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1913Best.-Nr. 73637Collection comprises in red leather: Barrack Room Ballads and other verses; Actions and Reactions; From Sea to Sea Volume II; Puck of Pook's Hill; The Naulahka; Rewards and Fairies; The Day's Work; Many Inventions; Stalky and Co.; Wee Willie Winkie; Debits and Credits first edition 1926; The Second Jungle Book. In blue cloth: Departmental Ditties; The Light that Failed; Captain Courageous Published by Macmillan and Co. Ltd; Methuen and Co. Ltd hardcover
1910Best.-Nr. 73636Collection comprises: Barrack Room Ballads and other verses; Actions and Reactions; From Sea to Sea Volume II; Puck of Pook's Hill; The Naulahka; Rewards and Fairies; The Day's Work; Many Inventions; Stalky and Co.; Wee Willie Winkie; Debits and Credits; The Second Jungle Book The Seven Seas; The Years Between; Departmental Ditties; Songs from Books; The Light that Failed; Traffics and Discoveries; Captain Courageous; The Five Nations Published by Macmillan and Co. Ltd hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. E18841New York: Doubleday McClure 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First ediiton. Slim 8vo hardcover in dark blue-green decorated cloth lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Nouveau decorated endpapers in green and white. Striking three-color frontis of "Princess Anniean louise". Illustrations and margin decorations by Orson Lowell. A tight generally fine example tasteful vintage bookplate front pastedown. Handsome copy indeed. Doubleday, McClure hardcover
1906Best.-Nr. E18840New York: Doubleday Page 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First ediiton. Hardcover in very light grey cloth lettered in gilt and with color illustration of a young man and woman in an automobile tipped onto front cover. Top edge gilt; title page printed in red and black. 80 pp. With 14 charming and romantic full page color plates by F.H. Townsend. A tight bright example two small faint spots to the outer front board. Gilt bright. Some offsetting from now absent clipping front endpapers. Doubleday, Page hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 020471Boston MA: C. R. Gibson Company 1899. Privately Printed. Hardcover. Good/Very Good/No Jacket. Goodling Sally . Type: Book This book is a recessional by the famous writer Kipling. The book was printed privately. It is a very small book of five pages. The cover is blue with gold gilt and black blank inlaid decoration. There is slight edge wear on the upper and lower spine/ corner tips. The book is in very good condition for being published in 1899. The first blank page has the corner tip missing. There is an inscription on the third blank page as a gift from son to father dated February 27 1899. This book is a collector's item. There are No Marks No Underlining and No Writing in the reading text of the book. The book is clean and tight. The book is in very good readable condition. C. R. Gibson Company hardcover
1890Best.-Nr. 25745Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1890 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Three issues bound in one volume. March and May 1890 January 1891. Binding is poor with insect damage to the surface and both front and rear hinges failing. Happily the contents are "fine." as-is. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . J. B. Lippincott hardcover
Best.-Nr. BD94Barnes and Noble 1983. TWO VOLUMES Hbks Volume 1: 1-170pp and Volume 2: pp 173-410 some sun-fading to dj spines otherwise an unread set excellent clean tight unmarked in sleeve-protected djs as new Barnes and Noble, 1983 unknown
Best.-Nr. 11111Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited 1906. First Canadian edition. Octavo red cloth with gold medallion stamped on upper board t.e.g. pp. x 306; with twenty illustrations by H.R. Millar. Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature 1907. Previous owner's names on front free endpaper pencil notes regarding a previous purchase of this book on the rear paste-down endpaper spine is just slightly faded covers show pale spotting especially at the gutters else a very good copy. No dust jacket. Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited, 1906. First Canadian edition. hardcover
1894Best.-Nr. 25364London: MacMillan & Company Ltd. Good. 1894. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. In the original blue cloth. Covers are rubbed at the corners with moderate soiling/wear. Rear inner hinge is starting and the front inner hinge has obviouly been repaired. Owner's inscription onthe second endpaper. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 212 pages . MacMillan & Company , Ltd. hardcover
1892Best.-Nr. 50851London: MacMillan & Co 1892. Gilt scroll to head of front cover and gilt illustration of elephant on centre of front cover. Head and foot of spine edgeworn and bumped corners bumped edges of front and rear boards shelf worn spine slightly discoloured commensurate with age. Gutters cracked sprung foxing to fep/rep closed edges uncut foxing to pp but clear to read illustration of Caligraphic Tiger to dedication page includes 95 illustrations. Hard. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo. MacMillan & Co Hardcover
1891Best.-Nr. COLLECTI013475ILONDON: MACMILLAN & CO. NEAR FINE WITHOUT D.J. PUB 1891. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL NAVY CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT SPINE TITLES GILT DECORATIVE BORDER ALONG TOP OF SPINE AND UPPER COVER GREEN COATED ENDPAPERS CIRCULAR PUBLISHER'S DEVICE AT CENTER OF REAR COVER TWO PAGES OF ADDS FOLLOWING 340 PAGE TEXT WITH A 55 PAGE PUBLISHER'S CATALOGUE DATED FEB 1892 INSERTED AT REAR. OTHER THAN SOME MODEST WEAR AT THE BOTTOM FORE-EDGE CORNER SOME VERY FAINT DAMPING TO THE REAR COVER SMALL PORTRAIT OF YOUNG KIPLING AFFIXED TO VERSO OF THE FRONT FREE-ENDPAPER OPPOSITE THE HALF-TITLE THAT ALSO CONTAINS A PREVIOUS OWNER'S SIGNATURE DATED JANUARY 141892 KIPLING RELATED NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS ALSO AFFIXED TO THE LAST BLANK OF THE CATALOGUE ADN THE VERSO OF THE REAR FREE-ENDPAPER AND THE REAR ENDPAPER. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY WITH BRIGHT GILT TITLES AND DECORATION. . MACMILLAN & CO hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 003979Boston: Greenock Press 1899. Hardcover. Good/Very Good/No Jacket. Type: Book Limited to one thousand numbered sets of which this is No. 89. Eight of ten volumes. Green cloth covers with sun aged paste down title plate on spine. Gilt top edge pages. Corners lightly bumped. Light edgewear. Volume one: Soldiers Three; Volume two Plain Tales from the Hills; Volume three The Phantom Rickshaw; Volume four The Light that Failed; Volume five Under the Deodars; Volume six Wee Willie Winkie; VOLUME SEVEN AND EIGHT MISSING; Volume nine The Story of the Gadspys; Volume ten Letters of Marque. Some light discoloration and soiling on a few of the books. Greenock Press hardcover
1979Best.-Nr. 161012Frederick Muller Ltd. 1979. Hardcover. Both volumes in fine bright and tight condition / several closed tears and chips to dust jacket of v.1 near fine on v.2. 2vs. dark blue cloth with gold spine lettering size: 8.75"x10.75" 468pp. 242pp. illustrated with photographs of approximately 1900 specimens in v.1 and 1200 in v.2. Frederick Muller Ltd. hardcover
1910Best.-Nr. 0007372New York: Doubleday Page 1910. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Good. 4to 392 pages pictorial red cloth recased with new endpapers clipping burn to pp. 332/333; the tipped-in color plates are ornamented with gold borders with for plates torn at corners. This American trade edition preceded the British not until 1912. This contains the poem "The Sacrifice of Er-Heb" wihch is not in the British edition. Livingston 310. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson: 17 illustrations of which 9 are in color. Kipling was proposed for Poet Laureate and he was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature. Doubleday, Page hardcover
1909Best.-Nr. 63142xiii 176 pages with small illustration on title page binding by Sotheran marbled endpapers Published by Methuen and Co hardcover
1909Best.-Nr. 52477London: MacMillan & Co 1909. Spine is lightly sunned otherwise boards have light wear but are overall clean. Fep/Rep and CE have some mild foxing pres plate to flyleaf. PP and illus in good clean condition. Dec Cloth Boards. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Detmond Maurice & Edward. 8vo. MacMillan & Co Hardcover
1914Best.-Nr. 000016850Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co. 1914. First American Edition 1st Printing. softcover. Fine. Six pamphlets octavo uniformly bound in paper wrappers the front covers lettered in green. Copyright issues-- just a few copies of each were printed. Precedes the British edition. Livingston 390. The titles are: infantry The Men At Work; II: The Quality of the Machine; III: Guns and Supply; IV: Canadians in Camp; V: Indian Troops; VI: A Territorial Battalion and a Conclusion. In a custom red chemise and slipcase with leather spine and gilt spine titles that is a bit sunned at the top edge of rear panel. 042407B Doubleday, Page & Co. paperback
1915Best.-Nr. 11981Garden City: Doubleday Page 1915 First American Edition. Boards with pictorial paper labels on front three flags and spine. 12mo. 6 7/8" x 4 1/4". 130pp. In very nice condition. Very Clean. Tight. Text bright. Scarce. no jacket maybe as issued. Very good or better condition. Doubleday Page hardcover
Best.-Nr. 11982Privately printed Boston 1899 Wrappers sewn or bound with red string. Frontispiece. 5 pages. Thin. Text framed in orange printed vignettes. Short tear at top of wrappers. Wrapper cracked halfway at hinge. Very good condition. Privately printed, Boston, 1899 unknown
1892Best.-Nr. 11979New York: Macmillan 1892 First American Edition. Dark blue cloth stamped in gold. 8vo. 207 8 pages ads. Pictorial gilt decoration on upper part of front cover - Indian holding a saddled horse. Includes a nice collection of very old newspaper articles relating to Kiping originally in envelope glued to back board. Front hinge split and rear hinge weak. Cover has a little wear at corners. no jacket. Good minus condition. Macmillan hardcover
Best.-Nr. 20633NY: P. F. Collier. Near Fine. N.D. First Edition. Flexible leather. Note that this is not acutally a book. This sample was produced to show prospective purchasers what the 10 volume Sahib set would look like. Contains sample pages and a number of illustrations from the set as well as a book spine bound into the rear showing the binding used for the set. Light rubbing to the edges. Slight separation at the bottom of the inner rear hinge. ; 8" . P. F. Collier hardcover
1923Best.-Nr. 29614Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1923. First American Edition. Hardcover. Both volumes lack dust jackets some shelf wear and chipping cracking and darkening of the spine labels contents vg cond. ; Illus. maps; 641 pages . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1890Best.-Nr. 17754NY: JOHN W. LOVELL. 1890. 1890. First Edition. Softcover. First American Edition. The so-called authorized edition with a facsimile of Rudyard Kipling's letter admonishing rampant copyright infringements on his works while authorizing them to all in a spirit of helplessness opposite title which bears the "Authorized Edition" statement. This is the trade paperback International Series issue which was published simultaneously with the cloth issue. Preface ends on page 6. Ads on page 210 This copy was rebound in contemporary grey cloth with a black & gold title label at head of spine. Cloth corners & spine ends rubbed. Soiling & traces of faint dam ping to covers. Text in excellent condition but for an erasure on the half-title page A Kipling classic. GC . NY: JOHN W. LOVELL. 1890 paperback
1909Best.-Nr. 4166130 full page tipped in colour illustrations as well as black & white vignettes through by W. Heath Robinson Musson Book Company, Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
Best.-Nr. 884570London: Longman & Green Original green pictorial wrappers rebound in a contemporary 3/4 dark blue morocco binding with raised spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers; t.e.g. A lovely copy with very light wear and age toning. The sequel to "The New Arabian Nights" this book contains a series of remarkable stories in which the protagonists encounter several characters who may or may not be conspirators in a bombing plot on behalf of Irish independence. The characters weave intriguing and troubling tales of their histories. The chapters stand alone as adventures but the whole is tied together nicely in the end. Stevenson manages to tell tales of murderous Mormons crazed Voodoo practitioners and wayward Bohemian princes among others. First Edition. 3/4 Morocco Over Wraps. Excellent. Small 8vo. Longman & Green, Hardcover