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ref. 026048542X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 0267674279.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 1331737079.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1889ref. 894P44Allahabad; London; New York: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington; Bromfield & Co; A. H. Wheeler & Co 1889-90. Cloth. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. Two anthologies of short stories by Rudyard Kipling bound in one volume both published in the 'Indian Railway Library' series. From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son literary agent of Rudyard Kipling.Two short story anthologies bound in one volume both of which were published in A. H. Wheeler & Co."s Indian Railway Library being Numbers 3 and 4 of the series.Original wraps are bound in. 'Under the Deodars' is the second edition.Two anthologies by Rudyard Kipling containing entertaining stories by the beloved author.'In Black and White' contains a total of eight stories including 'Dray Wara Yow Dee' 'At Twenty-Two' 'The Sending of Dana Da' and more.'Under the Deodars' contains a total of six stories including 'The Education of Otis Yeere' 'A Wayside Comedy' 'The Hill of Illusion' and more.Bookplate of Geoffrey Ford to the front paste down.Two pages of adverts to the rear of 'Under the Deodars'.Collated complete. Rebound in a cloth binding. Externally generally smart. Light rubbing and a few minor marks to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Hinges are starting but firm. Bookplate to the front paste down. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are bright with the occasional handling mark. Front wrap and title page of 'In Black and White' are detached but present. Ink inscription to the title page of 'In Black and White'. Good Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington; Bromfield & Co; A. H. Wheeler & Co hardcover
ref. B9783337891626Paperback / softback. New. paperback
ref. 92306New York: J. H. Sears & Company. Softcover. Very Good in wrappers. Edge wear. No date.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. J. H. Sears & Company unknown
1889ref. 49958Allahabad India: Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co 1889. Good. Allahabad India: Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1889. First Indian Edition. Slim octavo 21.5cm; publisher's white pictorial wrappers illustrated by the Mayo School of Art Lahore; 4iiii106viipp. Wrappers toned and chipped along spine edge with some glue repair to the latter though top half of wrapper split along spine edge. Good overall internally clean and sound. Issued as A.H. Wheeler & Co.'s Indian Railway Library no. 3. Collection of eight short stories all relating to the lives of native Indians rather than their colonizers. All but one of these stories first appeared in 1888 in the periodical The Week's News. Livingston 34. Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co unknown
ref. 3748142013.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1898ref. 3107First edition of the first German translation - and one of the earliest - of the Jungle Book. One of 5000 copies printed. The Groh illustrations were made especially for this edition. Hardcover Fine. 8vo. original brown cloth stamped in silver; front cover red and blue with an image of Mowgli. Edges stained red. Spine cocked slightly. Edges lightly rubbed. Pages 161-165 mended with tape. Ownership stamp to title page. A beautiful and scarce book. Freiburg i, Br.: Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld hardcover
1971ref. BN42511Herold Verlag 1971. Hardcover/gebunden. mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren sehr gut erhalten! Rarität! Herold Verlag hardcover
1887ref. H40153London: Illustrated London News 1887. Hardcover. Good. Folio 15.75 x 12.25 inches old half leather and moire cloth boards good to very good light wear to binding some rubbing and weakening along outer joints small piece of leather missing from head of spine title on spine erroneously indicates this volume only contains Xmas numbers for 1897-98 when it actually contains quite a few others dating back to 1887 contents very good and sharp with original covers bound in. Contains both the 1887 and 1897 Jubilee issues the 1897 one entitled "Her Majesty's Glorious Jubilee.The Record Number of a Record Reign" has page after page of full page chromolithographs 12 in all plus covers very lavish and elaborate illustrations with the text pages having gilt decorated borders. Other issues include: Summer 1889 Summer 1890 both with Bret Harte stories Christmas 1890 Kipling's "Mr. Hauksbee Sits Out" Summer 1891 Christmas 1891 Bret Harte's "Their Uncle from California" Hardy's "The Son's Veto" and Barrie's "The Inconsiderate Waiter" Christmas 1892 Chromo cover Mrs. Moleworth's fairy tale "Princess Ice-Heart" Louis Wain illustrations of rabbits and dogs Frank Stockton story July 10 1893 "Wedding Number" marriage of Prince George to Princess Mary of Teck many engravings and articles about the royal families Summer 1894 "The Eternal Femine" by Israel Zangwill Bret Harte's "A Rose of Glenbogie" the aforementioned 1897 Jubilee issue with text by Sir Walter Besant; Summer 1898 H. G. Wells "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" a 2 pp. ballad by Cecil Aldin illustrated in color Bret Harte's "The Man and the Mountain" Christmas 1898 full page Louis Wain plate of cats in a snowball fight and much else. Lots of engravings some double-page throughout. Illustrated London News hardcover
ref. 0714549541.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. GOR012777525Paperback. Very Good. paperback
2011ref. BN614912Giunti Junior 2011. 2011. Softcover. Il libro della giungla Il libro della giungla Rudyard Kipling Giunti Junior paperback
ref. K01M-00301Atheneum Books for Young Readers. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. 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. Atheneum Books for Young Readers unknown
2007ref. Q-0689877994Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2007-03-27. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Atheneum Books for Young Readers hardcover
1922ref. 11796Doubleday Doran and Company Inc. New York. 1922. Very early reprint of 1921 edition in the publishers delux leather binding. 4.4 x 3.2 inches. Title page printed in red and black. Original publishers limp leather binding of bright red morocco with gilt tooled lettering and decoration to the front board. Mottled patterned endpapers. A little rubbing to the edges otherwise a fine and bright example of this scarce and charming little edition. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. New York. 1922 hardcover
1910ref. 11849Doubleday Page and Company. New York. 1910. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION U. S. IN PUBLISHERS DELUX LEATHER BINDING. Precedes the first U. K separate edition by 4 years. Oblong 8vo. 4.4 x 6.4 inches. 8 double leaves uncut at the top held in by a white cord tie. Each double leaf has a red rule and dot border the text printed in black with red initial letters. Half title has "IF" printed in red within an ornamental black panel the same printed onto the front board with the addition of the author's name. The Publishers note on page 5 appears in four different variants with priority unknown and this copy has variant iv. In the rare original delux publishers dark green morocco leather binding with gilt ruling and lettering to the front panel Richards binding variant i. There is some mottling to the leather on the front panel. The rear board has a faded area to the top half. Inner front hinge cracked but holding firm. Overall the binding is in very good condition and the gilt is still bright and sharp. Neat three line pencil inscription on the front blank free endpaper dated Xmas 1911. Internally this is a clean and bright copy. An attractive copy of this uncommon little book. Published probably November 1910 very shortly after the Poem first appeared in the book Rewards and Fairies October 1910 this separate publication was issued to capitalise on the huge and instant popularity of what has become Kipling's most enduring work of verse. A poll taken by the BBC in the UK in 2005 voted it as Britain's favourite Poem polling twice as many votes as the number 2 choice Lord Tennyson's The Lady of Shallot. Originally written in 1895 IF was inspired by the actions of Dr. Leander Starr Jameson a British Officer whose forces were defeated by the Boers in 1895 but who was portrayed as a victorious hero by the British press the poem is a powerful masterclass in maintaining the British stiff upper lip. ---- David Alan Richards. Rudyard Kipling. A bibliography. A244. Doubleday, Page and Company. New York. 1910 hardcover
1924ref. 11850Doubleday Doran and Company. New York. 1924. REPRINT SEPARATE EDITION U. S. Originally published in 1910. Oblong 8vo. 4.4 x 6.4 inches. 8 double leaves uncut at the top. Each double leaf has a green decorative border the text printed in black. Half title has "IF" printed in black within an ornamental green panel the same printed onto the front board with the addition of the author's name and a floral decoration. A remarkably clean and bright copy in original off white boards with decorative green border and black lettering and decoration to the front panel. Small blindstamp of Nicholson's Bookshop Richmond Ind on both blank free endpapers. A fine copy in the very rare original plain white paper dustwrapper. The wrapper has a few small closed tears to the edges but without any loss and it is complete. An attractive copy of this uncommon reprint edition of Kipling's most enduring work of verse in the rare dustwrapper. In 36 years of dealing in rare English literature this is only the second copy I have seen in the dustwrapper. A poll taken by the BBC in the UK in 2005 voted it as Britain's favourite Poem polling twice as many votes as the number 2 choice Lord Tennyson's The Lady of Shallot. Originally written in 1895 IF was inspired by the actions of Dr. Leander Starr Jameson a British Officer whose forces were defeated by the Boers in 1895 but who was portrayed as a victorious hero by the British press the poem is a powerful masterclass in maintaining the British stiff upper lip. Doubleday, Doran and Company. New York. 1924 hardcover
ref. 1682771725.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1914ref. 009008London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1914. First English separate edition pamphlet issue. Pamphlet. This is the pamphlet issue of the British first stand-alone publication of Kiplings most famous poem IF- published the first month of the First World War. These are scarce on the market rendering mere survival noteworthy. This copy is in very good condition. The gray card covers remain complete and firmly attached to the contents. There is a contemporary owner name initials and an indecipherable surname inked at the upper right front cover corner just above the double-ruled border. The covers show lightly toned extremities the front cover shows some small spots and moderate soiling and the fore edge corners are lightly bumped. The contents are clean with a touch of trivial spotting. IF- was first published in October 1910 in Rewards and Fairies Kiplings collection of eleven stories and twenty-three poems that was a continuation of the Puck stories first told in 1906s Puck of Pooks Hill. To capitalize on the immediate and immense popularity of IF- the publisher of the American edition of Rewards and Fairies Doubleday Page & Company swiftly followed with a separate publication in 1910. This British edition followed in 1914. There were two issues of this first separate British edition. Macmillan published IF- in July 1914 as both a leaflet and a pamphlet bound in card stock of various shades of gray or brown measuring 16.2 x 11.4 cm lettered and ruled in deep purplish-red. In this pamphlet issue the front cover served as the title page and the text was printed on both sides of two paginated leaves with COPYRIGHT" at the foot of p.4 and advertisements for Kiplings works on the recto and verso of the back cover. Kiplings bibliographer notes three printings of this pamphlet issue the second in September 1914 and third in August 1915 noting that for later issues the year at the bottom of the front cover changes. Although the poem was not collected and published until 1910 inspiration for the poem occurred 15 years earlier in the person of Leander Starr Jameson 1853-1917 leader of the failed Jameson Raid of that year against the Boer Republic of Transvaal that helped precipitate the Second Anglo-Boer War. Despite the fiasco much of the British public treated Jameson as a dashing hero Kipling admired him greatly and in his autobiography Something of Myself Kipling said that "If" was drawn from Jameson's character. The character flaws of the poems muse are an irony. The poems association with the collective anonymized slaughter of the First World War is another. It seems hardly coincidental that this first separate British edition was issued during the first month of the First World War. Indeed a later 1916 edition of the poem was produced in an edition of 30000 as a Xmas and New Year card from the Ladies Buffet staff to the soldiers embarking for the front through Waterloo Station; Kipling waived his royalty cutting the reprint cost. The poems enshrinement of firmness of character and temperament in the face of adversity became inextricably linked to the patriotic offering and sacrifice of so many British sons to the inglorious trenches of the First World War. The association was undoubtedly difficult for Kipling. Fourteen months after this copy of IF- was published Kipling lost his own and only son to the war. John Kipling who had been commissioned in the Irish Guards at the outset of the war had gone to France in August 1915; in September a month after his eighteenth birthday he was reported wounded and missing in the battle of Loos. His body was never found in Kipling's lifetime: the grave was identified in 1992. John's death coincided with the onset of Kipling's suffering from the undiagnosed duodenal ulcer that tormented the last twenty years of his life and that at last killed him. None of the ironies attendant to the poems inspiration and application diminish its beautifully lyrical and enduringly compelling exhortations. References: Richards A269; ODNB Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown
ref. 1857996658.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2011ref. 009009Whittington Gloucestershire England: Nomad letterpress circa 2011. Limited and numbered broadside. Broadside. This limited and numbered letterpress broadside of Kiplings iconic poem is number 27 of 94. It was printed circa 2011 by Nomad letterpress operating out of the historic Whittington Press near Cheltenham Gloucestershire using Cason and wood types on Zerkell mould-made paper. Copy number 45 of this edition is held in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum where it is preserved under accession number E.797-2014. The print measures 51 x 38 cm. It is mounted on heavy white card within a recessed beveled cut border the mount measuring 65.5 x 51.5 cm with 7 cm top and side margins and an 8mm lower margin. We presume that it was issued thus; this unblemished copy remains within the original plastic wrapping as originally sold by Henry Sotheran Limited with their original invoice attached to the verso. Please note that we chose to leave this plastic cover in place when photographing the item in the interest of preserving condition. This item will be packed flat with our customary care and posted at cost depending on the buyers shipping preference. IF- was first published in October 1910 in Rewards and Fairies Kiplings collection of eleven stories and twenty-three poems that was a continuation of the Puck stories first told in 1906s Puck of Pooks Hill. To capitalize on the immediate and immense popularity of IF- the publisher of the American edition of Rewards and Fairies Doubleday Page & Company swiftly followed with a separate publication in 1910. A British edition followed in 1914 published the first month of the First World War. Although the poem was not collected and published until 1910 inspiration for the poem occurred 15 years earlier in the person of Leander Starr Jameson 1853-1917 leader of the failed Jameson Raid of that year against the Boer Republic of Transvaal that helped precipitate the Second Anglo-Boer War. Despite the fiasco much of the British public treated Jameson as a dashing hero Kipling admired him greatly and in his autobiography Something of Myself Kipling said that "If" was drawn from Jameson's character. The character flaws of the poems muse are an irony. The poems association with the collective anonymized slaughter of the First World War is another irony. This was no accident. Indeed a 1916 edition of the poem was produced in an edition of 30000 as a Xmas and New Year card from the Ladies Buffet staff to the soldiers embarking for the front through Waterloo Station; Kipling waived his royalty cutting the reprint cost. The poems enshrinement of firmness of character and temperament in the face of adversity became inextricably linked to the patriotic offering and sacrifice of so many British sons to the decidedly inglorious trenches of the First World War. The association was undoubtedly difficult for Kipling who lost his own and only son to the war. John Kipling who had been commissioned in the Irish Guards at the outset of the war had gone to France in August 1915; in September a month after his eighteenth birthday he was reported wounded and missing in the battle of Loos. His body was never found in Kipling's lifetime: the grave was identified in 1992. John's death coincided with the onset of Kipling's suffering from the undiagnosed duodenal ulcer that tormented the last twenty years of his life and that at last killed him. None of the ironies attendant to the poems inspiration and application diminish its beautifully lyrical and enduringly compelling exhortations. References: Victoria & Albert Museum; Richards A269; ODNB Nomad letterpress unknown
ref. 1436325579.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 68292361-75Orion Publishing Group Limited. Used - Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Orion Publishing Group, Limited unknown