KIPLING, RudyardABAA
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1985réf. 444004San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Oblong quarto. Fine in a very good dustwrapper with two large closed tears on top edges. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 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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1899réf. TB33463New York: Doubleday and McClure Company 1899. First Edition separate edition. Very good in its original green cloth covered boards with slightly tarnished gilt text on the spine and with bold gilt text black designs and silver colored crescent moon and stars on the front board. A small octavo of 7 5/8 by 5 inches with decorated end sheets fore and aft. There is a gift inscription at the upper fore edge of the fly title page with a date of "May 8 1899". The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is worn of it color as is the cloth at the tips of the boards. Without a dust jacket if it ever had one. 119 pages of text and illustrated with a color frontispiece printed in orange and black and 16 full-page black and white plates printed on recto only with many vignettes throughout and floral page decorations all by Orson Lowell and American illustrator 1871-1956. What is interesting about this copy is the date of the gift inscription of :"May 8 1899". This title was not copyrighted until November 22 1899 according to David Alan Richard's in-depth bibliography: Rudyard Kipling Bibliography. Richards Rudyard Kipling A Bibliography A149 Doubleday and McClure Company hardcover books
1899réf. 05451THE BRUSHWOOD BOY Doubleday & McClure 1899 first edition a bright very good to very good copy in gold silver and black stamped pictorial binding. Profusely illustrated by Orson Lowell. Doubleday & McClure unknown books
1907réf. 392617New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Illustrated cream cloth stamped in gilt. Illustrated by F.H. Townsend. Detached frontispiece toning and bumped corners else very good minus with previous owner information on the front free endpaper. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1899réf. 73433New York: Doubleday & Mcclure. Very Good. 1899. Hardcover. THE BRUSHWOOD BOY By Rudyard Kipling with Illustrations By Orson Lowell; Doubleday and McClure Company. New York NY. 1899. This book is hard-bound in gilt stamped pictorial blue cloth. There is light wear to the joints and edges as well as some rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The text block has "split" at a few places but the binding is holding solid. The contents are bright and clean with some illustrations. Previous owner inscription. . Doubleday & Mcclure hardcover books
1899réf. 69756New York: Doubleday & Mcclure. Very Good. 1899. Hardcover. New York: Doubleday & McClure Company 1899. Illustrations by Orson Lowell. First Edition. Nice trade binding. Gilt printing. 119 pages. The spine ends are slightly rubbed and the hinges are a bit tender otherwise Very Good. . Doubleday & Mcclure hardcover books
1907réf. 001314New York: Doubleday Page and Company 1907. Front cover color onlay is bright. Gilt lettering front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. First appearance of the F.H. Townsend color illustrations 12 in number published in same year as the English edition. Cited in Livingston 211. 73pp. Later Edition. White Cloth. Light Soiling./No Jacket. Thin Octavo. Doubleday, Page and Company Hardcover books
1941réf. 57419Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1941. Limited Edition. No. 148 of one thousand sets signed by Kipling in the first volume. Twenty-eight octavo volumes; red gilt-blocked beveled cloth top edges gilt fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; in uniform dustjackets. Front endpapers with printed bookplates of Harry Bishop Clapp to each pastedown and James Glen Mead to each free endpaper. The latter have caused some mild rippling to the endleaves else a fresh fine set in the original printed dustwrappers uniformly fine and free of darkening or wear. The authoritative edition of Kipling's works rarely found in the original dustwrappers and almost unheard of in this condition certainly the finest set to reach the market in the past twenty or more years. RICHARDS D25. Doubleday, Doran & Company unknown books
réf. 9780241783153Puffin UK
1914réf. 26603London: Macmillan Company 1914. First edition. Paper wrappers. A fine copy. 3 pp. 16mo. Livingston 300 note p. 285. Stewart 308. Macmillan Company unknown books
1899réf. 9032199New York: Alex. Grosset & Co 1899. 1st. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. Bound in publisher's original yellow-orange cloth with spine stamped in red cover stamped in red and illustrated black. Top edge gilt. Illustrated frontispiece. Two illustrated plates in black and white. Several pages unopened. Mild rubbing to corners and head and heel of spine not through cloth. Darkening to cloth front back and spine. 5 x 7 1/4 inches. Alex. Grosset & Co hardcover books
1891réf. 343404Allahabad / London: A.H. Wheeler & Co. / SampsonLow Marston 1891. Softcover. Good. First English edition. 12mo. Illustrated green wrappers. 96pp. Errata slip bound-in. Small owner's name and small chip on front wrap a couple of modest chips on rear wrap spine somewhat eroded another small embossed stamp of an American author on title-page a good copy in custom cloth chemise and slipcase. Scarce. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson,Low, Marston unknown books
réf. 55979Cleveland: International Fiction Library. Very Good. N.D. Hardcover. Green cloth boards are mottled and soiled causing staining to inside of dust jacket contents however are clean and very good dj shows slight chipping. . International Fiction Library hardcover books
1899réf. 41937New York: Alex Grosset and Co 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition thus. Offsetting to the endpapers boards soiled and lightly rubbed else very good. Alex Grosset and Co hardcover books
1891réf. 157181891. Hugh Walpole's copy Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1891. 4 pp preliminary plus 9 pp terminal ads undated with prices in rupees. Original grey-green pictorial wrappers First Published Edition technically the second Indian edition following the suppressed 1890 edition which had considerably different contents and of which only six copies are known. This 1891-dated Allahabad edition printed there came next followed by the 1891 edition with joint Allahabad / London imprint the first English edition printed in the UK. This was issued as No. XIV in the "Indian Railway Library" -- though Wheeler published this THE SMITH ADMINISTRATION and LETTERS OF MARQUE without authority after Kipling had left India for England. As is typical for this volume that is extremely fragile more delicate than the authorized titles condition is good-to-very good -- with about half of the wrapper's spine perished and with chips at some corners. Livingston says of this edition "although it is very scarce copies can be found." Richards A52 mistakenly showing this edition as undated; Stewart 93; Martindell 42; Livingston 70. Housed in a cloth clamshell case. Provenance: 1 there is an indecipherable signature with the date 1891 written across the front cover; 2 at the top of the title page is the signature of Hugh Walpole 1884-1941 the English novelist born in New Zealand; he also added his "Brackenburn" leather bookplate to the inside of the front wrapper. The interior of the clamshell case bears the label of W. & G. Foyle Ltd of Charing Cross Road. unknown books
1891réf. 265647Allahabad: Wheeler 1891. paperback. good. 96pp thin 8vo printed gray green wrappers; lightly edge-chipped. Allahabad & London: A.H. Wheeler & Sampson Low Marston n.d. 1891. First English Edition. Volume XIV of the Indian Railway Library. Errata slip attached to title page. Wheeler unknown books
1891réf. 378678Allahabad and London: A. H. Wheeler & Co. Sampson Low Marston & Company Ltd. London 1891. First English Edition. 96 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original grey-green printed illustration by Brownlow Fforde Indian Railway Library No. XIV advertisements on inside and back covers. Minor chipping. Very good. First English Edition. 96 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With the printed slip regarding the title tipped into the front. Stewart 94; Richards A60 A. H. Wheeler & Co., Sampson Low, Marston & Company Ltd., London unknown books
1941réf. 4695bdNew York: Doubleday Doran & Co. 1941. Of an edition of 1100 sets this is No. 776. Twenty-eight volumes. Signed by the author. Octavo gilt-stamped burgundy buckram hardcover top edges gilt uncut. Frontis portrait in Volume I. Near-Fine. Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1941. Of an edition of 1100 sets, this is No. 776. hardcover books
1929réf. 9027London: Macmillan and Co 1929. First English edition 8vo pp. xv 1 447 1; 17 plates; top of spine worn extremities rubbed lightly binding slightly askew short tear to front endpaper else a very good copy in original decorated maroon leather binding stamped in gilt a.e.g. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1937réf. 7813London: The Macmillan Co 1937. The Sussex Edition. Very Good . One of 575 numbered sets signed by the author in the first volume. Leaves measuring 240 x 160 mm with the set occupying 141 cm 55 in of shelf space. A Very Good set. Bound for the publisher by James Burn & Co. in full reddish-brown Niger morocco. Double ruled in gilt. Spine in six compartments with raised bands. Top edge gilt. Sunning and speckling to some spines and some rubbing to raised bands and edges. Very clean throughout. Printed in Edinburgh by R&R Clark Ltd. on handmade paper. The Sussex Edition which has become the most desirable collected edition of Kipling's works was edited by Kipling himself and including two volumes of previously uncollected prose. The edition published the year after Kipling's death was intended as a complete retrospective on Kipling's career and the definitive edition of his works. The superbly produced set of course includes Kipling's most lauded fiction - The Jungle Book Kim and Just So Stories - as well as his poems and nonfiction capturing the scope of his literary output. A contemporary review in the Times Literary Supplement lauded the production: "The publishers are justified in the use of the epithet 'superb' to describe this edition. The fine hand-made paper and Bembo type are equally satisfactory but perhaps the binding is still more notable. It is.Niger leather lettered and simply ornamented in gold. The volumes.are comparatively slim and so easy to hold; and they have an air of durability and of being meant for reading as well as for keeping which is not always the case with éditions de luxe." Very Good . The Macmillan Co unknown 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. 265279New York: Brentanos 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good in pictorial boards with some rubbing at spine ends. Spine lightly faded. Brentanos hardcover books
1898réf. 334057Akron Ohio: The Superior Printing Company 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Red and beige striped boards with red lettering. 12mo. A biographical and critical sketch by Andrew Lang. Cloth soiled else very good. This is number 9 in The Superior Series. The Superior Printing Company hardcover books
1890réf. 345797New York: Harper & Brothers 1890. First edition. Portrait. xii 182 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter green morocco t.e.g. preserving original blue green front wrapper. Uniformly toned to brown. Very good plus letter fine. First edition. Portrait. xii 182 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Collection of six stories previously published in various Harper serials the last story The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney being a piracy. No. 680 in Harper's Franklin Square Library series. This publication is the first time a portrait of Kipling appears in one of his books. This copy retains the front wrapper which lists series titles from 680 to 589 where Richards reports 681-590. With a one-page autograph letter signed on Savile Club letterhead inserted at front: Dear Mrs. Fowler Very many thanks for your kind invitation. I fear however that my engagements will not permit me to accept it. Sincerely Rudyard Kipling Mar. 25 '91. Richards A 43; Ballard XXXIII; Stewart 76; Livingston 57 Harper & Brothers unknown books
