Kipling, RudyardABAA
9 341 résultats
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
1930réf. 50247New York: Willey Book Company 1930. Very Good-/Very Good. New York: Willey Book Company n.d. ca. 1930s. Later Printing. Octavo 19cm; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 6249pp. Cloth unevenly discolored from damp along spine edge bleeding into boards shallow chipping and closed tears to jacket margins spine panel mottled; still a Very Good sound example. Uncommon reprint of the author's first novel originally published in 1891. OCLC locates three examples of this edition as of October 2026 at Columbia Shippensburg and UBC. Willey Book Company unknown 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
réf. 1025463757.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 1025458966.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1970réf. SBBI-mon0000147915Penguin Classics 1970. paperback. Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining water damage writing missing dustjacket etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Penguin Classics paperback
1897réf. 52393London: Macmillan and Co. 1897. 8vo. viii 339 1 pp. Contemporary red half calf over marbled boards by Matthews & Brooke of Bradford spine with raised bands gilt lettered direct to two panels and with a gilt flower device repeated to the others marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Slightly uneven discolouration to the spine mild rubbing to extremities else very good. London: Macmillan and Co. unknown
réf. 1025801547.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 0359167454.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1891réf. 53658Philadelphia Pa: J B Lippincott 1891. First Edition. Original wraps. Very good. 97p octavo. Complete in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine January 1891 issue. Copyrighted in 1890 by Lippincott but first printed here. Front cover just hanging on. 32p ads plus 168p text plus 31p ads. Poet Eugene Field's copy with his small engraved bookplate. On the copyright page of "The Light that Failed" is inscribed "This copy of "The Light that Failed" came from the library of my father Eugene Field. Eugene Field II Sept 10 1923" Unique thus. Enclosed in a very good blue cloth and blue morocco slipcase gilt titled. Author's First Novel. J B Lippincott paperback
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
1892réf. 006852Chicago & New York: Rand McNally & Company Publishers 1892. Kipling's first novel a bit of a romance may have been unloved by the critics but not by the readers. This is a Very Good copy of an erly pirate edition. Scarce. Light tan wraps with titling in red. Illustrated front cover of shipboard readers; rear cover is an advert for a railroad. Clean text; 219 pages with 21 pages of adverts for household goos medicines railroads and yes books. Cheap pulp paper stock is tanned but quite clear and readable. Chips to the front cover. An intersting find for the Kipling completist. In an archival plastic protector. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Rand, McNally & Company, Publishers Paperback
réf. 1023098660.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 5200490like new. unknown
1901réf. mon0000184882Regent 1919-01-01. hardcover. Good. in x in x in. EX LIBRARY BOOK Regent hardcover
réf. 12450744like new. unknown
réf. 1406503169.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 1434627063.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1891réf. 002105London: Macmillan & Co. 1891 1891. FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol. inscribed by Kipling on the title-page "Alick Watt from the much indebted author Mar : 91:" bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped blue cloth inner and outer hinges fine head and foot of spine fine internally clean and bright A VERY GOOD COPY. Kipling's first novel. Inscribed to the son of the of A. P. Watt the literary agent to Kipling London: Macmillan & Co., 1891 hardcover
