KIPLING, [Joseph] Rudyard (1865-1936), [DRAKE, WH, and KIPLING, John Lockwood, illustrators] W HBiblio.com
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ref. 70558New York NY: The Century Co. 1894; 1895. Children's Illustrated FIRST US EDITIONS first volume 18th thousand second volume first impression. Two volumes. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.xiv; 303; 3. Pp.10; 324; 2. With 35 illustrations by Drake to volume I including a frontispiece and frequent in-text illustrations by the author's father John to volume II. Publisher's green and red cloth respectively with gilt titles and decoration to spines and boards. Top edges gilt. Bookplate of the Colonial Club to front pastedown of volume I with light spotting throughout. Light general wear to cloth. Second volume has a blue ink ownership stamp to fly-leaf otherwise internally clean. Moderate wear to cloth including some loss to headcap. Very good overall. The Jungle Book and its sequel comprise a selection of short stories-the best-known being the three tales centring on the adventures of the abandoned 'man cub' Mowgli. Other popular tales include 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi' the story of a heroic mongoose and 'Toomai of the Elephants' the tale of a young elephant-handler. New York, NY: The Century Co., 1894; 1895 unknown
ref. 70717Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell 1935. Mediaeval Literature LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto 29 x 21cm pp.6 xvi; 318 6; pp.4 xvi; 268 6. With occasional woodcut illustrations produced in facsimile by Beedham and Francis. Number 64 of 325 copies thus letter-press printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's blue full morocco with gilt titles to spine. Top edges gilt others untrimmed with marbled endpapers. A series of old printed booksellers' descriptions loose to preliminaries. Internally crisp and clean with some sunning and light wear to spines. Near fine. A fine private press edition of Isaac Jaggard's first complete English edition from 1625 paired with facsimiles of the woodcuts from an edition printed in Venice in 1492 by the De Gregorii brothers. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1935 unknown
ref. 70684London: Collins 1979. Ornithology UK EDITION revised and enlarged the fourth edition. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.256. With colour plate illustrations and line drawings. Publisher's illustrated hardback covers Collins price label to rear showing £5.95 cartographic endpapers no jacket issued. Contents clean a little spotting to edges two neat annotations to map covers lightly handled. Near fine. The acclaimed work by the ornithologist James Bond whose name was famously appropriated for spy fiction's most celebrated hero. Gilbert page 616. London: Collins, 1979 unknown
1967ref. 1755339733Dean and Son Ltd 1967. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Owner's name in presentation area. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Dean and Son, Ltd hardcover
ref. 70010London: Collins 1974. Ornithology SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Fourth printing. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.256. With colour plate illustrations and line drawings. Publisher's mid-blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine cartographic endpapers. With author's inscription to the title page; To Dick Sargent / James Bond. With occasional pencil and ink annotations by Sargent together with a note confirming the signed book was presented to him by Bond's colleague Lisa Salmon. A near fine copy without wrapper. The acclaimed work by the ornithologist James Bond whose name was famously appropriated for spy fiction's most celebrated hero. A rare signature in full as here the author usually signing as 'Jim Bond'. The recipient Dick Sargent was president and CEO of the Chubb Institute A dedicated conservationist he served as a trustee on the board of The Land Conservancy of New Jersey. Lisa Salmon founded the Rocklands Bird Sanctuary near Montego Bay in 1958. Laid in is a tri-fold checklist compiled by Salmon identifying birds to be observed at Rockland Feeding Station. Later part of the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert. Gilbert page 616. London: Collins, 1974 unknown
ref. 68272London: Macmillan and Co. 1895-1897. Classic English Literature FIRST EDITIONS THUS each being the first edition illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 20 x 14 x 18cm. With an introduction by Austin Dobson to each volume profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice and Hugh Thomson for the all the other titles. Recently bound in navy half calf with raised bands gilt titles to burgundy labels further gilt tooling to spines and matching cloth over boards. All edges untrimmed. Nice clean copies gently toned throughout. Presented in attractive new leather bindings. Book Collector No.271 'The Great Illustrators'. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895-1897 unknown
ref. 68181Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Company 1961. Ornithology / Bondiana FIRST US EDITION THUS. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.256. With occasional colour plate illustrations and frequent line drawings in-text. Publisher's green cloth with darker green titles to spine and upper. Cartographic endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Samuel Bryant priced at $6. A nice clean copy showing just a hint of spotting to top edge and some light wear to jacket extremities. Near fine. The acclaimed work by the ornithologist James Bond whose name was famously appropriated for spy fiction's most celebrated hero. This new edition followed two earlier printings in America; Philadelphia 1936 and Macmillan New York 1947 under the title Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies. Gilbert page 616. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961 unknown
ref. 68403London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1883. Russian Adventure 'New Edition'. Octavo 21 x 15cm pp.xii; 377 1. With a folding map and illustrations by Ferat and Barbant including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Ink names to endpapers. Contents generally clean. Binding shows acceptable wear with joints rubbed corners pushed frayed at spine tips inner paper joints cracked as usual. Very good. Verne's classic tale of adventure and intrigue in the Russian Empire which was first published in English in 1877; also includes Verne's novella 'The Mutineers' which was omitted from most printings after 1912. Provenance; H.A.V. Bulleid M.A. 1912-2009 writer film-maker and cinema historian and an amateur bibliographer of Jules Verne. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883 unknown
ref. 68889London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press 1941. Children's Adventure FIRST EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.254; 2 blank. With a colour frontispiece and six full-page black and white illustrations by Alfred Sindall. Publisher's orange cloth blocked in brown text block thickness is 32mm. Some light and infrequent spotting throughout heavier in preliminaries and endpapers toning to edges of textblock no inscriptions some expected marks to covers spine sunned. Very good. Biggles is sent on a dangerous mission to retrieve a Polish inventor's plans which were hidden from the Nazis near the Finnish frontier. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, [1941] unknown
ref. 68946London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1900-1901. American Literature FIRST BROCK ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 19 x 13 x 18cm. Each volume contains twenty-five line drawing plates by the brothers Brock. Elegantly hand-bound in traditional half tan calf with twin labels gilt raised bands gilt titles and decoration to spines matching cloth over boards t.e.g. Contents clean and fresh exterior as new. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. An epic series set in the Iroquois area near New York over the lifetime of Natty "Hawkeye" Bumppo from the mid eighteenth century up to the early nineteenth and one of the first truly American literary creations. 'The Pathfinder' is a publisher's presentation copy with their blind-stamp to prelims. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1900-1901 unknown
ref. 44690With all his introductions notes various readings and notes by J. G. Lockhart Esq. Illustrated by numerous engravings on steel and wood after J. M. W. Turner Birket Foster & John Gilbert. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black North Bridge 1857. Thick royal octavo 250 x 175 mm original red morocco richly gilt fine; all edges gilt; engraved frontispiece additional engraved title title leaf 1 Editor's Notice 1 blank; pp. iv 2 823; binding firm foxing to first and last few leaves and at the margins of most plates otherwise internally clean and sound. unknown
1909ref. 21142851909. London; Adam and Charles Black 1909. Large 8vo. original white cloth with an armorial design blocked in orange green and gilt to spine and upper board top edges gilt; pp. xix i 320 4 publisher's advert.; with a total of 75 fine coloured plates after watercolours guarded by captioned tissues and a folding pull-out map at the rear; a near fine copy of this scarce and vulnerable book preserved in uncommonly clean condition both externally and internally with just light rubbing and dusting to boards with a previous owner's bookplate to inner upper cover another ownership inscription to front free endpaper and mild foxing to prelims.First edition of one of the scarcest titles in A. & C. Black's Twenty Shilling Series. Inman 37. hardcover
ref. 66497London: John Lane the Bodley Head 1897. Aesthetic Literature FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 21 x 17cm pp.316 16. With 18 black and white plates by various artists including the Scottish painter D.Y. Cameron each with a tissue-guard. Publisher's yellow cloth with titles and decoration in black. All edges untrimmed. Internally clean with some toning to endpapers. A few leaves poorly opened. A large contemporary library label to rear board. Spine browned with moderate general wear and a 1cm split to head. Very good. The last of 13 volumes in this era-defining series combining short stories poetry essays reviews and contemporary art. This issue features 'The Blessed' by Yeats. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1897 unknown
ref. 66989London: Hodder & Stoughton December 1912. Literary Magazine ORIGINAL MAGAZINE SPECIAL. Folio 34 x 23cm pp.xvi; 133-196; 217; xvii-xxxv. Not including the special portfolio of colour plates by Dulac and also lacking the frontispiece portrait of Kipling. With numerous in-text black and white illustrations and occasional colour plates by various artists. Publisher's brown soft cloth-covered covers titled and decorated in red with a black and white photograph of Rudyard Kipling to upper priced at 2s. Moderate wear to covers including some chips and tears to spine. Frontispiece carefully removed otherwise plates appear intact. Internally clean. Good. A bumper selection of bookish articles focusing on subjects including Rudyard Kipling George Meredith Mrs Gaskell The Loeb Library Lord Byron William Morris and Thomas Hardy. London: Hodder & Stoughton, December 1912 unknown
ref. 65163London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1878. Strange Tale SECOND UK EDITION. Octavo 19 x 15cm pp.xii; 246. With 44 engraved illustrations including a tissue-guarded frontispiece by Jules Férat and Charles Barbant. Publiisher's pale blue cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper coated cream endpapers all edges gilt. No inscriptions inside paper hinges cracked contents clean cloth a little rubbed frayed to spine ends some ripples to cloth on rear board spine toned. A very good copy. The discovery of an apparent race of troglodytes holds up the development of a promising new vein at an old coal mine near Stirling in Scotland. First published in English in 1877. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878 unknown
1903ref. 8306New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1903 Boards are worn - see image. 2" closed tear at bottom edge of title page. ; Interior of the book is in excellent condition - exception noted. A truly oversize "lap" book that was meant to entertain a child as depicted on front cover. This copy was admired and enjoyed carefully while being read which remains clean and unmarked. Tight binding. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Frederick A. Stokes hardcover
ref. 62247London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd. 1935. Fantasy Tales FIRST EDITION THUS first impression. Octavo 19 x 12cm pp.x; 670 4 ads. With colour frontispiece and full page illustrations. Publisher's red cloth gilt with top edge gilt in pictorial dust-wrapper priced 10/6. Contents clean school prize label binding a little mottled fragile jacket mostly complete with a few chips to upper panel and to crown with a few neat tape strips to reverse side. Very good uncommon in jacket. Kipling's complete series of popular tales told by 'Puck' traditionally a name for a malicious spirit or demon of popular superstition and from the 16th century the name of a mischievous goblin or Hobgoblin similar to that appearing in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' the fairy scene from which is acted out here. Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature 277. BMC No.11984; 'Edwardian Children's Books'. London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd. 1935 unknown
ref. 60962London: Macmillan and Co. 1874. Children's Classic FINELY BOUND a later edition. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.8 388 2. With four illustrated plates including a frontispiece. Contemporary tan full calf by BICKERS & SON with raised bands gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels and further gilt tooling to spine. All edges and endpapers marbled. Illustrated bookplate to flyleaf. A little toning and spotting to first and final leaves. Lower half of upper hinge and joint split with an archival tape repair to hinge. Moderate wear to spine and extremities. Very good. The classic children's tale first published in 1863. London: Macmillan and Co., 1874 unknown
ref. 57588London: A. and C. Black Ltd. 1928. Travel SECOND EDITION REVISED. Octavo 21 x 16cm pp.x; 250; 2. Publisher's blind stamped blue cloth gilt titles to spine and in blind to upper blue top edge dust-jacket. With thirty two plates in colour and a sketch map of the country. Ownership to flyleaf some spotting to edges. Wrapper price clipped with a few small marks. Uncommon in wrapper. A clean bright example. Near fine. Part of Black's Popular Series of Colour Books this volume being a revised version of the same title which formed part of the A. and C. Black 20 Shilling series first published in 1908. London: A. and C. Black Ltd., 1928 unknown
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1907ref. 93693Chicago:: McClurg and Co 1907. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in tan boards with a green white and gilt art nouveau cover by Armstrong rubbing to the front cover and spine corners and edges somewhat worn contents near fine . First printing. An early novella by Storm originally published in German in 1850 and a masterpiece of German poetic realism with its delicate language and its atmospheric melancholic mood as it tells a bittersweet story of unfulfilled love through a man's nostalgic memories of his childhood sweetheart Elisabeth who married another. A lovely book illustrated with a full color frontispiece 8 full color plates illustrated initial letters at each chapter and decorative green borders on every page by sisters Margaret Neilson Armstrong 1867-1944 and Helen Maitland Armstrong 1869-1948. Translated from the German by George P. Upton; includes a translator's preface and an appreciation of Storm by Upton in which he notes that the theme of this book is lost youth and the symbol of it is the water lily. The water lily is the image used by Margaret Armstrong in the cover art on the endpapers one of the few examples of Armstrong illustrated endpapers and on the title page. Large octavo unpaginated. McClurg and Co, hardcover
1992ref. SBBIH-UWNYGTGH4ZZJElfande Ltd 1992. hardcover. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. 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. Elfande Ltd hardcover
1800ref. LCB64873London: Vernor & Hood. Good with no dust jacket. 1st Edition english; First Impression. Original half leather boards. Visible cracking to spine & corners. Marbled boards are rubbed & scuffed. Corners are scuffed. Some staining & foxing. Tear on page 81-82 >3 cm. Previous owner signature in ink on end paper.; Ex-libris William Gibton of Mack Williams & Gibton a notable figure in Irish arts & commerce of the 19th century as evidenced by personal bookplate. Original half-leather with marbled boards with gilt lettering & bands on spine & corners. Frontispiece chapter headings & vignettes collaboration between T. Thurston Well-regarded artist & exhibitor at the Royal Academy & C. Warren renowned engraver. A handsome early 19th century compilation volume of three German plays bound together & translated by Benjamin Thompson a key figure in the cultural exchange between Germany & Britain at the turn of the 19th Century.; 16.8 cm x 10 cm x 2 cm; 82 pages . 1800 - 1801. Vernor & Hood hardcover
