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1891rif. 200922Allabahad: Wheeler 1891. First. hardcover. good. Tall thin 8vo red & blue cloth divided diagonally; lettered in gilt.Allabahad 1891. First Indian edition. A better than usual copy the binding spotted but soundwith the Wheeler & Co. rubberstamp on the front flyleaf. Wheeler unknown books
rif. B172096-1Paris Librairie Delagrave 1938. 215 5pp. 12 color plates. Lrg. 8vo. Boards 3/4 leather. Orig. front cover bound in. One of 1050 numbered copies on vélin Aussedat from the edition of 1215 printed by Firmin-Didot and Daniel Jacomet. Paris (Librairie Delagrave), 1938. hardcover books
1929rif. 158308New York: Doubleday 1929. Very Good. Later. Very good minus Yellowing cover rubbed with speckled staining very slight. Doubleday unknown books
1923rif. 24101London: Macmillan 1923. First edition. Red cloth spine faded; very good copy. Macmillan unknown books
1925rif. 05458LA LIVRE DE LA JUNGLE Librairie Delagrave 1925 177 pages some light wear to the corner tip edges some light wear and scuffing to the leather spine with a small fingernail size chip missing from the head of the spine else a vg copy with decorated leather spine marbled boards and marbled end-papers. Profusely illustrated by Roger Reboussin and translated by Louis Fabulet & Robert D'Humieres. Text in French. Librairie Delagrave hardcover books
1917rif. 625219Milano: Casa ed. Risorgimento 1917. Softcover. Good. First Italian edition. 12mo. 61 2pp. Illustrated wrappers. Two ownership stamps ink date on titlepage spine toned and a bit eroded a good or better copy. Casa ed. Risorgimento unknown books
1921rif. bb_king_kiplingKIPLING Rudyard; KING Jessie M illus. L'habitation forcée. Translated into French by Louis Fabulet and Robert D'Humieres. Paris: René Kieffer 1921. Square 4to. 93 pp. colophon 2 adverts; pictorial wrappers with Art Deco style design in black outline with blue pochoir decoration original protective glassine wrapper lightly tanned overall a fine copy. Illustrated with Twenty pochoir color plates by Jessie M. King. One of a Limited edition of 550 copies of which 500 were printed on velin paper and 50 copies printed on japon paper. This copy is number 196 of the 500 on velin paper. The delicate illustrations for this book are considered to be some of King's finest; prepared during Jessie M. King's time in Paris. They are reproduced using the stencil technique known as Pochoir which produces clearer and more vibrant colors. Reference: Taylor Art Nouveau Book in Britain p. 136. René Kieffer paperback books
1983rif. 159296New York: Greenwich House 1983. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good/ book has browned spots first page front and bottom of page. Dustwrapper looks fine. Greenwich House hardcover books
1931rif. 613946New York: Cupples & Leon 1931. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition thus. Octavo. Brown cloth gilt. Near fine. Cupples & Leon hardcover books
1931rif. 135086New York: Cupples & Leon 1931. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later. Very good in very good dust jacket. Previous owner's gift inscription on front free endpaper cloth corners bumped text egdes slightly soiled dust jacket edges rubbed dust jacket soiled. Cupples & Leon hardcover books
1931rif. 214157New York: Cupples 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good Cover lightly rubbee. Small tear on back board. Cupples hardcover books
1931rif. 72528NY:: Cupples & Leon Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1931. Hardcover. B000JC4FVO . First edition thus. Very good in a very good minor edge wear with a few short closed edge tears and small chips dust jacket. ; 499 pages . Cupples & Leon Company, hardcover books
1899rif. 62817Chicago: George M. Hill. Good. 1899. Hardcover. First Edition. Front hinge repaired rear hinge cracked. Red cloth with gilt stamping. Spine ends and edges rubbed and chipped some light soiling to covers. Contents show some light toning otherwise bright and complete. A Good copy. . George M. Hill hardcover books
1918rif. 119786London: W. H. Smith & Son 1918. Later Printing. Softcover. VG clean and tight but for ever so slight rubbing in two spots on back cover. Ivory stapled wraps with red and blue border surrounding a silhouette of Kipling facing left; 12 pp. The text of a speech delivered by Kipling on February 15 1918 at Folkestone. His thoughts on the Germans and their atrocities during the Great War. This is a later printing still possibly 1918 but not a first edition. A very nice copy. W. H. Smith & Son paperback books
1978rif. D11534London: Methuen 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Marbled paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered navy blue morocco; blue cloth slipcase; 8vo; pp. xxvii 1 115. Number 15 from a limited edition of 500 copies signed by the editor. Spine tips a little scuffed otherwise book is fine in lightly rubbed slipcase. A lavish production and excellent reference. Includes a chronology indices Latin first lines English first lines proper names. Methuen hardcover books
1992rif. 05459KIPLING'S FANTASY Tor 1992 first edition fine in wraps. Uncorrected proof. A look at the esteemed authors works of fantasy over a period of more than 40 years. Tor paperback books
1939rif. 558283New York: Doubleday Doran & Co. / The Parents' Institute 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Edited by Mary E. Burt and W.T. Chapin. Illustrated by J.M. Gleeson Charles Livingston Bull and the author. Illustrated in black and white with a color frontispiece. Blue clothcovered boards embossed with decorations on the front board with an illustrated paper label affixed to the front board and gilt on the spine. Rubbing to the boards wear to the paper label and fading to the spine very good lacking the dust jacket. A selection of Kipling stories and poems specially curated for children including "Roll Down to Rio" "The Elephant's Child" "Fuzzy Wuzzy" and more. Rudyard Kipling won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. Doubleday, Doran & Co. / The Parents' Institute hardcover books
1938rif. 616284Garden City New York: Garden City Publishing Co 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese J.M. Gleeson Charles Livingston Bull and the author. Owner name on front pastedown light offsetting on endpapers near fine. Garden City Publishing Co hardcover books
1989rif. 1104711989. University of California Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library 1989. 8vo 88 pp. Original printed wrappers backstrip slightly rubbed name in pencil on flyleaf very good. § Number 37 in the series of keepsakes issued for its members by the Friends of the Bancroft Library. Printed by the Arion Press in San Francisco. unknown books
1914rif. 12834King Albert's Book: A tribute to the Belgian king and the people from representative men and women throughout the world The Daily Telegraph in conjunction with The Daily Sketch The Glasgow Herald and Hodder and Stoughton 1914 first edition some foxing to the page edges some minor stains to a small area of the front cover and the head of the spine off-setting to the end-papers no doubt due from the dust-wrapper flaps else just about fine in the publishers original scarce printed vg tissue dust-wrapper with some wear and tear and chipping. Contains poems and prose from Edith Wharton Jack London Winston Churchill Claude Debussy Rudyard Kipling H. Rider Haggard Thomas Hardy G. K. Chesterton et.al. as well as tipped in full color full page illustrations by Arthur Rackham Maxfield Parrish Edmund Dulac Kay Nielsen et.al. Uncommon in dust-wrapper to be sure. The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Sketch, The Glasgow Herald, and Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
1990rif. 102075Norwalk:: Easton Press. Fine. 1990. Hardcover. Introduction by Charles Edmund Carrington. Collector's edition. Publisher's "Notes from the Archives" laid in. Quarto fully bound in blue leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along spine all edges gilt silk moire endpapers sewn-in ribbon book mark. Fine. ; 284 pages . Easton Press, hardcover books
1995rif. 2350837New York: Everyman's Library / Alfred A. Knopf 1995. 5th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 5x1x8. 5th printing. Lacks jacket. Boards lightly rubbed embossed owner stamp on title page. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1995 Hard Cover. xlv 306 pp. Introduction by John Bayley and chronology of historical events during author's lifetime precede text. Charged with action and suspense yet profoundly spiritual Kim vividly expresses the sounds and smells colors and characters opulence and squalor of complex contradictory India under British rule. The book abounds in brilliant descriptions of Indian scenes and deeply sympathetic portraits of her people. Long recognized as Kipling's finest work Kim was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Everyman's Library / Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1901rif. 73381London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1901. First English edition 8vo pp. 4 413 3; frontispiece and 9 plates; original full red cloth t.e.g.; light edgewear to boards and ends of spine owner's note in pencil on free endpaper upper hinge starting text clean good and sound. Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown books
1901rif. 159431901. London: Macmillan and Co. 1901. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with Ganesha device in gilt. First English Edition of the book that "is acknowledged as Kipling's masterpiece in fiction. The novel is the finest written about the India of the British Empire" CGEL. It follows the adventures of an orphan son of a British soldier who is raised by an Indian woman becomes a disciple to a Lama and ultimately becomes an undercover agent as well. The illustrations are by John Lockwood Kipling the author's father. The American edition is considered to have been published earlier though in the same month as the English one. As with most of Kipling's British editions published by Macmillan the binding is red cloth with in gilt the "Ganesha" device -- an elephant's head with a swastika the latter had been a ubiquitous symbol in India for millennia; its use ceased in the early 1930s when events in Germany gave the symbol a whole new meaning. This is a very good-plus copy minor rubbing of the elephant-head and at the extremities; as always there is some foxing of the endpapers and of the frontispiece tissue guard. Richards A174; Stewart 254; Livingston 250. One of the books selected as a "Modern Library 100" for the 20th Century. Provenance: the front free endpaper bears the inked inscription "Jos Pulford "Alcinous" S.S." Between 1901 and 1905 "J. Pulford" was the master and commander of the SS Alcinous a British steamship launched in December 1899 that transported goods and passengers between the UK London and Glasgow Hong Kong and several ports in Australia; the vessel would not survive the Great War. unknown books
1971rif. UKIPKIM02acmfIm Bertelsmann 1971. Very Good. Kipling Rudyard. Kim. Munich: Im Bertelsmann 1971. 320pp. 12mo. Grey cloth. Book condition: Very good with faint rubbing. Edges lightly yellowed and spine slightly rolled. Im Bertelsmann hardcover books