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1897121438London: Chatto & Windus 1897. The New Edition of My First Book with contributions by Rudyard Kipling Arthur Conan Doyle H. Rider Haggard and Robert Louis Stevenson. Octavo original cloth illustrated frontispiece. Introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. 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. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1899224705London Macmillan & Co. 1899. 1899. First edition. 8vo. Original gilt stamped red cloth t.e.g. 2 pages publisher's advertisements at end. No signatures or bookplates. Light offsetting to endpapers. No foxing. Very good-fine. Enclosed in a 1/2 red morocco slipcase with folding chemise. Stewart 195. Livingston 216. F. Hardcover. London, Macmillan & Co., 1899. hardcover books
1891WRCLIT55923Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1891. 4410810pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Rebacked at an early date with plain paper upper wrapper wanting significant chips at corners one piece is laid in with clean tear up from bottom edge of upper wrapper parallel to spine and following the left frame of the pictorial vignette smaller corner chip to lower wrapper a few small nicks to prelims but internally about very good. Half morocco slipcase and chemise. First published edition following the suppression of the 1890 edition under the same title and with additions. Issued as no. XIV in Wheeler's Indian Railway Library series preceding the printing with the dual Allahabad and London imprint. RICHARDS A52. STEWART 93. LIVINGSTON 70. A.H. Wheeler & Co. unknown books
1892130847London: Heinemann 1892. First. hardcover. very good. Original wrs. bound in 276pp. small 8vo 19th- century full brown morocco small red poppies on gilt-dec. covers gilt-stamped raised bands inner dentelles t.e.g.; corners lightly rubbed otherwise near fine. London: Heinemann 1892. Firts edition. A charming very good copy.<br/><br/> Heinemann unknown books
1897321595London: Macmillan 1897. First edition. With illustrations by I.W. Taber. viii 245 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt a.e.g. Almost fine. Bookplate of F. Storck. Taber I.W. First edition. With illustrations by I.W. Taber. viii 245 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Richards A103; Stewart 160; Livingston 136; Martindell 68; Ballard LXXXI B; Grolier 224 Macmillan unknown books
189696105London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd 1896. First edition of Kipling's collection of soldier tales. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles and pictorial gilt tooling to the spine and front panel gilt ruled all edges gilt frontispiece with tissue guard illustrated with engravings. In near fine condition with a touch of wear to the crown of the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. A bright example. Kipling was born in India which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. He became 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. Kipling's Soldier Tales include With the Main Guard The Drums of the Fore and Aft The Man Who Was The Courting of Dinah Shadd and The Madness of Private Ortheris. Macmillan and Co., Ltd hardcover books
1890210<p>Kipling Rudyard <i>Soldiers Three: a Collection of Stories Setting Forth Certain Passages in the Lives and Adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney Stanley Ortheris and John Learoyd</i> London: Simpson Low Marston Searle & Rivington Limited St. Dunstan's House Fetter Lane Fleet Street E.C. 1890. 93 pages plus "opinion of the Press" and "L'Envoi" followed by a page of advertisements for A.H. Wheeler & Co.'s Indian Railway Library. Remains of original wrappers conserved and bound in. A clipped signature of Kipling pasted down on the title-page. Bound in full red twentieth century calf. Except for the now-conserved worn original Indian Railway Library wrappers this is a fine copy.</p> London: Simpson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Limited, St. Dunstan’s House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C. hardcover books
1898119005Toronto: George N. Morang 1898. Rare unauthorized Canadian edition of this collection of 13 Kipling short stories mainly written between 1893 and 1896 while Kipling was living in Vermont. Octavo original wrappers. According to Stuart this unauthorized Canadian edition was printed from the same plates as the American edition published by Grosset and Dunlap and so this edition precedes both the first British and first Canadian trade edition Stuart 179. In very good condition. Housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell box. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard 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. Kipling's The Day's Work includes The Bridge-Builders The Ship that Found Herself The Devil and the Deep Sea The Maltese Cat and Bread Upon The Waters and The Brushwood Boy. George N. Morang unknown books
1899120480London: F. Tennyson Neely 1899. First Neely's Booklet Library edition of Kipling's classic military tale. Octavo original wrappers as issued frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard 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. Kipling's The Drums of the Fore and Aft concerns an inexperienced Regular battalion on overseas service brigaded with a Highland Regiment and a Gurkha Regiment in Afghanistan. Unlike Kipling's other tales it concerns the disgrace of a battle almost lost rather than the glory of a battle won. F. Tennyson Neely unknown books
1895140941518London: Macmillan & Co 1895. First Edition. Near Fine. Two volumes. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original royal blue cloth elaborately stamped in gilt all edges gilt. Near Fine with light lean to spine light wear and light soiling to cloth. Pages heavily foxed and with perforations to front free endpaper and the following blank sheet. Macmillan & Co unknown books
1895119977London: Macmillan and Co. 1895. First edition of Kipling's Second Jungle Book. Octavo original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt vignette to the front panel all edges gilt pictorial title pages illustrated. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Contemporary ownership inscription. Kipling's Jungle Books center on the story of Mowgli an orphaned 'man-cub' who is raised in the jungle of India by wolves where he comes to learn the Laws of the Jungle. A major theme throughout the books is abandonment followed by fostering as in the life of Mowgli echoing Kipling's own childhood. Another is law vs. freedom; the stories are not about animal behavior but about human archetypes in animal form. The books remain popular to this day and have been adapted several times for film and other media including the classic Walt Disney 1967 animation and its 2016 remake. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1899225047New York: Charles Scrtibner's Sons 1899. 18 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarter tan calf and marbled boards some spine labels lost else very good. 18 vols. 8vo. Charles Scrtibner's Sons unknown books
189912715New York: M.F. Mansfield & A. Wessels 1899. 8vo. 12 vols. 188 pp.; illus. <br><br>Nos. 1 through 12 the complete run of this journal of Kiplingiana an "attempt to glorify the genius of this now popular author." Full sets are now scarce on the market. Sewn in original printed paper wrappers covers with some edge chips. Pages clean. M.F. Mansfield & A. Wessels unknown books
1897WN5894London: Macmillan and Co. 1897. Blue cloth with bright gilt titling and illustrations. AEG. Black end papers. Some crumpling of spine ends and corners but overall very good with bright gilt edges. Old catalogue entries attached to half title. Some foxing throughout especially on preliminaries at tissue guarded frontis. Hinges just starting but perfectly stout. A very beautiful book. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by I.W.Taber. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Trade. Macmillan and Co. Hardcover books
1891147351891. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1891. 4 preliminary 5 pp undated ads. Original diagonally-divided red and blue cloth.<br/><br/> First Suppressed Edition. A.H. Wheeler publisher of the "Indian Railway Series" had been Kipling's authorized publisher in India. However after Kipling left India for England Wheeler promptly prepared for publication three more collections of Kipling pieces without authority: THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT AND OTHER SKETCHES THE SMITH ADMINISTRATION and LETTERS OF MARQUE. Kipling insisted that all three editions be entirely destroyed and today there is only one known copy of the first title and only six known copies of the second title. But LETTERS OF MARQUE does turn up: although it was estimated that only about 100 out of 1000 printed copies escaped destruction the book today does not seem to be that scarce. This copy as with most known copies has a Wheeler price stamp on the front free endpaper plus a stamp showing this copy's date of dispatch from the publisher's premises 17 Nov '91 -- the book was published in October. The volume is in very good-plus condition with a bit of wear at one corner of the spine and the typical minor "lifting" of the cloth. For some reason this book almost always turns up in this approximate condition. Richards A61 citing ink-stamped dates ranging from 5 Oct 1891 to 11 Jan 1892; most copies we have seen bore a date in November; Stewart 95; Livingston 74. unknown books
189996168London: Methuen and Co. and George Newnes 1899. Finely bound early printings of Kipling's collections of songs and poems regarding the late-Victorian British Army and voyages on the high seas. Octavo three volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in 6 compartments within raised gilt bands top edge gilt others uncut marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. Bookplate to each pastedown. 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. Methuen and Co. and George Newnes hardcover books
1891153356London: Macmillan 1891. First. hardcover. near fine. 352pp. 55pp. ads. Thick 8vo artfully bound in dark olive green morocco; gilt-lettered spine with raised bands & floral devices stamped in gilt and red on covers and spine; original wrappers bound-in at rear. Inner dentelles uncut edges t.e.g. London: Macmillan and Co. 1891. First edition. Near fine.<br/><br/> Macmillan unknown books
1895147381895. Kipling J. Lockwood. With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling C.I.E. London: Macmillan and Co. 1895. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt all page edges gilt.<br/><br/> First English Edition published three days after the American of the sequel to THE JUNGLE BOOK which had been published the year before. It continues with more tales of Mowgli that exemplify "The Laws of the Jungle" -- with illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling Rudyard's father. This was the second of the four Kipling gift books bound similarly by Macmillan with SOLDIER TALES and CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS coming out the following two years respectively. This is an attractive near-fine copy volume slightly askew spine gilt less than bright but no foxing and essentially no wear; the front flyleaf bears an inked "Xmas 1895" signature. Richards A85; Stewart 132. unknown books
1897322132London: Macmillan 1897. First edition. With illustrations by I.W. Taber. viii 245 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt a.e.g. Almost fine. Bookplate. In half red morocco slipcase and chemise. Taber I.W. First edition. With illustrations by I.W. Taber. viii 245 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Richards A103; Stewart 160; Livingston 136; Martindell 68; Ballard LXXXI B; Grolier 224 Macmillan unknown books
1888WRCLIT73599Calcutta & London: Thacker Spink and Co. / W. Thacker and Co 1888. xii2831xxxiipp. Olive green cloth spine lettered in gilt covers lettered and decorated in black. Bookplate on pastedown offset slightly to free endsheet extremities a bit rubbed rectangular rule of rust-colored offsetting on upper cover; still about very good. First edition third issue of the binding with the publisher's monogram in black on the lower cover and ornamental borders in black at upper and lower edges of the spine and upper cover. In this copy the page number for 192 is misplaced as often and with no implication of priority and the terminal 32pp. catalogue bears a London printer's imprint and the date '2000 9 87" and mention of 'Rudyard Kepling' sic and DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES on p.xviii. RICHARDS A10. STEWART 18. MARTINDELL 17. LIVINGSTON 24. Thacker, Spink and Co. / W. Thacker and Co hardcover books
1898350171898. Single page folded into quarters on custom writing paper from The Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town South Africa with "The Vineyard Newlands ____ 189_" printed at the header. "Ap. 12 1898. Dear Morgan Crofton: We are in the last agonies of packing today but I hope to have the honour of calling on the general before 12: so Tomorrow. I am most sorry to have missed him this visit. Very sincerely yours Rudyard Kipling." Written to British Army officer Sir Morgan George Crofton during Kipling's first winter holiday in South Africa during which he was welcomed by a number of Cape Colony's leading politicians including the letter's recipient. Rudyard Kipling made his first holiday visit to Cape Town South Africa in early 1898 accompanied by his wife and two young children. Kipling had recently been awarded the title Poet of the Empire of Great Britain and was taking an increasingly political stance in his poetry as illustrated in his most recent poem "Recessional" composed for the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. He was warmly received in South Africa by some of the most influential politicians of the time whom he developed long-lasting friendships with and led to his interest in the British cause in the Boer War. unknown books
189996106London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd 1899. First British edition of Kipling's collection of school stories. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt medallion displaying an elephant to the from panel top edge gilt. In fine condition. From the library of George Barr McCutcheon with his bookplate to the pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. A bright example. Kipling was born in India which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. He became 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. Kipling's Stalky & Co. follows the story of a group of raucous adolescent boys at a British boarding school. Macmillan and Co., Ltd hardcover books
18921206041892. Scarce unauthorized edition of perhaps Kipling's most popular poetry collection. Octavo original wrappers. In very good condition. This collection was so popular upon publication in 1892 it was pirated in a small number of unauthorized editions which were sold on the streets of London and quickly suppressed. Housed in a custom chemise case. Scarce. 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 volume The Seven Seas. The collection of Barrack-Room Ballads was issued in March 1892 first published individually for the most part in 1890 and containing his poems "Mandalay" and "Gunga Din". unknown books
1897120712London: Macmillan 1897. First edition<i> </i>of Kipling's richly detailed tale of American deep-sea fishing with <span class="glossaryQtip qTip">frontispiece</span> and 21 illustrations by I.W. Taber. Octavo original blue cloth elegantly stamped in gilt.<i> </i>In near fine condition with light shelfwear. An exceptional example. Like his two Jungle Books Kipling wrote this morality tale of life aboard a New England fishing boat while living near Brattleboro Vermont his wife's hometown. The book thus contains "something of his feelings about America--both his affection and his irritation" Carpenter & Prichard 296. "This is the only book of Kipling's which is set entirely in America. All the characters are American. Not only that but the heart of the book--its moral in a single sentence--is one of Kipling's main beliefs of this period expressed in terms essentially American or perhaps more particularly New England. He put it later in verse: 'And the Gods of the Copy-book Maxims said: 'If you don't work you will die!' It is a saga of hard physical work in conflict with natural forces. It is a book which could hardly have been written by anyone who did not admire Huckleberry Finn; it is a book whose claim to survival rests mainly on detail and it is all American detail" Mason 119. Macmillan hardcover books
1891124119Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co 1891. Rare first edition of this collection of letters published without Kipling's permission and so quickly suppressed. Octavo original publisher's decorated cloth. One of one thousand copies many of which were destroyed at Kipling's behest. In near fine condition. Ownership stamp. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. 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. A. H. Wheeler & Co hardcover books
