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1894réf. 1909113Century Co 1894. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Two books. Both books are first US editions both are in very good condition. The Jungle Book has bookplate attached to the front pastedown from a prior owner as well as handwritten name and date. Handwritten name is also on the title page. 1894 stated on title and copyright page. The Second Jungle Book is inscribed to the poet Amy Lowell with her bookplate on the front pastedown. Additionally it is signed by James. A. Roosevelt cousin of Theodore. 1895 stated on title and copyright page. Century Co hardcover books
1894réf. 1907121The Century Co 1894. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Two volumes. The Jungle Book is a first US edition and contains an original watercolor by the illustrator William Henry Drake. Book in very good condition. The Second Jungle Book is also a first US edition and includes the first edition dust jacket. Both books are housed in custom-made matching slipcases. The Century Co hardcover books
1894réf. 150271MacMillan London 1894. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A very good set of the true first editions. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. MacMillan, London hardcover books
1894réf. 120935London: Macmillan 1894-95. First editions of both volumes of The Jungle Book. Octavo two volumes original blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt all edges gilt engraved frontispiece with tissue guard present. Illustrated by J. L. Kipling W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. The Jungle Book is a collection of fables which provide moral instruction by using animals anthropomorphically. Each story begins and ends with a verse and the original publications contain some illustrations created by Rudyard's father John Lockwood Kipling. The inspiration for the book is evident. Kipling was born in India and he spent his childhood there. Interestingly Kipling wrote these stories when he lived in Vermont. The Jungle Book is used to develop the morale of the junior element of the Scouting movement "The Cub Scouts". The name of the head wolf "Akela" has been traditionally given to each Cub Scout pack leader. At least fifteen movies were released based on Kipling's stories beginning with Elephant Boy in 1937. A live-action anticipated version of Jungle Book will be released in October of 2018 by Warner Brothers. Macmillan hardcover books
1894réf. 110973London: Macmillan 1894-95. First edition second printings of both volumes of The Jungle Book finely bound in full morocco. Octavo two volumes bound in full morocco by Atelier with gilt titles and tooling to the spines in six compartments within raised bands triple gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt illustrated with engravings by J. L. Kipling W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny including tissue-guarded frontispiece to Volume I. With the original cloth spines front and rear panels bound in at the rear of each volume. In fine condition. An exceptional set of these classic children's books. The Jungle Book is a collection of fables which provide moral instruction by using animals anthropomorphically. Each story begins and ends with a verse and the original publications contain some illustrations created by Rudyard's father John Lockwood Kipling. The inspiration for the book is evident. Kipling was born in India and he spent his childhood there. Interestingly Kipling wrote these stories when he lived in Vermont. The Jungle Book is used to develop the morale of the junior element of the Scouting movement "The Cub Scouts". The name of the head wolf "Akela" has been traditionally given to each Cub Scout pack leader. At least fifteen movies were released based on Kipling's stories beginning with Elephant Boy in 1937. A live-action anticipated version of Jungle Book will be released in October of 2018 by Warner Brothers. Macmillan hardcover books
1942réf. 149132Los Angeles: Walt Disney Productions 1942. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph on the set of the 1942 film. "Photograph by Coburn" stamp and "Bison Archives" stamp on verso. Based on the 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. The stunning Technicolor live-action version of the classic Kipling stories made by the Hungarian born filmmaking team the Korda brothers director Zoltan Korda producer Alexander Korda and art director Vincent Korda which brilliantly utilized live exotic animals on huge lush sets and featured Indian born actor Sabu as Mowgli the boy raised by wolves who can communicate with the animals of the jungle. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography. Set in a village in India shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 30. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1894réf. 140940985London: Macmillan and Co 1894. First Edition. Very Good. 1894 1895. Two volumes. 303; 238 pp. 2 ads. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original royal blue cloth elaborately stamped in gilt top edges gilt. Very Good to Near Fine with toning to spine light wear to cloth light staining to rear cover of the first volume. Previous owner name penciled on coated pastedown of the second volume. Pages toned. Housed in two custom slipcased which are a bit worn. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1894réf. 140940387London: Macmillan and Co 1894. First Edition. Near Fine. 1894 1895. Two volumes. 303; 238 pp. 2 ads. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original royal blue cloth elaborately stamped in gilt top edges gilt. Near Fine with light lean to spine light toning to spine cloth and light rubbing to extremities. Pages toned previous owner name to preliminary blank sheet of Volume I and small vintage bookseller ticket to front pastedown of Volume II. A lovely set. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1923pp. xiii, 305 + Frontis. Illustrated with full page drawings. Numerous text drawings. Title page ruled in red and black. Front hinge cracked. 8vo. 200mm. Original full green cloth binding. Front board ruled in black with a ship under sail. Front board and spine embossed and lettered in gold. Binding worn and rubbed. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist who is now chiefly remembered for: his celebration of British imperialism; tales and poems of British soldiers in India; and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! KIP BX 1
19318vo., with coloured frontispiece and 15 fine coloured plates, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; red buckram, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, small pull at headband else a near fine copy. A remarkably bright, clean copy. Kipling's most famous prose work was first issued with coloured illustrations in 1908. See Livingston, p.36.; Stewart 125.
1980réf. 299759Norwalk: Easton 1980. hardcover. fine. Gentleman David. Illustrated by David Gentleman. 383 pages. Tall thick 8vo gilt-stamped green leather all edges gilt silk moire endpapers. Norwalk: Easton Press 1980. A fine copy. 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series. Easton unknown books
1968réf. WB17104Lunenburg VT: The Limited Editions Club 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Copy 81 of a total edition of 1500. Large 8vo. Signed by David Gentleman illustrator. Excellent copy in slipcase. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1968réf. 46951Lunenburg Vermont: The Limited Editions Club 1968. Edition limited to 1500 copies this no. 842 signed by the illustrator David Gentleman; large 8vo pp. xiii 5 383; colored plates illustrations in the text introduction by Bonamy Dobree; monthly letter of the LEC laid in; near fine in original olive cloth-backed marbled boards decorated in gilt on spine green publisher's slipcase spine a bit darkened. LEC Bibliography 403. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1968réf. 256678Lunenburg: The Limited Editions Club 1968. Limited. hardcover. fine. David Gentleman. Introduction by Bonamy Dobree. Illustrations in color and black and white by David Gentleman. 383 pages. Short thick 4to green cloth-backed marbled boards with gilt-decorated spine matching board slipcase. Lunenburg VT: The Limited Editions Club 1968. A fine copy in a near fine slipcase. Limited Edition one of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1980réf. 194215Easton Press 1980-01-01. Leather Bound. Very Good. Full green leather binding with gilt stamped design and page edges. 4 raised bands to the spine. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Easton Press hardcover books
1948réf. 2308436Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1948. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Very Good/Very Good. Watson Aldren. Book club editions. Minor loss from jacket corners. 1948 Hard Cover. Two hardcover volumes. 8vo. vii 253 pp.; 197 pp. Full-page watercolor illustrations by Aldren Watson. Inspiration for the Walt Disney film. "The Jungle Book 1894 is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893 Doubleday & Company, Inc unknown books
1948réf. 121799Garden City and New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1948. The Book Club edition of Kipling's Jungle Books. Octavo two volumes original cloth. Illustrations by Albert Watson. Foreword by Nelson Doubleday. Near fine in very good dust jackets. Book design by Oscar Ogg. Author photograph by Elliot and Frey Ltd. Kipling's Jungle Books center on the story of Mowgli an orphaned 'man-cub' who is raised in the jungle of India by wolves where he comes to learn the Laws of the Jungle. A major theme throughout the books is abandonment followed by fostering as in the life of Mowgli echoing Kipling's own childhood. Another is law vs. freedom; the stories are not about animal behavior but about human archetypes in animal form. The books remain popular to this day and have been adapted several times for film and other media including the classic Walt Disney 1967 animation and its 2016 remake. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
1961réf. 93661NY:: New American Library Signet Classics. Very Good. 1961. Paperback. CD65. Afterword by Marcus Cunliffe. Stated first printing of this Signet Classics mass market paperback. Previous owner's name on verso of front cover else very good or better in illustrated wraps. ; 334 pages . New American Library (Signet Classics), paperback books
1968réf. 191405Lunenburg Vermont: The Limited Editions Club 1968. The Limited Editions Club edition of Kipling's Jungle Books. Quarto original half cloth over marbled boards all edges speckled green. Illustrated by David Gentleman. Introduction by Bonamy Dobree. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by David Gentleman this is number 134. Fine in the original green slipcase which is in near fine condition. Kipling's Jungle Books center on the story of Mowgli an orphaned 'man-cub' who is raised in the jungle of India by wolves where he comes to learn the Laws of the Jungle. A major theme throughout the books is abandonment followed by fostering as in the life of Mowgli echoing Kipling's own childhood. Another is law vs. freedom; the stories are not about animal behavior but about human archetypes in animal form. The books remain popular to this day and have been adapted several times for film and other media including the classic Walt Disney 1967 animation and its 2016 remake. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1968pp. xiii, 383 + Full page color drawings by David Gentleman. Numerous black and white text drawings. Title decorated in green. Typographic plan of John Dreyfus. Lacks first fly leaf. 4to. 265mm. Original olive cloth spine over decorated paper covered boards. Spine decorated and lettered in gold. Limited Edition. Number 448 of only Fifteen Hundred copies. Signed by David Gentleman, illustrator. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist who is now chiefly remembered for: his celebration of British imperialism; tales and poems of British soldiers in India; and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. LOC W89
1948réf. 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
1903réf. 011529London: MacMillan 1903 red cloth with profuse black decoration spine ends frayed corners rubbed back and frayed spine sunned and rubbed spot of discolouration to fep top corner of title torn off no text loss 62pp Kiplings words set to music by Edward German first UK issue. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. MacMillan hardcover
1923réf. 49792Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 4 volumes in the series comprising: The Elephant's Child; The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo; How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin; and How the Alphabet Was Made. Printed at The Country Life Press Garden City N.Y. Oblong 8vo. Publisher's illustrated paper boards. Text blocks detached in three volumes. Corners bumped and worn with chipping and loss to portions of the spines; old clear-tape repairs to spines. Short marginal tear to one title page. Only one of the illustrations has been colored namely the first image in Book 4. Otherwise clean throughout with vibrant attractive illustrations. Boards remain clean and bright. A nice complete set of these colouring books for children. Doubleday, Page & Co hardcover
2012réf. BIBLIO-69003Folio Society London limited edition 2012. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies signed and numbered by the illustrator on the limitation engraving which is handprinted from the woodblock. Quarter vellum and decorated foil-blocked boards with vellum corner-tips top edge gilt 4to. 216 pp colour plates numerous engraved tailpieces. With an introduction by Michael Morpurgo and 14 paintings by Niroot Puttapipat printed with gold borders and tipped in as colour plates. The binding used 4 coloured metallic foils to illustrate the Leopard. Contents: Introduction; How the Whale got his Throat; How the Camel got his Hump; How the Rhinoceros got his Skin; How the Leopard got his Spots; The Elephant's Child; The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo; The Beginning of the Armadilloes; How the First Letter Was Written; How the Alphabet Was Made; The Crab That Played With the Sea; The Cat That Walked by Himself; The Butterfly That Stamped; The Tabu Tale. Copy no. 453 signed and numbered by the artist on the original etching. As new in the publisher's solander box which has a tiny indentation to the rear face. Folio Society, London, limited edition, 2012 hardcover
1903réf. 18134133585Clean hardcover no marks on text. Contains the songs and music arranged for piano. From the days when popular songs from books were issued as song sheets for home entertainment. Charming baby elephant in black ink on green cloth cover blowing music notes out of his trunk. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover