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2023x-1843846497Ds Brewer 2023. Paperback. New. 160 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.37 inches. Ds Brewer paperback
1955123050London: Macmillan & Co Ltd 1955. First edition of Carrington's famed biography of Kipling. Octavo original cloth. With an autograph note signed by Lafcadio Hearn adhered to the front pastedown which reads "Kipling is priceless - his single story of Purima Bayal is worth a Kingdom; I & his suggestive moral of human life is such a miracle! I can't tell you what pleasure it gave me. - Lafcadio Hearn." Japanese writer of Greek-Irish descent Lafcadio Hearn is best remembered for his books about Japanese culture which offered the Western world a glimpse into a largely unknown but fascinating culture at the time. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription. An exceptional association. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book 1894 Kim 1901 and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Macmillan & Co Ltd hardcover
2022SBS-9781637856659Excelic 2022. Hardcover. New. Excelic hardcover
2022SBS-9781637856659Excelic 2022. Hardcover. New. Excelic hardcover
19141062London: The Daily Telegraph in conjunction with The Daily Sketch The Glasgow Herald and Hodder and Stoughton. 1914. First edition. Presented by King George V to S. Lawes of the 1st Royal Berkshire Regiment at the 4th London General Hospital Denmark Hill on Christmas Day 1914 inscribed to front free endpaper. Quarto. Publisher's original cream cloth with decorative titles in green to the upper board and spine. Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece 16 tipped-in colour plates 1 further colour plate and 10 black and white plates. Additional printed presentation plate to front pastedown: "King Albert's Book with Sir Francis Trippel's Best Wishes for a Happy Xmas a Speedy Recovery and a Victorious New Year Xmas 1914". 188pp. A very good copy the binding square and firm with marking and darkening to the boards. The contents with toning to the endpapers scattered foxing and creasing to the corners of some of the tipped-in plates are otherwise in very good order. Inscribed in black ink to the front free endpaper: "S. Lawes. 1st Royal Berkshire. / December 25th - IH. / 4th London Genera Hospital / Denmark Hill. / Presented by His Majesty King George V" not in the King's hand.</p><p>Published in aid of the Belgium Fund the work includes contributions from over 250 figures from the worlds of literature art politics music and science.</p><p>Certainly not an uncommon book but an evocative copy presented by King George V to a wounded soldier on Christmas Day 1914 just five months in to the First World War. London: The Daily Telegraph in conjunction with The Daily Sketch, The Glasgow Herald, and Hodder and Stoughton. hardcover
1963100051598Rombaldi / les prix nobel de littérature 1963. Bon état cependant couvertures ternies intérieurs frais bonne tenue des reliures. in8. 1963. cartonné. 11 volumes. 11 volumes collection des prix nobel de littérature: 1902-Mommsen: Histoire de Rome 1906Carducci: Oeuvres poétiques 1904-Echegaray: L'affront lavé; La mort sur les lèvres 1907-Kipling: La lumière qui s'éteint 1908-Eucken: Le sens et la valeur de la vie 1910-Heyse: L'arrabbiata Le garde-vignes; Résurrection 1917-Pontoppidan: Le visiteur royal 1919-Spitteler: Prométhée et Epimethée 1921-France: Le crime de Sylvestre Bonnard 1924-Reymont: L'apostolat du Knout; Nouvelles 1928-Unset: Printemps Rombaldi / les prix nobel de littérature unknown
452323Clarendon. Hardcover. Fair. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Board covers scratched and bumped. Spine has gilt lettering is scuffed and has a small tear at the top. Text edges a little rough and a few loose pages. Clarendon hardcover
1965ABE-1679921906321Faber & Faber London 1965 First edition. Collects fifteen stories by John Collier Roald Dahl William Sansom Elizabeth Bowen Robert Louis Stevenson Rudyard Kipling Somerset Maugham Mann Rubin H. G. Wells Dorothy Sayers Aldous Huxley Davis Grubb Edgar Allan Poe Ray Bradbury and more. These are all excellent mostly macabre tales or dark suspense. A first edition hardback in a protected unclipped jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Faber & Faber London hardcover
19009720London c. 1900. Second Anglo-Boer War souvenir handkerchief 45 x 45 cm printed in blue ink on fine linen a couple of trivial spots blank verso. Set in the borders of a map showing the contested regions of South Africa chiefly Orange Free State and Transvaal is the text of Rudyard Kipling's poem 'The Absent-Minded Beggar' with the music of Arthur Sullivan. The map is further adorned with portraits of Queen Victoria and Field Marshal Lord Roberts who was commander of British forces in the field between December 1899 and December 1900. It was published by the Daily Mail then a relatively new but highly successful British newspaper: established in 1896 its circulation had soared to over a million - the largest in the world - by the war's end in 1902. Kipling presented his poem to the Mail which established a charitable fund soon known as the Absent Minded Beggar Fund to provide comforts for British troops on campaign and support for their families at home. Sullivan was prevailed upon to set it to music and it was first sung in public in November 1899. It caught the public mood and was reproduced in many forms. The handkerchiefs were in circulation by March 1900. Local newspapers carry advertisements from wholesalers and retailers around the country all promising to donate a portion of the profits to the fund. Advertising in the Bradford Daily Telegraph 8 March 1900 one vendor described them as the latest novelty a work of art further suggesting that they could make a useful present everybody pleased with them. An Exeter draper excitedly advertised another delivery in the March 28 issue of the Western Echo. They seem to have sold for between twopence and threepence each. Map unknown
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413112Hardcover. Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Twenty volumes of literature - novels poetry and plays - in twentieth century hardcover editions as shown. The books are a bit worn in places in line with age. If you would like to browse the other books our shop has available online please click on our shop's name. hardcover
004196Airmont. Soft cover. See Description. uncredited. The graphic cardboard display case is still sealed and in Near Fine to Fine condition. All six of the paperbacks are in As New Very Fine and unread condition! Various printings. These Airmont Classics display cases are extremely uncommon. A wonderful set. The Airmont paperback Classic Series have interesting and generally very well done new cover art for each title usually with an insightful introduction. <br/> <br/> Airmont paperback
193529810AB1935. First Deluxe Edition Published simultaneously with the trade edition. London MacMillan and Co. 1935. Octavo. Frontispiece-Illustration X 670 2 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover / Decorative full red leather with gilt lettering and gilt illustration of Puck on the front board. In its original rare dustjacket. The dustjacket frayed with some loss. The Volume itself in excellent condition with some minor signs of wear to upper and lower hinge only. "This volume contains all the stories included in "Puck of Pook's Hill" and "Rewards and Fairies". The stories which present episodes of English History in a dramatic form have always been favourites among the works of Mr.Kipling; and the publishers believe that their issue in one volume will be much appreciated". "All the Puck Stories" forms a companion volume to "The Two Jungle Books" and "The Complete Stalky & Co." - Advertising from the Front Flap of the Dustjacket hardcover
06188London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903. Beauty That Hath Terror in It"<br /> The Detmold Brothers' Sublime and Unsettling Vision of The Jungle Book<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> First edition. Folio 21 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches; 543 x 394 mm. Title page contents leaf and sixteen fine colored prints tipped onto white board with gray window mounts each with a cover sheet providing the title and a short extract from the text. Title-page and list of illustrations expertly repaired at fold second plate description with short marginal tear some light foxing to text and mounts only - the plates clean and fresh.<br /> <br /> Housed in the publisher's green cloth portfolio front cover lettered and with illustration in gilt one of two original green silk ties. An excellent example of the Detmold's finest work.<br /> <br /> Rendered in the rich colors characteristic of the Detmolds' artwork the plates in this portfolio far surpass the later small book edition published five years later whose reproductions appear comparatively muted. Considered among the finest book illustrations of all time R. Dalby notes: "These paintings were praised for their realistic detail and decorative arrangement" while Diana Johnson intriguingly observes: "The end result of this incongruous joining together of the quasi-scientific and the ornamental is an image which is both fanciful and often rather disturbing." <br /> <br /> Published when the Detmold twins were only twenty years old this portfolio was their final collaboration before Maurice's tragic suicide in 1908. Because the illustrations closely resemble original artwork when framed many individual plates were separated from their sets making a complete portfolio a rare find today.<br /> <br /> The sixteen plates in Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's Jungle Book represent the Detmold brothers at the absolute height of their early powers combining natural history accuracy with a highly personal imaginative symbolism. Executed when Maurice Detmold and Edward J. Detmold were only twenty the images reveal an astonishing maturity of design color harmony and psychological insight.<br /> <br /> Across the series animals are rendered with an almost zoological precision - musculature fur scale and movement observed with scientific care - yet the compositions are unmistakably poetic and stylized. Wolves stand with hieratic gravity; panthers and tigers possess an elegance that borders on the mythic; serpents coil with hypnotic inevitability. <br /> <br /> These are not merely illustrations of stories by Rudyard Kipling but visual interpretations that deepen and at times darken the emotional tenor of the text.<br /> <br /> Several plates focus on Mowgli himself depicted as a lithe vulnerable yet resolute figure often isolated against vast spare landscapes. His nudity is treated without sentimentality: the Detmolds emphasize his animal belonging rather than childhood innocence reinforcing the central tension of The Jungle Book - the precarious boundary between human and beast. In scenes with Bagheera Baloo and Akela the animals are endowed with a quiet authority their gazes expressive and morally charged suggesting intellect and memory rather than simple instinct.<br /> <br /> The Monkey People shown amid cold stone lairs and architectural fragments are among the most unsettling inventions in the set: simian forms twisted into almost grotesque attitudes animated by restless purposeless energy. By contrast the great predators - Shere Khan especially - are portrayed with a terrible beauty: powerful controlled and ominously calm embodying what the Manchester Guardian aptly described as "that beauty which hath terror in it."<br /> <br /> Color plays a central role throughout. The Detmolds employ a restrained but sumptuous palette - burnished browns smoky grays deep greens and muted ochres - heightened by subtle tonal transitions rather than overt brilliance. This lends the plates a painterly richness and a unity of mood that far surpasses the later reduced-format book edition whose reproductions inevitably dull these effects.<br /> <br /> Decorative framing carefully balanced negative space and rhythmic patterning of foliage fur and stone give each composition an architectural coherence. The result is a body of work that stands apart from conventional Edwardian illustration: neither merely narrative nor purely ornamental but a rare fusion of naturalism symbolism and psychological depth.<br /> <br /> Taken as a whole the portfolio reads as a visual cycle - grave hypnotic and occasionally disturbing -confirming the contemporary judgment that the Detmolds "prevent their work from ever sinking to the level of mere illustration." <br /> <br /> Complete portfolios are now scarce as many plates were long ago removed for framing making intact examples such as this especially prized.<br /> <br /> A report on the publication in the New York Times for 5 December 1903 stated that "the edition is strictly limited to 500 copies for England and America". This portfolio is a magnificent presentation of the Detmold brothers' celebrated book illustrations. Reviewing the London exhibition of the original artwork the Manchester Guardian commented that the Detmolds "are able to prevent their work from ever sinking to the level of mere illustration". The reviewer enthused that "the drawing of the Monkey People in the Cold Lairs who 'were not thinking of Mowgli's friends at all' is full of character subtle observation and invention. The figure of Bagheera in 'Mowgli and the Red Flower' has something of that beauty which hath terror in it. Baloo and Nag Kaa and Akela the lone wolf are brought before our eyes in a singularly convincing and engaging form". Manchester Guardian 5 November 1903. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1903 unknown
1903000134London: Macmillan and Co. 1903. Sixteen finely executed illustrations mounted and protected by part-printed paper overlays contained in a later half-calf silk lined portfolio. The portfolio has raised bands spine in four panels panels bordered with gilt single rule volute corner pieces title in gilt to second panel illustrators to third place and date to fourth silk ties to each edge. Rubbed to extremities spine very slightly faded. Title page chipped and quite heavily repaired slightly grubby with several small closed tears the list of illustrations leaf is again chipped with repairs to edges. The part-printed overlays are lightly foxed and browned to edges chipped to top edges one or two spots of foxing to the mounts the illustrations are all bright and clean. For the Detmolds see Houfe page 115. First Edition. Plates Loose in Folder. Good. Illus. by Detmold Maurice and Detmold Edward. Elephant Folio. Macmillan and Co. Hardcover
1924NF0076SMOKE 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
2021x-8195012191Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd 2021. Paperback. New. 564 pages. 5.50x1.26x8.50 inches. Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd paperback
8195012191.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1951126348London: Published for The British Council and the National Book League by Longmans Green & Co. 1951. First edition of Dobree's work on Kipling the man and the writer. Octavo original wrappers frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In near fine condition. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book 1894 Kim 1901 and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Published for The British Council and the National Book League by Longmans, Green & Co. unknown
B9781494089122Paperback / softback. New. paperback
189703204LIFE ON A GREENLAND WHALER in McClure's Magazine for March 1897 first American edition some light wear and tear to the covers some chipping to the spine extremities else vg in wraps. Also contains chapters 8 & 9 of CAPTAIN'S COURAGEOUS by Kipling. McClure paperback
1914126349London: Hodder & Stoughton 1914. First edition of Durand's definitive handbook to Kipling's poetry. Royal octavo original quarter buckram over paper-covered boards paper spine label top edge gilt. In very good condition. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book 1894 Kim 1901 and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
2000x-0080437915Emerald Group Pub Ltd 2000. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 202 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.75 inches. Emerald Group Pub Ltd hardcover
004198Airmont. Soft cover. See Description. uncredited; Roy Krenkel Oz. The graphic cardboard display case is still sealed and in Near Fine to Fine condition. All six of the paperbacks are in As New Very Fine and unread condition! Various printings. These Airmont Classics display cases are extremely uncommon. A wonderful set. The Airmont paperback Classic Series have interesting and generally very well done new cover art for each title usually with an insightful introduction. <br/> <br/> Airmont paperback
