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189983937New York: Doubleday McClure 1899. First. hardcover. very good. 2 vols. 8vo green ribbed cloth. N.Y.: Doubleday McClure 1899. First Edition. First issue with errors on pp. 90 & 153 of Volume II. Stewart 198.<br/><br/> Doubleday McClure unknown books
1899WRCLIT59076New York: Mansfield & Wessels 1899. Small octavo. Cloth backed burlap over boards stamped in red. Illustrations by Blanche Mcmanus. First edition in this format unauthorized. An unusually nice copy of a book often seen in anything but acceptable condition. STEWART p. 621. Mansfield & Wessels hardcover books
190019322New York: Dodge Publishing Company ca. 1900. First edition thus. Slipcased. Very good. 16mo. Printed wraps in matching box. A very good copy in like box. Light touches of edgewear to box. Bottom portion a bit foxed. Book shows perhaps a hint of separation at front hinge but remains good and sound. Interior clean and bright throughout. 188pp. <br/><br/>Uncommon in the box. An exceedingly charming edition in lovely arts-and-crafts style. Includes "His Chance in Life" "The Rescue of Pluffles" "Lispeth" "Yoked with an Unbeliever" and over fifteen other stories. Dodge Publishing Company unknown books
1895WRCLIT83034New York: The Century Co. 1895. Pictorial blindstamped orange cloth lettered in gilt t.e.g. Decorations by John Lockwood Kipling. First US edition preceding the UK edition by a few days. Cloth and edges moderately darkened and soiled toe of spine shelfworn; just a good sound copy. RICHARDS A84. STEWART 134. The Century Co. hardcover books
1896121559London: Methuen and Co 1896. First British edition of Kipling's collection of songs and poems dedicated to voyages on the high seas which includes A Song of the English and Hymn Before Action. Octavo original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and vignette to the front panel. In good condition. In the short span of four years English author Rudyard Kipling produced in addition to the Jungle Books a collection of short stories The Day's Work a novel Captains Courageous and a profusion of poetry including The Seven Seas a collection which includes two of his better-known poems: A Song of the English and Hymn Before Action. Methuen and Co hardcover books
1899121504New York: Doubleday and McClure Company 1899. First separate edition of Kipling's Without Benefit of Clergy. Octavo original illustrated cloth. 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. Doubleday and McClure Company hardcover books
18987828New York: M.F. Mansfield Publisher 1898. Decorative Cloth. A perfectly serviceable copy of the 1898 2nd edition. G in its maroon cloth with light scuffing to the panels and light chipping at its edges. 64mo 1 of 500 copies on Enfield Deckle Edge Paper. Decoratve cover of a hovering vampire bat and endpapers from designs made by Blanche McManus. <br/><br/> M.F. Mansfield, Publisher hardcover books
189951210London: Macmillan. Very Good. 1899. Hardcover. London: macmillan and Co. Limited 1899. First Edition. Erased signature and embossed stamp just showing on endpaper hinges just starting covers show some light wear contents are slightly toned around edges overall a clean Very Good copy in mylar. . Macmillan hardcover books
190029538London: Macmillan 1900. First U.K. edition issued some months after the American edition. Two-volume set. Two volumes. 8vo pp. 497 438. Red cloth stamped in gilt. TEG. Owner's bookplate on pastedowns covers slightly worn at ends of spines one small worm hold at bottom of a few pages o/w VG. Stewart 199. Macmillan unknown books
189329539London: Macmillan 1893. First Edition. 8vo pp. 365. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. cover little worn along the hinges rear hinge paper cracked o/w VG. Stewart 118. "This collection consisting of fourteen stories and two poems was published in 1893 by Macmillan and Co. in London and by D. Appleton and Company in New York. Ten of the stories had appeared previously in periodicals. Macmillan unknown books
1897186620Leipzig. : Bernhard Tauchnitz. 1897. Copyright edition. . Later quarter marbled calf over marbled boards raised bands gilt spine decorations marbled endpapers red silk ribbon marker. . A near fine copy in an exceptionally nice binding some marginal yellowing to pages. . . small 8vo. Bernhard Tauchnitz. 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
1900WRCLIT40900London: Macmillan & Co. 1900. Two volumes. Bright red cloth decorated gilt t.e.g. First UK edition preceded by the New York edition. Bookplates endsheets a bit foxed spine extremities a bit worn else a good sound bright set. STEWART 199. RICHARDS A157. Macmillan & Co. hardcover books
1892121044London: Sampson Low Marston & Company 1892. First edition of this collection of Kipling's stories; the first collected edition of these three tales. Octavo original publisher's decorated cloth. 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. Sampson Low, Marston, & Company hardcover books
1899121634New York: Doubleday and McClure Company 1899. First separate American edition of Kipling children's classic. Octavo original illustrated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel pictorial endpapers illustrated by Orson Lowell tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very condition. Bookplate. 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. Doubleday and McClure Company hardcover books
1897157490New York: D. Appleton and Company 1897. Hardcover. VG Lovely binding; slight soiling to cloth; light foxing on occasional pages; otherwise crisp and clean. Brown cloth gilt letters and decoration on spine and front cover gilt top edges; 209 text pp. plus 6 ad pp. at rear. A collection of 43 poems and ballads penned by renown English author Rudyard Kipling. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1892193054LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1892 1892. ORIGINAL TERRA COTTA CLOTH STAMPED IN GILT AND DARK RED; LIVINGSTON 85. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. LONDON, WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1892 hardcover books
1892194285New York: Macmillan and Co 1892. First American edition of Kipling and Balestier's ambitious narrative. Octavo original publisher's cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel. In very good condition. The Naulahka: A Story of West and East was originally serialized in Century Magazine from November 1891 to July 1892. Written in by Kipling in collaboration with American writer and publishing agent Wolcott Balestier and set in the fictional state of "Rahore" believed to be based on Rajputana it is an intriguing story of ambition love and royal court trappings. Kipling would later name his historic Shingle Style house in Dummerston Vermont Naulakha where he resided from 1893 to 1896 and wrote Captains Courageous The Jungle Book The Day's Work and The Seven Seas and did work on Kim and The Just So Stories. Macmillan and Co hardcover books
1899WRCLIT41661New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. 1899. Printed paper boards. Frontis portrait. Tiny loss from crown of spine edges a bit rubbed and slightly darkened two small spots of endsheets unfortunate adhesive book label of noted Kipling collector else a very good copy of a fragile book. First separate edition the text revised. Copy #4 of one hundred copies printed. A substantial Kipling-approved biographical sketch published in WINDSOR and McCLURE'S MAGAZINE and included in the 1899 Doubleday edition of PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS. LIVINGSTON 26n. Doubleday & McClure Co. 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
1899135301899. New York: Doubleday & McClure Company 1899. Original blind-stamped sea green cloth.<br/><br/> First Edition the English edition is dated 1900. These volumes include the first authorized edition of "American Notes" "Letters of Marque" "The City of Dreadful Night" and "The Smith Administration"; according to Kipling's Preface he was "forced" to issue this title "by the enterprise of various publishers" who were pirating and embellishing his earlier works. The half-title versos bear Kipling's usual icon from India the swastika -- which until the 1930s signified peace and continuity. This is a near-fine set with just a touch of rubbing. Richards A131; Stewart 198. unknown books
1891137341891. Authorized Edition. New York: Lovell Coryell & Company n.d. 1892. Original maroon cloth beveled. First Combined Edition later issue with Lovell Coryell rather than United States Book Co. as the publisher. These two pieces first appeared in 1888 as the second and fourth numbers in the Indian Railway Series Allahabad; John Lovell issued each in wrappers in 1890 in his "Westminster Series" before combining the two in the present volume U.S. Book Co. in 1891 Lovell Coryell in 1892. This would be a fine copy were it not for the slight fading of the maroon spine -- almost unavoidable for this color. See Richards A42 note; Stewart 50. This is the George Barr McCutcheon copy with his bookplate housed in a morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1891755291891. KIPLING Rudyard. LIFE'S HANDICAP BEING STORIES OF MINE OWN PEOPLE. London: MacMillan and Co. 1891. First edition. Octavo. xvi3511 pp. 6 pp. ads. for MacMillan NY. Red cloth gilt-stamped title to spine and publsiher's device to upper board. Binding is lightly sunned and damp-spotted with some rubbing at heelcrown and joints and the upper board shows light general soiling. Quite clean within but for light spotting in top margin of a few leaves and a bit overopened near the center. Nonetheless it is a solid copy whose overall condition is very good plus. Stewart 99. unknown books
1891121804London: Macmillan and Co 1891. First edition of Kipling's collection of short stories on the British in India. Octavo original cloth decorated in 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. Macmillan and Co hardcover books
1891WRCLIT41545New York: United States Book Company. 1891. Gilt plum cloth t.e.g. Portrait. First edition authorized including six stories for the first time published in book form. Old bookseller's description affixed to front pastedown spine a bit rubbed and corner worn usual offset from tissue-guard to title else a very good copy. STEWART 98. EDEL & LAURENCE B8. RICHARDS A54. United States Book Company... hardcover books