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Best.-Nr. 614146New York: Brentano's ND. 1st Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 88 pages. Hardcover. Decorative boards title in gilt on spine. Book measures: 4"W X 6.25"L. Previous owners stamp at top of front endpaper. Published by Brentano's with no date. Light wear. Record # 614146 Brentano's hardcover
1920Best.-Nr. 2475Book Description Rudyard Kipling's Without Benefit of Clergy is one of his most poignant short stories first published in 1890. Set in colonial India it tells the tragic tale of John Holden a British official and Ameera the Indian woman he loves. Their relationship tender yet forbidden by social convention unfolds against the backdrop of cultural barriers prejudice and the fragility of life. Kipling's narrative blends romantic intimacy with stark realism offering a deeply human portrait of love loss and the clash of worlds. This edition was issued by the Little Leather Library between 1920 and 1924 part of their celebrated series of pocket-sized classics. Bound in imitation leather these volumes were designed to make literature affordable and portable reaching millions of readers in early 20th-century America. Key features include: Colonial setting: A vivid portrayal of Anglo-Indian life in the late 19th century. Tragic romance: Explores forbidden love and the inevitability of loss. Compact collectible format: Pocket-sized imitation leather binding typical of the Little Leather Library series. Historical significance: Reflects Kipling's mastery of short fiction and his nuanced depiction of cross-cultural relationships. Enduring appeal: Continues to resonate with readers for its emotional depth and cultural insight. 📚 Publication Details Title Without Benefit of Clergy Author Rudyard Kipling Publisher Little Leather Library Year 1920–1924 approximate issue period Language English Format Pocket-sized edition imitation leather binding ✨ Context & Market Position This edition is part of the Little Leather Library series a landmark in early 20th-century publishing history. Collectors value these volumes for their charm portability and cultural role in democratizing literature. For resale positioning emphasize: Collectible status: Scarce pocket edition of one of Kipling's most moving stories. Literary appeal: A classic of colonial-era fiction blending romance and tragedy. Series connection: Part of the iconic Little Leather Library line sought after by vintage book collectors. Little Leather Library
Best.-Nr. 0484372637.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1331803705.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1902Best.-Nr. 27385New York: Brentanos no date 1902. 1st edition. Hardcover in stamped cloth pictorial boards no jacket. Near Fine unmarked bright gilt no flaws just traces of wear. Two short pieces in a special edition bound in color pictorial boards. Rare collectible especially in this condition. 4 x 6-1/2 88 pp deckled fore-edge. Brentano*s hardcover
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
