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1942réf. 007716Garden City: Garden City 1942 Pictorial boards with light shelf wear; matching dust jacket with closed tears rear panel with tears and creasing original price intact 5050. A retelling of an African folk tale with wonderful color and b&w artwork throughout. Near Fine/Good. Illus. by Feodor Rojankovsky. Small 4to. Garden City hardcover books
1987réf. 108038NY:: Prentice-Hall Books for Young Readers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0132736403 . First printing thus. Very good in a very good three inch closed edge tear on front panel age toning dust jacket. . Prentice-Hall Books for Young Readers, hardcover books
1938réf. CNSZ08London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1938. Hardcover. Very good. Volumes I through XXVI and Volume XXVIII quarto size approx. 6650 total pages signed by Rudyard Kipling in Volume I. Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 is perhaps best known today for "The Jungle Book" however he was prolific with a list almost too long to count of novels short stories poems and travel literature. In 1907 at the age of 41 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature the first English language writer to receive the award and the youngest recipient to date n.b. above information from Wiki. This set of his works "The Bombay Edition" has Kipling's signature in the first volume and is printed on paper especially made for the edition bearing the watermark "R elephant-headed Ganesha with swastika and lotus K". Note: for those who may not be aware of this the swastika was originally used as a symbol of many types of good wishes: health luck success etc.; it's usage goes back as far as the 4th century BCE - or perhaps even earlier. It is in use in many Eastern religions even today as a symbol of divinity - it was in all of these positive aspects that Kipling used the symbol. It wasn't until the appropriation of the symbol by the Nazi party in the early 20th century that it came to mean to many in Western and European cultures a symbol of hatred and anti-Semitism. The first twenty-five volumes issued in an edition of 1050 copies the first eight volumes in 1913 volumes nine through twenty-two in 1914 volume twenty-three in 1915 volume twenty-four in 1917 and volume twenty-five in 1919. It was not until 1927 that volume twenty-six was published obviously due to the Great War and the final five volumes being issued in 1938 these final volumes issued in an edition of only 500 copies. This has had the result that many available sets do not contain the later volumes. This set consists of volumes one through twenty-six consecutively with the addition of volume twenty-eight. ___DESCRIPTION: Each volume bound in half natural linen over blue paper-covered boards paper spine labels top edges gilt fore- and bottom edges uncut volumes one through twenty-five with the Ex-Libris of Albert Julian Pell on the front pastedown see Provenance below Kipling's signature in black ink on the edition fore-title each volume with the volume title page in blue and black each story with a blue initial capital each volume with a colophon with a Kipling's device in blue most but not all volumes with spare spine labels tipped in at the rear flyleaf; bindings are quarto size 9 7/8" by 6 3/4" pagination ranges from 135 to 357 pp.; note that the paper covering the boards on volume twenty-four does not match the other volumes it is close in colour but different in texture since the Ex-Libris matches the others in the set we surmise it was issued this way but our bibliography is silent on that issue; also note that volumes twenty-six and twenty-eight were acquired separately see notes below. ___CONDITION: The set is overall in solid very good condition; the bindings clean although the blue paper now shows offsetting from the glue a bit of very light bumping to the head and tail of the spines the spine labels all sunned and some with light wear strong square text blocks with mostly solid hinges a few tender or slightly cracked but still holding most corners lightly rubbed a few board edges lightly dinged the interiors mostly clean and bright a few pages with light foxing and other than the Ex-Libris free of prior owner markings. Exceptions to this that we see include a prior bookseller pencilled marking above the Ex-Libris in volume one the bottom front corner of volume seven appears to have been bent at some point both hinges in volume thirteen were repaired at some point with what appears to be archival paper but we cannot be certain volume twenty-four with a dark stain on the upper portion of the spine whatever caused that did not penetrate into the book as the interior is fine and there is also a small light stain on the front board volume twenty-five with a light scratch on the front board volume twenty-six has the note from Robert Kirkman to Serendipity books see Provenance below loosely laid in and in addition to overall soil there is some damage to the fore-edge of the front board and the first few leaves along with some short pencilled notes on the front and rear pastedowns; volume twenty-eight is ex-library with the library stamp on the spine near the tail as well as library markings to the front pastedown including the residue of the removal of the library pocket the binding somewhat shaken and a few gutters lightly cracked. ___PROVENANCE: Volumes one through twenty-five with the armorial Ex-Libris of Albert Julian Pell 1863-1916 with the motto "mente manuque" "With mind and hand". Pell graduated from Merton College Oxford and practised law. He attained the rank of Captain and Hon. Major in the 4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment and shortly before the outbreak of the Great War was attached to the General Staff of the Western Command. Volume twenty-six was acquired separately by U.K. bookseller Robert Kirkman Ltd. who sold it to Serendipity Books Oakland California; we have their note dated 21st March 2006 indicating that "remaining volumes will follow"; this set has volume twenty-eight but not twenty-seven oddly; and these final two volumes without the Ex-Libris of Major Pell. ___CITATION: Livingston pp. 454-456. ___POSTAGE: Please note that due to the size and weight of this set additional postage will apply for both domestic and international customers; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. 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1893réf. 596780Boston: White-Smith Music Pub. Co 1893. Softcover. Good. Presumably the first American edition. Folio. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Edgewear throughout including chips and tears an internal tape repair along the fold of the bifolium and rubbing and soiling to the exterior a complete but good only copy. For voice and piano. Plate number 10579 - 4. The back cover features short samples of five "new bass songs" including "Danny Deever" and "Mandalay" both by Kipling and Cobb. This American edition is unrecorded by OCLC and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. White-Smith Music Pub. Co unknown books
1923réf. 24101London: Macmillan 1923. First edition. Red cloth spine faded; very good copy. Macmillan unknown books
1937réf. 596820London: Elkin & Co 1937. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Quarto. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. A price stamp with some sticker shadow at the top of the front cover light age toning rubbing to the exterior and light bumping to the corners still a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "E. & Co. 1960." OCLC locates only seven physical holdings of this piece and it appears to be equally uncommon in the trade. Elkin & Co unknown books
1910réf. 526716London: The Frederick Harris Company 1910. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Composer's name stamp on the front cover some light toning to the exterior and bumping to the corners including a nick to the ends of the fold of the outer bifolium still a complete and very good copy. For voice or piano monologue with no vocal melody. Plate number "F.H. 810." The front cover features a black and white portrait of whom we assume to be the composer of the piece Frederic Dale. "These words are reprinted from Mr. Rudyard Kipling's The Seven Seas by permission of the author" printed above the music. OCLC locates only three physical holdings. The Frederick Harris Company unknown books
1971réf. 173594Del Mar California: Alexis Gregory and CRM Publishing 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine. Single volume. Faux leather red and gilt-stamped silhouette on front red and gilt-stamped design and title on spine. Owner's name penned on front pastedown thus near fine. Featuring: Snow Country by Kawabata The Light that Failed by Kipling and The Man Who Knew Coolidge by Lewis and more. Alexis Gregory and CRM Publishing hardcover books
1909réf. 142449Boston: Alfred Bartlett 1909. Softcover. Very Good. Third edition. 16mo. 11pp. Brown printed wrapper over unprinted white card covers sewn-bound. Frontispiece by William Addison Dwiggins. Spine starting to split contemporary owner's name penned on frontispiece verso top edge of frontispiece roughly opened else very good lacking the scarce envelope. Alfred Bartlett unknown books
1909réf. 293520New York: Doubleday Page and Company 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in decorative boards. Doubleday, Page and Company hardcover books
1915réf. 526316Cincinnati: The John Church Company 1915. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Folio. Three nested bifolia with a single-sheet-insert making 14 pages. Ex-library with a label and perforated stamp on the front cover and a date stamp 1916 on page three minor edgewear and light soiling to the exterior very good. For voice and piano. Plate number 17434 - 11. The front cover states "Written for and sung by David Bispham." Bispham was born in Philadelphia to a Quaker family and was barred from studying dramatic singing by his mother so he did not take it up until he was an adult. Starting out he faced a lot of discouragement but he went on to become one of America's leading baritones. His New York Times obituary describes him as "one of the foremost figures in the American concert opera and concert field. The John Church Company unknown books
1890réf. 615157New York: National Publishing Co 1890. Softcover. Good. The Red Letter Series edition issued August 23 1890 with a stamp on the front cover that reads "Special Edition." Publisher's catalog in back. Illustrated wrappers. Three pages of the catalog have a chunk torn out wrappers worn and soiled a good or better copy. Features a number of advertisements some with illustrations. One ad is for Burnette's Cocoaine sic claiming that it cures dandruff and "promotes the growth and preserves the beauty of the human hair." OCLC locates only seven holdings of this Red Letter Series edition. National Publishing Co unknown books
1924réf. 610684Cincinnati: The John Church Company 1924. Softcover. Good. First edition. Quarto. Three nested bifolia making twelve pages. Outer most bifolium separating along the fold soiling to the exterior and bumping to the corners good only. For low voice and piano. Plate number 18844 - 10. The back cover features a sample of "On the Road to Mandalay" also by Kipling and Speaks. The John Church Company unknown books
1933réf. 193747New York: Review of Reviews 1933. Softcover. Good. Periodical. Printed wrappers. Dampstains on wraps and pages abrasions on rear cover good only. Includes "The Inevitable White Man" by Jack London "The First-Class Passenger" by Anton Chekhov "Heart of Darkness Part Two" by Joseph Conrad "Sea and Sardinia" by D.H. Lawrence "Frigates" by Emily Dickinson and more. Review of Reviews unknown books
1931réf. 613946New York: Cupples & Leon 1931. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition thus. Octavo. Brown cloth gilt. Near fine. Cupples & Leon hardcover books
1920réf. 15241New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1920. FIRST EDITION. With half-title and vignette woodcut on title. Publisher’s illustrated green cloth with gilt on front board; overall a strong bright and excellent copy. First American edition. Kipling's collection of three series of travel letters on Japan Canada and America and Egypt: “From Tideway to Tideway” “Letters to the Family” and “Egypt of the Magicians”. Kipling 1865-1936 was one of the most popular English-language writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
1938réf. 611741London: The Kipling Society 1938. Softcover. Very Good. A near-complete run of the first 48 issues lacking only Numbers 17 18 30 and 41. Slim octavos. Illustrated usually on plate per issue. Two issues with fold-out frontispieces of group dinners. Stapled wrappers. First two issues with an owner name on the front cover and one issue with a partially completed "Kipling Crossword" in pencil. Spines and a couple of wrappers sunned topedges and the occasional plate foxed modest wear and occasional soil a very good set. With club ephemera laid in as well as a small separate collection of club ephemera and three worn later issues from 1939-40. The Kipling Society unknown books
1929réf. 299029London.: Macmillan. 1929. Limited edition #255 of 525 copies. Full red leather raised bands gilt spine titles top edges gilt marbled endpapers.untrimmed foredges gilt decorated turn-ins. Very good spines moderately worn and darkened. 4to. 27x20 cm. Signed by Kipling on the limitation page of volume 1. Bookplate of Southern California philanthropists Frank and Blanche Seaver on the versos of the ffeps. Heavy set will require extra shipping. weight: 11.5 lb. Portrait frontis signed by Francis Dodd. Macmillan. hardcover books
1900réf. 613208New York: George Munro's Sons 1900. Softcover. Very Good. First edition by this publisher likely a piracy the first American edition was issued a decade earlier. 12mo. 98pp. Pictorial wrappers. Pages browned still a sound very good copy. George Munro's Sons unknown books
1898réf. 613211New York: George Munro's Sons 1898. Softcover. Very Good. First edition by this publisher likely a piracy. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers. Pages browned chips on the wrappers a good or better copy of a fragile volume. George Munro's Sons unknown books
1909réf. 612780New York: Barse & Hopkins 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Figured blue cloth stamped and decorated in gilt. Owner name on front fly some rubbing on the front boards very good or better. Barse & Hopkins hardcover books
1896réf. 612546New York: D. Appleton & Co 1896. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition. Octavo. Green cloth decorated in gilt. Cover art by Evangeline Mary Daniell. Nice bookplate on front pastedown spine a little toned else a nice near fine copy. D. Appleton & Co hardcover books
1899réf. 612409New York: Doubleday & McClure Company 1899. Hardcover. Fine. First trade editions. Two volumes. Green cloth stamped in blind spine titles gilt. Small ink spot at top of front board of Volume One else a fine and fresh set. Doubleday & McClure Company hardcover books
1898réf. 612324New York: Doubleday & McClure 1898. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition preceding the English edition by two months. Octavo. 431pp. Green pictorial boards stamped in black and gilt topedge gilt near fine. A touched bumped at the corners and some rubbing mostly at the bottom front corner about near fine. Doubleday & McClure hardcover books
1928réf. 612216Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1928. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Tall octavo. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light wear interior tape repair at the crown. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover books
