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1950Best.-Nr. 16689THE SCIENCE FICTION GALAXY Perma Books 1950 first edition text margins browned as always else a bright just about fine copy. The uncommon boards issue. Contributors by E. M. Forster Rudyard Kipling William Hope Hodgson Arthur C. Clarke Murray Leinster Ted Sturgeon Ray Bradbury et.al. Perma Books hardcover books
1896Best.-Nr. 571695New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1896. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Slight loss of paper at the base of the spine else a nice and tight near fine copy. Contains the complete Kipling story "The Devil and The Deep Sea. Frederick A. Stokes Company unknown books
1933Best.-Nr. 00563THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH GIFT BOOK Hodder & Stoughton 1933 first edition some light soiling to the white cloth covers scattered foxing to the page edges else a tight vg copy in the publishers original binding. Contributions by Barrie Kipling Bowen Hilton Blackwood de la Mare and others as well as many full color illustrations including two vintage full color double-page spreads of the full Disney compliment Mickey Minnie Donald Goofy Pluto Clarabel et.al. Great stuff !!! Hodder & Stoughton hardcover books
1902Best.-Nr. 140937189New York: John Lane The Bodley Head 1902. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. viii 565 10 ads pp. Original ribbed blue cloth decorated in gilt gilt topstain. Very Good with slightly soiled and scratched cloth spine gilt dulled hinges starting offsetting and foxing to prelims name on paste down and a few pencil marks in margins. A scarce poetry anthology featuring Rudyard Kipling Bliss Carman A. E. Houseman William Butler Yeats and 29 other younger poets with incongruously antiquated Arts-and-Crafts-style woodcut portraits mini-biographies and selections of their work. It was conceived as a follow-up to the scandalous The Yellow Book aimed at a similar readership and took around five years for the editor to realize. See Parker Sarah "Framing the Woman Poet: William Archer's Poets of the Younger Generation.". John Lane The Bodley Head unknown books
1947Best.-Nr. 16101TRAVELERS IN TIME Doubleday 1947 first edition a vg copy in pictorial cloth matching the design of the front dust-wrapper cover in a dust-wrapper which is good to very good save for some moderate chipping. A wonderful anthology with contributions by H. G. Wells Max Beerbohm D. H. Lawrence W. Somerset Maugham Rudyard Kipling James Stephens James Thurber A. E. W. Mason F. Scott Fitzgerald and Maurice Baring. Doubleday hardcover books
1993Best.-Nr. 00498STRANGE DREAMS Bantam 1993 first edition fine in wraps. Uncorrected proof. Contributions by Jorge Borges Orson Scott Card C. J. Cherryh Lucius Shepard Rudyard Kipling Jack Vance Theodore Sturgeon Greg Bear Robin McKinley Edgar Pangborn John Varley Harlan Ellison Nancy Kress et.al. Signed by author/editor Stephen Donaldson. Bantam Books paperback books
1914Best.-Nr. 12834King Albert's Book: A tribute to the Belgian king and the people from representative men and women throughout the world The Daily Telegraph in conjunction with The Daily Sketch The Glasgow Herald and Hodder and Stoughton 1914 first edition some foxing to the page edges some minor stains to a small area of the front cover and the head of the spine off-setting to the end-papers no doubt due from the dust-wrapper flaps else just about fine in the publishers original scarce printed vg tissue dust-wrapper with some wear and tear and chipping. Contains poems and prose from Edith Wharton Jack London Winston Churchill Claude Debussy Rudyard Kipling H. Rider Haggard Thomas Hardy G. K. Chesterton et.al. as well as tipped in full color full page illustrations by Arthur Rackham Maxfield Parrish Edmund Dulac Kay Nielsen et.al. Uncommon in dust-wrapper to be sure. The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Sketch, The Glasgow Herald, and Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
1898Best.-Nr. 32265New York: The S.S. McClure Co 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Volume 9 includes: "Ah Poverties Wincings and Sulky Retreats" by Whitman on page 600; "Camps of Green" by Whitman on page 999; "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Whitman on page 1052 all three Whitman poems are later printing from "Leaves of Grass"; the conclusion of the first appearance of "Captain Courageous" Rudyard Kipling; first American appearance of short story "The Voyage of Copley Banks" by A. Conan Doyle on page 862; first appearance of "Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Expedition" by Stephen Crane on page 1045; first American appearance of "The Governor of Saint Kitts" by A. Conan Doyle on page 565; "Slaves of the Lamp" by Rudyard Kipling on page 837; "The Two Barks" by Doyle on page 769; and "Pharoah and the Sergeant. A Poem" by Kipling on page 925. Bound in three quarter black leather with marbled paper covered boards and gilt title to spine. Minor wear to edges of boards and corners. A few chips to leather on spine and sunning to spine. Bookplate to front pastedown and previous owner inscription in pen dated 1938 to front free endpaper. Minor browning and occasional spots of foxing to margins but clean overall. Illustrated. Pages 559 - 1004. PER/061418. The S.S. McClure Co hardcover books
1935Best.-Nr. 23093London: Hodder & Stoughton 1935. Good in good jacket. Royal charitable gift book an anthology sold to raise money for the Princess Elizabeth Hospital for Children - probable publisher's file copy with multiple editorial annotations to the text. Includes a Rupert Story by Mary Tourtel "Rupert the Little Bear goes Adventuring in the Robbers Den and with the Giants" an intro by J.M. Barrie a "Just-So" story from Kipling poems by G.K. Chesterton and Walter de la Mare and two color spreads from Walt Disney Studios. 9.75'' x 7.25''. Original white cloth stamped in blue and silver. In original unclipped 5- net color pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers by Rex Whistler. Illustrated with two color spreads from Walt Disney Studios as well as color plates by A.H. Watson and others. 224 pages. Effaced annotation to half title with ink number left intact. Pencil annotations to about half a dozen pages all editorial heaviest at acknowledgments page. Jacket with chipping to spine ends burn mark carried to front board and 1.5'' loss to front flap tape repairs to verso. Boards rather soiled at margins with spotting to text block edges. Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
1923Best.-Nr. 13208London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd 1923. Near Fine/Very Good. London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd 1923. New Edition Much Enlarged Limited to 700 copies of which this is no. 518. Octavo; publisher's cloth in grey printed dust jacket red topstain; 2xvi2221pp.; frontispiece and fifty-one 51 leaves of plates collated and complete. Dust jacket verso entirely reinforced / backed with evidence of expert repair along margins and across spine; faint spotting to front and rear panel bottom fore-edge corner of front board has been touched up else a Near Fine copy in a Very Good albeit rather excessively restored jacket. John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd unknown books
1989Best.-Nr. 1104711989. University of California Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library 1989. 8vo 88 pp. Original printed wrappers backstrip slightly rubbed name in pencil on flyleaf very good. § Number 37 in the series of keepsakes issued for its members by the Friends of the Bancroft Library. Printed by the Arion Press in San Francisco. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 1076New York: Random House 1978. . Large 8vo black cloth dust jacket. 2nd printing New York: Random House, 1978. hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 500364Address delivered by Kiping 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; Price on cover: 6 pence; Includes the certificate of membership on verso of last page perforated which is often lacking; Livingston 452. Signed by Authors. Soft cover. paperback books
1899Best.-Nr. 90256London: Daily Mail 1899. Quarto printed on white satin. Oblong folio in triptych form opening to six panels with portrait of Kipling to cover reproduction of a sketch by R. Caton Woodville "A gentleman in kharki" at center panel; Kipling's poem is reproduced from manuscript on the first and third interior panels. A beautifully-preserved example a trifle aged at margins but free of perforations or loss; Very Good to Near Fine. A fundraising souvenir one of several versions of this text produced to benefit families of British soldiers in the Boer War. Copies printed on satin were hawked by programme girls throughout the theatres of London for the princely sum of One Guinea. Ours is the special issue noted by Richards produced for the actress Lilly Langtry and offered for sale at the Garrick Theatre on Nov. 24 1899. The rear panel bears the printed legend: "Presented by Mrs. Lilly Langtry on the occasion of the 100th performance of the "Degenerates" at the Garrick Theatre." Richards notes that a few copies were produced with a silk fringe not present on our copy. RICHARDS A147. Daily Mail unknown books
1996Best.-Nr. 601051Upper Saddle River New Jersey: Prentice Hall 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine. Fourth edition. 804pp. Illustrated in color. Sunned spine near fine. A collection of short stories by Charlotte Zolotow Isaac Bashevis Singer Jack London Isaac Asimov Rudyard Kipling Ray Bradbury Beverly Cleary F. Scott Fitzgerald C. S. Lewis and more. Prentice Hall hardcover books
1994Best.-Nr. 601046Englewood Cliffs New Jersey: Prentice Hall 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine. Third edition. 804pp. Illustrated in color. Tiny bump on front board sunned spine near fine. Although not marked in any way this copy is from the library of contributor Charlotte Zolotow with a publisher's complimentary letter laid in. Zolotow was an editor and publisher at Harper’s celebrated children’s books department and the acclaimed author of over 65 children’s books. A collection of short stories by Charlotte Zolotow Isaac Bashevis Singer Jack London Isaac Asimov Rudyard Kipling Ray Bradbury Beverly Cleary F. Scott Fitzgerald C. S. Lewis and more. Prentice Hall hardcover books
1909Best.-Nr. 30659New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1909. First American Edition. 30 color plates by W. Heath Robinson. 1 vols. 4to. Gilt green cloth. Spine a little faded else very good. Robinson W. Heath. First American Edition. 30 color plates by W. Heath Robinson. 1 vols. 4to. Doubleday, Page & Co unknown books
2006Best.-Nr. 537743New York: Little Simon Simon & Schuster 2006. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Paper engineering by Matthew Reinhart. Octavo. Fine in illustrated boards issued without a dust jacket. A Classic Collectible Pop-up. Little Simon (Simon & Schuster) hardcover books
1898Best.-Nr. 218743New York: R. H. Russell 1898. First American edition. Illustrated with 12 colored lithographs after Nicholson's hand-colored woodblocks one for each month. 1 vols. Thin 4to. Buff pictorial paper boards linen cloth spine. Very good copy. First American edition. Illustrated with 12 colored lithographs after Nicholson's hand-colored woodblocks one for each month. 1 vols. Thin 4to. This Nicholson gem which along with his LONDON TYPES and TWELVE PORTRAITS represents the summit of Nicholson's art in this medium. The twelve sports one for each month are: 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 each accompanied by a whimsical verse by Kipling. Campbell William Nicholson: The Graphic Work33c and pp. 44-54; Livingston 145; Grolier Kipling p. 5 R. H. Russell unknown books
1948Best.-Nr. 94154Garden City:: Doubleday & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1948. Hardcover. Volume One only. This copy is from the personal library of the late Madeleine L'Engle 1963 Newbery Award winner for her now classic young adult fantasy novel A WRINKLE IN TIME and bears her handwritten name and her family's on the front paste-down. Book club edition. Very good in a very good minor edge wear and age toning dust jacket.; 253 pages . Doubleday & Company, hardcover books
1933Best.-Nr. 579429New York: Review of Reviews 1933. Softcover. Very Good. Periodical. Printed wrappers. Shallow loss at the spine ends small tears at the front spine folds abrasion on the front cover very good. Includes "The Inevitable White Man" by Jack London "The First-Class Passenger" by Anton Chekhov "Heart of Darkness Part Two" by Joseph Conrad "Sea and Sardinia" by D.H. Lawrence "Frigates" by Emily Dickinson and more. Review of Reviews unknown books
1933Best.-Nr. 193747New York: Review of Reviews 1933. Softcover. Good. Periodical. Printed wrappers. Dampstains on wraps and pages abrasions on rear cover good only. Includes "The Inevitable White Man" by Jack London "The First-Class Passenger" by Anton Chekhov "Heart of Darkness Part Two" by Joseph Conrad "Sea and Sardinia" by D.H. Lawrence "Frigates" by Emily Dickinson and more. Review of Reviews unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 570123New York: Review of Reviews Corp 1927. Softcover. Very Good. Volume XVII Number 101. Octavo. Moderate general wear. Spine ends neatly strengthened but with a bit of loss very good and sound. Features the stories "The Bull that Thought" by Rudyard Kipling "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence "A French Duel" by Mark Twain and two sonnets by John Keats among other material. Review of Reviews Corp unknown books
1899Best.-Nr. 322273New York: Doubleday McClure 1899. First Seperate edition one of 100 copies printed on hand-made paper. Portrait. 24pp. 12mo. Grey borads. Spine chipped at top of spine. First Seperate edition one of 100 copies printed on hand-made paper. Portrait. 24pp. 12mo. With a signed portrait tipped in after title-page signed in margin "Very sincerely yours Rudyard Kipling. Doubleday, McClure unknown books
1907Best.-Nr. 554327New York: Review of Reviews 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. One volume of a six volume set. Black-and-white frontispiece. Blue-gray clothcovered boards stamped in black and gilt. Spine faded bumping to the spine ends and corners some soiling to the boards and the gutter neatly repaired very good. Review of Reviews hardcover books
