Volume XXI: 1903 The Five Nations. With two plates. Volume XXII: 1907 Traffics and Discoveries. With two plates. Volume XXIII:1906 Puck of Pook's Hill. With three plates. Volume XXIV: 1909 Actions and Reactions. With three plates. Volume XXV: 1910 Rewards and Fairies. With three plates. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally smart. Fading to spines with bumping to the heads and tails. Some fading to boards. Odd small mark to boards. Hinges occasionally straining. Offsetting and spotting to endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with light spotting. Very Good Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1897réf. 193165London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1897. First British edition of Kipling's only novel set entirely in America. The work was originally serialized in Pearson's Magazine between 1896 and 1897. It was written while the newlywed Kipling was living in Vermont. The American edition preceded the British publication by a month. Octavo. Frontispiece with tissue guard 21 plates by I. W. Taber. With 2 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. Original blue cloth spine and front cover lettered and with decorations in gilt black endpapers gilt edges. Armorial bookplate of Hugh Erat Harrison 1859-1909 designed by his brother Thomas Erat Harrison and dated 1892. Spine skewed cloth and gilt bright occasional foxing. A very good copy. Richards A103; Stewart p. 152. hardcover
1900réf. 179281Santiago de Chile: Hume & Co. Libreria Inglesa 1900. First edition one of approximately 400 copies pirated in Chile "from patriotic motives. Few copies were sold and in about 1906 in a shelf-clearing move the balance burnt. Alternatively according to Livingston and Stewart the remaining copies were pulped at a paper mill in 1911" Richards. This collection includes verses and newspaper reports by Kipling. Duodecimo. Original brown wrappers lettered in red and black leaves unopened. Housed in custom red cloth chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. Bookseller's typed cataloguing from James F. Drake loosely inserted. Light creases to wrappers and upper corners of contents overall a fine unopened copy. Richards A166. hardcover
réf. 75429London: Methuen and Co. 1892. Poetry FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.xx; 208 16. With a vignette illustration to title-page. Publisher's maroon buckram with gilt titles to spine top edge gilt and other edges untrimmed. Toned with some spotting to endpapers otherwise internally clean. Spine sunned with light wear to cloth. Very good. London: Methuen and Co., 1892 unknown
1890réf. 1008R16London: A. H. Wheeler & Co. c.1890 . Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. The fifth edition of this Indian Railway Library collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling recased in quarter cloth with paper boards. The fifth edition. Recased in quarter cloth with paper boards. A collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling from A. H. Wheeler & Co.'s Indian Railway Library No. 6.Containing Wee Willie Winkie; Baa Baa Black Sheep; His Majesty the King and The Drums of the Fore and Aft. Recased in quarter cloth with paper boards. Externally smart with one chip to paper front board. Boards lightly toned. Paper remnants from previous endpapers remaining at hinges. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright with spotting to first and last few leaves. Very Good A. H. Wheeler & Co. hardcover
2025réf. x-9357005056Grapevine 2025. Hardcover. New. 202 pages. 6.24x0.65x9.24 inches. Grapevine hardcover
2013réf. YF3193Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 2013. Hardcover. Like New. Collector's Edition Easton Press. Leatherbound with gilt page edges and raised bands on spine. Like new never read. Slight shelf wear. Reliable customer service. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! The Easton Press hardcover
1901réf. 395London: Macmillan 1901. First edition first printing. Original publisher's dark red cloth. VG. Considered one of Kipling's best novels the story follows the adventures of an Irish orphan in British India blending espionage cultural exploration and spiritual mentorship. Condition: VG Complete. Original cloth. BOOK INFO Published in 1901 by Macmillan in London. First edition first printing. In its original dark red cloth covered boards with gilt spine lettering and an inset gilt medallion of an elephant on the front board. Top edge gilt. Octavo 8" x 5.25". Collated and complete including half-title publisher ads and all plates: vi 413 3 10 b&w plates. ABOUT THE AUTHOR & WORK Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer poet and novelist celebrated for works like The Jungle Book Kim and the poem If-. Born in British India in 1865 his vivid storytelling often drew on Anglo-Indian life and British imperial themes. Awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature he was the prize's first English-language recipient. KIM - The protagonist Kimball O'Hara known as Kim is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and mother. He grows up as a street vagabond in Lahore blending seamlessly into local society despite being white. Kim befriends a Tibetan lama who is on a spiritual quest and becomes his disciple traveling with him along the Grand Trunk Road. This journey introduces Kim to the world of espionage as he occasionally works for Mahbub Ali a Pashtun horse trader and British secret service operative. The novel explores Kim's dual identity as both a sahib and a streetwise native highlighting his struggle between freedom and duty CONDITION REPORT The book is in VG condition. Exterior and binding: Slightly cracked front hinge and frond a board a little loose otherwise firmly bound. Cloth is colorful and unfaded scarce to find. Spine is not sunned. Gilt spine lettering is vivid and bright. Rubbed spine tips lightly rubbed extremities. Light rubbing to gilt elephant medallion. Interior: Pages are clean and bright. An occasional light smudge or sign of light handling. A few pages with some light dust soiling. Moderate foxing to endpapers and an infrequent light spot within text. Dated in faded contemporary ink on FFEP. All in all a collectible copy in much nicer condition than normally found one of Kipling's best and most famous novels. Macmillan unknown
