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1890Best.-Nr. 755P23London; Allahabad: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington; A. H. Wheeler & Co 1890. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 6". None. A collection of six short novellas and short story collections by Rudyard Kipling a nice volume of his lesser-known works. A selection of six short works by Rudyard Kipling.Rudyard Kipling is best known for his novel 'The Jungle Book' however he was a prolific writer of poems novels and short stories. Being born in India inspired much of his work and he went on to become one of the most popular writers of his time.Containing;'Soldiers Three' the sixth edition dated 1890.'The Story of the Gadsbys a Tale Without a Plot' the third edition of this work undated. Dated 1890 from Jisc from a copy held at the Hathi Trust Digital Library.'In Black and White' undated. Dated 1890 from Jisc from a copy held at the Hathi Trust Digital Library.'Under the Deodars' undated. Dated 1890 from Jisc from a copy held at the Hathi Trust Digital Library.'Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales' undated. Prior owner's ink inscription to the head of the title page. Dated 1890 from Jisc from a copy held at the Hathi Trust Digital Library. 'Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories' undated. Dated 1890 from Jisc from a copy held at the Hathi Trust Digital Library.The last five works in this volume were published in Prayagraj.Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front free endpaper 'K. G. Philpot 4 Crown Office Row Temple'. In a half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards rebacked with the original boards and spine restores. A little rubbing to the boards and spine with a small amount of loss to the extremities. Evidence of former loss to the spine. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front free endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean with some odd spots. Prior owner's ink inscription to the head of the title page of 'Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales'. Very Good Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington; A. H. Wheeler & Co hardcover
Best.-Nr. 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
1903Best.-Nr. 000134London: Macmillan and Co. 1903. Sixteen finely executed illustrations mounted and protected by part-printed paper overlays contained in a later half-calf silk lined portfolio. The portfolio has raised bands spine in four panels panels bordered with gilt single rule volute corner pieces title in gilt to second panel illustrators to third place and date to fourth silk ties to each edge. Rubbed to extremities spine very slightly faded. Title page chipped and quite heavily repaired slightly grubby with several small closed tears the list of illustrations leaf is again chipped with repairs to edges. The part-printed overlays are lightly foxed and browned to edges chipped to top edges one or two spots of foxing to the mounts the illustrations are all bright and clean. For the Detmolds see Houfe page 115. First Edition. Plates Loose in Folder. Good. Illus. by Detmold Maurice and Detmold Edward. Elephant Folio. Macmillan and Co. Hardcover
1903Best.-Nr. 154195London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903. Magnificent illustrations for Kipling's classic and considered by some to be the finest book illustrations ever published First edition sole impression. Macmillan issued this sumptuous portfolio at five guineas advertising the illustrations as reproductions "in colour from the Original Drawings in the highest style of Lithography". The 16 watercolours had been exhibited at the Dutch Gallery in London and were subsequently incorporated in reduced format into Macmillan's 1908 edition of The Jungle Book. The illustrations rank among the Detmold brothers' most celebrated work. A modern study of British book illustration describes the series as a "masterpiece of Edwardian era" singling out Shere Khan in the Jungle for its synthesis of Japanese pictorial influence anatomical observation and elaborate detail. Quoting Rodney Engen's study of the golden age of illustration it notes how the brothers' understanding of nature enabled them to create the "mythology and harshness of the natural world". Folio. 16 coloured chromolithograph prints on thin card sheet sizes: 330 × 430 mm tipped onto white board with grey window mounts mount sizes: 393 × 545 mm with cover sheet to each illustration providing the title and a short extract from the book. Original green cloth chemise front cover lettered and with illustration in gilt containing title page contents leaf and 16 loose prints. Housed in a custom grey cloth folding box. Chemise worn with loss front cover detached bookplate removed lacking ties occasional chips and tears to extremities of cover sheets light browning to sheets fold to title page and contents leaf strengthened prints bright and unfaded; a good set. Nicholas Alfrey & Richard Verdi Charles Maurice and Edward Julius Detmold: A Centenary Exhibition 1983; Rodney Engen The Age of Enchantment 2007; Iain MacPhail "The Detmold Twins" The Book Collector Autumn 2024 pp. 48193; Tessa Morris-Suzuki Nature War and the Art of the Detmold Twins 2026; David Alan Richards Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliography 2010. hardcover
1903Best.-Nr. 72975London:: Macmillan & Co. 1903. First edition. laid into publisher's olive green gilt-stamped portfolio as issued. There is some chipping and use to some of the captioned overleaves which are tanned around the edges. A few of them are foxed and one has long repaired tears. A few small chips to the corners of the mats. The color plates are all very fine. The title page and list of plates are chipped at the corners and creased along the lower edge with repairs to short tears. The flaps and spine of the portfolio have been re-lined and the corners are worn; the joints split. . Oversized folio . 16 large color plates each in the publisher's mat with captioned overleaf. . Additional postage applicable. Macmillan & Co., unknown
Best.-Nr. 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
1951Best.-Nr. mon0000550049Hodder and Stoughton 1951T. hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover has wear and tear aong edges. Note: this is a 14th preprinted copy 1957. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
1992Best.-Nr. RO20261530Karavella, Liss, Ural BISI. 1992. In-8. Cartonné. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 335 pages - en russe - une page avec légers griffonnages sans réelle conséquence sur la lecture - nombreuses illustrations en couleur + contreplats illustrés en couleur - 1 charnière intérieure légèrement fendue. . . . Classification Dewey : 491.7-Langue russe
1919Best.-Nr. 004965England 1919. Cloth. Near Fine. Lovely meticulously rendered vignette illustrations framing the key letter on each page and on a few pages two vignettes. Oblong 9 by 13 cm. 28 pp. The album opens to a particularly nice pen and ink drawing of a schooner framed with highly decorative foliate baroque ornamentation. The first poem is Kipling's "If" each letter device accompanied by a painting of a different type of sail boat or ship. Ship motives are used again in "Love at Sea" by Swinburne. Another Kipling poem "The Explanation" is enlivened with paintings of colorful expressive fish. In our judgment these are the most charismatic of the illustrations. Other poems include Swinburne's "Rondel" "Before Sunset" "Song" and "Child's Song"; and some verses by Sappho. Other illustrative motives take in dragons flowers and floral daipers butterflies and coasts. The poems are rendered in a neat calligraphic hand and it is very easy to imagine this manuscript as something that might have been published as a gift book. unknown
1919Best.-Nr. 004965England 1919. Cloth. Near Fine. Lovely meticulously rendered vignette illustrations framing the key letter on each page and on a few pages two vignettes. Oblong 9 by 13 cm. 28 pp. The album opens to a particularly nice pen and ink drawing of a schooner framed with highly decorative foliate baroque ornamentation. The first poem is Kipling's "If" each letter device accompanied by a painting of a different type of sail boat or ship. Ship motives are used again in "Love at Sea" by Swinburne. Another Kipling poem "The Explanation" is enlivened with paintings of colorful expressive fish. In our judgment these are the most charismatic of the illustrations. Other poems include Swinburne's "Rondel" "Before Sunset" "Song" and "Child's Song"; and some verses by Sappho. Other illustrative motives take in dragons flowers and floral daipers butterflies and coasts. The poems are rendered in a neat calligraphic hand and it is very easy to imagine this manuscript as something that might have been published as a gift book. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 39735comprising two tickets to the Funeral Service at Westminster Abbey on the 23rd January 1936 giving access to the West Cloister Door via Dean's Yard together with the printed Order of Service 4 pages 4to. and a cutting from a newspaper of his poem 'Bonfires on the Ice' in 1933 the funeral 23rd January unknown
1924Best.-Nr. 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
1924Best.-Nr. 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
2002Best.-Nr. 2-1841690392Psychology Pr 2002. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 367 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. Psychology Pr paperback
Best.-Nr. 6349143Taylor & Francis Group . Papeback. New. pp. 392 Taylor & Francis Group unknown
2003Best.-Nr. x-0521822483Cambridge Univ Pr 2003. Hardcover. New. 417 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.25 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
2003Best.-Nr. Q-0521822483Cambridge University Press 2003-08-18. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Cambridge University Press hardcover
2003Best.-Nr. DBS-9780521822480Cambridge University Press 2003. 1st. Hardcover. New. Cambridge University Press hardcover
2003Best.-Nr. DBS-9780521822480Cambridge University Press 2003. 1st. Hardcover. New. Cambridge University Press hardcover
2003Best.-Nr. AME_9780521822480Cambridge University Press 2003. 1st. Hardcover. New/New. _ Cambridge University Press hardcover
2004Best.-Nr. x-0521832543Cambridge Univ Pr 2004. Hardcover. New. 386 pages. 9.00x6.50x1.25 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
2005Best.-Nr. 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