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1896Best.-Nr. 32526London: Hutchinson & Co 1896. Very Good. London: Hutchinson & Co. 1896. First Edition Limited Issue of 300 copies signed by the publisher this being #76. Folio. 194pp. with list of subscribers at rear leading with the Queen. Illustrations and photogravures with tissue guards complete. Original white cloth decorated in gilt. Soiling and spotting to boards; wear with exposure and fraying to spine ends; exposure and fraying to corners; rubbing to spine. Boards give a little but binding holding soundly and pages unmarked; still a Very Good copy. Includes Kipling's poem "The Quest. Hutchinson & Co unknown
1896Best.-Nr. 32526London: Hutchinson & Co 1896. Very Good. London: Hutchinson & Co. 1896. First Edition Limited Issue of 300 copies signed by the publisher this being #76. Folio. 194pp. with list of subscribers at rear leading with the Queen. Illustrations and photogravures with tissue guards complete. Original white cloth decorated in gilt. Soiling and spotting to boards; wear with exposure and fraying to spine ends; exposure and fraying to corners; rubbing to spine. Boards give a little but binding holding soundly and pages unmarked; still a Very Good copy. Includes Kipling's poem "The Quest. Hutchinson & Co unknown books
1954Features. Coronation-sized crowds meet Billy Graham at Waterloo Station in England (article by Beverley Baxter; Can Hees revitalize the Tories?; Let's Stop Monopoly Television - Scott Young challenges the decree that TV competition isn't allowed in Canada; Kitimat, B.C. - how to start a city from scratch, with photos; 24 Hours in the Old Quarter of Montreal - with photos; The Exalted deaths of the Midland Martyrs - part four of a series by Thomas B. Costain; The Men who can't stand Marriage - Sidney Katz; A Hill of Solid Gold - Prince Obermuller; Wawanesa, Manitoba - the one-horse town that spawned a Giant - the Wawanesa Insurance Company; Down the Yukon in an open boat - Part 2 of 'I Married the Klondike' by Laura Beatrice Berton; He's Made a liar out of Kipling - Canada's Colombo Plan chief, Nik Cavell; The most successful fraud in show business - Gerald Peters and his radio show Memory Music Hall. Lovely colour photo Wabasso Cottons ad inside back cover. Average wear. Moisture stains along all fore-edges. Address label. Half of page1/2 removed, affecting a Royal Bank add, most of the editorial, and most of the table of contents. Portion of page 41, 57 and 61 clipped, removing a portions of mundane ads. Book
192480 pages. Features: Cover illustration of cherubic little girl holding basket of flowers; Nice colour ad for Dominion Linoleum Rugs inside front cover; Full-page ad for the new 1924 High Speed Blue Chimney New Perfection oil stove; Nice illustrated full-page ad for Pratt & Lambert Varnish Products; *MAGNIFICENT* full-page colour ad for Ford Closed Cars, featuring woman driving a black model with two children, sailboat in hand, disembarking in a lovely park; Business Article - "Consideration of Canada's Immigration is Arousing Business Men's Attention", by J. Herbert Hodgins; Small ad for the "Oshawa" medal clad garage manufactured by The Pedlar People of Oshawa; Full-page colour ad for Congoleum Gold Seal Art-Rugs; Half-page ad for Weed brand auto bumpers and tire chains; International Harvester Motor Truck Ad; Artistic full-page ad for Oneida Community Plate silverware; The Rich Cinderella - story by Arthur Stringer; The Hired Man - story by Lawrence Perry; Mr. T.A. Low - Business Man in Politics - Canada's Minister of Trade and Commerce; A Friend of the Family - story by Rudyard Kipling; Animals I Remember, by W.A. Fraser; The Ardent Bigamist, by Somerset Maugham; Session Meanders to its Close - J.K. Munro on Canadian Parliamentary happenings; The Road Runner - story by Ben Ames Williams; Full-page ad for Palmolive Shaving Cream; Winston Churchill headed "Straight for the Dust-bin" of Politics - so says George Bernard Shaw; Drinking is a national disability in Great Britain; Full page ad for Swift's Premium Cooked Ham; Taxation is Shifting - Lord Weir claims English professions are underpaid; Full-page ad for Firestone "Gum-Dipped Balloons" (low-pressure tires); S.S. Chester on why "Baccarat is a French Menace"; Lovely colour photo ad for Royal Yeast Cakes; Fantastic colour full-page ad for Harvey Hosiery, made by Hosiers Limited of Woodstock, Ontario; Wonderful full-page colour ad for Harvey Tailored Underwear, made by Harvey Knitting Co. of Woodstock, Ontario; Lovely full-page colour ad by the H.J. Heinz Company illustrates the Heinz Pier at Atlantic City; Aeroplanes Can't Be Omnipotent - Archibald Hurd argues that Capital Ships must be maintained to bring food, at least; J.A. Stevenson writes about hope for U.S. Political Upeaval; Puritanism is Termed a Blight - article by Harvey O'Higgins and Dr. E.H. Reede; Full-page ad for Post Toasties "Double Thick" Corn Flakes; There is no Saturation Point - Henry Ford discusses the development of products to meet consumer demand; Radio may cease to be free - article from the Independent; Westinghouse Electric Range ad; Ileana Sets Her Cap for Wales - Godmother of the Balkans would make daughter co-ruler of the British Empire; Salvation in Empire Trade? - how can free trade Britain prosper when her Dominions are largely protectionist?; Three-quarter page ad promotes Vancouver, British Columbia to tourists and businessmen; Will World Commit Hari-Kari? - Sir Oliver Lodge considers our scientific ability to build weapons of destruction, and our lack of morals to handle them; Lovely full-page ad for Canadian Pacific Steamship and its Great Lakes services; Nice half-page ad for The New Hupmobile; Nice half-page Coca-Cola ad; Half-page ad for Nash cars; Nostalgic half-page ad for Coleman camp stoves; Elegant ad for Luxite Hosiery; Bride Club Problem II - "By 'Tax' Sadie Solves Problems of Forgetfulness and Untidiness"; *Beautiful* full-page ad by W. Clark Limited (maker of canned foods) features young boy carrying a basket of cans of Clark's various offerings; Lovely full-page colour ad for Simmons beds, mattresses adn springs; Art and Decoration for Town and Country Homes - Porch for Charm and Comfort, by Katherine M Caldwell; Nice colour ad for Quaker Puffed Wheat inside back cover features illustration of boy by Norman Rockwell; Nice colour ad on back cover for Fuller Brush Company. Covers not quite free from staples. Average wear and soiling. Small faint ink stamp atop front cov Book
193324 pages. Contents: Loafing Capital Better Get Busy - OR ELSE!; Dole may end by November; New Taxes Appear Certain; Motor Deaths Increase; TVA Power Sale Upheld; Foreign News - German decree against political statements from Catholic pulpits; Ethiopian Emperor Issues Call to Arms as Japan Enters Scene - with illustration of Selassie; Meteor explodes in the air above Krasnovishersk, Russia; Current Events; Photo-illustrated ad for Arm & Hammer Baking Soda being used to treat a wound; Congress; Some Women are That Silly - paying more at high class stores; A Nest of Lobbyists; Poor Kipling Still Poetizing; Marketing; Captital Chat; Judge William I. Grubb; Senator George William Norris; Science News; Aviation - Delay of dirigible service between Germany and US due to failure to complete the LZ-129; Congress turns light on 'Invisible Rulers' - Lobbyists; Chinese Continue Never-Ending Fight Against Many Floods; Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1915The author was an American woman doctor who worked in India and travelled the country in search of places and people connected to the stories of Rudyard Kipling. Her descriptions are enriched with many vintage photographs and with pertinent quotations. xii.204p. frontis. 44 plates index. Pages untrimmed, very sight shel fwear, else fine. This is an original copy of the book and is NOT a POD reproduction that you must wait to get printed. Book
Best.-Nr. 11701 Relié, cartonnage illustré d'édition, tranches en pleine teinte rouge. 31,5 x 25 cm, n.p., 12 planches, textes en regard. London, William Heinemann, 1898 [1897]. Edition originale
Best.-Nr. 11701 Relié, cartonnage illustré d'édition, tranches en pleine teinte rouge. 31,5 x 25 cm, n.p., 12 planches, textes en regard. London, William Heinemann, 1898 [1897]. Edition originale
1898Best.-Nr. 14142761898. Group of 11 woodcut lithographs from "An Almanac of Twelve Sports". Prints measure 9.25 x 11.8 in. Sealed in shrink wrap with reproductions of Kipling's accompanying text on versos. All prints in Very Good condition with mild age toning. Old price stickers affixed to wrap. Shelved at Rockville PS1101. 1414276. Special Collections - Upstairs. unknown
1898Best.-Nr. 89732London: William Heinemann Ltd 1898. First Edition. Library edition on Japanese vellum. Quarto. Linen-backed pictorial laid paper over boards; unpaginated. Mild darkening to boards with a trace of wear at edges and corners; internally fresh and clean - a pleasing Very Good or better copy. One sport for every month of the year in Nicholson's signature style with text by Rudyard Kipling. In addition to this regular issue there were "a few copies" issued with hand-colored plates signed by the authors. This an attractive copy clean and sound better than usually seen. William Heinemann Ltd unknown
1898Best.-Nr. 1416331New York: R.H. Russell 1898. Hardcover. Quarto unpaginated. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in tan paper covered with spine cloth. Boards show moderate rubbing soiling surface scratches and scattered staining with wear and bumping to edges and corners. Cloth spine rubbed and slightly frayed to head and tail. Interior age-toned with light discoloration to edges. 15 leaves containing 12 color illustrations. Shelved in Room F. 1416331. Special Collections - Upstairs. R.H. Russell hardcover
1898Best.-Nr. 55180Chicago: R. H. Russell. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Original oversized cloth-backed boards. First US edition. Ex-University library with spine number small sticker to front cover three bookplates some bookplate remnants and blindstamps on each illustration. Edges and points exposed. . ; quarto . R. H. Russell hardcover
1898Best.-Nr. 80953London:: William Heinemann 1898. First English edition; Library issue on Japanese vellum with edges stained red and 1898 calendar. publisher's illustrated boards with vellum spine. The top 2-1/2 inches of the spine has been destroyed--otherwise an attractive copy with slight dust-soiling to the rear board. Folio. Illustrated throughout in color by William Nicholson. Words by Rudyard Kipling. Richards A105. William Heinemann, hardcover
Best.-Nr. 112832London William Heinemann 1898. . First Library edition one of 275 copies; 4to; printed on Japanese vellum toned publisher's colour lithographed device to title 12 full-page colour lithographed illustrations by Nicholson with captions some offsetting otherwise very good; publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards rubbed at extremities browned minor soiling small chip to fore-edge of upper board otherwise very good-plus. A wonderful example of this book in an edition thought to run to two hundred & seventy-five copies. From the library of James Younger a member of the Younger brewing family. Nicholson had been working with Heinemann since the mid-1890s. As well as designing their windmill device Nicholson created a number of books for Heinemann including London Types 1898 and The Square Book of Animals 1899. Kipling's short verses here complement the illustrations perfectly though he opted out of collaborating on Nicholson's Square Book of Animals complaining in a letter to the publishers 'All Nicholson's animals are practically extinct in Great Britain their places being supplied by New Zealand Lamb; Argentine Beef. The only way I tried it my verses became so deeply political not to say protectionist that I stopped.' London, William Heinemann, 1898. hardcover
1898Best.-Nr. 201207London: William Heinemann 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Features words by Rudyard Kipling the author of "Captains Courageous" and "The Jungle Book." Includes 12 color lithographic plates by William Nicholson. A very good plus copy in paper covered boards with cloth spine but with some splitting to the front and rear internal hinges some other minor wear and with a vintage bookstore stocker to the rear pastedown. Plates in fine condition with some slight offsetting to the facing pages. No dust jacket. A very nice copy of this classic. William Heinemann unknown
Best.-Nr. 58165London: William Heinemann 1898. FIRST EDITION. 4to. 31 x 25 cm. Original pictorial boards printed in black advertisement for "An Alphabet" at rear. 12 full page lithographed illustrations each with accompanying leaf of verse by Kipling. Light soiling to binding f.f.e.p. browned inner hinge partially cracked but holding strong contents clean and fresh. William Nicholson 1872 – 1949 was a British painter of still-life landscape and portraits. He also worked as a wood-engraver as an illustrator as an author of children's books and as a designer for the theatre. London: William Heinemann, 1898. hardcover
1898Best.-Nr. 501512London: William Heinemann 1898. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Woodblocks by William Nicholson. Words by Rudyard Kipling. Quarto. Quarter linen and tan pictorial paper-covered boards printed in black illustrated with twelve full-page color lithographs by Nicholson. Covers are moderately worn at corners with a small chip at the tips of two corners a very good or better copy. A pictorial Almanac representing twelve different sports one for each month each with a full-page color lithograph by Nicholson each monthly sport introduced by a whimsical poem by Rudyard Kipling. The twelve sports are Hunting Coursing Racing Boating Fishing Cricket Archery Coaching Shooting Golf Boxing and Skating. William Heinemann hardcover
1898Best.-Nr. AQ20407London: Published by William Heinemann 1898. 12 Lithographs in colour on cartridge paper Original publisher's cloth-backed pictorial paper boards contemporary original glassine dustwrapper. A trifle marked short tears to dustwrapper at spine. Endpapers browned light offsetting else internally immaculate. A fine copy. A remarkably well-preserved copy of the first edition issued in 1897 with title pages postdated 1898 of this scarce sporting plate book illustrated by William Nicholson 1872-1949 with text by Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936. The 12 marvellous plates one for each month depict: Hunting January Coursing February Racing March Boating April Fishing May Cricket June Archery July Coaching August Shooting September Golf October Boxing November and Skating December. . First edition. Quarto. Published by William Heinemann hardcover
1898Best.-Nr. 432854London: William Heinemann Ltd 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Quarter cloth and illustrated boards. Modest wear at the spine ends small repairs to the front hinge a sound and very good copy. William Heinemann Ltd hardcover
1898Best.-Nr. 1416331New York: R.H. Russell 1898. Hardcover. Quarto unpaginated. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in tan paper covered with spine cloth. Boards show moderate rubbing soiling surface scratches and scattered staining with wear and bumping to edges and corners. Cloth spine rubbed and slightly frayed to head and tail. Interior age-toned with light discoloration to edges. 15 leaves containing 12 color illustrations. Shelved in Room F. 1416331. Special Collections - Upstairs. R.H. Russell hardcover books
1898Best.-Nr. 89732London: William Heinemann Ltd 1898. First Edition. Library edition on Japanese vellum. Quarto. Linen-backed pictorial laid paper over boards; unpaginated. Mild darkening to boards with a trace of wear at edges and corners; internally fresh and clean - a pleasing Very Good or better copy. One sport for every month of the year in Nicholson's signature style with text by Rudyard Kipling. In addition to this regular issue there were "a few copies" issued with hand-colored plates signed by the authors. This an attractive copy clean and sound better than usually seen. William Heinemann Ltd unknown books
1898Best.-Nr. 14142761898. Group of 11 woodcut lithographs from "An Almanac of Twelve Sports". Prints measure 9.25 x 11.8 in. Sealed in shrink wrap with reproductions of Kipling's accompanying text on versos. All prints in Very Good condition with mild age toning. Old price stickers affixed to wrap. Shelved at Rockville PS1101. 1414276. Special Collections - Upstairs. unknown books
1898Best.-Nr. 201207London: William Heinemann 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Features words by Rudyard Kipling the author of "Captains Courageous" and "The Jungle Book." Includes 12 color lithographic plates by William Nicholson. A very good plus copy in paper covered boards with cloth spine but with some splitting to the front and rear internal hinges some other minor wear and with a vintage bookstore stocker to the rear pastedown. Plates in fine condition with some slight offsetting to the facing pages. No dust jacket. A very nice copy of this classic. William Heinemann unknown books
1898Best.-Nr. 432854London: William Heinemann Ltd 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Quarter cloth and illustrated boards. Modest wear at the spine ends small repairs to the front hinge a sound and very good copy. William Heinemann Ltd hardcover books
1898Best.-Nr. 501512London: William Heinemann 1898. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Woodblocks by William Nicholson. Words by Rudyard Kipling. Quarto. Quarter linen and tan pictorial paper-covered boards printed in black illustrated with twelve full-page color lithographs by Nicholson. Covers are moderately worn at corners with a small chip at the tips of two corners a very good or better copy. A pictorial Almanac representing twelve different sports one for each month each with a full-page color lithograph by Nicholson each monthly sport introduced by a whimsical poem by Rudyard Kipling. The twelve sports are Hunting Coursing Racing Boating Fishing Cricket Archery Coaching Shooting Golf Boxing and Skating. William Heinemann hardcover books
