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Best.-Nr. 06549London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1897. The Grand Banks - Where Boys Become Men" A Classic of the Sea KIPLING Rudyard. 'Captains Courageous' A Story of the Grand Banks. With illustrations by I. W. Taber. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1897. First edition. Small octavo 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 184 x 121 mm. viii 245 1 blank 2 advertisements pp. With twenty-two full-page illustrations by I. W. Taber. Publisher's blue cloth front cover and spine pictorially decorated in gilt dark gray coated endpapers all edges gilt. Minimal rubbing to extremities small bookseller's description neatly affixed to front paste-down. A touch of very light foxing otherwise a near fine copy the notoriously fragile endpapers remarkably fresh and intact. One of Kipling's most enduring and widely read novels Captains Courageous stands apart within his canon as a pure sea story drawn from his own experiences aboard fishing vessels off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. First published in 1897 it tells the story of Harvey Cheyne a spoiled American boy transformed by hardship discipline and camaraderie after being swept overboard and rescued by a Gloucester fishing schooner. The novel's vivid depiction of life at sea - its dangers routines and moral code - owes much to Kipling's gift for observation and his admiration for working seamen. The result is a narrative at once adventurous and deeply humane often compared to the great maritime traditions of Dana and Melville but with a distinctly Kiplingesque emphasis on character and duty. Isaiah West Taber 1830-1912 is a slightly deceptive figure in this context - he was not primarily a book illustrator but one of the leading American photographers of the late 19th century based in San Francisco. That explains why the plates in Captains Courageous feel unusually "real": they are derived from photographic studies not traditional drawn illustration. The publisher's pictorial gilt cloth binding with its bold maritime design is particularly attractive and increasingly difficult to find in such well-preserved condition especially with the delicate coated endpapers intact and the gilt still bright. A handsome and increasingly scarce first edition of one of the great literary evocations of the sea. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1897 unknown books
1899Best.-Nr. 62817Chicago: George M. Hill. Good. 1899. Hardcover. First Edition. Front hinge repaired rear hinge cracked. Red cloth with gilt stamping. Spine ends and edges rubbed and chipped some light soiling to covers. Contents show some light toning otherwise bright and complete. A Good copy. . George M. Hill hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 2353936London: The Folio Society 1972. 4th Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 0x0x0. Ribbons Ian. 1979 4th printing Ford-Smith Folio 76 #316. Includes publisher's slipcase. An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1972 Hard Cover. xii 355 pp. Introduction by Tim Wilkinson illustrations from drawings by Ian Ribbons. A collection of short stories by the author of The Jungle Book Just So Stories etc. Includes: Introduction; In the House of Suddhoo; Tods' Amendment; Pig; The Story of Muhammad Din; A Wayside Comedy; The Man Who Would Be King; Baa Baa Black Sheep; Without Benefit of Clergy; Moti Guj - Mutineer; In the Rukh; Brugglesmith; Love-o'-Women; The Devil and the Deep Sea; ·007; The Maltese Cat; The Elephant's Child; The House Surgeon; Regulus; My Son's Wife; A Madonna of the Trenches; Dayspring Mishandled. The Folio Society hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 158096Address delivered by Rudyard Kipling as Chairman at the Festival Dinner of The Royal Society of St. George given at Connaught Rooms London April 23 1920. 8vo 8 pages. Stiff stapled tan wrappers upper cover with the society seal of St. George and the Dragon embossed in red. Very good. Includes the certificate of membership on verso of last page perforated which is often lacking. Livingston 452. Soft cover. paperback books
1933Best.-Nr. 198114London Medici Society 1933 1933. First edition thus. 8vo. Cover duotone and 5 b/w illustrations by Lionel Edwards. Stiff orange and white pictorial wrappers sewn with orange silk thread. Originally published in Strand magazine February 1933 not signed. Kipling 1865-1936 English writer born in India; famous for the two "Jungle Books" 1894-95 and various popular poems; awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 1907. F. Soft cover. London, Medici Society, 1933 paperback books
1973Best.-Nr. 011544Avon CT: Limited Editions Club 1973 375 pgs. Green & Blue cloth decorative stamped and titled in gilt housed in a blue & green paper covered slip case with small nicks. A selection of shorter works by Kilpling illustrated in color and b&w by Charles Raymond. #1303 / 2000 copies signed by the artist. Signed by Artist. Signed Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Charles Raymond. Thick 4to. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1919Best.-Nr. 004965England 1919. Cloth. Near Fine. Lovely meticulously rendered vignette illustrations framing the key letter on each page and on a few pages two vignettes. Oblong 9 by 13 cm. 28 pp. The album opens to a particularly nice pen and ink drawing of a schooner framed with highly decorative foliate baroque ornamentation. The first poem is Kipling's "If" each letter device accompanied by a painting of a different type of sail boat or ship. Ship motives are used again in "Love at Sea" by Swinburne. Another Kipling poem "The Explanation" is enlivened with paintings of colorful expressive fish. In our judgment these are the most charismatic of the illustrations. Other poems include Swinburne's "Rondel" "Before Sunset" "Song" and "Child's Song"; and some verses by Sappho. Other illustrative motives take in dragons flowers and floral daipers butterflies and coasts. The poems are rendered in a neat calligraphic hand and it is very easy to imagine this manuscript as something that might have been published as a gift book. unknown books
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
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
2006Best.-Nr. 007953New York: Little Simon/Simon & Schuster 2006 Pictorial boards top corner of front board bumped one of the small pop-ups with a corner crease else fine. Large dual-page pop-up scenes plus smaller pop-up scenes below the main scene. This copy is signed by Reinhart. Includes original plastic wrapper and insert sheet. Signed by Artist. First Printing. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. Thick 8vo. Little Simon/Simon & Schuster hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 02968London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson ROBINSON W. Heath illustrator. KIPLING Rudyard. A Song of the English. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.New York: Doubleday Page & Company n.d. 1909. First American trade edition. Large quarto 10 15/16 x 8 5/8 inches; 278 x 219 mm. 64 leaves. Thirty color plates including frontispiece mounted on leaves with color border decorations. Descriptive tissue guards each with a miniature line illustration. Pictorial title and fifty-nine black and white line illustrations in the text half-page or smaller. Title printed in red and black. Original green cloth with front cover pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. A very fine copy. "The next important task I undertook was the illustration of an edition of Rudyard Kipling's A Song of the English to be published by Hodder & Stoughton in the year 1908. It became necessary for me to meet the author and discuss the proposed book with him. For this purpose I travelled down to Burwash where he lived at that time. This was an excursion I shall always remember. I was met at Heathfield and journeyed thence in a motor-car. There were few cars on the road in those days and this in itself was a joyful experience as we drove through the pleasant Sussex lanes. Bateman's the house at Burwash where Rudyard Kipling lived was a fine old building with stone mullioned windows. It was in the midst of wind-blown Sussex country. There was a faint smell of the sea in the air wafted across the few miles of country from the shore where the Coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go. It was a fitting setting in which to find the author of A Song of the English. He met and entertained me with a quiet affability which speedily removed the shyness I felt at first in his presence. Before long I was quite at home with him. His own knowledge of illustration gave him an appreciation of the artist's point of view. While making suggestions he realized that the illustrator must have as free a hand as possible. His sympathetic understanding of my part in the undertaking made me feel that I was consulting with a brother artist. I spent a happy and for me a helpful day. It was a great inspiration for the work I had in hand to be in such close association with the author's interesting personality. I am always glad to remember that he was satisfied with my illustrations to his book." W. Heath Robinson My Line of Life. pp.126-127 "This poem originally appeared in The English Illustrated Magazine May 1893 prior to its inclusion in The Seven Seas 1896" Martindell. Beare 61b. Lewis p. 215. Livingston 321. Martindell 133. Stewart 152. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909 hardcover books
1898Best.-Nr. 7142London: Macmillan & Co 1898. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. 1898 1st edition in its original pictorial wrappers. VG- with pronounced staining at the spine and one 1 1/2" chip at the rear panel. Still though a presentable copy of a fragile book. 12mo 84 pgs. Housed in a custom-made cloth chemise and quarter-morocco box. Macmillan & Co unknown books
1897Best.-Nr. 20427London: Macmillan and Co 1897. Full leather. Very Good . I.W. Taber. The 1897 true 1st edition beautifully bound in full green morocco by Bayntun of Bath England. Bright and VG with very light fading --and a touch of light staining-- at the lower front panel and just a bit of very mild spotting to the rear panel. 5 raised bands lovely gilt-tooling within the compartments. 12mo all edges gilt nicely illustrated throughout by I.W. Taber. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1889Best.-Nr. 49958Allahabad India: Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co 1889. Good. Allahabad India: Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1889. First Indian Edition. Slim octavo 21.5cm; publisher's white pictorial wrappers illustrated by the Mayo School of Art Lahore; 4iiii106viipp. Wrappers toned and chipped along spine edge with some glue repair to the latter though top half of wrapper split along spine edge. Good overall internally clean and sound. Issued as A.H. Wheeler & Co.'s Indian Railway Library no. 3. Collection of eight short stories all relating to the lives of native Indians rather than their colonizers. All but one of these stories first appeared in 1888 in the periodical The Week's News. Livingston 34. Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co unknown books
1902Best.-Nr. 017462Macmillan And Co 1902. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Fine Copy In The Red Decorative Cloth First Issue. 1902 First Edition. Offset To Front Blank. Ownership Inscription.The Author's Classic Children's Book. Macmillan And Co Hardcover books
1901Best.-Nr. 016476Doubleday Page & Company 1901. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In Green Decorative Boards. First Edition 1901. Ship On Front Board. Ink Ownership. Excellent Fresh Copy. Doubleday, Page & Company Hardcover books
1901Best.-Nr. 014822DoubledayPage & Company 1901. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In Decorative Cloth First Edition 1901/1901 Excellent Fresh Copy Book Plate. Doubleday,Page & Company Hardcover books
1932Best.-Nr. 7414Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Co 1932. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A very sharp copy of the 1932 stated 1st American edition. Clean and Near Fine with bright gilt-lettering at the front panel and spine in a crisp price-intact Near Fine dustjacket with very very lighty staining along the spine. Thick octavo 371 pgs. Housed in a custom-made quarter-morocco biox. Doubleday, Doran & Co unknown books
1891Best.-Nr. 7030New York: Lovell Coryell & Company 1891. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. The 1891 1st American edition. VG- with light soiling at the panels and spine. Neat former owner name at front pastedown first blank and title page. 12mo 268 pgs. Housed in a handsome custom-made box with folding chemise. Lovell, Coryell & Company unknown books
1888Best.-Nr. 49973V.p.: v.i. 1888. Very Good. V.p.: v.i. 1888-1890. Mixed Editions see below. Four volumes bound in one. Octavos 21.5cm; contemporary parchment over marbled paper-covered boards crimson gilt spine piece top edge gilt marbled endpapers original pictorial wrappers of each volume bound in. Parchment dust-soiled light wear to boards else Very Good and sound. Contemporary armorial ownership ex libris of an Elizabeth Armitage to front pastedown. Contents as follows: 1. Soldiers Three. London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1890. Fifth Edition. 93pp. 2. Wee Willie Winkie. Allahabad / London: Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1890. First UK Edition with slightly reduced wrapper design to fit in the UK price one shilling. 96pp. Richards A36 3. In Black and White. Allahabad / London: Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1890. First UK Edition with slightly reduced wrapper design to fit in the UK price one shilling. 96pp. Richards A35 4. The Story of the Gadsbys: A Tale without a Plot. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler 1888. First Edition. 85pp. Issued as A.H. Wheeler & Co.'s Indian Railway Library no. 2. Richards A15. v.i. unknown books
