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Best.-Nr. 203038Allahabad / London: A.H. Wheeler / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1890 1st English Edition. Illustrated wraps 104pp. Good. Cover states "Indian Railway Library No.5 - One Rupee" and "Price One Shilling". Spine missing; covers front and rear detached chips from edges residue from tape repairs - closed tears. Internally fairly clean and bright - despite tape residue to last page. Collection consists of PHANTOM RICKSHAW MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY the STRANGE RIDE of MORROWBIE JUKES and the MAN WHO WOULD BE KING. Stewart 53. A.H. Wheeler / Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington Paperback
Best.-Nr. 3929Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co. . Very Good. First English Edition. Hardcover. Pages a bit browned. Brochure a bit frail. Lacking wraps; In custom made blue case with gilt spine lettering.; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 104 pages . N.D. A. H. Wheeler & Co. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 78760brLondon/Toronto: Macmillan & Co./Canadian Branch Oxford University Press Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12 volumes in this collected works series all in original red stiff/flexible leather covers with gilt titles and decoration to spines and gilt elephant cameo to fronts. All with publication dates in the 1920s. Gift inscription or date to endpaper in most volumes. Mildest handling or shelf-wear. Otherwise clean tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a really sound and handsome set without the usual damage to the heads and tails of the spines. . Macmillan & Co./Canadian Branch Oxford University Press Hardcover
Best.-Nr. 3337407560.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1982Best.-Nr. Q-0140150978Penguin Classics 1982-03-25. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Classics paperback
1982Best.-Nr. 124503New York: The Viking Press 1982. Rare unrevised proof of The Portable Kipling. Octavo original wrappers with the publisher's date and price inscribed on the front panel. In fine condition. Rare. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book 1894 Kim 1901 and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. The Viking Press unknown
1925Best.-Nr. BIBLIO-51299Privately printed New York first unauthorized edition 1925. Limited edition of 66 numbered copies. Thin gray boards black cover-title 8vo 20 cm. 16 leaves on handmade paper. A scarce unauthorized first separate edition the story having first appeared in St. Nicholas Magazine for January 1893. The publisher has never been identified but was also responsinble for a similar unauthorized printing in the same year of 'Collah-Wallah and the Poison Stick'. Richards A357. John McGivering summarized the content for the Kipling Society website as follows: "This is an amusing little trifle that might well entertain adults as well as the children for whom it was intended being a fairy-tale with echoes of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves from The Arabian Nights with a message indicating that the simplest way of doing something is probably the best. Fine copy in rubbed quarter-morocco slipcase with gilt spine-title and cloth chemise. Privately printed, New York, first (unauthorized) edition, 1925 hardcover
1925Best.-Nr. 51609New York:: Privately Printed 1925. First edition in book form; No. 22 of 66 copies. original printed boards preserved in a quarter red morocco slipcase and chemise. Fine. 12mo. Livingston 501. Privately Printed, hardcover
1906Best.-Nr. b31061New York: Collier 1906. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. F.C. Yohn 3 illustrations. Near fine in original wrappers. Collier paperback
1893Best.-Nr. 05446THE RECESSIONAL AND DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES Dodge N.d. first edition front cover with some soiling spine somewhat tanned else a vg copy. A Dodge pirated edtion not listed in Livingston or Martinbell. Dodge 1893 unknown
Best.-Nr. 124330New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company. Very Good. Cloth. A gently shelfworn Very Good edition ; The Sahib Edition of Rudyard Kipling: Story of the Gadsbys in Black and White is a collection of short stories about the Gadsbys a white English family who move to a country estate in India. The Gadsbys are a family of misfits who are forced to adapt to life in India and must deal with issues like racism poverty and disease. Kipling explores the themes of family culture and identity in this collection of stories.; 8vo; 338 pages . P. F. Collier & Son Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. 124324New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company. Very Good. Cloth. A soiled edition with some rubbing to the edges in Very Good condition ; The Sahib Edition of Rudyard Kipling: Mine Own People tells the story of a man who is torn between his loyalty to his people and his loyalty to the British Empire.; 8vo; 338 pages . P. F. Collier & Son Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. 124327New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company. Very Good. Cloth. An aged and shelfworn edition that has some creasing to the rubbed edges in Very Good condition ; The Sahib Edition of Rudyard Kipling: Plain Tales from the Hills is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling. The book is a compilation of Kipling's shorter works and it was published in 1897. The book is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling. The book is a compilation of Kipling's shorter works and it was published in 1897.; 8vo; 356 pages . P. F. Collier & Son Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. 124329New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company. Very Good. Cloth. A Very Good edition with rubbed edges and a starting spine hinge ; The Sahib Edition of Rudyard Kipling: the Light That Failed is a collection of short stories published in 1922. The stories are about the British Empire and its decline.; 8vo; 355 pages . P. F. Collier & Son Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. 124323New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company. Very Good. Cloth. A scuffed and edgeworn Very Good condition with other age related wear ; The Sahib Edition of Rudyard Kipling: Letters of Marque is a collection of letters written by Rudyard Kipling during his time as a captain in the British East India Company's service. The letters detail Kipling's life as a captain in the company his experiences in India and his thoughts on life and the world around him.; 8vo; 254 pages . P. F. Collier & Son Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. 124321New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company. Very Good. Cloth. A Very Good edition that is somewhat aged and shelfworn ; A compilation of Rudyard Kipling's most famous works The Sahib Edition of Rudyard Kipling: under the Deodars American Notes by Rudyard Kipling is a great addition to any library.; 8vo; 376 pages . P. F. Collier & Son Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. 124322New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company. Very Good. Cloth. An edition with general soiling and wear in Very Good condition ; This book is a collection of stories about soldiers. Some of them are about British soldiers in India while others are about soldiers in other countries.; 8vo; 313 pages . P. F. Collier & Son Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. 124328New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company. Very Good. Cloth. An edition in Very Good condition that is soiled and bears other wear associated with age; The Sahib Edition of Rudyard Kipling: the Phantom Rickshaw is a book that tells the story of a man who is cursed with a rickshaw that never stops moving even when he is not pushing it.; 8vo; 362 pages . P. F. Collier & Son Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. 20633NY: P. F. Collier. Near Fine. N.D. First Edition. Flexible leather. Note that this is not acutally a book. This sample was produced to show prospective purchasers what the 10 volume Sahib set would look like. Contains sample pages and a number of illustrations from the set as well as a book spine bound into the rear showing the binding used for the set. Light rubbing to the edges. Slight separation at the bottom of the inner rear hinge. ; 8" . P. F. Collier hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1605066095.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1919Best.-Nr. 51583Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1919. First Edition. One of 70 copies printed for copyright purposes. Slim octavo 20.5cm; publisher's original wrappers bound into full navy blue crushed morocco by The French Binders with five raised bands titles stamped in gilt on spine and covers with double-ruled borders and decorative corner pieces tooled in gilt on covers; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt; 8pp padded with 11 blank terminal leaves. Pinpoint wear else Fine. A poem first published in the Daily Telegraph 29 January 1919 concerning the young naval officers who were sent to Cambridge University for two terms between 1919-1922. LIVINGSTON 437. cf.Kipling Society website. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
Best.-Nr. 120460London Macmillan and Co. 1895. . First edition; 8vo 195 x135 mm; 39 text illustrations including head and tail-piece vignettes and historiated initials unobtrusive ownership signature in ink to ffep usual age-toning intermittent spotting throughout occasionally intrusive; publisher's blue cloth decoratively ruled and pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover spine lettered in gilt all edges gilt embossed front cover shelf wear to extremities of spine corners are bumped gilt cover design well preserved very good condition; 2 blank 6 238pp 2 advertisements. The Jungle Book is a 'collection of stories published in 1894; it's sequel The Second Jungle Book published in 1895 contains stories linked by poems. The stories tell mostly of Mowgli an Indian boy who is raised by wolves from infancy and who learns self-sufficiency and wisdom from the jungle animals. The book describes the social life of the wolf pack and more fancifully the justice and natural order of life in the jungle. Among the animals whose tales are related in the work are Akela the wolf; Baloo the brown bear; Shere Khan the boastful Bengal tiger who is Mowgli's enemy; Kaa the python; Bagheera the panther; and Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose.' Merriam-Webster's Encyclopaedia of Literature. Livingston 116 London, Macmillan and Co., 1895. hardcover
1895Best.-Nr. C87579London: Macmillan 1895. First Edition. Hardback. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp 238 2pp ads. Original publisher's vibrant blue cloth gilt-blocked decoration to front cover and spine; spine lettered in gilt; all edges gilt. With illustrated title page and illustrations in the text. Spine ends and corners gently bumped and rubbed miniscule tear at head of spine. Occasional very faint foxing light marks to small part of rear cover. About VG with clean text. An attractive copy. About very good indeed. Macmillan, hardcover
1895Best.-Nr. 159041895. Kipling J. Lockwood. With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling C.I.E. London: Macmillan and Co. 1895. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt all page edges gilt. First English Edition published three days after the American of the sequel to THE JUNGLE BOOK which had been published the year before. It continues with more tales of Mowgli that exemplify "The Laws of the Jungle" -- with illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling Rudyard's father. This was the second of the four Kipling gift books bound similarly by Macmillan with SOLDIER TALES and CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS coming out the following two years respectively. This is an attractive copy very good-plus or possibly near-fine volume slightly askew as usual very light wear at the extremities; atypically other than the endpapers there is no foxing on the leaves within. Richards A85; Stewart 132. unknown
1899Best.-Nr. 232204MacMillan & Co 1899. vg. reprint vg 1899 MacMillan hardcover uniform edition illus blue boards with Cobra gold titles & page edges internal illos Lockwood Kipling ex Wiltshire Childrens Early Books collection In stock shipped from our UK warehouse MacMillan & Co hardcover
