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1912réf. D1238Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth ornate blindstamped border and gilt-stamped lettering and illustration on upper board gilt-stamped lettering and border on spine; with 10 tipped plates printed in green and black in ornate blue and red borders. Spine tips rubbed and frayed; hinges weak. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1901réf. 8997New York: Doubleday Page and Co 1901. First American edition 8vo 6 460pp. 10 illustrations; minor wear to spine hinges starting small white stains to rear cover else a very good copy or better in original dark green cloth with black design and lettering in gold on front cover and spine t.e.g. Livingston 248. Doubleday, Page and Co unknown
1950A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 346 pages. Open tears to dust jacket. Full blue boards. Attractive small format: 4 3/4"w x 7 1/2"h. Rockwell Kent torch bearer design on endpapers and embossed on cover.
réf. 9782070308774Gallimard
1901réf. 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
1901réf. 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
1971réf. 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
réf. UKIPKIM04drpMacmillan 20th Century. Very Good. Kipling Rudyard. Kim. London: Macmillan 20th Century. 413pp. 8vo. Cream 1/4 cloth. Book condition: Very good with bumped corners. Macmillan hardcover books
1901réf. 140947705London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1901. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing of Rudyard Kipling's picaresque novel about an orphaned Irish boy adrift in India. vi 413 pp. 2 advertising pages. Bound in publisher's red cloth gilt lettering to spine and gilt embossed device to front board top edge gilt; lacking dust jacket. Near Fine with light rubbing and tanning to spine and extremities foxing to textblock edges and dust-soiling to upper edge. Contents lightly toned foxing to endpapers and prelims. Publisher's advertisement slip laid in. A fantastic copy. Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown books
1901réf. 021965London: Macmillan and Co. 1901. First British Edition. Hardcover. About Fine. Published in the U.S. 16 days prior to the British publication. Bound by Bayntun in full red calf leather with gilt rules on the covers gilt-decorated spine with gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels gilt dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt 5" x 7-3/4". Considered to be Kipling's greatest work and the finest novel about the India of the British Empire. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1901réf. 353261London: MacMillan 1901. First English edition first impression. Frontispiece with tissue guard as issued and 9 other photographic illustrated plates in black and white. 1 443 pp. 2 ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth boards with gilt roundel insignia on front and gilt titles on spine some toning and rubbing to head and foot of spine early repair to rear inner hinge. Light soiling to boards and edges else a very good copy in paper covered slipcase. Kipling John Lockwood. First English edition first impression. Frontispiece with tissue guard as issued and 9 other photographic illustrated plates in black and white. 1 443 pp. 2 ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Richards A174; Stewart 254 MacMillan unknown books
1901réf. 153691901. 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 copy front endpaper slightly cracked at the gutter light speckling of the cloth plus one small stain on the rear cover; as always there is some foxing of the endpapers and of the frontispiece tissue guard and there is minor rubbing of the gilt elephant. Richards A174; Stewart 254; Livingston 250. One of the books selected as a "Modern Library 100" for the 20th Century. unknown books
1901réf. 54794London: Macmillan 1901. First U.K. Edition. First printing. 16mo 20cm. In original red cloth titled in gilt on spine with elephant badge on front top edge gilt; plain endpapers; 2pp of publisher's ads at rear; vi 413 3pp; 10 illustrations by J. L. Kipling. With 1901 ownership inscription of George D. Herron and later bookplate of Dartmouth College Library to front endpapers. Bookseller's ticket of Brentano's Paris to rear pastedown. A pleasantly bright copy lacking the dustjacket gently rubbed front hinge largely cracked but holding: Very Good. George Davis Herron 1862-1925 was a clergyman Christian Socialist and advocate for the Social Gospel and the Socialist Party of America. Four months before the date of this inscription Herron was defrocked for divorcing his first wife and remarrying. The consequent scandal overshadowed his activity in the formation of the Socialist Party of America leading him to take his new family abroad ANB. LIVINGSTON 250. Macmillan unknown books
1901réf. 322153London: MacMillan 1901. First English edition. Illustrations by John L. Kipling. 443 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cloth spine slightly sunned and top of spine rubbed. Bookplate. First English edition. Illustrations by John L. Kipling. 443 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Richards A174; Stewart 254 MacMillan unknown books
1962réf. 59936New York: The Limited Editions Club 1962. Limited to 1500 copies this no. 113 signed by the artist Robin Jacques; 4to pp. ix 3 283 1; full-page illustrations in color introduction by Charles Edmund Carrington; book plate on front free endpaper verso small section of fore-edge stained bookplate of James Mead Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian on pastedown else very good or better in leather-backed beige cloth decorated in gilt on covers and spine publisher's slipcase worn and soiled. LEC monthly newsletter laid in. LEC Bibliography 337. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1962réf. 014848Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 1962. All edges gilt. Covers and spine with elaborate gilt designs and lettere-ing. Sewn-in silk bookmark. Illustrations by Robin Jacques. First published in book form in 1901. Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 was an English journalist poet novelist. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His ashes are interred in Poet's Corner Westminster Abbey London. 284pp. The Collector's Library of Famous Editio. Full Blue Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Royal Octavo. The Easton Press Hardcover books
1901réf. TB30607New York: Doubleday Doran and Company Inc. c.1901. Reprint. Very good in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text and designs on the spine and the blind embossed facsimile of the author's signature on the front board. A small octavo of 7 7/8 by 5 1/2 inches with a prior owner's name and date on the first free end page. The front and rear end sheets show foxing at the hinges where there was a reaction with the glues used in binding. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with the spine tanned and with numerous short closed tears around the edges of the panels and spine area. 376 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with ten plates of bas-relief sculptures from photographs by J. L. Kipling. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. hardcover books
1901réf. 13377KIM Doubleday & Page 1901 first edition first issue a brilliant fine copy. Illustrated. Doubleday & Page unknown books
1928réf. 124505Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. Very Good. 1928. Hardcover. A Very Good edition that has bumping to the very corners and general shelfwear to the board surfaces ; Kim is a young man who is kidnapped by the British and taken to India to become a fighting soldier. He is mistreated and is forced to do things he doesn't want to do. He escapes and makes his way back home.; 8vo; 284 pages . Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc. hardcover books
1968réf. 199997New York: Magnum Easy Eye Books / Lancer Books 1968. Softcover. Very Good. Later printing. Complete and unabridged. Mass market paperback. Cover illustrated by Armand Weston. Pages and wrappers age-toned a very good copy. "Larger type for easy reading. Magnum Easy Eye Books / Lancer Books unknown books
1901réf. 8997New York: Doubleday Page and Co 1901. First American edition 8vo 6 460pp. 10 illustrations; minor wear to spine hinges starting small white stains to rear cover else a very good copy or better in original dark green cloth with black design and lettering in gold on front cover and spine t.e.g. Livingston 248. Doubleday, Page and Co unknown books
1920réf. 05442KIM Librairie Delagrave ca. 1920 first printing thus 279 pages some wear to the corner tip edges some wear and scuffing to the leather spine else a vg copy with decorated leather spine marbled boards and marbled end-papers. Profusely illustrated by Charles Fouqueray and translated by Louis Fabulet & Charles Fountaine-Walker. Text in French. Librairie Delagrave hardcover books
réf. 14156PARIS, Lib. Delagrave - 1949 - In-4 - Reliure éditeur avec vignette en couleurs sur 1er plat - Traduction de Louis Fabulet & Ch. Fountaine-Walker - Illustrations NB dans le texte et HT - 279 pages - Couverture légèrement tachée sinon très propre intérieurement
1912réf. D1238Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth ornate blindstamped border and gilt-stamped lettering and illustration on upper board gilt-stamped lettering and border on spine; with 10 tipped plates printed in green and black in ornate blue and red borders. Spine tips rubbed and frayed; hinges weak. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1989réf. UKIPKIM00drpPenguin 1989. Very Good. Kipling Rudyard. Kim. Said Edward W. London: Penguin 1989. 366pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gentle rubbing and bumping. Penguin paperback books
