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2024rif. ABD-9789355241108Oxford Book Co. 2024. New. Oxford Book Co. unknown
1963rif. 100051598Rombaldi / les prix nobel de littérature 1963. Bon état cependant couvertures ternies intérieurs frais bonne tenue des reliures. in8. 1963. Cartonné. 11 volumes. 11 volumes collection des prix nobel de littérature: 1902-Mommsen: Histoire de Rome 1906Carducci: Oeuvres poétiques 1904-Echegaray: L'affront lavé; La mort sur les lèvres 1907-Kipling: La lumière qui s'éteint 1908-Eucken: Le sens et la valeur de la vie 1910-Heyse: L'arrabbiata Le garde-vignes; Résurrection 1917-Pontoppidan: Le visiteur royal 1919-Spitteler: Prométhée et Epimethée 1921-France: Le crime de Sylvestre Bonnard 1924-Reymont: L'apostolat du Knout; Nouvelles 1928-Unset: Printemps Rombaldi / les prix nobel de littérature unknown
1948rif. mon0000584583Random House 1948T. hardcover. Acceptable. 3.8071 in x 24.1117 in x 17.5127 in. NOT an ex-library book. Well read with some wear but still very useable. With Dust Cover. Random House hardcover
rif. 452323Clarendon. Hardcover. Fair. Board covers scratched and bumped. Spine has gilt lettering is scuffed and has a small tear at the top. Text edges a little rough and a few loose pages. Clarendon hardcover
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rif. 413112Hardcover. Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Twenty volumes of literature - novels poetry and plays - in twentieth century hardcover editions as shown. The books are a bit worn in places in line with age. If you would like to browse the other books our shop has available online please click on our shop's name. hardcover
rif. 06188London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903. Beauty That Hath Terror in It" The Detmold Brothers' Sublime and Unsettling Vision of The Jungle Book The Magnificent Original 1903 Folio Portfolio with Sixteen Superb Color Plates KIPLING Rudyard. DETMOLD Maurice & Edward J. illustrators. Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's "Jungle Book" by Messrs. Maurice & Edward Detmold. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903. First edition. Reportedly limited to 500 copies for England and America. Folio 21 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches; 543 x 394 mm. Title-page contents leaf and sixteen magnificent color plates tipped onto white boards within gray window mounts each accompanied by a protective cover sheet bearing the title and a short extract from Kipling's text. Title-page and list of illustrations expertly repaired at folds; second plate description with short marginal tear; some light foxing to text leaves and mounts only. The plates themselves are remarkably clean fresh and beautifully preserved. Original publisher's green cloth portfolio front cover decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt retaining one of the two original green silk ties. An excellent example of one of the most magnificent and celebrated achievements of Edwardian book illustration exceptionally scarce complete with all sixteen plates. Published in 1903 when the extraordinary twin brothers Maurice and Edward Julius Detmold were just twenty years old this monumental portfolio represents the culmination of their artistic collaboration and one of the finest visual interpretations of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book ever produced. The sixteen superb compositions reveal an astonishing maturity of conception and execution. Combining meticulous natural history observation with an intensely personal decorative imagination the Detmolds created a world at once beautiful mysterious and faintly menacing in which the distinction between the natural and the supernatural seems perpetually uncertain. Animals are rendered with extraordinary anatomical precision their musculature fur scales and movement observed with almost scientific exactitude. Yet these are far more than zoological studies. Wolves possess an almost monumental dignity; panthers move with a sinister effortless grace; serpents coil with hypnotic inevitability; and the great tiger Shere Khan emerges as an embodiment of majestic and terrifying power. The brothers' remarkable understanding of animal character is matched by their sensitivity to atmosphere and composition. Their creatures appear not merely as participants in Kipling's narratives but as independent beings endowed with intelligence memory and an almost human consciousness. Particularly striking are the representations of Mowgli whose slender youthful figure is repeatedly contrasted with the formidable creatures surrounding him. His vulnerability is balanced by a quiet assurance suggesting his extraordinary position between the human and animal worlds. The Detmolds avoid the sentimentality often associated with illustrations of childhood instead emphasizing Mowgli's intimate identification with the jungle and its inhabitants. In the celebrated scenes depicting Bagheera Baloo Akela and the Monkey People the artists achieve an extraordinary balance between narrative drama and decorative design. The Monkey People particularly in their ruined architectural surroundings are among the most unsettling creations in the series their restless gestures and grotesque attitudes suggesting a strange parody of human society. Equally remarkable is the brothers' use of color. Their sumptuous yet carefully controlled palette of burnished browns smoky grays subdued greens and golden ochres lends the compositions an almost dreamlike quality. Subtle gradations of tone together with intricate patterns of foliage fur and stone produce a richness and unity of design seldom equaled in contemporary illustration. The original large-format plates possess a depth delicacy and painterly quality that cannot be fully appreciated in the considerably reduced reproductions of the later book edition of 1908. Presented individually within their original window mounts they have the presence and visual authority of original watercolors. Indeed so successful were these images as independent works of art that many portfolios were subsequently broken up their individual plates removed for framing. The survival of a complete portfolio particularly one retaining its original publisher's cloth case and with the plates in such fresh condition is consequently especially desirable. The contemporary critical reception was enthusiastic. Reviewing the London exhibition of the original paintings the Manchester Guardian of November 5 1903 declared that the brothers: "are able to prevent their work from ever sinking to the level of mere illustration". The reviewer particularly admired the depiction of the Monkey People in the Cold Lairs describing it as: "full of character subtle observation and invention". Of the representation of Bagheera in Mowgli and the Red Flower the reviewer memorably observed that it possessed: "something of that beauty which hath terror in it". The same review praised the convincing and engaging portrayals of Baloo Nag Kaa and Akela recognizing in the Detmolds' work an extraordinary fusion of imaginative invention and naturalistic observation. A report published in the New York Times on December 5 1903 stated that the edition was strictly limited to 500 copies for England and America emphasizing the exclusivity of this magnificent production from the outset. The portfolio is particularly significant in the history of the Detmold brothers' careers. Born in 1883 Maurice and Edward developed their exceptional artistic talents together displaying an early and remarkable aptitude for the representation of birds animals and the natural world. Their close collaboration produced some of the most distinctive illustrated publications of the opening years of the twentieth century. Tragically Maurice took his own life in 1908 bringing their artistic partnership to a premature end. Edward continued to enjoy a distinguished career as an illustrator but the works produced jointly by the brothers retain a unique place in the history of British illustration. As Richard Dalby observed the paintings were admired for their realistic detail and decorative arrangement while Diana Johnson identified the extraordinary tension between their scientific naturalism and ornamental imagination a combination capable of producing images both fanciful and profoundly disturbing. A masterpiece of the Golden Age of Illustration this spectacular portfolio stands among the finest achievements of the Detmold brothers and one of the most beautiful and psychologically compelling interpretations of Kipling's immortal jungle stories. Complete examples of the original 1903 folio portfolio are increasingly difficult to obtain and the present copy with all sixteen plates clean and fresh and preserved in its original gilt-decorated publisher's portfolio is an especially attractive survival. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1903 unknown
1903rif. 000134London: Macmillan and Co. 1903. Sixteen finely executed illustrations mounted and protected by part-printed paper overlays contained in a later half-calf silk lined portfolio. The portfolio has raised bands spine in four panels panels bordered with gilt single rule volute corner pieces title in gilt to second panel illustrators to third place and date to fourth silk ties to each edge. Rubbed to extremities spine very slightly faded. Title page chipped and quite heavily repaired slightly grubby with several small closed tears the list of illustrations leaf is again chipped with repairs to edges. The part-printed overlays are lightly foxed and browned to edges chipped to top edges one or two spots of foxing to the mounts the illustrations are all bright and clean. For the Detmolds see Houfe page 115. First Edition. Plates Loose in Folder. Good. Illus. by Detmold Maurice and Detmold Edward. Elephant Folio. Macmillan and Co. Hardcover
1924rif. NF0076SMOKE RINGS AND ROUNDELAYS Castle 1924 first edition near fine copy in pictorial stamped leather binding. Contributions by Dickens Fielding Kipling Stevenson Thackery and many others. A twenty page bibliographical guide to the authors tobacco literature is included. Castle 1924 hardcover
2021rif. x-8195012191Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd 2021. Paperback. New. 564 pages. 5.50x1.26x8.50 inches. Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd paperback
1951rif. 126348London: Published for The British Council and the National Book League by Longmans Green & Co. 1951. First edition of Dobree's work on Kipling the man and the writer. Octavo original wrappers frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In near fine condition. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book 1894 Kim 1901 and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Published for The British Council and the National Book League by Longmans, Green & Co. unknown
1960rif. 311250New York: Nelson Doubleday Inc 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked. Light shelfwear on spine crown and heel and panel corners. Small open tear on top front flap. Nelson Doubleday, Inc hardcover
1897rif. 03204LIFE ON A GREENLAND WHALER in McClure's Magazine for March 1897 first American edition some light wear and tear to the covers some chipping to the spine extremities else vg in wraps. Also contains chapters 8 & 9 of CAPTAIN'S COURAGEOUS by Kipling. McClure paperback
1914rif. 126349London: Hodder & Stoughton 1914. First edition of Durand's definitive handbook to Kipling's poetry. Royal octavo original quarter buckram over paper-covered boards paper spine label top edge gilt. In very good condition. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book 1894 Kim 1901 and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
2000rif. x-0080437915Emerald Group Pub Ltd 2000. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 202 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.75 inches. Emerald Group Pub Ltd hardcover
2024rif. x-1009408127Cambridge University Press 2024. Paperback. New. 200 pages. 6.00x0.68x9.00 inches. Cambridge University Press paperback
2024rif. x-1009408135Cambridge University Press 2024. Hardcover. New. 200 pages. 6.00x0.75x9.00 inches. Cambridge University Press hardcover
1890rif. 60544Milwaukee: Cramer Aikens & Cramer 1890. Number 14 August 1890. StapleBound. Very Good Clean. Quarto. Banner And Text Figures Rear Cover Has Engraved Picture Of The Evening Wisconsin Building. Scarce Monthly Publication First Published on March 1889 From the Owners Of the Daily Wisconsin including Andrew Jackson Aiken 1928-1909 Who Invented for Newspapers The “patent insides” Enabling Widespread Use of Preprinted Copy. Included With Notation “ Written Expressly For the Newspaper Library” Milwaukee: Cramer, Aikens & Cramer unknown
1890rif. 60523Milwaukee: Cramer Aikens & Cramer 1890. Number 15 September 1890. StapleBound. Very Good Clean. Quarto. Banner And Text Figures Rear Cover Has Engraved Picture Of The Evening Wisconsin Building. Scarce Monthly Publication First Published on March 1889 From the Owners Of the Daily Wisconsin including Andrew Jackson Aiken 1928-1909 Who Invented for Newspapers The “patent insides” Enabling Widespread Use of Preprinted Copy. Included With Notation “ Written Expressly For the Newspaper Library” The Mutiny of The Mavericks By R. Kipling and Death’s Counterfeit by E. Zola Plus Two Other Original Pieces Milwaukee: Cramer, Aikens & Cramer unknown
rif. 70214E-403. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Chapman & Hall London UK. 1890 xi 344 pgs. Illustrated with b&w drawings in text. First Edition/First Printing. Ex-library item with library stamp removed from the title title page. Lacks the original spine. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities boards are rubbed and worn. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The author describes the people traditions legends and country including Sind lower Indus Bilochistan Biloches Tochi Valley Pathan Kohat Kabul Peshawur Swat Panjkora Bajawar etc with descriptions on tribal rivalries many of which still exist today. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . hardcover
1982rif. 336971New York: Bramhall House 1982. Third Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Small open tears on top rear panel.; 1072 pages. Bramhall House hardcover
1946rif. 2162DB1946. Zürich Büchergilde Gutenberg 1946. 8°. 140 3 S. Mit 14 ganzs. Illustr. 1 Titelvignette u. 30 Textillustr. nach Zeichnungen von Hans Fischer. Pappbd. d. Zt. mit goldgepr. Rückenschild berieben. Mit handschriftl. Widmung von Hans Fischer auf dem fl. Vorsatz. unknown
1946rif. 807AB1946. Zürich Büchergilde Gutenberg 1946. 8°. 141 S. Mit zahlr. Illustr. dv. viele ganzs. nach Zeichnungen von Hans Fischer. Orig.-Pappbd. mit goldgepr. Rückenschild stärker berieben. Leicht gebräunt. unknown
1911rif. 439671Oxford : At the Clarendon Press 1911. 1st editionj. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Foxing to edges. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 250 pages 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations some colour maps ; 25 cm. Contents: From the earliest times to the departure of the Romans -- Saxon England -- The Norman Kings 1066-1154 -- Henry II to Henry III 1154-1272 ; the beginnings of parliament -- The three Edwards 1272-1377 -- The end of the Middle Ages ; Richard II to Richard III 1377-1485 -- The Tudors and the awakening of England 1485-1603 -- The early stuarts and the Great Civil War 1603-1660 -- The fall of the stuarts and the revolution 1660-1688 -- William III to George II 1688-1760 ; the grower of empire -- The American rebellion and the Great French War 17601815 ; reign of George III -- George III to George V 1815-1911. Subjects: History ; Textbooks. Great Britain History ; Juvenile literature. Oxford : At the Clarendon Press hardcover