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1899rif. 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
1996rif. 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
1994rif. 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
1909rif. 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
2006rif. 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
1898rif. 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
1948rif. 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
1933rif. 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
1933rif. 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
1927rif. 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
1899rif. 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
1907rif. 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
1907rif. 453985New York: The John Church Company 1907. Unbound. Fine. Sheet music. Quarto. 11 1 pp. Words by Rudyard Kipling. Music by Oley Speaks. Self-wrappers not stapled. Owner name Thomas Curtiss on cover. Trifle wear and soil tiny abrasion on rear wrapper still fine. A lovely copy. The John Church Company unknown books
1928rif. 607671No place: Privately Printed for G. Engel 1928. Unbound. Fine. First edition. One tall quarto sheet folded to make four pages. Measuring 6¾" x 8¾" closed. Fine. Copy 82 of 90 copies printed with a limitation slip laid in. Privately Printed for G. Engel unknown books
1929rif. 607675No place: Privately Printed for G. Engel 1929. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Two tall quarto sheets folded and stapled to make eight pages. Measuring 6¾" x 8¾" closed. Fine. One of 100 copies printed according to a small advertisement laid in. Privately Printed for G. Engel unknown books
1910rif. 591134London: The Frederick Harris Company 1910. Softcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Small octavo. 8pp. Stapled photographically illustrated wrappers. One horizontal fold rubbed and a little tender at the edges of the fold very good. Advertisement for Recitations set to music by Dale. Prints the entirely of Kipling's contribution: "When Earth's Last Picture is Painted. The Frederick Harris Company unknown books
1898rif. 604807London: Charels Sheard & Co 1898. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Arranged by Alfred Lee. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Outer bifolium nearly separated along the fold soiling to the exterior and light bumping to the corners still a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "But that's another story." The front cover states that this song was "Suggested by Rudyard Kipling's Famous Bon Mot" and "Sung with the greatest success by the quaint G.W. Hunter" alongside a black and white portrait of whom we presume is Hunter. This piece is unrecorded by OCLC and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. Charels Sheard & Co unknown books
1942rif. 582846Boston: E.C. Schirmer Music Co 1942. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 6 87pp. Illustrated wrappers. Rubbing to the wrappers else near fine. For multiple voices and piano. Plate imprint "E.C.S. No. 1320." Libretto adapted from the Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling who won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. E.C. Schirmer Music Co unknown books
1912rif. 606447Mainz: B. Schott's Söhne 1912. Softcover. Very Good. First edition complimentary copy not intended for sale. Folio. 2 19pp 3 ads. Stapled wrappers. "Complimentary Copy" stamp on the front cover soiling and rubbing to the wrappers and light edgewear very good. Five instrumental songs for piano: "The Jungle" "Dawn." "rikki-Tikki-Tavi and the Snake" "Morning Song in the Jungle" and "Dance of the Elephants. B. Schott's Söhne unknown books
1891rif. 157961891. Kipling John Lockwood. A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in their Relations with the People. With Illustrations. London: Macmillan and Co. 1891. 2 pp undated ads plus 55 pp ads dated May 1891. Original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First Edition of this volume written and illustrated by Rudyard Kipling's father -- the genesis of his son's two JUNGLE BOOKs similarly illustrated by his father and of JUST SO STORIES illustrated by Rudyard. Each chapter is about a different type of Indian animal "Of Monkeys" "Of Elephants" "Of Camels" "Of Reptiles" etc. -- profusely illustrated by Lockwood himself as well as to a lesser degree by several others. BEAST AND MAN IN INDIA also includes the first appearance of several pieces by Rudyard -- two poems verse headings for nine of the chapters and extracts from two letters. With some leaves still unopened this is a near-fine copy of this attractively-bound book spine slightly darkened some foxing within. Quite uncommon. Richards B4; Stewart 104. unknown books
1894rif. 557607New York: Scribner & Co 1894. Softcover. Good. Periodical. Illustrated by Howard Pyle A.B. Wenzell and others. Octavo. 56pp. P.661-804pp. 57-132pp. Pictorial wrappers. Light dampstain on a few pages and wrappers wrappers worn and torn on extremities with some loss of the spine good only. "The Grasshopper and the Ant" by A.B. Frost "McAndrews' Hymn" by Rudyard Kipling. Contributions by Albert Lynch Emile Friant Philip Gilbert Hamerton Robert Grant Cosmo Monkhouse Hannah Parker Kimball Walter Launt Palmer Brander Matthews Archibald Lampman Dorothea Lummis Francis Lynde H.C. Bunner Eva Wilder McGlasson and George W. Cable. Scribner & Co unknown books
1936rif. 550866New York 1936. Unbound. Near Fine. Gelatin silver photograph. 4.75" x 6.5". Near fine. Printed captioned reports Kipling's then recent medical emergency. The author pictured from the chest up smoking a pipe. unknown books
1926rif. 159101926. Maxwell Donald. Illustrated by Donald Maxwell. With an Introductory Poem by Rudyard Kipling. London: Macmillan and Co. 1926. Original light blue-grey paper-covered boards with vellum spine with dust jacket. First English Edition published on the same day as the American -- of which this is one of 500 large-paper copies signed by Kipling. This is a collection of 24 previously-published poems plus a previously-UNpublished introductory poem accompanied by 24 full-page color plates by Donald Maxwell. As Richards points out Maxwell -- related to Kipling by marriage -- had been an accomplished naval artist/correspondent during the Grear War and was a frequent visitor at the Kiplings' "Bateman's." Near-fine light foxing on the boards in a very good-plus jacket faint foxing a couple of small edge-chips. There is an ownership signature dated October 30 1926 -- eleven days after publication. Richards A365; Stewart 525. unknown books
1965rif. 580821Princeton: Princeton University Library 1965. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 8pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Small initials on first wrap small crease on rear wrap very good or a little better. Exhibition catalog. Princeton University Library unknown books
1927rif. 159111927. Illustrated by Donald Maxwell. Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1927. Original light blue-grey paper-covered boards with vellum spine. First American Edition of which this is one of 150 large-paper copies signed by Kipling this being copy #6; there was also a UK signed edition but it consisted of 500 un-numbered copies. This is a collection of previously-published Kipling poems plus a previously-UNpublished concluding poem "The Scholars" accompanied by twelve color plates by Donald Maxwell plus 22 monotone head- and tail-pieces. As Richards points out Maxwell -- related to Kipling by marriage -- had been an accomplished naval artist/correspondent during the Great War and was a frequent visitor at the Kiplings' "Bateman's." This is a near-fine copy slight browning at the edges of the boards; there is no jacket but the only jacket issued with this large-paper issue was a glassine one. Richards A370. unknown books
