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1923Best.-Nr. 29876London: MacMillan and Co. Limited. Near Fine. 1923. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A first English edition gilded title on original red cloth in just about near Fine condition showing little rubbing and sunning to spine. Also issued in gray paper wrappers. Livingston 486; Rectorial address delivered at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland on October 10 1923. Originally published as "Man's Desire for Independence" in The London Times. Kipling became Rector of St. Andrews in 1922. "The sole revenge that Maturity can take upon Youth for the sin of being young is to preach at it. When I was young I sat and suffered under that dispensation." ; 16mo; 32 pages . MacMillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1923Best.-Nr. 29877London: MacMillan and Co. Limited. Fine. 1923. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. A charming first English edition in Fine condition grayish blue card wrappers. Ruled and lettered in dark blue. 20000 copies printed. Also issued in red cloth. Livingston 486 Richards A343; Kipling became Rector of St. Andrews in 1922 and gave this rectorial address at his inauguration the University of St. Andrews in Scotland on October 10 1923. Originally published as "Man's Desire for Independence" in The London Times. "The sole revenge that Maturity can take upon Youth for the sin of being young is to preach at it. When I was young I sat and suffered under that dispensation." ; Small 8vo; 32 pages . MacMillan and Co., Limited paperback books
1932Best.-Nr. 34310New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1932. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Cloth. First American edition/first printing following the first English edition in the same year and preceding the limited edition by Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine condition lightly soiled endpapers in alike dust jacket with minor rubbing and edgewear. Richards 403 Livingston 578 Steward 589; Kipling's final collection of short stories published shortly after the death of his only son. Limits and Renewals contains fourteen short stories three of which were published here for the first time; 8vo; iv v-vi 2 3-371 3 pages . Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc. hardcover books
1923Best.-Nr. 34337Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1923. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Cloth. An attractive set of first American editions in two volumes. Both volumes in Near Fine condition with minor rubbing to edges paper labels on spine lightly chipped. Top edges gilt. Lacking the rare dust-jackets. Richards A341 Livingston 483 Stewart 504; Kipling's history of the Irish Guards in World War I recounting details of various engagements. Meticulously researched from primary sources including several maps ; Vol. 1 & 2; 8vo; viii ix-xviii 334; xiv 307 1 pages . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1915Best.-Nr. 14454London: MacMillan & Company Ltd. Fine. 1915. First Edition; First Printing. Original Wraps. A most handsome clean first edition/first printing with only limited signs of wear. "Collected edition" versus the pamphlets pusblished separately. Issued in yellow wrappers the front cover lettered in red list of the Service Kipling on the back. This book was not published in America. Livingston 391. Contains separate advertisement sheet for the Collections of all the Books on the War; Rudyard Kipling winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1907 issued this collection with the previously separately issued stories of The New Army The Men at Work The Quality of the Machine Guns and Supply Canadians in Cap Indian Troops A Territorial Battalion and A Conclusion ; 8vo . MacMillan & Company , Ltd. paperback books
1891Best.-Nr. 49259Allahabad India: A.H. Wheeler & Co 1891. Very Good -. Allahabad India: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1891. First Published Edition following the suppressed edition of which only three copies were said to have survived. Octavo; original illustrated wrappers; viii 108 xpp. Housed in a red linen folder and a crimson half morocco slipcase. Wear and chipping to wraps with exposure along spine; binding holding; ownership inscription of an Arthur Wilson dated 1894 to title page; a Good to Very Good copy of a scarce Kipling title the English edition being much more common. Livingston 70. A.H. Wheeler & Co unknown books
1920Best.-Nr. 338454New York: Scribner 1920. hardcover. very good. 25 volumes. Frontispieces with tissue guards; other illustrations. 8vo older 3/4 green morocco marbled boards ornately gilt spines top edges gilt some wear at extremities/ New York: Scribner's 1920-1923. A very good attactive set. Near Fine. Scribner unknown books
1919Best.-Nr. 54835London: Methuen and Co. LTD 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Octavo. xiii 159 1 31 1pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering on spine in original illustrated dustjacket black lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated title page. A collection of poems written during the period from just after the Boer War until the aftermath of World War I with topics including war life death and God. Index of first lines at front. At rear a listing of Methuen titles on thirty-two pages. Inside flaps with publisher's Kipling titles. Minor sunning along edges of binding. Dustjacket with three-quarter inch chip. Methuen and Co. LTD hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 67981Np. nd. The photograph is a reprint of the 1892 Bourne & Shepherd portrait of Kipling in formal pose with cigar in his left hand. Original signature in ink on 4.5 x 8 cm slip of cream paper. Matted with a 12 x 11 cm glossy copy print of a portrait of Kipling. Fine. unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 158381930. Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Company 1930. Original light yellow wrappers lettered in green. First Edition of this short story being the American copyright issue -- 75 copies printed and privately distributed in August 1930 in order to secure copyright protection in America. The main story is the voyage generally reckoned to have taken place in or shortly after 60 AD during which St. Paul was shipwrecked on the island of Malta then called Melita -- the account of which given in Acts 27-28 has been said to be the most vivid account of a voyage and shipwreck in the whole of Greek and Latin literature. In Kipling's story that voyage is described in the conversation of three reminiscing seamen whose meeting provides a typically Kiplingesque "frame" for the main story kipling.org. This tale then appeared in the September issue of London Magazine and was subsequently collected in 1932 in LIMITS AND RENEWALS the last collection published during Kipling's life. A fine copy. Richards A389; Stewart 592. Housed in a morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. unknown books
1895Best.-Nr. 159041895. Kipling J. Lockwood. With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling C.I.E. London: Macmillan and Co. 1895. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt all page edges gilt. First English Edition published three days after the American of the sequel to THE JUNGLE BOOK which had been published the year before. It continues with more tales of Mowgli that exemplify "The Laws of the Jungle" -- with illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling Rudyard's father. This was the second of the four Kipling gift books bound similarly by Macmillan with SOLDIER TALES and CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS coming out the following two years respectively. This is an attractive copy very good-plus or possibly near-fine volume slightly askew as usual very light wear at the extremities; atypically other than the endpapers there is no foxing on the leaves within. Richards A85; Stewart 132. unknown books
1891Best.-Nr. 157181891. Hugh Walpole's copy Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1891. 4 pp preliminary plus 9 pp terminal ads undated with prices in rupees. Original grey-green pictorial wrappers First Published Edition technically the second Indian edition following the suppressed 1890 edition which had considerably different contents and of which only six copies are known. This 1891-dated Allahabad edition printed there came next followed by the 1891 edition with joint Allahabad / London imprint the first English edition printed in the UK. This was issued as No. XIV in the "Indian Railway Library" -- though Wheeler published this THE SMITH ADMINISTRATION and LETTERS OF MARQUE without authority after Kipling had left India for England. As is typical for this volume that is extremely fragile more delicate than the authorized titles condition is good-to-very good -- with about half of the wrapper's spine perished and with chips at some corners. Livingston says of this edition "although it is very scarce copies can be found." Richards A52 mistakenly showing this edition as undated; Stewart 93; Martindell 42; Livingston 70. Housed in a cloth clamshell case. Provenance: 1 there is an indecipherable signature with the date 1891 written across the front cover; 2 at the top of the title page is the signature of Hugh Walpole 1884-1941 the English novelist born in New Zealand; he also added his "Brackenburn" leather bookplate to the inside of the front wrapper. The interior of the clamshell case bears the label of W. & G. Foyle Ltd of Charing Cross Road. unknown books
1920Best.-Nr. 83941Little Rock: Incunabula Bookshop 1920. Limited. paperback. fine. 8vo original gray printed wrappers. Little Rock: Incunabula Bookshop 1920. First American Edition. Stewart 477. One of only 100 numbered copies. Incunabula Bookshop unknown books
Best.-Nr. 121617London: Daily Express. paperback. very good. The Famous Speech at Tunbridge Wells on May 16th 1914. Photograph of Kipling by E.A. Hoppe. 2 leaves small 4to. London: The Daily Express 1914. Stewart 379. Daily Express unknown books
1891Best.-Nr. 265647Allahabad: Wheeler 1891. paperback. good. 96pp thin 8vo printed gray green wrappers; lightly edge-chipped. Allahabad & London: A.H. Wheeler & Sampson Low Marston n.d. 1891. First English Edition. Volume XIV of the Indian Railway Library. Errata slip attached to title page. Wheeler unknown books
1901Best.-Nr. 140947705London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1901. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing of Rudyard Kipling's picaresque novel about an orphaned Irish boy adrift in India. vi 413 pp. 2 advertising pages. Bound in publisher's red cloth gilt lettering to spine and gilt embossed device to front board top edge gilt; lacking dust jacket. Near Fine with light rubbing and tanning to spine and extremities foxing to textblock edges and dust-soiling to upper edge. Contents lightly toned foxing to endpapers and prelims. Publisher's advertisement slip laid in. A fantastic copy. Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 140946715Easthapmton MA: The Chamberlain Press 1976. Limited Edition. Fine. Limited edition. Number 21 of 75 copies signed by Sarah Chamberlain. Bound in publisher's marbled boards with stamped leather spine label. Trivial rubbing at extremities else Fine. An endearing fine press edition of Kipling's fable with six tipped-in illustrations by Chamberlain. The Chamberlain Press unknown books
1896Best.-Nr. 140944705New York: The Century Co 1896. Early Printing. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition early reprint with "Thirtieth Thousand" on the title page. Bound in publisher's original olive green cloth decoratively embossed and stamped in gilt. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper contents lightly tanned and occasionally foxed else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with light chipping at the edges toning and a scratch to the front panel. A stunning and bright copy with sharp gilt no doubt protected by the dust jacket over all these years. A remarkable survival. The Century Co unknown books
1886Best.-Nr. 140941952Lahore: Civil and Military Press Gazette 1886. First Edition. Very Good. First edition of Kipling's first published book. Bound in publisher's original tan printed wrappers imitating the form of an Indian civil service envelope with an overlapping flap. Wear to spine and a short split at the bottom end of the overlapping flap fold. Kipling was serving as sub-editor of the Civil and Military Gazette and this volume collects his poetry which was published in the paper. Housed in a chemise custom dark blue straight grain morocco slipcase. Civil and Military Press Gazette unknown books
1902Best.-Nr. 140937189New York: John Lane The Bodley Head 1902. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. viii 565 10 ads pp. Original ribbed blue cloth decorated in gilt gilt topstain. Very Good with slightly soiled and scratched cloth spine gilt dulled hinges starting offsetting and foxing to prelims name on paste down and a few pencil marks in margins. A scarce poetry anthology featuring Rudyard Kipling Bliss Carman A. E. Houseman William Butler Yeats and 29 other younger poets with incongruously antiquated Arts-and-Crafts-style woodcut portraits mini-biographies and selections of their work. It was conceived as a follow-up to the scandalous The Yellow Book aimed at a similar readership and took around five years for the editor to realize. See Parker Sarah "Framing the Woman Poet: William Archer's Poets of the Younger Generation.". John Lane The Bodley Head unknown books
1926Best.-Nr. 121837Cleveland: Rowfant Club 1926. First. hardcover. fine. 13pp. Small 8vo marbled boards. Cleveland: The Rowfant Club 1926. Limited First Edition. This angling narrative was one of Kipling's early periodical contributions and is here reprinted for the first time. One of 176 numbered copies printed by Bruce Rogers. Fine in original board slipcase. Rowfant Club unknown books
1986Best.-Nr. 25299Oxford: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 019812323X . Edited by Andrew Rutherford. First edition. Faint impression from a removed sticker on front paste-down else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Oxford University Press hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 625534Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Third printing of the Anniversary Edition library issue. Illustrated by Etienne Delessert. Foreword by Nelson Doubleday. Quarto. Measuring approximately 9¼" x 12½". Remainder spray on bottom edge and crown the tiniest bit bumped else fine in price-clipped with tiny new publisher's price very good dust jacket with rubbing tiny tears at the spine ends and a gold "Library Edition" label at the spine. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
1897Best.-Nr. 202London: Macmillan 1897. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Kipling's popular nautical tale with vivid descriptions of the Massachusetts fishing industry. The basis for the 1937 film starring Spencer Tracy Lionel Barrymore and Mickey Rooney. London: Macmillan 1897. Octavo original cloth gilt all edges gilt. With illustrations by I.W. Taber. Book slightly cocked as often; a few spots to cloth crease to rear endpaper. Text unusually clean and cloth gilt bright. Without scarce dust jacket. Macmillan hardcover books
2005Best.-Nr. 300292London: Folio Society 2005. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Philip Bannister. Complete five volume set of large octavos; each in publishers red illustrated cloth; titling on the spines in gold; housed in the publishers slipcase; some wear to the slipcase~~Illustrations by Philip Bannister~~Introduction by Andrew Lycett. Near Fine binding. Folio Society unknown books