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1918réf. 895Q11New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1918 . First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 7.5" by 5". None. A very smart first edition of Rudyard Kipling's collection of letters home from soldiers stationed in India in 1915 and 1916. First edition. Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth with paper covered boards. Lacking the dust wrapper. Written by English novelist and short story writer Rudyard Kipling who was born in India with this country inspiring much of his work. This work was originally published in American Saturday Evening Post in six parts in 1917 and then published in book form as it is here in 1918. This collection is comprised of four stories reading as letters home from soldiers in India between 1915-16. The first two stories in the collection 'A Retired Gentleman' and 'Fumes of the Heart' are told from the view of injured soldiers on the North-West Frontier. 'The Private Account' depicts an Afghan family reading a letter from their soldier son while the final story 'A Trooper of Horse' presents a soldier's letter home to his mother in France. It is suggested that the idea behind these letters is to provide intelligence to those at home with the framework of the book coming from censored letters written by Indian soldiers.From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son literary agent of Rudyard Kipling. In the publisher's original quarter cloth with paper covered boards. Lacking the dust wrapper. Externally excellent with light shelf wear and a little darkening to the spine and spine label. The odd handling mark. Internally firmly bound with bright clean pages. Near Fine Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
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1918réf. 52415New York: doubleday 1918. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm.; green cloth over dark gray boards; paper title plate on cover and spine; dustjacket; 101pp.; A Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped with tears to the extremities; Very Good only. The book consists of four stories that read as letters home from soldiers from India and the North-West Frontier which take place in 1915 and 1916. "A Retired Gentleman" and "The Fumes of the Heart" are both fictionalized letters written from the perspective of wounded Indian soldiers a Rajput and a Sikh to their families. The second is cast as a dictated letter from a Sikh soldier to his brother and has dramatic asides and digressions from the injured soldier punctuating the text. As for the remaining two stories "The Private Account" is presented as a scene showing an Afghan family reading and responding to a letter from their son on the Western Front and the final story "A Trooper of Horse" takes the form of a letter from an unwounded Muslim soldier in France to his mother. doubleday unknown books
1918réf. 001471Garden City NY: Doubleday & Doran 1918. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First American Edition. First printing with "Recuiting" typo on page 78. Original green cloth with paper labels on the front cover and spine.Very attractive copy with some light soiling to the rear cover and bumping to the spine ends. Clean pages throughout. y. Doubleday & Doran hardcover books
1916Pages 65-80 (16 pages in this issue). Features: Leaves from a Lost Portfolio - papers purporting to be the report of an English Secret Service Agent designated by the cipher L.P. 33, to Sir Edward Grey - the document suggests an uncanny familiarity with the aims and methods of the British Intelligence Service in the United States; The Armed Merchantman "Baralong", by Herbert B. Mayer (formerly Editor of the New Orleans American); The Dual Monarchy in War-Time - By Dr. Adolph von Schierbrand; Behind the Scenes at the Capital; Germans to Honor Shakespeare's Memory; Great Britain Bars Christianity - Lutheran Missionaries Vilely Persecuted by Latest English Ruling; Thoughts of a "Gently Hazed" American; The Triumph of Representative Government; Verdun; American Rights Under the Wilson Regime; Is Rudyard Kipling Insane?; Hall Caine's Indictment of England; Honor the Irish; The Financial Forum; War Bond Ads; Back cover ad shows home and lot donated by Deutsches Journal; and more. Openings along coverfold. Unmarked. Average wear. A worthy copy. Magazine
1920réf. 374461Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Comapny 1920. Limited Edition. No. 117 of 377 copies numbered and signed by Kipling. Photographically Illustrated by Lewis R. Freeman. pp. xxiv 44 unnumberred leaves. 8vo. Vellum spine ansd boards. Very good. Limited Edition. No. 117 of 377 copies numbered and signed by Kipling. Photographically Illustrated by Lewis R. Freeman. pp. xxiv 44 unnumberred leaves. 8vo. Livingston 449; Richards A331 Doubleday, Page & Comapny unknown
1920réf. 374461Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Comapny 1920. Limited Edition. No. 117 of 377 copies numbered and signed by Kipling. Photographically Illustrated by Lewis R. Freeman. pp. xxiv 44 unnumberred leaves. 8vo. Vellum spine ansd boards. Very good. Limited Edition. No. 117 of 377 copies numbered and signed by Kipling. Photographically Illustrated by Lewis R. Freeman. pp. xxiv 44 unnumberred leaves. 8vo. Livingston 449; Richards A331 Doubleday, Page & Comapny unknown books
1912réf. 10663Doubleday Page and Company. New York. 1912. FIRST AMERICAN TRADE EDITION IN PUBLISHERS DELUX LEATHER BINDING. 1st printing. Oblong 8vo. 4.4 x 6.4 inches. 8 unnumbered leaves. Each text leaf has a green rule and dot border the text printed in black with green initial letters. Pages are sewn in with the original white cord. In the rare original delux publishers dark green morocco leather binding with gilt ruling and lettering to the front panel. A little rubbing to the edges but overall a superior copy of this fragile book. Small printed paper label of a New York Bookseller on the rear blank endpaper. An attractive copy of this uncommon little book. Published on 28th March 1912 in two binding variants; beige printed paper covered boards issued at 25 cents and this delux leather version at 50 cents. -- Richards A254. Doubleday, Page and Company. New York. 1912 hardcover
1912réf. 6124Doubleday Page and Co 1912. First Edition. Leather. GOOD. Publisher's deluxe green morocco leather binding with gilt-stamped drop-capped title and tooled border to front cover. Oblong 8vo of a single gathering hand stitched and tied in the middle. Cover is detached and edgeworn spine and tail sunned. Doubleday, Page and Co unknown
1912réf. 308658Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Co 1912. First trade edition preceded by a broadside printing. 9 leaves printed recto only within green border. oblong 12mo. Original decorative printed boards. Cloth chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. Covers detached spine separating internally fine and mostly unopened. First trade edition preceded by a broadside printing. 9 leaves printed recto only within green border. oblong 12mo. Doubleday, Page & Co hardcover
2025réf. x-9371258101JollyJoy Books Pvt Ltd 2025. Hardcover. New. 252 pages. 5.00x0.69x8.00 inches. JollyJoy Books Pvt Ltd hardcover
réf. 9371258101.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1923réf. 264212Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company 1923. Pamphlet. 93p. stapled light blue wraps 3.5x5 inches list of "Other Titles in Pocket Series" at rear pages evenly toned else very good condition. The other stories are "Bimi' "Wee Willie Winkie" and "Namgay Doola." Little Blue Book / Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 331. Haldeman-Julius Company unknown books
1922réf. 123604Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1922. Rare first American edition of Kipling's classic work on the Sorbonne. Octavo original publisher's half vellum text in French and English. One of fifty copies. In near fine condition. Scarce. 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. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
réf. 42669London: Methuen and Co. 1903. LIMITED FIRST EDITION printed on Japanese paper. Crown octavo pp.xv; 215; 1 blank. Elegantly bound in publisher's full vellum with gilt titles top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. A clean fine copy with just a little expected bowing to the vellum covers. A rare book this being one of just thirty copies. London: Methuen and Co., 1903 unknown
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réf. 121527London Methuen and co. 1903 . First edition; 8vo 200 x 130 mm; usual age-toning gilt top-edge spotting to fore-edges others untrimmed browned endpapers; publisher's red buckram cloth gilt titling to spine boards are sunned corners bumped otherwise very good condition; xvi 215pp 1 38 ads. First published in 1903 Kipling's The Five Nations included a number of new poems as well as several that had been previously published notably Recessional of 1897. In 1903 the United Kingdom consisted of four nations: England Ireland Scotland and Wales. It was soon suggested that Kipling's 'five nations' were the 'five free nations of Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa i.e. Cape Colony and the islands of the sea i.e. the British Isles - all dominated by Britons; and except in the last case by recent settlers. Kipling is chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for children. London, Methuen and co., 1903, hardcover
1903réf. 148872London: Methuen and Co 1903. Finely bound edition of Kipling's notable poetry collection. Duodecimo bound in three-quarters morocco with gilt titles and pictorial tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands all edges gilt marbled endpapers title page vignette. In very good condition inscription to the second free endpaper. First published in 1903 Kipling's The Five Nations included a number of new poems as well as several that had been previously published notably Recessional of 1897. In 1903 the United Kingdom consisted of four nations: England Ireland Scotland and Wales. It was soon suggested that Kipling's "five nations" were the "five free nations of Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa i.e. Cape Colony and 'the islands of the sea' i.e. the British Isles" - all dominated by Britons; and except in the last case by recent settlers. That suggestion was endorsed some one hundred years later. Methuen and Co unknown
1903réf. 612267London: Methuen and Company 1903. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition first state with misprint 'David' for 'Saul' on page 56 line 9 and ads dated July 1903. Octavo. Red cloth titled in gilt. Endpapers browned as usual slight wear at the spine else near fine. Methuen and Company hardcover
1903réf. 49091London: Methuen and Co. 1903. First edition. 8vo. xiv 213 1 pp. bound with the advertisements. Contemporary green full calf by Truslove & Hanson spine with raised bands gilt lettered direct to two panels and with a gilt device to the others gilt rules to the sides endpapers and all edges marbled. Spine faded to brown some mild rubbing else very good. Martindell 102. London: Methuen and Co. unknown
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