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réf. 8910New York: The Century Co. 1896/97. Hardcover. Sm 8vo 8" x 5.5" gilt green cloth pictorial front cover. t.e.g. Frontis. viii 323 pp. 8 pp. pub. ads 20 additional b&w plates. Early inscription in ink on ffep: "George Wells Cheney from cousin Julie Xmas 1897." CONDITION: Good spine sunned 2.5" split to inner front hinge front hinge a bit slack 1.75" split to inner rear hinge 1" tear to one plate. First American edition which preceded the British first. New York: The Century Co., 1896/97 unknown books
1978réf. 104235Franklin Center:: Franklin Library. Near Fine. 1978. Hardcover. Limited edition "The Collector's Library of the World's Best-Loved Books". Octavo fully bound in red leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along the spine all edges gilt silk moire endpapers sewn-in ribbon bookmark. About fine.; 227 pages . Franklin Library, hardcover books
1897réf. 374815London: Macmillan 1897. First English edition. 22 illustrations by I. W. Taber. 245 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original gilt stamped blue cloth with vignette of fishermen black endpapers a.e.g. Complete with original dust jacket in very good condition lightly yellowed at spine with some archival mending. W. C. Thomas bookplate to front pastedown; minimal foxing to prelims. Taber I.W. First English edition. 22 illustrations by I. W. Taber. 245 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A charming copy with the rare dust jacket of Kipling's only novel set in the United States following the son of a Californian millionaire who stumbles into his adventure by falling overboard and being rescued by a fishing vessel. Teddy Roosevelt praised the book in 1900 for describing "in the liveliest way just what a boy should be and do." Stewart 160; Livingston 136; Richards A103 Macmillan unknown books
1897réf. 154961897. With Illustrations by I.W. Taber. London: Macmillan and Co. 1897. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt all page edges gilt. First English Edition published about a month after the American. This is Kipling's great novel about the cod fishing fleet of Gloucester Massachusetts written while the newlywed Kiplings lived in Vermont. Kipling freely acknowledged that the book owed much to Dr. James Conland of Brattleboro who brought the Kiplings' elder daughter into the world -- for Conland had been a member of the Massachusetts fishing fleet and it was he who took Kipling to explore the wharves and quays of Boston and Gloucester. The American edition in fact is dedicated to Conland; this English edition bears no dedication. This is the only book of Kipling's which is set entirely in America. All the characters are American. Not only that but the heart of the book -- its moral in a single sentence -- is one of Kipling's main beliefs of this period expressed in terms essentially American or perhaps more particularly New England. He put it later in verse: ".If you don't work you will die!" It is a saga of hard physical work in conflict with natural forces. It is a book which could hardly have been written by anyone who did not admire Huckleberry Finn; it is a book whose claim to survival rests mainly on detail and it is all American detail Mason. CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS was the fourth and last volume to be bound in Macmillan's attractive gift binding style used for the JUNGLE BOOKs in 1894-1895 and for SOLDIER TALES in 1896. In 1937 forty years after publication this tale was made into a film starring Freddie Bartholomew Spencer Tracy who won an Oscar Lionel Barrymore and Mickey Rooney. This is a near-fine copy spine less than bright slight rubbing at the extremities light foxing; the original black-coated endpapers are not cracked. Richards A103; Stewart 163. unknown books
1897réf. 156181897. With Illustrations by I.W. Taber. London: Macmillan and Co. 1897. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt all page edges gilt. First English Edition published about a month after the American. This is Kipling's great novel about the cod fishing fleet of Gloucester Massachusetts written while the newlywed Kiplings lived in Vermont. Kipling freely acknowledged that the book owed much to Dr. James Conland of Brattleboro who brought the Kiplings' elder daughter into the world -- for Conland had been a member of the Massachusetts fishing fleet and it was he who took Kipling to explore the wharves and quays of Boston and Gloucester. The American edition in fact is dedicated to Conland; this English edition bears no dedication. This is the only book of Kipling's which is set entirely in America. All the characters are American. Not only that but the heart of the book -- its moral in a single sentence -- is one of Kipling's main beliefs of this period expressed in terms essentially American or perhaps more particularly New England. He put it later in verse: ".If you don't work you will die!" It is a saga of hard physical work in conflict with natural forces. It is a book which could hardly have been written by anyone who did not admire Huckleberry Finn; it is a book whose claim to survival rests mainly on detail and it is all American detail Mason. CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS was the fourth and last volume to be bound in Macmillan's attractive gift binding style used for the JUNGLE BOOKs in 1894-1895 and for SOLDIER TALES in 1896. In 1937 forty years after publication this tale was made into a film starring Freddie Bartholomew Spencer Tracy who won an Oscar Lionel Barrymore and Mickey Rooney. This is an unusually bright copy fine except for the slightest of rubbing at the spine tips and small bumps at the fore-tips. The original black-coated endpapers are not cracked. Richards A103; Stewart 163. unknown books
1897réf. 2352703New York: The Century Co 1897. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First American edition. Crease on rear board corner causing minor split to rear endpaper spine slightly toned ink name and a few small spots on front endpapers rear hinge just beginning to weaken. 1897 Hard Cover. 323 pp. Olive cloth gilt titles and decorations with black and red borders and accents engraved frontispiece and plates. "First published in 1897 'Captains Courageous' follows the adventures of Harvey Cheyne a spoiled rich young man who is accidentally washed overboard from a luxury ocean liner and is rescued by the Portuguese captain of a fishing boat and his hard scrabble crew. Kipling drawing on his own experiences living in Vermont fills this classic coming of age story with period details of late nineteenth-century American fishing whaling and railroad travel. Forced to work for his place on the ship fifteen-year-old Harvey must overcome his own stubbornness and privileged up-bringing as he learns to survive and even thrive in the harsh demanding and often dangerous life at sea. Through hard work and discipline Harvey learns the values of self-reliance and friendship as he becomes a skilled fisherman and an accepted and equal member of the crew. The novel is both a thrilling test of Harvey's character and an examination of class and privilege in nineteenth-century America. Exhilarating and ultimately redemptive the novel was heralded by Theodore Roosevelt in his 1900 essay 'What We Can Expect of the American Boy' as describing in the 'liveliest way just what a boy should be and do. The Century Co hardcover books
1897réf. 206280New York: Century Co 1897. Hardcover. VG: Writing graphite cursive analytical and stamp on front free end page. Notations on the table of contents. Clean body pages. A green casebound book with gilt text on the spine. viii 323 pages; contains black-and-white illustrations. Century Co hardcover books
1897réf. 206279New York: Century Co 1897. Hardcover. VG: Wear to the corners and edges. Crack between front end pages. Previous owner name on front free end page. Faint stains and warping to the pages. Readable with solid binding. A green casebound book with gilt text on the spine. viii 323 pages; contains black-and-white illustrations. Century Co hardcover books
1897réf. 1397627New York: The Century Co 1897. Early Edition. Hardcover. Octavo viii 323 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Sunning to spine. Spine cocked. General shelf wear primarily to head and tail of spine and to corners of boards. Mild soiling to rear board. Top edge of textblock gilt. Previous bookseller's stamp to front pastedown. Previous owner's signature to front free endpaper. Age toning throughout. Shelved in Case 14. 1397627. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Century Co hardcover books
1932réf. 427502London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1932. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint of the Uniform Edition. 282pp. 21 black-and-white illustrations. Gilt-stamped red cloth top edge gilt. Spine cocked near fine in a very good very lightly stained dustwrapper short nicks on spine ends. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1898réf. 43480New York: The Century Co 1898. 8vo pp. viii 2 323; frontispiece full-page illustrations by I.W. Taber; original green pictorial cloth stamped in black red and gilt gilt-lettered spine t.e.g.; spine darkened cloth a bit soiled; contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper newsprint clipping of Kipling's autograph mounted to p. v with offsetting to facing page else textblock fine. Reprint of the first 1897 American edition. The Century Co unknown books
1897réf. 15875London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1897. First English Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The first English edition of Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling published in London in 1897. Octavo vii 245pp 1 2pp ads. Publisher's blue stamped cloth illustrations in gilt on cover and spine. Blue endpapers booksellers label on rear endpaper. Complete with frontispiece and twenty-two plates by Isaiah West Taber. Left lean to text block occasional points of foxing throughout. Touch of rubbing to gilt on spine rubbing to blue cloth on front cover. All edges gilt. Solid binding a near fine example. Stewart 163 Livingston 137. This work was first serialized in McClure's Magazine in November of 1896. The first full novelization was published in America by Doubleday in 1897 followed by the first English edition a month later. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1897réf. 42681NY: Century 1897. First American edn. W. Taber. 8vo pp. 323. Illustrated with 21 full-page black-and-white plates by W. Taber. Light green cloth stamped in dark green red and gilt. Former owner's inscriptions on end paper. A very good copy. Story of a Gloucester fishing boat. Kipling's first American novel written while the newlywed Kiplings lived in Vermont. Century unknown books
1897réf. 29678NY: Century 1897. First American edn. 8vo pp. 323. Illustrated. Light green cloth stamped in dark green red and gilt. Owner's bookplate and stamps on endpapers. Cover somewhat soiled and worn o/w VG. Story of a Gloucester fising boat. Century unknown books
1934réf. 14572COLLECTED DOG STORIES Doubleday Doran & Company 1934 first edition spine lightened else a tight vg copy. Illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse. Doubleday, Doran & Company unknown books
2005réf. 102062London:: Folio Society. Fine. 2005. Hardcover. Complete in five volumes. Introduction by Andrew Lycett. First edition thus. All volumes are fine and housed in a fine slipcase. . Folio Society, hardcover books
1912réf. 322123London: Hodder & Stoughton 1912. First Edition. Title page printed in green and black. xix 476 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Quarter cloth and boards. In half red morocco slipcase and chemise. First Edition. Title page printed in green and black. xix 476 pp. 1 vols. 4to. On the half-title Kipling has signed his name and below has written out an autograph quotation of four lines written of a refrain from the poem "South Africa" which appears on p. 170 of this volume. Kipling rarely wrote out lines of his poetry in books. Richards A258 Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
1912réf. 28207London: Hodder & Stoughton 1912. Edition de Luxe printed on English handmade paper limited to 500 numbered copies this is no. 59 signed by the publisher Hodder & Stoughton and the printer T. Constable; 4to pp. xix 1 476 1; title-p. printed in blue and black initials printed in blue; original full limp vellum lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine t.e.g. yapp edges blue silk ties; some inevitable soiling of the vellum else near fine. Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
1912réf. 219685London: Hodder & Stoughton 1912. Limited edition Number 95 of 500 copies on handmade paper signed by Hodder & Stoughton. Title page printed in green and black. xix 476 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original limp vellum t.e.g. Ties perished else fine. Bookplate. Cloth slipcase. Limited edition Number 95 of 500 copies on handmade paper signed by Hodder & Stoughton. Title page printed in green and black. xix 476 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Finely printed compendium of Kipling's verse including many favorite poems. Richards A258 Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
1914réf. 62481Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company. Very Good. 1914. Hardcover. 375pp. covers are soiled with rubbed and scuffed spine ends and cover corners hinges cracked. Contents are bright and complete. . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1910réf. 8730New York. Doubleday Page and Company. 1910. Bound in half Vellum and paper covered boards.Gilt titled morocco labels to spine. Deckled edges. Top edge gilded. Thick 4to. 7.5" x 10". This Edition is printed upon special Hand Made paper and Limited to 125 numbered copies of which this is #54. Signed boldly in ink by Kipling to the Limitation Page. Illustrated with 17 full page captioned and tissue guarded tipped in colour plates and monochrome drawings by W. Heath Robinson. A splendid compendium of Kipling's verse enhanced by the illustrative prowess of Robinson's plates. Covers moderately soiled. Usual darkening to Vellum along front join.Spine a bit rubbed with small stain to Title Label.A Very Good extremely crisp copy with brilliantly luminescent Robinson plates. Doubleday, Page and Company. hardcover books
1944réf. 310968Garden City New York: Doubleday Page later Doran & Company 1944. First American copyright editions generally published in editions of 50-75 copies. 76 vols. 8vo. Publisher's printed stapled wrappers printed in green or black. Light foxing and shelfwear to wrappers. Navy blue cloth folding box. First American copyright editions generally published in editions of 50-75 copies. 76 vols. 8vo. A substantial collection of Kipling American copyright editions comprising 57 of the 74 such editions published from 1910-1944. All of the multi-part issues - The New Army 6 parts The Fringes of the Fleet 6 parts Tales of "The Trade" 3 parts Destroyers at Jutland 4 parts - are complete save for The War in the Mountains 5 parts which is missing the first part. A complete listing available on request. "Contributing to the multiplicity of editions was the failure of the United States to enact international copyright protection until 1891 resulting in some American issues being the "true firsts" of Kipling's books. And while Kipling's trade editions soon began to be published in large numbers after the American international copyright law's foundation date of July 1 1891 his London literary agent A.P. Watt and his New York publisher Frank N. Doubleday made extensive use of limited printings - as few as 8 to 25 copies - to establish copyright in each country" David Alan Richards "Collecting Kipling". Provenance: Frank Nelson Doubleday Doubleday, Page [later Doran] & Company unknown books
réf. 73932Berlin:: Wegweiser-Verlag. Very Good. N.D. Hardcover. Text is in German. First edition thus. Small octavo half-bound in green leather with gilt lettering and design along the spine patterned paper covered boards ribbon bookmark. Light shelf wear and aging else very good. No dust jacket.; 197 pages . Wegweiser-Verlag, hardcover books
1926réf. 3992LONDON MACMILLAN 1926 1926. DUST JACKET FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD-FINE. F. Hardcover. LONDON, MACMILLAN, 1926 hardcover books
1926réf. 28292London: Macmillan & Co 1926. First edition 8vo pp. 2 vi 416; very good copy in original red cloth gilt medallion on upper cover gilt lettering on spine t.e.g. A collection of 14 stories and 21 poems. Livingstone 506; Stewart 519. Macmillan & Co unknown books