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1978124334New York: Random House 1978. First American edition of Birkenhead's authoritative work on Kipling. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. "This is a personal and lively biography with a new and fresh approach. It supplements and enlarges our knowledge and is certainly different from any biography previously published" Philip Woodruff. Random House hardcover books
1933123072London: John Murray 1933. First edition of this charming collection of ant stories for children. Octavo original cloth. With contributions by Stanley Baldwin Basil Cave Baden-Powell Beverly Nichols and Rudyard Kipling. 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. John Murray hardcover books
1926193071926. FAT. KIPLING Rudyard. 'THEY' and THE BRUSHWOOD BOY. With Illustrations by F.H. Townsend. Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1926. First American edition thus these two titles together illus-trated; from the British sheets. A little over-opened slight wear to bottom edge. A near fine copy otherwise very fresh and attractive in a dust jacket worn at perimeters with a small chip from the crown and some tape repair on verso. See Livingston 503. unknown books
1917WRCLIT41693London: Macmillan 1917. Gilt red cloth t.e.g. First edition. Two bookplates free endsheets tanned as usual bookseller's descriptions tipped to rear pastedown cloth a trifle darkened about good. Includes some of Kipling's most significant fantasy stories. STEWART 408. BLEILER SF 1235. Macmillan hardcover books
1909TB31533New York: B. W. Dodge & Company 1909. First Edition. First Printing Very good in its original dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and front board on top of embossed cover and spine with the recesses in black with the silhouette of a sailing ship. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down and with light rubbing and wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. Without a dust jacket as issued. The book lacked a jacket until the third printing. 360 pages of text. A collection of 31 short stories. This copy is the unauthorized US printing of one of Kipling's earlier works. The first authorized US edition was published by Doubleday Page & Company in 1909. Richards; A227 & A232 B. W. Dodge & Company hardcover books
1909WRCLIT41698London: Macmillan 1909. Gilt cloth t.e.g. First edition. Endsheets browned two bookplates spine a bit dull and rubbed bookseller's descriptions tipped to rear pastedown; just a good copy. STEWART 320. Macmillan hardcover books
1928WRCLIT41592Np: Privately printed by G. Engel 1928. 4pp. Folded small quarto leaflet. Illustration. First edition of this essay for which 'strange' is indeed the operative word. Wraps a bit smudged and nicked else a very good copy. Privately printed by G. Engel paperback books
1928WRCLIT36454Np: Privately printed by G. Engel 1928. 4pp. Folded small quarto leaflet. Illustration. First edition of this essay for which 'strange' is indeed the operative word. Wraps a bit smudged unfortunate adhesive bookplate of a noted Kipling collector on upper wrapper else a very good copy. Privately printed by G. Engel paperback books
1928WRCLIT36453Np: Privately printed by G. Engel 1928. 4pp. Folded small quarto leaflet. Facsimile of Kipling letter plates. First of this dissection of the Hurst and Co. piracy. Wraps a bit smudged unfortunate adhesive bookplate of a noted Kipling collector on upper wrapper else a very good copy. Privately printed by G. Engel paperback books
1915WRCLIT41539London: Macmillan and Co. 1915. Printed wrappers. First edition. Lower wrapper nicked and smudged else a good copy. STEWART 387. Macmillan and Co. unknown books
1915WRCLIT41538London: Macmillan and Co. 1915. Printed wrappers. First edition. Offset from small leather bookplate light foxing early and late chips at head and toe of spine. Good. RICHARDS A280. STEWART 387. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1915WRCLIT40885London: Macmillan and Co. 1915. Printed wrappers. First edition. Ink name inside front wrapper a bit dust-soiled small nick in margin of first two leaves. Good. STEWART 387. Macmillan and Co. unknown books
1915WRCLIT41677Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co. 1915. Tan boards pictorial label. First U.S. edition. Unfortunate adhesive booklabel of a noted Kipling collector short crack at toe of upper joint else very good. STEWART 388. Doubleday, Page & Co. hardcover books
1918119786London: W. H. Smith & Son 1918. Later Printing. Softcover. VG clean and tight but for ever so slight rubbing in two spots on back cover. Ivory stapled wraps with red and blue border surrounding a silhouette of Kipling facing left; 12 pp. The text of a speech delivered by Kipling on February 15 1918 at Folkestone. His thoughts on the Germans and their atrocities during the Great War. This is a later printing still possibly 1918 but not a first edition. A very nice copy. W. H. Smith & Son paperback books
1988WRCLIT74175Rome: Revista Militare 1988. Glossy pictorial boards. Color illustrations. Pencil erasure from front endsheet otherwise fine in pictorial slipcase. First edition in this format with color illustrations by Amleto Fiore many of which depict scenes postdating by decades the events Kipling recorded. Revista Militare hardcover books
1965WRCLIT84876Np: Gift of the Two Horse Press to the Kipling Society 1965. Small broadside 18.4 x 13.2cm on glossy stiff card. Near fine with the adhesive booklabel of a noted Kipling collector on the verso. First printing thus noted as an "Uncollected item" here printed on shipboard as a memento attendant to the Kipling Centennial. RICHARDS A460. Gift of the Two Horse Press to the Kipling Society unknown books
1965WRCLIT41723Np: Gift of the Two Horse Press to the Kipling Society 1965. Small broadside 18.4 x 13.2cm on glossy stiff card. First printing thus noted as an "Uncollected item" here published attendant to the Kipling Centennial. Near fine with the adhesive booklabel of a noted Kipling collector on the verso. Gift of the Two Horse Press to the Kipling Society unknown books
1951123411Brattleboro: The Book Cellar 1951. Revised edition of Howard Rice's Rudyard Kipling in New England. Octavo original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. In his review in the Boston Herald Carl Van Doren recommended ". this indispensable Kipling item with its pleasant informing story of the four years 1892-96 Kipling lived in Vermont near Brattleboro where he had his first house where his first child was born and where he wrote 'The Jungle Books." The Book Cellar hardcover books
1931123167London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1931. First edition of this collection of Kipling's poems which includes A Departure The Last Lap The Oldest Song Dane-Geld and The End. Octavo original wrappers. 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. Methuen & Co. Ltd. unknown books
1915WRCLIT41542London: Macmillan and Co. 1915. Printed wrappers. First edition. Lower wrapper a bit chipped at fore-edge else very good. RICHARDS A283. STEWART 387. Macmillan and Co. unknown books
191530419London: Macmillan Company 1915. First English edition. Paper wrappers. A very good or better copy wrappers lightly soiled with small chip to one corner leaves clean binding tight. 71 pp. 16mo. Nautical. Livingston 400. Stewart 393. Macmillan Company unknown books
1904219129New York: Doubleday 1904. hardcover. near fine. 8vo green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt & black. N.Y.: Doubleday 1904. First American Edition.<br/><br/> Doubleday unknown books
1904WRCLIT41694London: Macmillan 1904. Gilt cloth t.e.g. First British edition uncorrected '35.8.04' state of the ads.Two bookplates endsheets slightly offset cloth darkened and marked just a good sound copy. STEWART 295. RICHARDS A198. Macmillan hardcover books
1918WRCLIT41684London: Methuen 1918. Small octavo. Printed wrapper over stiff wrappers. First collective edition in this format including several of RK's war poems. Wrappers a bit darkened and rubbed Canadian bookseller's stamp on half-title and upper wrapper near very good. STEWART 420. REILLY WWI p.190. Methuen unknown books
1906121861New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. First separate American edition of Kipling's story which first appeared in Traffics and Discoveries. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and pictorial onlay to the front panel illustrated by F. H. Townsend tissue-guarded frontispiece. 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. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
