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1889réf. 13020PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS Lovell 1889 first American edition some light wear to 3 corner tips and rubbing to the spine extremities else a near vg copy in tan stamped pictorial cloth. Contains many of the authors earliest pieces. This collection is Kipling's first book published in the United States. Along with SOLDIERS THREE Lovell 1890 first American edition some slight soiling to the tan stamped pictorial covers else just a tight vg copy with tight unbroken inner hinges. This collection of military tales is Kipling's second book published in the United States. Along with THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW Lovell 1890 first American edition some soiling to the tan cloth pictorial covers else a near vg copy. This collection of ghost stories is Kipling's simultaneous second book published in the United States. For the set of 3--- Lovell hardcover books
1949réf. 57771Paris: Robert Laffont 1949. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. #2663 of 3000cc. 473pp. Small tape ghosts on endpapers else very good in publisher's wraps and onionskin jacket. Robert Laffont paperback 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
1930réf. 200070New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1930. Limited to 537 copies 525 of which are numbered and for sale. Good See Comments. No covers 6 exposed cords. xviii 1-6 7-393 pp. with facsimile frontis of Kipling's manuscript for "The Thousandth Man" printed as frontispiece to vol. I with tissue guard. Title page printed in red and black. I have two of these copies of Volume 1 each numbered and signed 41 and 42. They were never bound and both retain their untrimmed cords and temporary endpapers beyond those intended to be bound. They have spent the last 90 years together in the stockroom of a venerable but now closed New York City bookstore. They both retain their limitation page signed by Kipling and numbered. Please be aware you are buying an bound book as delivered by the publisher to the binders. Several possible uses for these volumes are evident an explanation for why they were never bound and where the other two volumes for each of these is are more distant and hypothetical bordering on fantasy. Beyonbd being lovely Kipling items and complete in their own right these volumes sold by the piece are a scarce representation of how books leave the printer's for the binder's. "First edition."/ "This edition printed from type that has now been distributed is limited to five hundred and thirty-seven sets. Twelve of these are for presentation. The first volume of each of the remaining five hundred and twenty-five numbered sets is signed by the author"--Front fly-leaf. Pictures upon request. The London printing of this set was accomplished in 1929 and included a signed etching of Kipling as the frontis. Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc unknown books
1899réf. 40970New York: Dodge Publishing Company 1899. Oriental Edition 8vo pp. 150; photographic portrait frontispiece 4 black and white plates; contemporary three-quarter brown morocco over drab boards gilt-lettered spine stamped in black and gilt t.e.g.; corners and edges bumped and worn spine head and foot frayed boards toned along edges; some newspaper shadowing to a few pages else interior very good. Related newspaper clippings in mylar sleeve laid in. Dodge Publishing Company unknown books
réf. 06200Burwash Sussex: 1920. I Like It Very Much" Rudyard Kipling Critiques a Poem by "The Bath Railway Poet" A Fine Two-Page Autograph Letter Signed to Henry Chappell With the Original Autograph Envelope and Portrait KIPLING Rudyard 1865-1936. Autograph letter signed "Rudyard Kipling" to Henry Chappell the celebrated "Bath Railway Poet" discussing Chappell's poem The Chaplet and suggesting a possible place of publication. Bateman's Burwash Sussex February 7 1920. Two octavo pages written in ink on a single folded sheet of Kipling's headed stationery printed "BURWASH / ETCHINGHAM" and "BATEMAN'S / BURWASH / SUSSEX." Dated in Kipling's hand "Feb. 7. 1920" and marked "Private" at the head. Signed at the conclusion "Rudyard Kipling." Together with the original autograph addressed envelope addressed by Kipling to: "Henry Chappell Esq. G.W. Ry. Station Bath Somerset" and initialed by him "RK" at lower left. Mounted framed and glazed double-sided together with a photographic portrait of Kipling and an engraved brass plaque "RUDYARD KIPLING 1865-1936 Author." Photograph approximately 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches 241 x 190 mm. Overall frame size 16 3/4 x 20 5/8 inches 425 x 524 mm. A particularly appealing literary letter from Rudyard Kipling to fellow poet Henry Chappell offering both praise and criticism of Chappell's verse and practical advice concerning its publication. Kipling writes thanking Chappell for sending him his poem The Chaplet. He tells him that he likes the poem "very much" though with the characteristically forthright reservation "barring 'hauteur' in the first verse." He then turns from literary criticism to the practical question of publication telling Chappell: "I don't know exactly what would be a good place to publish it in just now - unless perhaps you tried the Express." The recommendation was especially appropriate. Chappell had achieved national recognition through the publication in the Daily Express of his patriotic poem The Day shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. Contemporary accounts identify Chappell as a railway porter at Bath and record that The Day appeared in the Daily Express on August 22 1914. The second page concludes with Kipling's warm good wishes and his full autograph signature "Rudyard Kipling." The letter is considerably more interesting than a routine Kipling note. It reveals Kipling acting as a fellow craftsman and informal literary adviser: reading Chappell's poem closely enough to object to a particular word in its opening verse nevertheless praising the work as a whole and suggesting where the younger poet might seek publication. Henry CHAPPELL 1874-1937 was a poet and railwayman who became widely known as "The Bath Railway Poet." Working as a railway porter at Bath he attracted widespread attention following the appearance of The Day in the Daily Express in August 1914. The poem was subsequently reproduced and circulated widely establishing Chappell's reputation well beyond the railway community. The present letter provides an appealing connection between two very different literary careers: Kipling Nobel laureate and one of the most famous English writers of his generation and Chappell the working railwayman whose wartime verse had unexpectedly brought him national attention. Joseph Rudyard KIPLING 1865-1936 was born in Bombay and became one of the most celebrated English writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His works include The Jungle Book 1894 The Second Jungle Book 1895 Kim 1901 and Just So Stories for Little Children 1902 as well as such celebrated poems as "Mandalay" "Gunga Din" "Recessional" and "If -." In 1907 he became the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Burwash, Sussex: , 1920 unknown books
réf. 06199n.p.: 1900. Rudyard Kipling" An Authentic Signature of the Nobel Prize-Winning Author Attractively Framed with a Portrait of Kipling as a Young Man KIPLING Rudyard 1865-1936. Autograph signature "Rudyard Kipling" on a clipped slip attractively mounted together with a photographic portrait of Kipling as a young man and an engraved identification plaque. The autograph boldly signed in black ink "Rudyard Kipling" is mounted within a cream and black geometric mat. Beneath is a brass plaque engraved "RUDYARD KIPLING / 1865-1936 / English Writer." Alongside is a photographic portrait of Kipling wearing spectacles and a broad-brimmed hat. Photographic portrait approximately 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches 241 x 170 mm. The whole professionally matted framed and glazed in an attractive black and gilt frame. Overall frame size approximately 16 1/2 x 21 inches 419 x 535 mm. An attractive framed presentation incorporating an authentic autograph of Rudyard Kipling one of the most celebrated English writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent much of his early life in British India an experience which profoundly influenced his literary career. His extraordinary range encompassed poetry short stories novels and children's literature. His best-known works include The Jungle Book 1894 The Second Jungle Book 1895 Kim 1901 and Just So Stories for Little Children 1902 together with such celebrated poems as "Mandalay" "Gunga Din" "Recessional" and "If - ." In 1907 Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature becoming both the first English-language recipient and at the age of forty-one the youngest recipient to that date. The Nobel committee praised his powers of observation originality of imagination virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration. The autograph itself is particularly appealing: it is a clean legible example of Kipling's familiar flowing signature with the distinctive formation of the capital R and K and it presents extremely well within the custom display. n.p.: , 1900 unknown books
1906réf. 1412248London: Macmillan and Company Limited 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo vii x 306 pages. In Good minus condition. Bound in the publisher's red cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards have slight plus wear including slight sunning to the spine and rubbing/fraying to the edges. Text block has slight plus wear including age toning to the fore/tail edges with head edge gilt. Previous bookshop's small sticker to the front pastedown and partial cracking to the hinges. Frontispiece. Illustrated. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Column CC. 1412248. FP New Rockville Stock. Macmillan and Company, Limited hardcover books
1906réf. RK072New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906 Illustrated with four color plates by Arthur Rackham including a frontispiece. First edition first printing published two months before the first UK edition. Publisher's green cloth with boat illustration in blind to front board lettered in gilt and top edge gilt. Near fine with clean and bright boards light wear to spine ends joints and corners and small marks to pp. 46-47 lines 15-21 on both pages slightly affected. Overall an excellent copy. In Puck of Pook's Hill two children playing in the English countryside are approached by the magical fairy Puck from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Over the course of the summer Puck introduces them to notable events and characters from British history told through ten connected short stories. Interspersed between the stories are poems by Kipling some of which were later selected by T.S. Eliot for inclusion in A Choice of Kipling's Verse 1941. Notably this first American edition includes illustrations by the legendary book illustrator Arthur Rackham whereas the first UK edition was illustrated by Harold R. Millar. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Rackham Arthur. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1911réf. 609102New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1911. Hardcover. Near Fine. Later printing. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Decorated green cloth printed in black and gilt. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped else fine. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1906réf. 330709New York: Doubleday 1906. First. hardcover. fine. Rackham Arthur. 4 colored Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 8vo original green cloth stamped in gilt & black. New York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1906. First American Edition. Fine copy in a 1/2 green morocco slipcase. Doubleday unknown books
1906réf. 317848New York: Doubleday 1906. First. hardcover. fine. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Handsomely rebound in full green morocco using the original pictorial cover New York: Doubleday 1906. First American edition. Fine. Doubleday unknown books
1906réf. 461878New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Decorated green cloth printed in black and gilt. Substantial chip on front fly else a bright very good copy. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1906réf. RK010London: Macmillan and Co. 1906 First edition. Near fine in publisher's original red cloth with some fading to the spine and darkening of the boards and a former owner's bookplate. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. London: Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1906réf. 28355London: Macmillan & Co 1906. First edition 8vo pp. x 306 4 ads; 20 plates; light shelf wear but generally a very good sound copy in original maroon cloth gilt medallion on upper cover gilt lettering on spine t.e.g. red cloth chemise and red cloth slipcase. Livingston 299. Macmillan & Co unknown books
1906réf. 006313New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1906. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Arthur Rackham. 8vo 8 277 1pp. Beautiful First Printing of the First American Edition published two months prior to the English Edition. Bound in original pictorial green cloth with titles and viking ship vignette stamped in black gilt on the front board and spine. t.e.g. Four colored plates by Arthur Rackham present which were not present in the English Edition. Housed in a red cloth-covered chemise and matching quarter red morocco and red cloth slipcase. Bookplate on front paste-down.of popular American Author George Barr McCutcheon best known for the "Graustark" novels as well as"Brewster's Millions" made into several films of the same name. Bookseller ticket of Lauriat's of Boston on ffep. Square tight and clean throughout. Mild rubbing to hinges edges and tips. A hint of off-setting on the ffep from the bookplate but quite minor. Very well-preserved. A most handsome collectable copy. Doubleday Page & Co hardcover books
1995réf. 102539London:: Folio Society. Fine. 1995. Hardcover. First edition thus. Fine in a fine slipcase. . Folio Society, hardcover books
1906réf. 13138New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine. First edition of Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Octavo 277pp. Green cloth title stamped in gilt on spine illustrations stamped in black on front cover. Stated "Published October 1906" on copyright page. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's signature in ink on front free endpaper. Complete with frontispiece and three color illustrations by Arthur Rackham. A near fine example. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
réf. 06180Lahore: The "Civil and Military Gazette Press 1885. One of Rudyard Kipling's Earliest Publications Containing the First Appearance of "The Phantom Rickshaw" KIPLING Rudyard. 1885 Quartette. The Christmas Annual of the Civil & Military Gazette by Four Anglo-Indian Writers. Lahore: The "Civil and Military Gazette Press 1885. First Edition. Tall octavo 9 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 245 x 146 mm. 2 blank 2 title printed in red and black verso blank 2 Contents verso blank 1-125 1 blank seven leaves of advertisements: 2 pink 2 gray 3 thinner cream-colored. Handsomely bound by C. Fox of London ca. 1885 with their stamp on verso of free endpaper. Full green morocco covers decoratively bordered in gilt. Spine with five shallow raised bands decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt ruled board edges decorative gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate "Think and Thank" on front pastedown. Original front and rear printed wrappers bound in. Front wrapper with design by the Mayo School of Art Lahore with early ink signature "L.C. Ibbetson" on top blank margin. This is a complete copy of the first edition first impression of a book authored by members of the Kipling family. Published in a limited run of 250 copies it was bound around the time of publication and it is particularly rare to have its original wrappers and advertisements at the end. The book marks the first appearance of The Phantom 'Rickshaw and The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes C.E. Rudyard Kipling later described the origins of this work in his 1937 autobiography Something of Myself recalling that "in the cold weather of 1885 we four made up a Christmas annual which pleased us a good deal and attracted a certain amount of attention. Later much later it became a 'collector's piece' in the US book-market and to that extent smudged the memories of its birth." The collection consists of 16 pieces-eight in prose and eight in verse-written by "four Anglo-Indian writers" as stated on the title page. The authors who remained anonymous throughout were Kipling himself his father mother and sister. Kipling took the initiative to publish the book through the Civil and Military Gazette selling it by subscription. At just 19 years old he contributed half of the content using this opportunity to bring his work into print. His ghost stories gained wider recognition when they were later reprinted in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales 1890. Kipling's father however was somewhat reluctant about the publication. He wrote to Margaret Burne-Jones expressing his hope that someone would "rap Rudyard's knuckles for the unwholesomeness of The Phantom 'Rickshaw and the coarseness of The Tragedy of Teeth." The book's binding process was notably chaotic. Kipling recalled that the work took place at night by candlelight with workers on overtime incentivized with brandy and free tobacco to keep production moving. Over forty men including binders were involved in assembling Quartette. The publication was officially announced on 19 December and its cover design is believed to have been created by Kipling's father John Lockwood Kipling who was then the first principal of the Mayo School of Art in Lahore. Livingston 5; Stewart 7. Lahore: The "Civil and Military Gazette Press, 1885 unknown books
1888réf. 05443RARE TYPESCRIPT COLLECTION being 17 typed manuscripts with the authors own hand corrections 11 of which were originally published in "TURNOVERS" and the Civil and Military Gazette 1 from the St. James Gazette and 5 that have just been recently published for the first time in 1986. They total 74 leaves with the upper right corner of some of them exhibiting wear and tear never entering anywhere near the text. All were published initially in the period 1884 thru 1891 these being later typed copies and represent a truly rare opportunity of acquisition for the serious collector. They are: A DAY OFF A SELF MADE MAN HOT WEATHER COUNCILS TILL THE DAY BREAK THE BURDEN OF NINEVEH THE HOUSE OF SHADOWS AN INTERESTING CONDITION THE PIT THAT THEY DIGGED AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY THE LONGEST WAY ROUND THE OLD STATION THE KILLING OF HATIM-TAI IN GILDED HALLS HIMALAYAN COUNCILS THAT DISTRICT LOG BOOK THE CASE OF ADAMAH and THE HILL OF ILLUSION. An historic gathering which at one time was sent by the authors British agency to his American publisher in an attempt to thwart another piracy by the Dodge Publishing Co. e.g. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. Authors photograph included. Housed in most handsome custom made tray-case. More information available upon request. N.p. unknown books
1920réf. 4013CLEVELAND WALDO PRESS CA 1920 1920. LIGHT GRAY WRAPPERS; 20 PAGES; #25/300 GOOD-VERY GOOD. Soft cover. CLEVELAND, WALDO PRESS, CA 1920 paperback books
1898réf. 29619New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1898. 24mo pp. 95; illustrations by W. St. John Harper and George T. Tobin; original blue cloth upper cover elaborately gilt spine lettered in gilt; small chip to ffep shaken with one page loose upper hinge starting; a good copy. Frederick A. Stokes unknown books
1919réf. 93015NY:: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Very Good. 1919. Hardcover. First edition thus. Very good in tan cloth with black and white illustration on front board. No dust jacket.; 28 pages . Thomas Y. Crowell Company, hardcover books
réf. 42759NY:: Barse & Hopkins. Good. N.D. Softcover. Decorations by Elizabeth Ivins Jones. No statement of printing. Edge worn with two large chips to the corners of the front cover light soiling to covers else good in brown limp suede.; 61 pages . Barse & Hopkins, paperback books
réf. 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
