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1900Best.-Nr. 54117Santiago De Chile: Hume & Co. 1900. First edition. An unauthorized collection of seven poems and two sketches previously printed in newspapers. First book appearances for the sketches and two of the poems Richards A166. Also includes journalists' articles. 12mo cream paperwraps lettered in black and red; 169 pages. Light stain on bottom page edge corner not extending to pages covers lightly rumpled and soiled otherwise near fine. Bookplate of Boston banker and bibliophile Frank Brewer Bemis inside front cover featuring an engraving by Sidney Lawton Smith of Bemis's library and the motto "three things to me god lends old place old books old friends." Housed in custom green cloth chemise and slipcase with gilt-stamped black leather spine label. Hume & Co. unknown
1900Best.-Nr. 894Q25Santiago de Chile: Hume & Co. 1900 . First edition. Paperback. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 5". None. A scarce first edition of this unauthorised collection of poetry and articles by Rudyard Kipling published in Chile and largely written during the Boer War. First edition in the publisher's original paper wraps. Scarce.From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son literary agent of Rudyard Kipling. Written by celebrated English novelist poet and short-story writer Rudyard Kipling known for his popular work 'The Jungle Book'. This collection of poetry was published in Chile with many of the poems written during Kipling's time working for the British War effort in the Boer War. Comprised of seven poems and two articles with two of the poems and both articles appearing here in book-form for the first time. This collection also includes letters from author Julian Ralph reporter Charles E. Hands and Douglas Story. This collection is suggested to be the only known case of a book being published in a country that was never visited by the author. The publisher Hume & Co. was said to be an huge admirer of Kipling's although overestimated the public demand meaning his print-run of 400 copies were largely left unsold or burnt. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally very smart with light offsetting and a little sunning. Small mark to the head of the rear wrap with slight markings from the staples externally and to endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean with slight age toning. Many pages have been left unopened. Very Good Indeed Hume & Co. paperback
1900Best.-Nr. 149441900. Also Letters from Julian Ralph Charles E. Hands and Douglas Story. Santiago de Chile: Hume & Co. 1900. Original printed fawn wrappers. First Edition unauthorized issued as a volume in the publisher's "Libreria Inglesa." This volume published in Chile includes three poems and two stories that Kipling wrote during the Boer War plus four poems written earlier; it is the first edition in book form anywhere of the poems "Pharaoh and the Sergeant" and "Kitchener's School" and of the Boer War tales "With Number Three" and "Surgical and Medical." "It has been said that this is the only case on record of a first edition of a book being published in a country never visited by the author and where people did not speak his language" Richards. Hume the proprietor of Santiago's main bookstore was a huge Kipling fan but it appears that he overestimated the Chilean Kipling market: he supposedly printed 400 copies but few sold and the remainder were either burned in 1906 or pulped at a paper mill in 1911 -- though some copies like this one apparently were neither read nor burned nor pulped. For this copy is as new -- no wear no soil leaves still unopened. Richards A166; Stewart 240. Housed in a cloth slipcase with inner chemise. unknown books
1909Best.-Nr. 90334New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. First American Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's deep blue cloth lavishly decorated in gilt and silver to spine and front board. 77pp. printed rectos only; 16pp. fictional advertisments to rear. Bright and straight with some light scuffing to spine ends and extremities a little darkened to the spine; internally clean and fresh color pictorial endpapers by Leyendecker color frontispiece with tissue guard color plates. A very good copy of a pretty book. A most unusual bit of Kipling in the shape of a fantastic vision of the future in which the majority of air travel is via dirigible public industrial or private and which takes the form of a journalistic account of the aerial mail service for some future magazine or other a little optimistic of Kipling to assume we would have journalism in the 21st century. This heady and dramatic vision of the year 2000 is embellished with a selection of advertisments and blurbs for private airships dirigible engineering equipment and classified ads looking for pilots "Must be a member of the Church of England." in a pseudo-documentary transmedial fashion. The end result is an entertaining and deeply unserious bit of speculative fiction. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
1909Best.-Nr. TB34122New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. First Edition. First Printing Very good in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt text on the front board with the white illustration of an air ship. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches with full color end sheets by F. X. Leyendecker. Both front and rear hinges have been reinforced to help protect and preserve the beautiful end sheets. lower edge. The cloth at the tips of the boards are rubbed as is the cloth rubbed at the head and heel of the spine. A 1 inch tear to page 58 has been professionally repaired. 77 pages with the printing on the rectos only followed by the "Advertising Section" of nine leaves. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and three color plates by Frank X. Leyendecker and H. Reuterdahl. Richards A217 Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1909Best.-Nr. 000022406New York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1909. first thus. hardcover. Very good. Frank X. Leyendecker and H. Reutendahl. Octavo dark teal blue cloth with pictorial design of an airship and titles in gilt and silver. 77 pages printed on one side only rectos unpaginated 9 leaves advertising section. Illustrated by Frank X. Leyendecker and H. Reutendahl. Color illustrated endpapers by Leyendecker. 4 color plates. Former owner bookplate smallish on front paste-down endpaper. A little wear at cover edges. Livingston 318. Bleiler 1978 p. 115. First serialized in America in McClure's in 1905. As part of the story Kipling also placed phony ads for dirigible and aeronautical products in the magazine. This book contains those as well as correspondence and reviews. Studio Doubleday, Page & Co. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1889298999.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1909Best.-Nr. 545New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. First thus. Hardback. Very Good. Leyendecker Frank X. Xavier; Reuterdahl H. Henry. A fascinating read and with remarkable cover art. Few people know that Rudyard Kipling briefly ventured into writing science fiction. This book With the Night Mail was his first enthusiastic attempt. It is a novella that originally appeared in magazines in 1905 before Doubleday Page and Company published it with some minor changes as a book unto itself-with an absolutely gorgeous gilt and silver cover--in 1909. The story imagines life in the 21st century when transport by airships-later to be called "dirigibles" in real life-was so commonplace that it was regulated by a trans-world agency known as the Aerial Board of Control which was in charge of traffic and rescues. Kipling tells the story of what happens when a postal airship on a typical transatlantic night run to Quebec encounters another airship in trouble and losing altitude just as a storm is whipping up. It's an imaginative story with a creative new vocabulary but Kipling also obviously drew from the familiar. The Aerial Board of Control or the A.B.C. reminiscent of an international coast guard for instance similar to the one regulating shipping around Britain in the early 20th century; meanwhile airships were on the cusp of commercial viability at the time Kipling was writing and were being publicly tested over Paris. But as real as they may have been in 1905 they certainly fed Kipling's imagination. He used them as the jumping-off point for world creation. Besides the text of the story itself Doubleday Page and Company collected other items Kipling created in connection with it--such as the "Aerial Board of Control Bulletin" and fictitious advertisements related to airships similar to those that frequently appeared in the back of books published during this era--and presented them as additional documentation to back up his story. Kipling became so enthralled with his own creation that he wrote a second longer story titled "As Easy as ABC" in 1907 though it was not published until 1912. Both works have been highly influential. Modern readers might be struck by how much they remind them of the steampunk genre close to a hundred years before steampunk became popular. Kipling anticipated a number of technologies in his A.B.C. stories that came into real-life use decades later. As a stylist science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein found Kipling's use of indirect exposition in With the Night Mail very influential on his own work. There is even a series of computer role-playing games based on the A.B.C. Because the texts within this copy were first published in magazines Doubleday Page and Company did not officially label its 1909 release as a "first edition" so we are calling our copy a "First Edition Thus." It is lovingly illustrated with color plates by Frank X. Leyendecker and H. for Henry Reuterdahl. One plate opposite the title page is fronted by a tipped-in sheet of tissue paper; it also has a small closed tear on its fore edge that is limited to the margin and does not affect the image itself in any way. A similar fore edge tear is on an unnumbered page in the back of the book. Page 18 is soiled in its margins and some of that has carried over to the blank facing page. Both front and rear endpapers are illustrated by two-page painting with a production/facsimile signature by Leyendecker. The front flysheet of this illustration has come loose-apparently this is a common problem with this book--but is otherwise undamaged and is included in its appropriate place; someone has written "#50" in ink in small figures on the inside cover. The bottom back inside hinge is starting to tear but otherwise the binding is sound and tight. Pagination for this book is.odd. Only the recto pages are printed and not all of them are numbered. Several sellers have noted what appears to be a cut out page before the half-title page but our examination suggests that it is instead related to the binding process and not a flaw. The book is bound in dark blue cloth with gilt and silver foil lettering and decoration. The covers and spine show light shelf wear and bumping along the edges and corners but otherwise are in quite good condition. The decoration on the front cover is remarkable illustrating an airship floating in the stars and clouds with the title integrated in the picture and the author's name below. The spine has gilt lettering for the title author and publisher's name but also an illustration of people in the gondola of an airship also in gilt. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
1909Best.-Nr. 017817New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. 1st Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Small 8vo 77pp. plus 7 leaves of ads in rear. Sharp First Edition Bound in navy cloth with gilt lettering and gilt and white illustration on front board. Illustrated end-papers. Color frontispiece and three additional full-color plates. Square tight and clean throughout with little if any toning or foxing. Hinges starting but firm. Mild wear to spine ends tips. A very pleasing collectable copy at a great price. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
1909Best.-Nr. mon0003949660Doubleday 1909T. hardcover. Good. . lacking dj. cover shows minor wear pages tanned and clean. Doubleday hardcover
1909Best.-Nr. 082125004Doubleday Page & Company 1909. Hardcover. Good. Good condition ex-libris copy with a sticker on the inside of the front cover. Name written on the first page. Tissue guard protection the illustration before the title page. One page may be clipped out before the book begins. Pages look free of notations but a few have light soiling. Exterior has wear with bumping along the edges. Spine feels a little loose. Front cover illustration looks clean and crisp. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1023981467.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 51347511like new. unknown
1998Best.-Nr. 324716San Francisco: Arion Press 1998. Limited. hardcover. fine. Introduction by Thomas Pinney. Illustrations by Vincent Perez. Thin 8vo linen with wrap-around paper label. San Francisco: Arion Press 1998. Limited Edition. Fine. Kipling's only science fiction story. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the artist. Arion Press unknown
Best.-Nr. 1365831744.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Best.-Nr. 1019585722.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1998Best.-Nr. 6293San Francisco: The Arion Press 1998. Limited Edition. One of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the artist this being copy no.160. Octavo 25.5cm; full beige canvas cloth with printed title label mounted across spine and front cover; publisher's original reinforced string-tied envelope with printed labels; ii45-1197pp with an applied frontispiece portrait of Kipling and 32 illustrations by Vincent Perez. Fine in a Near Fine envelope with some mild external wear and some very faint creasing along one edge. Fine press edition of Kipling's science fiction story set in the year 2000 first published in the November 1905 issue of McClure's Magazine. With an introduction by Thomas Pinney. Arion No.54. The Arion Press unknown
1909Best.-Nr. 007526New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. Book. Illus. by Leyendecker Frank X. / Reuterdahl H. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. subtitled: Together with Extracts from the Contemporary Magazine in which it appeared. -Illus. by 4 Color Plates and Endpapers By Frank Leyendecker and H. Reuterdahhl. Decorative Cloth. First American Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Science fiction in a dirigible imagined by Kipling for the year 2000. 77 Pages numbered & printed on only one side 8 pages of aeronautical advertisements which are also fantasy. Original dark green cloth with a laid on cover of clouds and dirigible and stars in silver and gilt. gilt spine letters and design. In glassine wrapper. Doubleday, Page & Company Hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1935869523.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1909Best.-Nr. 121674New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. First edition of Kipling's thrilling science fiction novella. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles to the spine elaborate gilt vignette to the front panel pictorial endpapers illustrated in color by Frank X. Leyendecker and H. Reuterdahl tissue-guarded frontispiece. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in good 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. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1998Best.-Nr. KIPLINGR008213The Arion Press San Francisco. 1998. First edition thus. Introduction by Thomas Pinney. Octavo. 119 pages. Illustrations by Vincent Perez. Full canvas. Printed title-label label on upper cover and spine. Printed under the direction of Andrew Hoyem. "Zounds! Science fiction from 1905. Predicting aeronautics in the year 2000 to be primarily dirigible. Airplanes outmoded. Airships the main means of conveyance for passengers and freight. The mail airmail of course transported across the Atlantic overnight." - from the 8-page Prospectus which is present.One of 250 numbered copies signed by the artist.Fine in the original printed reinforced envelope which is creased. The Arion Press, San Francisco. unknown
1909Best.-Nr. 291839doubleday first edition 1909. near fine faint spine damp marks doubleday unknown
1909Best.-Nr. 291840doubleday first edition 1909. almost near fine some writing inside doubleday unknown
Best.-Nr. GOR007732035Paperback. Very Good. paperback
1909Best.-Nr. P-13119Doubleday Page 1909. Hardcover. Very Good/First Edition. Octavo. With extracts from McClure's Magazine where this story appeared serially. Color endpaper illustrations by Leyendecker. Decorative vintage Dolkart Library bookplate on e.p. else unmarked. A tight clean copy in bright cover gilt Doubleday Page hardcover
