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1971rif. 173594Del Mar California: Alexis Gregory and CRM Publishing 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine. Single volume. Faux leather red and gilt-stamped silhouette on front red and gilt-stamped design and title on spine. Owner's name penned on front pastedown thus near fine. Featuring: Snow Country by Kawabata The Light that Failed by Kipling and The Man Who Knew Coolidge by Lewis and more. Alexis Gregory and CRM Publishing hardcover books
1897rif. 12779MY FIRST BOOK Chatto & Windus 1897 first edition sheets with a new tipped in title page fore edge corner tips slightly bumped spine somewhat tanned else a very tight vg copy. Author contributions by Walter Besant James Payn W. Clark Russell Grant Allen Hall Caine George R. Sims Rudyard Kipling Arthur Conan Doyle M. E. Braddon F. W. Robinson H. Rider Haggard R. M. Ballantyne Israel Zangwill Morley Roberts Jerome K. Jerome David Christy Murray Marie Corelli Bret Harte "Q" Robert Louis Stevenson et.al. Accompanied by 185 illustrations. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1894rif. 12778MY FIRST BOOK Chatto & Windus 1894 first edition some rubbing to fore edge corner tips and bottom cloth edges inner hinge just starting spine a bit tanned else a tight near vg copy in the publishers original pictorial cloth binding. Author contributions by Walter Besant James Payn W. Clark Russell Grant Allen Hall Caine George R. Sims Rudyard Kipling Arthur Conan Doyle M. E. Braddon F. W. Robinson H. Rider Haggard R. M. Ballantyne Israel Zangwill Morley Roberts Jerome K. Jerome David Christy Murray Marie Corelli Bret Harte "Q" Robert Louis Stevenson et.al. Accompanied by 185 illustrations. Ads in rear dated September 1893. Formerly the copy of fellow Victorian author Egerton Castle with his bookplate on the f.p.d. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1978rif. D11534London: Methuen 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Marbled paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered navy blue morocco; blue cloth slipcase; 8vo; pp. xxvii 1 115. Number 15 from a limited edition of 500 copies signed by the editor. Spine tips a little scuffed otherwise book is fine in lightly rubbed slipcase. A lavish production and excellent reference. Includes a chronology indices Latin first lines English first lines proper names. Methuen hardcover books
1914rif. RHEWWIN00FPWard Lock & Co. 1914. Good. Hewlett Maurice. Windsor Magazine. No. 240 December 1914. Kipling Rudyard; Hope Anthony; Benson E.F. London: Ward Lock & Co. 1914. 210pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Pictorial wraps. Book condition: Good. Rubbing to edges. Tears up from foot of spine and down from head of spine to front cover but still attached. Heavy soiling to back cover. Top corner bumped. Internally clean. Christmas Number. Includes articles on ""Men of Mark in the War and Winter Sports in the Alps"". Many great illustrations and ads including two inserts. Ward, Lock & Co. paperback books
1900rif. 11186HONEYMOON IN SPACE complete in Pearson's Magazine for January thru June 1900 Vol. 9 first edition a vg or better copy with marbled paper edges and fine contents bound in burgundy cloth boards with highly decorated black cloth spine with gold-gilt lettering and gold-gilt stamped design. Wonderfully and profusely Illustrated. Also contains works by Robert Barr A GAME OF CHESS & THE SILENT CASTLE Barry Pain 6 episodes complete of NATURES NEXT MOVES Allen Upward 6 episodes complete of HISTORIC MYSTERIES Rudyard Kipling GARM -A HOSTAGE Edith Nesbit THE EYE OF X.J.X. Baroness Orczy THE REVENGE OF UR-TASEN which is the authors 4th appearance in print Raphael Sabatini THE COWARD which is likewise the authors 4th appearance in print and today remains uncollected Halliwell Sutcliffe 6 episodes complete of Willowdene Will's NIGHT-ROAD ROMANCES B. Fletcher Robinson A TRUE STORY being a 10 stanza 100 line poem about golf which is illustrated Herbert Hamilton THE CYCLE IN WAR illustrated with photos W. Bob Holland THE PASSING OF THE WESTERN DESPERADO illustrated with photos of actual American outlaws K. & Hesketh Prichard THE DERELICT OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC Charles Emerson Cook PICTURES BY TELEGRAPH Herbert C. Fyfe TELEPHOTOGRAPHY Mrs. Hinde LION HUNTING BY A LADY illustrated with photos et.al. Pearson's hardcover books
2005rif. 12242Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xx 386pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A very presentable first edition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book presents ground-breaking research by leading international researchers on the nature functions and characteristics of social motivation. Its contributors focus on a variety of issues such as the functions of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and the subtle roles that habits and goals play in producing and maintaining motivated social behaviors. Recent discoveries in the psychology of motivation relevant to everyday social behaviors and clinical organizational educational and counseling practices receive particular attention.Publisher -Most comprehensive and up-to-date book currently available to offer an integrative treatment of social motivational phenomena -The contributors are all leading researchers who have made a major contribution to the field -The chapters represent a highly integrated approach and present new and previously unpublished work. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
1897rif. 03204LIFE ON A GREENLAND WHALER in McClure's Magazine for March 1897 first American edition some light wear and tear to the covers some chipping to the spine extremities else vg in wraps. Also contains chapters 8 & 9 of CAPTAIN'S COURAGEOUS by Kipling. McClure paperback books
1967rif. UDISJUN00hcGolden Press 1967. Very Good. Disney Walt. The Jungle Book. Kipling Rudyard; Bedford Annie North. NY: Golden Press 1967. 76pp. Illustrated. Folio. Pictorial hardcover. Book condition: Very good with rubbing bumping and light cracking in covers. Slightly bowed boards. Golden Press hardcover books
1971rif. 03138DISNEYLAND MAGAZINE FOR BEGINNERS #9 Fawcett 1971 first edition fine in bright full color wraps depicting the characters from Disney's animated success THE JUNGLE BOOK. Fawcett paperback books
1924rif. NF0076SMOKE RINGS AND ROUNDELAYS Castle 1924 first edition near fine copy in pictorial stamped leather binding. Contributions by Dickens Fielding Kipling Stevenson Thackery and many others. A twenty page bibliographical guide to the authors tobacco literature is included. Castle 1924 hardcover books
rif. 06188London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903. Beauty That Hath Terror in It" The Detmold Brothers' Sublime and Unsettling Vision of The Jungle Book The Magnificent Original 1903 Folio Portfolio with Sixteen Superb Color Plates KIPLING Rudyard. DETMOLD Maurice & Edward J. illustrators. Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's "Jungle Book" by Messrs. Maurice & Edward Detmold. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903. First edition. Reportedly limited to 500 copies for England and America. Folio 21 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches; 543 x 394 mm. Title-page contents leaf and sixteen magnificent color plates tipped onto white boards within gray window mounts each accompanied by a protective cover sheet bearing the title and a short extract from Kipling's text. Title-page and list of illustrations expertly repaired at folds; second plate description with short marginal tear; some light foxing to text leaves and mounts only. The plates themselves are remarkably clean fresh and beautifully preserved. Original publisher's green cloth portfolio front cover decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt retaining one of the two original green silk ties. An excellent example of one of the most magnificent and celebrated achievements of Edwardian book illustration exceptionally scarce complete with all sixteen plates. Published in 1903 when the extraordinary twin brothers Maurice and Edward Julius Detmold were just twenty years old this monumental portfolio represents the culmination of their artistic collaboration and one of the finest visual interpretations of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book ever produced. The sixteen superb compositions reveal an astonishing maturity of conception and execution. Combining meticulous natural history observation with an intensely personal decorative imagination the Detmolds created a world at once beautiful mysterious and faintly menacing in which the distinction between the natural and the supernatural seems perpetually uncertain. Animals are rendered with extraordinary anatomical precision their musculature fur scales and movement observed with almost scientific exactitude. Yet these are far more than zoological studies. Wolves possess an almost monumental dignity; panthers move with a sinister effortless grace; serpents coil with hypnotic inevitability; and the great tiger Shere Khan emerges as an embodiment of majestic and terrifying power. The brothers' remarkable understanding of animal character is matched by their sensitivity to atmosphere and composition. Their creatures appear not merely as participants in Kipling's narratives but as independent beings endowed with intelligence memory and an almost human consciousness. Particularly striking are the representations of Mowgli whose slender youthful figure is repeatedly contrasted with the formidable creatures surrounding him. His vulnerability is balanced by a quiet assurance suggesting his extraordinary position between the human and animal worlds. The Detmolds avoid the sentimentality often associated with illustrations of childhood instead emphasizing Mowgli's intimate identification with the jungle and its inhabitants. In the celebrated scenes depicting Bagheera Baloo Akela and the Monkey People the artists achieve an extraordinary balance between narrative drama and decorative design. The Monkey People particularly in their ruined architectural surroundings are among the most unsettling creations in the series their restless gestures and grotesque attitudes suggesting a strange parody of human society. Equally remarkable is the brothers' use of color. Their sumptuous yet carefully controlled palette of burnished browns smoky grays subdued greens and golden ochres lends the compositions an almost dreamlike quality. Subtle gradations of tone together with intricate patterns of foliage fur and stone produce a richness and unity of design seldom equaled in contemporary illustration. The original large-format plates possess a depth delicacy and painterly quality that cannot be fully appreciated in the considerably reduced reproductions of the later book edition of 1908. Presented individually within their original window mounts they have the presence and visual authority of original watercolors. Indeed so successful were these images as independent works of art that many portfolios were subsequently broken up their individual plates removed for framing. The survival of a complete portfolio particularly one retaining its original publisher's cloth case and with the plates in such fresh condition is consequently especially desirable. The contemporary critical reception was enthusiastic. Reviewing the London exhibition of the original paintings the Manchester Guardian of November 5 1903 declared that the brothers: "are able to prevent their work from ever sinking to the level of mere illustration". The reviewer particularly admired the depiction of the Monkey People in the Cold Lairs describing it as: "full of character subtle observation and invention". Of the representation of Bagheera in Mowgli and the Red Flower the reviewer memorably observed that it possessed: "something of that beauty which hath terror in it". The same review praised the convincing and engaging portrayals of Baloo Nag Kaa and Akela recognizing in the Detmolds' work an extraordinary fusion of imaginative invention and naturalistic observation. A report published in the New York Times on December 5 1903 stated that the edition was strictly limited to 500 copies for England and America emphasizing the exclusivity of this magnificent production from the outset. The portfolio is particularly significant in the history of the Detmold brothers' careers. Born in 1883 Maurice and Edward developed their exceptional artistic talents together displaying an early and remarkable aptitude for the representation of birds animals and the natural world. Their close collaboration produced some of the most distinctive illustrated publications of the opening years of the twentieth century. Tragically Maurice took his own life in 1908 bringing their artistic partnership to a premature end. Edward continued to enjoy a distinguished career as an illustrator but the works produced jointly by the brothers retain a unique place in the history of British illustration. As Richard Dalby observed the paintings were admired for their realistic detail and decorative arrangement while Diana Johnson identified the extraordinary tension between their scientific naturalism and ornamental imagination a combination capable of producing images both fanciful and profoundly disturbing. A masterpiece of the Golden Age of Illustration this spectacular portfolio stands among the finest achievements of the Detmold brothers and one of the most beautiful and psychologically compelling interpretations of Kipling's immortal jungle stories. Complete examples of the original 1903 folio portfolio are increasingly difficult to obtain and the present copy with all sixteen plates clean and fresh and preserved in its original gilt-decorated publisher's portfolio is an especially attractive survival. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1903 unknown books
1950rif. 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
1896rif. 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
1933rif. 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
1902rif. 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
1947rif. 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
1993rif. 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
1914rif. 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
1898rif. 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
1935rif. 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
1923rif. 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
1989rif. 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
rif. 1076New York: Random House 1978. . Large 8vo black cloth dust jacket. 2nd printing New York: Random House, 1978. hardcover books
rif. 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
