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1936réf. 612253Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1936. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Octavo. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards with frontispiece and plates in color. Slight age-toning at the hinges from the binder's glue else fine in price-clipped very good or better dust jacket with a couple of short tears a little rubbing on the spine and foxing on the rear panel. A nice fresh copy. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover books
1936réf. 15100Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co 1936. Octavo red cloth gilt titling to spine 91 pp. 1936 reprint of Kipling's 1895 work about the sport of polo from the perspective of the horses. Bookplate to front pastedown foxing to endpapers and first few pages lacking front endpaper bit of staining to covers along edges fading to spine a good sound copy. Doubleday, Doran & Co hardcover
réf. SB15E-1096Windswept House. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Windswept House unknown
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1936réf. 612253Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1936. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Octavo. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards with frontispiece and plates in color. Slight age-toning at the hinges from the binder's glue else fine in price-clipped very good or better dust jacket with a couple of short tears a little rubbing on the spine and foxing on the rear panel. A nice fresh copy. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover
1936réf. 49370Doubleday Doran & Company 1936. First Edition. Hardcover missing Dust Jacket. VG fading to spine no dust jacket stated first edition. Red cloth first thus. Originally published in 1895. Previous owner's gift Inscription on the ffep. . Doubleday, Doran & Company, hardcover
1936réf. 122493Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Company 1936. First edition of Kipling's tale of a polo pony living among the British in India. Octavo original cloth illustrated by Lionel Edwards frontispiece and plates in color. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very 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, Doran & Company hardcover
réf. 47553/47London: Macmillan 1936. Book. Illus. by Lionel Edwards. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 82pp. HARDCOVER. Various marks to external cloth & sml. repaired split to base of spine. Generally clean internally with just occasional spots/browning in places. Text unaffected. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall. Macmillan Hardcover
réf. 467804Macmillan. Hardcover. Good. A delightful children's story of a flea-bitten grey polo-pony who became the heroine of a nail-biting polo match. Macmillan hardcover
réf. 468040MacMillan & Co Ltd. Hardcover. Good. The Maltese Cat a polo pony living among the British in India achieves glory and honour in the big game against the Archangels. MacMillan & Co Ltd hardcover
19998vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the separately printed errata slip loosely inserted.
1890réf. 158361890. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. January 1891 actually Dec 1890. Original printed wrappers. First American Appearance of this novel occupying almost the entirety 97 pages of this monthly issue. Lippincott's Monthly Magazine was on a roll! Over the course of twelve months they introduced readers to three amazing novels: Arthur Conan Doyle's THE SIGN OF FOUR complete in the February 1890 issue Oscar Wilde's THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY complete in the July 1890 issue and then this one. In February 1890 Kipling's agent A.P.Watt had negotiated for Kipling to deliver to Lippincott this novel -- for which they issued a UK copyright edition in November 1890 the true first edition. New York publishers John Lovell / United States Book Co. with London agent Wolcott Balestier and Kipling in-law were all set to publish this in early December 1890 when. The book's publication was held up until the American magazine version. could appear on the newstands in late December in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine cover-dated January 1891" Richards. This is a remarkably bright copy fine except for chipping away of the bottom quarter-inch of the spine. Quite uncommon in this condition. Richards E1-E3 plus see his A49-A51. Housed in a worn folding cloth case which bears the bookplate of Oliver Brett later 3rd Viscount Esher. unknown books
1940réf. D21005New York: Triangle Books 1940. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in pictorial DJ. Cheap paper browned early owner's gift inscription. Still attractive with the DJ. Triangle Books hardcover books
1908339 p. Uncut. Top edge gilt. Bookplate of Sylvia Hathaway on front paste down. 8vo. 205mm. Original full green cloth binding. Front board ruled in black with a ship under sail. Front board and spine embossed and lettered in gold. Extremities rubbed. Hardbound. Very good. 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. KIP BX 1
1939réf. 156674Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1939. Vintage studio still photograph of director William Wellman and a camera crew filming on location in New Mexico for the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1891 novel by Rudyard Kipling. An artist whose sight is failing struggles to complete his final painting while also grieving his broken relationship with his childhood sweetheart. Shot on location in Abiquiu Santa Fe and Espanola New Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1890réf. 530764New York: United States Book Company 1890. Hardcover. Fine. First American edition boards issue. Red beveled cloth gilt. Attractive early bookplate a touch rubbing on the boards else fine. United States Book Company hardcover books
1891réf. WB18282London: Macmillan 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Original blue gilt stamped cloth. Spine leaning otherwise a decent copy. Macmillan hardcover books
réf. 160149New York: Manhattan Press. Good. N.D. Hardcover. An edition in good condition with normal shelfwear and slight discoloration. There is a previous owner's pencil signature on the front flyleaf; The Light That Failed is a story of love loss and redemption. The novel follows the journey of two families the Mee family and the Chough family as they are both affected by the Great War. The Mee family is a wealthy family that is struggling to keep their business afloat while their son Rudyard is away fighting in the war. The Chough family is a family of coal miners who are struggling to make ends meet while their son Willie is away fighting in the war. Rudyard and Willie meet each other while they are both in the trenches and become friends. Willie tells Rudyard about the horrors of the war and Rudyard tells Willie about his dreams of becoming a writer. The two families are able to connect through their shared experiences of the war and they are able to heal their wounds. The Light That Failed is a story of hope and redemption.; 32mo; 313 pages . Manhattan Press hardcover books
1900réf. 422040New York: A.L. Burt 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. 339pp. 6pp. of advertisements. Original red cloth gilt-stamped spine title. Hinges cracked cloth soiled spine ends and corners rubbed and bumped about very good being R.L. Rusk's copy with his name and his daughter's name penned on the front endpapers lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Rusk taught English at the University of the Philippines 1912-1914. Ralph Leslie Rusk was a Professor Emeritus of American Literature at Columbia University New York New York. In 1950 he was the first winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction for The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1949. A.L. Burt hardcover books
1910réf. 117925New York: The Regent Press 1910. Hardcover. Good. Later. Good Hardcover has no dust jacket corners and spine ends frayed and bumped text edges smudged there is foxing on end pages and some fading on cover. The Regent Press hardcover books
1920réf. 263301Boston: Registered Editions Guild 1920. Hardcover. Good. Art-type ed. Good Hardcover has no dust jacket the cover is faded and smudged in spots corners and spine ends are bumped and frayed name inked on end page. Registered Editions Guild hardcover books
1908réf. 176691Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Co 1908. Very Good. Later. Very good. Slightly worn. Former owner's name on sticker inside. Doubleday, Page & Co unknown books
1938réf. 212234New York: Triangle Books 1938. Hardcover. Good/Good. Reprint. A good plus copy in a good plus dust jacket. Fading/mildew soiling on outer edges of panels light soiling on panels/spine bumped corners/ends pgs are browned war time paper dust jacket shows soiled back panel/flap edges Tears on top and bottom of spine/flap hinges flap corners clipped. Triangle Books hardcover books
1915réf. 191982Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company / Review of Reviews 1915. Hardcover. Good. Authorized edition revised. Red cloth with spine stamped in gilt topedge gilt. Bookplate with owner name removed binding a bit shaken spine moderately sunned boards with wear staining and a few small wrinkles still good with text clean. Kipling's first novel a semi-autobiographical book that was adapted into a play 1903 two silent films 1916 and 1923 and a film with sound 1939. Doubleday, Page & Company / Review of Reviews hardcover books
1891réf. 474600Leipzig : Heinemann and Balestier London 1891. Copyright Ed. Hardcover. Good copy in the aniline calf over marbled boards. With gilt detailing to the Spine. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Previous owner's bookplate. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 278 p. ; 17cm. Series: The English library ; no. 1. Leipzig : Heinemann and Balestier, London hardcover