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1890WRCLIT36472Calcutta London & Bombay: Thacker Spink and Co. 1890. Deep blue cloth with elaborate gilt device on upper board replicating a note from Kipling. Unfortunate adhesive bookplate of a noted Kipling collector on free endsheet a couple slight rubs to upper board otherwise a very good bright copy. Fifth second English edition reprinting the text of the fourth First English edition and like it printed by Clowes & Sons. Nonetheless the claim was made replicating Kipling's hand and signature in the gilt cover decoration that new "Ditties & Verses" were included in this edition. The ads are dated September 1890. STEWART 11 & 12 ref. RICHARDS A31n. Thacker, Spink and Co. hardcover books
1890WRCLIT71906Calcutta London & Bombay: Thacker Spink and Co. / W. Thacker & Co 1890. Deep blue cloth with elaborate gilt device on upper board replicating a note from Kipling. Bookplate of John Quinn on pastedown. Binding and gilding a bit rubbed with modest shelfwear at extremities front inner hinge cracking slightly half-title neatly excised; otherwise good and sound. Fourth edition but the first edition printed in the UK. The adverts at the end are dated February 1890 and are priced in dual currencies.This edition includes ten poems in addition to those included in the 1888 3rd edition and features revisions to others. RICHARDS A31. LIVINGSTON 14. STEWART 11. QUINN SALE 5060. Thacker, Spink and Co. / W. Thacker & Co hardcover books
1897WRCLIT77463London & Calcutta: W. Thacker / Thacker Spink and Co. 1897. Deep blue cloth lettered in gilt with gilt pictorial vignette on upper board t.e.g others untrimmed. Neat bookplate on pastedown faint smear of dolling on upper board but a bright tight copy. Ninth edition trade issue with frontis and plates by Dudley Cleaver. There were also two large paper issues. STEWART 13. W. Thacker / Thacker, Spink and Co. hardcover books
1897120438London: W. Thacker & Co 1897. Rare Edition de Luxe of Kipling's first collection of verse. Octavo original publisher's half vellum over green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine and gilt vignette to the front panel. Tissue-guarded illustrations by Dudley Cleaver including frontispiece. One of one hundred and fifty numbered copies of the Edition de Luxe printed with two extra illustrations this is number 87. Ninth edition. In very good condition. Kipling published his first collection of verse Departmental Ditties in 1886 a year that also brought a change to the editors at the Civil and Military Gazette which allowed him more creative freedom and the ability to contribute short stories to the newspaper. Departmental Ditties includes Delilah The Legend of the Foreign Office The Story of Uriah The Betrothed The Moon of Other Days and The Fall of Jock Gillespie. W. Thacker & Co hardcover books
1890121888New York: John H. Lovell Company 1890. First American edition of the poetry collection that established Kipling's fame with Lovell on the foot of the spine. Octavo original cloth. In very good condition. Written in vernacular dialect Kipling's The Barrack Room Ballads contains some of Kipling's most well-known work including the poems "Gunga Din" "Tommy" "Mandalay" and "Danny Deever" which established his early fame as a poet. The first poems were published in the Scots Observer in the first half of 1890 and collected in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses in 1892. Kipling later returned to the theme in a group of poems collected in The Seven Seas under the same title. A third group of vernacular Army poems from the Boer War titled "Service Songs" and published in The Five Nations 1903 can be considered part of the Ballads as can a number of other uncollected pieces. John H. Lovell Company hardcover books
1890WRCLIT71826New York: United States Book Co. / Lovell 1890. Plum cloth stamped in gilt t.e.g. Minor rubbing to spine ends otherwise an unusually nice copy very good or better. First U.S. edition first impression and first book publication of seventeen pieces. RICHARDS A48. STEWART 79. United States Book Co. / Lovell hardcover books
189065168NY:: United States Book Company John W. Lovell Company. Very Good. 1890. Hardcover. First American edition first issue Lovell at base of spine. Small octavo bound in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and design top edge gilt. A bit faded along the spine previous owner's name and date on front free endpaper light edge wear at the spine ends and corners else very good. Binding is solid and tight. ; 270 pages . United States Book Company (John W. Lovell Company), hardcover books
189029677NY: United States Book Co 1890. First American edn. 8vo pp. 270. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Owner's name on flyleaf bookplate. Cover somewhat scuffed and worn one hinge near tender o/w VG. Grolier Club Exhibit 110; Stewart 79. First Edition of both the "Barrack-Room Ballads" and the "Other Verses" not published in England until 1892; first American edition of "Departmental Ditties." Contains the first printing in book form of Kipling's great popular ballads including "Danny Deever" "Fuzzy Wuzzy" "Gunga Din" "Mandalay" etc. United States Book Co unknown books
1916288595Garden City: Doubleday 1916. First. pamphlet. fine. 4 pamphlets. Thin 8vo original yellow cream glazed wrappers. Garden City 1916. First Edition.<br/><br/> One of a few copies printed for copyright purposes and preceding the English edition. Fine copies preserved in a half red morocco slipcase.<br/><br/> Doubleday unknown books
1908WRCLIT72205London: Macmillan 1908. Stiff printed cloth wrapper. Portrait. Bookplate on pastedown wrapper slightly darkened and rubbed but a very good or better copy. First edition in book form. One of 3000 copies published and sold to the benefit of the Medical School and hospital. The wrapper of this copy has the price slash 12 mm. long. STEWART 543. RICHARDS A216. Macmillan hardcover books
1908WRCLIT41736London: Macmillan 1908. Stiff printed cloth wrapper over limp boards. Portrait. Two bookplates a couple soft creases in rear wrapper very good. First edition. in book form. One of 3000 copies published and sold to the benefit of the Medical School and hospital. STEWART 543. RICHARDS A216. Macmillan hardcover books
1908WRCLIT60789London: Macmillan 1908. Stiff printed cloth wrapper. Portrait. Text block trimmed inaccurately and extending an extra 6mm. beyond the wrapper at the lower edge otherwise about fine. First edition. in book form. One of 3000 copies published and sold to the benefit of the Medical School and hospital. The wrapper of this copy has the price slash 12 mm. long. STEWART 543. RICHARDS A216. Macmillan hardcover books
1908WRCLIT60788London: Macmillan 1908. Stiff printed cloth wrapper. Portrait. Wrapper slightly darkened and rubbed but a very good or better copy. First edition. in book form. One of 3000 copies published and sold to the benefit of the Medical School and hospital. The wrapper of this copy has the price slash 12 mm. long. STEWART 543. RICHARDS A216. Macmillan hardcover books
1908206944London: Macmillan 1908. First. hardcover. near fine. 2 photo illustrations. 31pp. Slim 12mo black-lettered limp red cloth. London: Macmillan and Co. 1908. First Edition. A near fine copy. Stewart 543.<br/><br/> Macmillan unknown books
190838103London: Macmillan and Company 1908. First printing. Limp red cloth. A very good copy with a bit of soiling to wrappers. 31 pp. Illus. with 2 b/w photos. 12mo. Livingston 312. Stewart 543. Macmillan and Company hardcover books
1986164715Oxford: Clarendon Press 1986. Octavo pp. i-vii viii ix x-xvii xviii-xx 1 2-497 498-500: blank illustrations boards. First edition. A collection of more than 300 poems by Kipling none of which appear in the "Definitive Edition" of his verse. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #164715 Clarendon Press unknown books
1931WRCLIT36450London: Macmillan 1931. Quarto. Gilt cloth. Illustrations many in color by Donald Maxwell. First edition of this selection. Endsheets foxed otherwise very good in rather dim dust jacket with chips and reinforcement on verso. STEWART 582. Macmillan hardcover books
500364Address delivered by Kiping as Chairman at the Festival Dinner of The Royal Society of St. George given at Connaught Rooms London April 23 1920. 8vo. 8 pages. Stiff stapled tan wrappers upper cover with the society seal of St. George and the Dragon embossed in red. Very good; Price on cover: 6 pence; Includes the certificate of membership on verso of last page perforated which is often lacking; Livingston 452. Signed by Authors. Soft cover. paperback books
158096Address delivered by Rudyard Kipling as Chairman at the Festival Dinner of The Royal Society of St. George given at Connaught Rooms London April 23 1920. 8vo 8 pages. Stiff stapled tan wrappers upper cover with the society seal of St. George and the Dragon embossed in red. Very good. Includes the certificate of membership on verso of last page perforated which is often lacking. Livingston 452. Soft cover. paperback books
1920WRCLIT40906London: The Royal Society of St. George 1920. Stiff printed wrappers. Second U.K. edition. Wrappers lightly dust soiled very good. STEWART 549. RICHARDS A325n. The Royal Society of St. George unknown books
1920WRCLIT60193London: The Royal Society of St. George 1920. Stiff printed wrappers. Second U.K. edition. Wrappers rather dust soiled near very good. STEWART 549. RICHARDS A325n. The Royal Society of St. George unknown books
1920WRCLIT41715London: The Royal Society of St. George 1920. Stiff printed wrappers. Second U.K. edition. Wrappers lightly dust soiled adhesive book label of a noted Kipling collector very good. STEWART 549. RICHARDS A325n. The Royal Society of St. George unknown books
192038925Garden City NY: Doubleday Page and Co 1920. One of an edition limited to 300 copies this being #77. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket. Garden City NY: Doubleday Page and Co 1920. One of an edition limited to 300 copies this being #77. Photography by Lewis R. Freeman. Unpaginated. Hardcover. Small 4to size. Yellowed beige paper covered boards. Silver lettering to spine and front board. Head and heel rubbed and bumped; corners bumped; endpapers lightly foxed; signatures sprung; despite all a clean and sturdy copy. Very good/No dust jacket. Oversized - extra shipping charges apply Insurance required to ship this item. Doubleday, Page, and Co hardcover books
16746KIPLING Rudyard. Rewards and Fairies. Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada 1910. First Edition of Kipling's collection of short stories and poems including the first printing of Kipling's famous poem "If--" arguably his masterpiece and the most influential work of his lifetime. Octavo. Publisher's original red cloth gilt lettering to spine and gilt decorative elephant medallion to cover. Illustrated black and white plates by Frank Craig. 338 pages In very good condition. Minor bumping to corners and age-related toning. Head and tail of spine worn but pages unmarked and binding firm. The poem's emphasis on overcoming adversity continues to resonate with readers all over the world.<br/><br/>"If--"<br/><br/>If you can keep your head when all about you <br/> Are losing theirs and blaming it on you <br/>If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you<br/> But make allowance for their doubting too; <br/>If you can wait and not be tired by waiting<br/> Or being lied about don't deal in lies<br/>Or being hated don't give way to hating<br/> And yet don't look too good nor talk too wise:<br/><br/>If you can dream-and not make dreams your master; <br/> If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim; <br/>If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster<br/> And treat those two impostors just the same; <br/>If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken<br/> Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools<br/>Or watch the things you gave your life to broken<br/> And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:<br/><br/>If you can make one heap of all your winnings<br/> And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss<br/>And lose and start again at your beginnings<br/> And never breathe a word about your loss;<br/>If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew<br/> To serve your turn long after they are gone <br/>And so hold on when there is nothing in you<br/> Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'<br/><br/>If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue <br/> Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch<br/>If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you<br/> If all men count with you but none too much;<br/>If you can fill the unforgiving minute<br/> With sixty seconds' worth of distance run <br/>Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it <br/> And-which is more-you'll be a Man my son! unknown books
3998LONDON MACMILLAN 1898. GOOD. LONDON, MACMILLAN, 1898 unknown books