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1899ref. 123533New York: M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels 1899. First edition in book form of this small publication “published fortnightly by boys for boys” at the Horsmonden School Kent containing a letter from Rudyard Kipling with six “Hints on Schoolboy Etiquette” and a caricature of him by Max Beerbohm. 16mo original half cloth. In near fine condition. 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. M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels hardcover
1941ref. 57419Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1941. Limited Edition. No. 148 of one thousand sets signed by Kipling in the first volume. Twenty-eight octavo volumes; red gilt-blocked beveled cloth top edges gilt fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; in uniform dustjackets. Front endpapers with printed bookplates of Harry Bishop Clapp to each pastedown and James Glen Mead to each free endpaper. The latter have caused some mild rippling to the endleaves else a fresh fine set in the original printed dustwrappers uniformly fine and free of darkening or wear. The authoritative edition of Kipling's works rarely found in the original dustwrappers and almost unheard of in this condition certainly the finest set to reach the market in the past twenty or more years. RICHARDS D25. Doubleday, Doran & Company unknown
1941ref. 48304New York Chicago: Doubleday Doran & Co. Kroch's Bookstores 1941. First edition thus: the ORIGINAL PROSPECTUS for the Burwash Edition of Kipling's works. 9.5 x 12" stapled wrappers; 16 pages including covers. TOGETHER WITH Kroch's Bookstores of Chicago solicitation letter signed in green ink "Carmin Jones"; order form with "Special Note to Subscribers" stapled at head; and Kroch's printed Business Reply Envelope. Housed in an over-sized unprinted folder presumably as issued. Folder somewhat worn and smudged a fine assemblage otherwise. Doubleday, Doran & Co. [Kroch's Bookstores] unknown
1941ref. BIBLIO-14612Doubleday Doran & Co. Inc. Garden City Burwash edition 1941. Limited edition of 1010 numbered sets the first volume signed by Kipling. 28 vols full green morocco covers ruled in gilt upper covers stamped with gilt facsimile of Kipling's signature spines lettered and tooled in gilt in compartments five raised bands blindstamped turn-ins marbled endpaperstop edges gilt 23 cm. many thousand pages. I. Plain tales from the hills.-II. Soldiers three. The story of the Gadsbys. In black and white.-III. Wee Willie Winkie. Under the deodars. The phantom rickshaw and other stories.-IV. Life's handicap.-V. Many inventions.-VI. The day's work.-VII. Traffics and discoveries.-VIII. Debits and credits. Actions and reactions.-IX. A diversity of creatures.-X. Limits and renewals. "Thy servant a dog."-XI. The jungle books.-XII. Just so stories.-XIII. Puck of Pook's Hill. Rewards and fairies.-XIV. Stalky & Co. Land and sea tales.-XV. The light that failed. The naulahka.-XVI. Captains courageous. Kim.-XVII-XVIII. From sea to sea and other sketches.-XIX. Letters of travel 1892-1927.-XX. The war. A fleet in being.-XXI-XXII. The Irish guards in the Great War.-XXIII. Uncollected prose.-XXIV. A book of words. Souvenirs of France. Something of myself.-XXV. Departmental ditties and Barrack-room ballads.-XXVI. The seven seas. The five nations. The years between.-XXVII. Songs from books and Later songs from books.-XXVIII. Early verse. The muse among the motors. Miscellaneous. Set No. 60 signed by Kipling. A Fine set splendidly bound. Doubleday, Doran, & Co., Inc., [Garden City], Burwash edition, 1941 hardcover
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2013ref. 014354Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013. Complete in 3 volumes. Books measure 23.5x16.cm. xlviii 652pp xxxiii653-1550pp xxxii1551-2349pp. Bound in original publishers black cloth with gilt lettering. Very minor bumps on edges of boards. All bindings in very good clean near fine condition. Dust jackets have minor abrasion wear. Jacket in very good clean condition. Internally pages clean throughout. A very nice clean set. . Cloth. Very Good Plus Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo. Cambridge University Press Hardcover
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1990ref. Q-0859532763Childs Play Intl Ltd 1990-06-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Childs Play Intl Ltd hardcover
ref. Z1-ZZ-001-00560Schools. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Schools unknown
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2018ref. x-1108476422Cambridge Univ Pr 2018. Hardcover. New. 439 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
1914ref. 26603London: Macmillan Company 1914. First edition. Paper wrappers. A fine copy. 3 pp. 16mo. Livingston 300 note p. 285. Stewart 308. Macmillan Company unknown
1929ref. 071021-04Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 12mo in stapled wraps. 23 pp. VG. Age-toning and light soiling to wraps. Clean interior. First American copyright edition published in a small private printing to establish US copyright for the publisher. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company paperback
1899ref. 026850New York NY: Alex. Grosset & Co. 1899. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Farrand Charles D. We are all backwoodsmen and barbarians together" writes Kipling as he chronicles a trip to Calcutta a city that "holds out false hopes of some return" one that is "not wholly foreign.say rather too familiar." In 92 deckle-edged pages with pictorial frontispiece of the author & 2 interior plates. Orig. published in London in 1891 this is the First American Edition First Printing from 1899. With orange cloth-covered boards decorated in stark black & lettered in red to front & spine the latter of which is severely faded this slim hardcover is in Good condition: very clean sewn binding strong & straight pages mildly tanned but completely save for a gift inscription dated 1902 to ffep. The lower-outer page edges show a very faint dampstain barely evident save for on the plates. Light exterior soil & mild rubbing to extremities; no DJ. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive never "stock" images of books we don't actually have Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Pacific time; later orders weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Alex. Grosset & Co. hardcover
1891ref. 378678Allahabad and London: A. H. Wheeler & Co. Sampson Low Marston & Company Ltd. London 1891. First English Edition. 96 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original grey-green printed illustration by Brownlow Fforde Indian Railway Library No. XIV advertisements on inside and back covers. Minor chipping. Very good. First English Edition. 96 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With the printed slip regarding the title tipped into the front. Stewart 94; Richards A60 A. H. Wheeler & Co., Sampson Low, Marston & Company Ltd., London unknown
ref. 2970Covers and title page detached chipped and torn; moderate toning throughout; slipcase rubbed toned and soiled. Good. Rudyard Kipling. The City of Dreadful Night and Other Places Indian Railway Library Series No. XIV. London: Sampson Low Marston & Company 1891. First British edition. Octavo. 96pp. Publisher's green pictorial wraps strinbound errata slip original plain card chemise-style slipcase. . unknown
ref. 73679Cleveland & New York: International Fiction Library no date 1920s/30s. Strange tales Omnibus. Octavo 22 x 14cm pp.iv; 168; 3-149; 'American Notes'; 5 blank. Publisher's red cloth hardcovers blocked in green illustrated dust-wrapper. Contents clean slightly toned no inscriptions inside paper joint cracked jacket with a few small chops to extremities. A very good copy. Kipling's chapters on his time in Calcutta originally serialised in the Allahabad 'Pioneer' in 1888 together with other tales including 'At Vulcan's Forge' The Perils of The Pits' and 'In an Opium Factory'. Cleveland & New York: International Fiction Library, no date [1920s/30s] unknown
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1891ref. 157181891. Hugh Walpole's copy Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1891. 4 pp preliminary plus 9 pp terminal ads undated with prices in rupees. Original grey-green pictorial wrappers First Published Edition technically the second Indian edition following the suppressed 1890 edition which had considerably different contents and of which only six copies are known. This 1891-dated Allahabad edition printed there came next followed by the 1891 edition with joint Allahabad / London imprint the first English edition printed in the UK. This was issued as No. XIV in the "Indian Railway Library" -- though Wheeler published this THE SMITH ADMINISTRATION and LETTERS OF MARQUE without authority after Kipling had left India for England. As is typical for this volume that is extremely fragile more delicate than the authorized titles condition is good-to-very good -- with about half of the wrapper's spine perished and with chips at some corners. Livingston says of this edition "although it is very scarce copies can be found." Richards A52 mistakenly showing this edition as undated; Stewart 93; Martindell 42; Livingston 70. Housed in a cloth clamshell case. Provenance: 1 there is an indecipherable signature with the date 1891 written across the front cover; 2 at the top of the title page is the signature of Hugh Walpole 1884-1941 the English novelist born in New Zealand; he also added his "Brackenburn" leather bookplate to the inside of the front wrapper. The interior of the clamshell case bears the label of W. & G. Foyle Ltd of Charing Cross Road. unknown
1899ref. 9032199New York: Alex. Grosset & Co 1899. 1st. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. Bound in publisher's original yellow-orange cloth with spine stamped in red cover stamped in red and illustrated black. Top edge gilt. Illustrated frontispiece. Two illustrated plates in black and white. Several pages unopened. Mild rubbing to corners and head and heel of spine not through cloth. Darkening to cloth front back and spine. 5 x 7 1/4 inches. Alex. Grosset & Co hardcover
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