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1920Best.-Nr. 05442KIM Librairie Delagrave ca. 1920 first printing thus 279 pages some wear to the corner tip edges some wear and scuffing to the leather spine else a vg copy with decorated leather spine marbled boards and marbled end-papers. Profusely illustrated by Charles Fouqueray and translated by Louis Fabulet & Charles Fountaine-Walker. Text in French. Librairie Delagrave hardcover books
1989Best.-Nr. UKIPKIM00drpPenguin 1989. Very Good. Kipling Rudyard. Kim. Said Edward W. London: Penguin 1989. 366pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gentle rubbing and bumping. Penguin paperback 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
1995Best.-Nr. 2350837New York: Everyman's Library / Alfred A. Knopf 1995. 5th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 5x1x8. 5th printing. Lacks jacket. Boards lightly rubbed embossed owner stamp on title page. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1995 Hard Cover. xlv 306 pp. Introduction by John Bayley and chronology of historical events during author's lifetime precede text. Charged with action and suspense yet profoundly spiritual Kim vividly expresses the sounds and smells colors and characters opulence and squalor of complex contradictory India under British rule. The book abounds in brilliant descriptions of Indian scenes and deeply sympathetic portraits of her people. Long recognized as Kipling's finest work Kim was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Everyman's Library / Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1990Best.-Nr. 102075Norwalk:: Easton Press. Fine. 1990. Hardcover. Introduction by Charles Edmund Carrington. Collector's edition. Publisher's "Notes from the Archives" laid in. Quarto fully bound in blue leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along spine all edges gilt silk moire endpapers sewn-in ribbon book mark. Fine. ; 284 pages . Easton Press, hardcover 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
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
1938Best.-Nr. 616284Garden City New York: Garden City Publishing Co 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese J.M. Gleeson Charles Livingston Bull and the author. Owner name on front pastedown light offsetting on endpapers near fine. Garden City Publishing Co hardcover books
1939Best.-Nr. 558283New York: Doubleday Doran & Co. / The Parents' Institute 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Edited by Mary E. Burt and W.T. Chapin. Illustrated by J.M. Gleeson Charles Livingston Bull and the author. Illustrated in black and white with a color frontispiece. Blue clothcovered boards embossed with decorations on the front board with an illustrated paper label affixed to the front board and gilt on the spine. Rubbing to the boards wear to the paper label and fading to the spine very good lacking the dust jacket. A selection of Kipling stories and poems specially curated for children including "Roll Down to Rio" "The Elephant's Child" "Fuzzy Wuzzy" and more. Rudyard Kipling won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. Doubleday, Doran & Co. / The Parents' Institute hardcover books
1992Best.-Nr. 05459KIPLING'S FANTASY Tor 1992 first edition fine in wraps. Uncorrected proof. A look at the esteemed authors works of fantasy over a period of more than 40 years. Tor paperback books
1918Best.-Nr. 119786London: W. H. Smith & Son 1918. Later Printing. Softcover. VG clean and tight but for ever so slight rubbing in two spots on back cover. Ivory stapled wraps with red and blue border surrounding a silhouette of Kipling facing left; 12 pp. The text of a speech delivered by Kipling on February 15 1918 at Folkestone. His thoughts on the Germans and their atrocities during the Great War. This is a later printing still possibly 1918 but not a first edition. A very nice copy. W. H. Smith & Son paperback 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
1931Best.-Nr. 613946New York: Cupples & Leon 1931. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition thus. Octavo. Brown cloth gilt. Near fine. Cupples & Leon hardcover books
1931Best.-Nr. 135086New York: Cupples & Leon 1931. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later. Very good in very good dust jacket. Previous owner's gift inscription on front free endpaper cloth corners bumped text egdes slightly soiled dust jacket edges rubbed dust jacket soiled. Cupples & Leon hardcover books
1931Best.-Nr. 214157New York: Cupples 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good Cover lightly rubbee. Small tear on back board. Cupples hardcover books
1931Best.-Nr. 72528NY:: Cupples & Leon Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1931. Hardcover. B000JC4FVO . First edition thus. Very good in a very good minor edge wear with a few short closed edge tears and small chips dust jacket. ; 499 pages . Cupples & Leon Company, hardcover books
1983Best.-Nr. 159296New York: Greenwich House 1983. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good/ book has browned spots first page front and bottom of page. Dustwrapper looks fine. Greenwich House hardcover books
1921Best.-Nr. bb_king_kiplingKIPLING Rudyard; KING Jessie M illus. L'habitation forcée. Translated into French by Louis Fabulet and Robert D'Humieres. Paris: René Kieffer 1921. Square 4to. 93 pp. colophon 2 adverts; pictorial wrappers with Art Deco style design in black outline with blue pochoir decoration original protective glassine wrapper lightly tanned overall a fine copy. Illustrated with Twenty pochoir color plates by Jessie M. King. One of a Limited edition of 550 copies of which 500 were printed on velin paper and 50 copies printed on japon paper. This copy is number 196 of the 500 on velin paper. The delicate illustrations for this book are considered to be some of King's finest; prepared during Jessie M. King's time in Paris. They are reproduced using the stencil technique known as Pochoir which produces clearer and more vibrant colors. Reference: Taylor Art Nouveau Book in Britain p. 136. René Kieffer paperback books
1917Best.-Nr. 625219Milano: Casa ed. Risorgimento 1917. Softcover. Good. First Italian edition. 12mo. 61 2pp. Illustrated wrappers. Two ownership stamps ink date on titlepage spine toned and a bit eroded a good or better copy. Casa ed. Risorgimento unknown books
1925Best.-Nr. 05458LA LIVRE DE LA JUNGLE Librairie Delagrave 1925 177 pages some light wear to the corner tip edges some light wear and scuffing to the leather spine with a small fingernail size chip missing from the head of the spine else a vg copy with decorated leather spine marbled boards and marbled end-papers. Profusely illustrated by Roger Reboussin and translated by Louis Fabulet & Robert D'Humieres. Text in French. Librairie Delagrave hardcover books
1923Best.-Nr. 24101London: Macmillan 1923. First edition. Red cloth spine faded; very good copy. Macmillan unknown books
1929Best.-Nr. 158308New York: Doubleday 1929. Very Good. Later. Very good minus Yellowing cover rubbed with speckled staining very slight. Doubleday unknown books
Best.-Nr. B172096-1Paris Librairie Delagrave 1938. 215 5pp. 12 color plates. Lrg. 8vo. Boards 3/4 leather. Orig. front cover bound in. One of 1050 numbered copies on vélin Aussedat from the edition of 1215 printed by Firmin-Didot and Daniel Jacomet. Paris (Librairie Delagrave), 1938. hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 70907Cleveland: International Fiction Library nd. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 254pp. Foxing to prelims pages tanned else a very good hardback in a darkened jacket that has some minor loss at the extremities. Great uncredited jacket art of vultures feeding on carrion. International Fiction Library hardcover books