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réf. 160153New York: Manhattan Press. Good. N.D. Hardcover. An edition in good condition with normal shelfwear and slight discoloration. A previous owner's ink signature is on the front flyleaf; Soldiers Three is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. In these tales Kipling explores the themes of patriotism duty and honor. Each story is told from a different point of view giving the reader a broad glimpse into the lives of Kipling's characters.; 32mo; 165 pages . Manhattan Press hardcover books
1895réf. 330312London: Macmillan and Co 1895. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Blue cloth with gilt decoration on top edges. Pages age-toned gutter before half-title page cracked rear hinge cracked spine faded and extremities worn else very good. Macmillan and Co hardcover books
1897réf. 62483New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good. 1897. Hardcover. "New Edition Revised with Additions" 325pp. ads blue cloth with gilt and black stamping. Covers are scuffed with scuffed and rubbed spine ends and cover corners. Previous owner signed. Hinges cracked contents dampstained. A Good copy. . The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1890réf. 13386SOLDIERS THREE A. H. Wheeler & Co. 1890 noted as Third Editon bound along with THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS / A TALE WITHOUT A PLOT A. H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington A. H. Wheeler & Co. bound along with TALES OF BLACK AND WHITE A. H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington A. H. Wheeler & Co. bound along with WEE WILLIE WINKIE AND OTHER STORIES A. H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington A. H. Wheeler & Co. some wear and rubbing to the fore edge corner tips and spine hinges some foxing to the first and last several leaves else a tight just about vg copy rebound in half leather with marbled boards. A. H. Wheeler & Co. hardcover books
1911réf. 176682Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Co 1911. Very Good. Later. Very good. Slightly worn. Former owner's name on sticker inside. Doubleday, Page & Co unknown books
1925réf. 458876New York: J.H. Sears & Company 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Faux burgundy leather blind-stamped on front board gilt-stamped spine and top edge gilt. Front hinge cracked spine ends and corners worn a very good copy without dust jacket if issued. J.H. Sears & Company hardcover books
1888réf. 58149Allabahad India: A.H. Wheeler & Co's Indian Railway Library. Printed at the "Pioneer" Press; 1888. First edition first state. 1500 copies printed. 1 vols. 8vo. Original wrappers after designs by John Lockwood Kipling front cover detached. spine with loss. In half crimson slipcase and chemise. First edition first state. 1500 copies printed. 1 vols. 8vo. Stewart 28; Richards A14 A.H. Wheeler & Co's Indian Railway Library. Printed at the "Pioneer" Press; unknown books
1950réf. 263841New York: Readers League of America 1950. Hardcover. Good. Later. Good hardcover book has slight rubbing of spine slight fraying of corners starting minor fading of cover foxing of endpapers separation of front hinge starting yellowing of pages. Readers League of America hardcover books
1896réf. ST13170bLondon and New York: Macmillan and Co 1896. FIRST EDITION. 190 x 122 mm. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4". viii 172 pp. with the half title. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt pictorial design on upper cover and on flat spine all edges gilt. Vignette headpieces and tailpieces frontispiece and 20 plates by A. S. Hartrick. Verso of front free endpaper with ink owner's inscription of Constance Reynolds dated 14 February 1898. Stewart 157. ◆Spine a bit cocked and faded with a little fraying at tail edge extremities lightly rubbed a couple of small stains to upper cover text slightly open at gutter at gathering D occasional mild marginal foxing or faint fore-edge dampstain to plates not affecting image but a very good copy clean and fresh with nothing approaching a fatal defect. Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 is most famous for his works portraying the lives of both natives and colonialists on the Indian subcontinent. An opponent of female suffrage and a staunch supporter of British imperialism Kipling nonetheless had great sympathy for the traditions of India as well as the literary ability and desire to present it as a land of beauty and enchantment. He was born in Bombay where his father ran a school of art and he lived in India until the age of six. He was sent to school in England but chose to return to the East at 18. His father had become director of the Lahore Museum in what is now Pakistan and Rudyard became a journalist for the "Lahore Civil and Military Gazette." His first two collections of stories "Plain Tales from the Hills" and "Soldiers Three" depict the lives of the British military in India; he proved to be a prolific author writing novels tales for children and adults and many poems. Kipling's wife was American and they lived for a time in Vermont but from 1896 the couple settled in England. Among his many honors are a Nobel Prize 1907 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature 1926 which had previously only been awarded to Scott Meredith and Hardy. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1900réf. TB30613London: Macmillan And Co. Ltd. 1900. Reprint of 1900. Very good in 3/4 red calk and pink cloth covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with two black leather labels with gilt text and gilt decorations in the compartments. The end sheets are marbled paper and the top edge of the text block is gilt. A 12mo of 7 1/4 by 5 inches with the leather worn through over the tips of the boards and the leather is rubbed at the head and heel of the spine. 172 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 20 plates and small engraved vignettes at the head of each story. A collection of seven short stories including: With The Main Guard The Drums of the Fore and Aft The Man Who Was The Courting of Dinah Shadd The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney The Taking of Lungungpen and The Madness of Private Ortheris. Macmillan And Co., Ltd. hardcover books
2005réf. 12242Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xx 386pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A very presentable first edition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book presents ground-breaking research by leading international researchers on the nature functions and characteristics of social motivation. Its contributors focus on a variety of issues such as the functions of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and the subtle roles that habits and goals play in producing and maintaining motivated social behaviors. Recent discoveries in the psychology of motivation relevant to everyday social behaviors and clinical organizational educational and counseling practices receive particular attention.Publisher -Most comprehensive and up-to-date book currently available to offer an integrative treatment of social motivational phenomena -The contributors are all leading researchers who have made a major contribution to the field -The chapters represent a highly integrated approach and present new and previously unpublished work. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
1924réf. NF0076SMOKE RINGS AND ROUNDELAYS Castle 1924 first edition near fine copy in pictorial stamped leather binding. Contributions by Dickens Fielding Kipling Stevenson Thackery and many others. A twenty page bibliographical guide to the authors tobacco literature is included. Castle 1924 hardcover books
1919réf. 004965England 1919. Cloth. Near Fine. Lovely meticulously rendered vignette illustrations framing the key letter on each page and on a few pages two vignettes. Oblong 9 by 13 cm. 28 pp. The album opens to a particularly nice pen and ink drawing of a schooner framed with highly decorative foliate baroque ornamentation. The first poem is Kipling's "If" each letter device accompanied by a painting of a different type of sail boat or ship. Ship motives are used again in "Love at Sea" by Swinburne. Another Kipling poem "The Explanation" is enlivened with paintings of colorful expressive fish. In our judgment these are the most charismatic of the illustrations. Other poems include Swinburne's "Rondel" "Before Sunset" "Song" and "Child's Song"; and some verses by Sappho. Other illustrative motives take in dragons flowers and floral daipers butterflies and coasts. The poems are rendered in a neat calligraphic hand and it is very easy to imagine this manuscript as something that might have been published as a gift book. unknown books
réf. 06188London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903. Beauty That Hath Terror in It" The Detmold Brothers' Sublime and Unsettling Vision of The Jungle Book The Magnificent Original 1903 Folio Portfolio with Sixteen Superb Color Plates KIPLING Rudyard. DETMOLD Maurice & Edward J. illustrators. Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's "Jungle Book" by Messrs. Maurice & Edward Detmold. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903. First edition. Reportedly limited to 500 copies for England and America. Folio 21 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches; 543 x 394 mm. Title-page contents leaf and sixteen magnificent color plates tipped onto white boards within gray window mounts each accompanied by a protective cover sheet bearing the title and a short extract from Kipling's text. Title-page and list of illustrations expertly repaired at folds; second plate description with short marginal tear; some light foxing to text leaves and mounts only. The plates themselves are remarkably clean fresh and beautifully preserved. Original publisher's green cloth portfolio front cover decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt retaining one of the two original green silk ties. An excellent example of one of the most magnificent and celebrated achievements of Edwardian book illustration exceptionally scarce complete with all sixteen plates. Published in 1903 when the extraordinary twin brothers Maurice and Edward Julius Detmold were just twenty years old this monumental portfolio represents the culmination of their artistic collaboration and one of the finest visual interpretations of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book ever produced. The sixteen superb compositions reveal an astonishing maturity of conception and execution. Combining meticulous natural history observation with an intensely personal decorative imagination the Detmolds created a world at once beautiful mysterious and faintly menacing in which the distinction between the natural and the supernatural seems perpetually uncertain. Animals are rendered with extraordinary anatomical precision their musculature fur scales and movement observed with almost scientific exactitude. Yet these are far more than zoological studies. Wolves possess an almost monumental dignity; panthers move with a sinister effortless grace; serpents coil with hypnotic inevitability; and the great tiger Shere Khan emerges as an embodiment of majestic and terrifying power. The brothers' remarkable understanding of animal character is matched by their sensitivity to atmosphere and composition. Their creatures appear not merely as participants in Kipling's narratives but as independent beings endowed with intelligence memory and an almost human consciousness. Particularly striking are the representations of Mowgli whose slender youthful figure is repeatedly contrasted with the formidable creatures surrounding him. His vulnerability is balanced by a quiet assurance suggesting his extraordinary position between the human and animal worlds. The Detmolds avoid the sentimentality often associated with illustrations of childhood instead emphasizing Mowgli's intimate identification with the jungle and its inhabitants. In the celebrated scenes depicting Bagheera Baloo Akela and the Monkey People the artists achieve an extraordinary balance between narrative drama and decorative design. The Monkey People particularly in their ruined architectural surroundings are among the most unsettling creations in the series their restless gestures and grotesque attitudes suggesting a strange parody of human society. Equally remarkable is the brothers' use of color. Their sumptuous yet carefully controlled palette of burnished browns smoky grays subdued greens and golden ochres lends the compositions an almost dreamlike quality. Subtle gradations of tone together with intricate patterns of foliage fur and stone produce a richness and unity of design seldom equaled in contemporary illustration. The original large-format plates possess a depth delicacy and painterly quality that cannot be fully appreciated in the considerably reduced reproductions of the later book edition of 1908. Presented individually within their original window mounts they have the presence and visual authority of original watercolors. Indeed so successful were these images as independent works of art that many portfolios were subsequently broken up their individual plates removed for framing. The survival of a complete portfolio particularly one retaining its original publisher's cloth case and with the plates in such fresh condition is consequently especially desirable. The contemporary critical reception was enthusiastic. Reviewing the London exhibition of the original paintings the Manchester Guardian of November 5 1903 declared that the brothers: "are able to prevent their work from ever sinking to the level of mere illustration". The reviewer particularly admired the depiction of the Monkey People in the Cold Lairs describing it as: "full of character subtle observation and invention". Of the representation of Bagheera in Mowgli and the Red Flower the reviewer memorably observed that it possessed: "something of that beauty which hath terror in it". The same review praised the convincing and engaging portrayals of Baloo Nag Kaa and Akela recognizing in the Detmolds' work an extraordinary fusion of imaginative invention and naturalistic observation. A report published in the New York Times on December 5 1903 stated that the edition was strictly limited to 500 copies for England and America emphasizing the exclusivity of this magnificent production from the outset. The portfolio is particularly significant in the history of the Detmold brothers' careers. Born in 1883 Maurice and Edward developed their exceptional artistic talents together displaying an early and remarkable aptitude for the representation of birds animals and the natural world. Their close collaboration produced some of the most distinctive illustrated publications of the opening years of the twentieth century. Tragically Maurice took his own life in 1908 bringing their artistic partnership to a premature end. Edward continued to enjoy a distinguished career as an illustrator but the works produced jointly by the brothers retain a unique place in the history of British illustration. As Richard Dalby observed the paintings were admired for their realistic detail and decorative arrangement while Diana Johnson identified the extraordinary tension between their scientific naturalism and ornamental imagination a combination capable of producing images both fanciful and profoundly disturbing. A masterpiece of the Golden Age of Illustration this spectacular portfolio stands among the finest achievements of the Detmold brothers and one of the most beautiful and psychologically compelling interpretations of Kipling's immortal jungle stories. Complete examples of the original 1903 folio portfolio are increasingly difficult to obtain and the present copy with all sixteen plates clean and fresh and preserved in its original gilt-decorated publisher's portfolio is an especially attractive survival. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1903 unknown books
réf. 304279framed. fine. Signature "Rudyard Kipling" archivally set into a double diamond-cut green mat with two openings accompanied by a modern steel engraving of the author as he appeared in his youth and elegantly placed in a vintage gold-guilt wood filigree frame to 15" X 18". Fine KIPLING Rudyard 1865 - 1936. Indian-born British journalist writer poet and novelist. unknown books
1910réf. 526716London: The Frederick Harris Company 1910. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Composer's name stamp on the front cover some light toning to the exterior and bumping to the corners including a nick to the ends of the fold of the outer bifolium still a complete and very good copy. For voice or piano monologue with no vocal melody. Plate number "F.H. 810." The front cover features a black and white portrait of whom we assume to be the composer of the piece Frederic Dale. "These words are reprinted from Mr. Rudyard Kipling's The Seven Seas by permission of the author" printed above the music. OCLC locates only three physical holdings. The Frederick Harris Company unknown books
1906réf. 580089London: Charles Sheard & Co 1906. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Folio. Three nested bifoliums making 12 pages. Outer bifolium separating a bit at the bottom of the fold toning to the exterior else near fine. For voice and piano. Features advertisements with short samples of eight songs. Rudyard Kipling won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. OCLC locates only a single holding and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. Charles Sheard & Co unknown books
1910réf. 590023London: Charles Sheard & Co 1910. Softcover. Near Fine. First English edition. Folio. Three nested bifolia making 12 pages. Light bumping to the corners light toning to the exterior else near fine. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "The young British Soldier. C." Contains short samples of eight other songs by Stanley Gordon including "The Volcano" and "When the Ebb-Tibe Flows." OCLC locates five holdings of this English edition and only two of the simultaneous American edition. Charles Sheard & Co unknown books
1971réf. 583361New York: Boosey & Hawkes 1971. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 18pp. Stapled wrappers. Light shelfwear else near fine. For voice and piano with pedal marks. Plate imprint "S. 2668." Rudyard Kipling won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. Boosey & Hawkes unknown books
1893réf. 607443London: C. Sheard & Co 1893. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Three nested bifolia making 12 pages. Outer most bifolium separated along the bottom half of the fold "File Copy" stamp on the front cover and edgewear still a complete and very good copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "The Widow at Windsor." OCLC locates only three holdings and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. C. Sheard & Co unknown books
1926réf. 608203Boston: Oliver Ditson Company 1926. Softcover. Good. First edition. Cover design by R.I.P. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Owner name at the top of the front cover with music shop bind stamp at the bottom bifolium neatly separated along the fold but both leaves are present and edgewear including some small tears a complete but good only copy. For low voice and piano. Plate number 75126 - 4. OCLC locates only four holdings. Oliver Ditson Company unknown books
1926réf. 596826Boston: Oliver Ditson Company 1926. Softcover. Very Good. First edition stated Advertising Copy. Cover design by R.I.P. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert. Dampstaining to the bottom of the front cover affecting throughout a small tear at the bottom of the fold of the bifolium name stamp and "Advertising Copy" stamp on the front cover and some light edgewear still a very good and complete copy. For low voice and piano. Plate number 75126 - 4. The name stamp is that of Fay Foster a prolific American composer and pianist who took first place in the American Composers Competition of 1913. OCLC locates only four holdings. Oliver Ditson Company unknown books
1906réf. 589980London: Charles Sheard & Co 1906. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Composer's name stamp and "File Copy" stamp on the front cover some rubbing and light soiling to the exterior else near fine. For voice and piano with pedal marks. OCLC locates only one holding and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. Charles Sheard & Co unknown books
1911réf. 596772London: Macmillan and Co 1911. Softcover. Very Good. Later printing. Quarto. 2 62pp. Red cloth covered boards stamped in black and gilt. Owner name on the front free endpaper light scattered foxing owner sticker on the front board and wear to the boards and spine still a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. For voice and piano. Plate number 11754. Includes 12 songs: "When the Cabin Portholes" "The Camel's Hump" "This Uninhabited Island" "I Keep Six Honest Serving-Men" "I Am the Most Wise Baviaan" "Kangaroo and Dingo" "Merrow Down" "Of All the Tribe of Tegumai" "The Riddle" "The First Friend" There Was Never a Queen Like Balkis" and "Rolling Down to Rio. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1904réf. 589998Philadelphia: Theo. Presser 1904. Softcover. Very Good. Later printing. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Edgewear including along the fold of the outer bifolium light dampstain at the top right corner of the front cover affecting throughout and toning and rubbing to the exterior very good. For voice and piano. Plate number 4495 - 6. Features short samples of eight other songs including "Pillow Time" and "Ol' Car'lina. Theo. Presser unknown books
