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195237141London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1952. Reprint. Leather. Near Fine. Reprint 1952. A Near Fine copy. 8vo. 228 pp. bound in half green leather with decorative paper covered boards with matching end papers. Title in gilt on six compartment spine top edge gilt. Spine is tanned to brown minor rubbing to tip and top/base of spine. Text appears unmarked. Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown
1901100066Garden City New York: Doubleday and Company 1901. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Good. Octavo 8.2 in. x 5.5 in. pp. 376. Illustrated with frontispiece. Deep blue cloth boards with author signature stamped in blind to front. Gilt title and elaborate scenes of India to spine. Light rubbing to edges. Light age-toning to unmarked interior. "$2.75" to front flap. Rubbing to dustjacket spine ends and corners with closed tear and chips along dustjacket's rear gutter. "Kim is a picaresque novel by English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901 and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co. Ltd in October 1901. The story unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. The novel is noted for it's detailed portrait of the people culture and varied religions of India" Wikipedia. Doubleday and Company hardcover
1901TB30607New York: Doubleday Doran and Company Inc. c.1901. Reprint. Very good in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text and designs on the spine and the blind embossed facsimile of the author's signature on the front board. A small octavo of 7 7/8 by 5 1/2 inches with a prior owner's name and date on the first free end page. The front and rear end sheets show foxing at the hinges where there was a reaction with the glues used in binding. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with the spine tanned and with numerous short closed tears around the edges of the panels and spine area. 376 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with ten plates of bas-relief sculptures from photographs by J. L. Kipling. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. hardcover
1928124505Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. Very Good. 1928. Hardcover. A Very Good edition that has bumping to the very corners and general shelfwear to the board surfaces ; Kim is a young man who is kidnapped by the British and taken to India to become a fighting soldier. He is mistreated and is forced to do things he doesn't want to do. He escapes and makes his way back home.; 8vo; 284 pages . Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc. hardcover
1923122065Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1923. First edition of the Kipling Calendar containing a Kipling verse for each day of the year. Octavo original half cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
193935368Herrin IL: Trovillion Private Press 1939. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited edition of 167 this being hand number 165 and signed by Trovillion 1939. A Very Good copy. Narrow 8vo. unpaginated bound in yellow cloth with title paste down on front cover. Cloth is faded and soiled with some wear at tips and edges. Title label tanned. Publishers correction slip on first page of introduction. Very occasional spots of foxing. An address given by Kipling to the students of McGill University bound as a Christmas gift from Violet and Hall Trovillion 1939. Trovillion Private Press hardcover
1931COLLECTI002251INEW YORK NY: CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY PUB. F/VG. 1931. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. ISBN: ILLUSTRATED BY HOWARD L. HASTINGS. D.J. HAS A TINY BIT OF CORNER WEAR WITH A SHORT TEAR WITH ASSOCIATEDCREASE AT THE REAR SPINE TOP CORNER SOME VERY SHALLOW CHIPPING OF THESPINE HEEL A COUPLE OF SHORT TEARS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE REAR PANEL. AVERY EXCEPTIONAL COPY. Keywords: STORIES INVISIBLE ABCDEF. CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY, PUB hardcover
1920DOY 11London: MACMILLAN 1920. Book. Fine. Hardcover. FIRST. A FINE FIRST EDITION IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET. MACMILLAN Hardcover
1932206976London: Macmillan. 1932. vg. Hardcover. flexible maroon leather covers; gilt circle with elephant & swastika symbol; 6.75" tall; spine covered with gilt floral decoration & text; top edge gilt; silk ribbon place-markers bound in; red decoration on title page & page facing . Macmillan hardcover
1915149769London 1915. First edition of this short patriotic speech. Quarto unpaginated single sheet of stiff white paper folded once. Delivered at the Mansion House on January 27 1915. In very good condition. Rudyard Kipling’s National Bands 1915 is a wartime pamphlet preserving a speech he delivered at London’s Mansion House to support the Daily Telegraph’s National Bands Fund an initiative aimed at sustaining military music as a vital component of morale and public ritual during World War I. Issued as a small separately circulated tract—and often later encountered as an insert to fundraising editions of A Song of the English—the pamphlet exemplifies Kipling’s broader mobilization of literary authority in service of patriotic and civic causes. unknown
190675111New York:: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. First US edition. publisher's green decorated cloth; t.e.g. The title page is nearly detached; tissue overleaf and endsheets tanned; ownership stamp at top edge of the front pastedown; light rubbing to cloth and bumping at corners. . 8vo. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Doubleday, Page & Company, hardcover
1906533Toronto : Macmillan 1906 . First Canadian Edition . VG . 8VO . Illustrated with black and white plates by Millar. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and Kipling's Ganesha motif in gilt on front cover. TEG. Spine slightly faded very light wear to corners. Several marks on covers. All in all a very bright solid and attractive copy. The Canadian edition was printed in Great Britain and is identical to the British first except for the title page. Stewart 250. Macmillan hardcover
1915JR 12/31-55LoS ANGELES HERALD EXAMINER 1915 1915. Book. Soft cover. FIRST. A very good first in stapled wraps with picture of ship on cover. with two letters from the publisher. LoS ANGELES HERALD EXAMINER, 1915 Paperback
19202893NY: Manhattan Press nd 1920s. Small hardcover volumes in red embossed boards no DJs as issued; all VG unmarked lightly foxed endpapers. Sold as a set. Excellent copies: clean tight briight crisp. Volumes are: 1 In Black and White/Under the Deodars 2 The Light That Failed 3 Mine Own People Intro by Henry James 4 Soldiers Three 5 American Notes 6 The Phantom Rickshaw and City of Dreadful Night 7 Departmental Ditties Ballads and Other Verses. All vols are 3-3/4 x 6 approx 200 pp each. No ISBNs. <br/><br/> Manhattan Press hardcover
1926004229London: Macmillan 1926. Front flyleaf browned. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. Macmillan Hardcover
1926524London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1926. First Edition. Boards. Very good . Donald MAXWELL. First edition. 8vo; xiv i 94pp 2; gilt-stamped title author and illustrator to front board on royal blue buckram; 24 color half-tone illustrations tipped in; heavy cream-colored stock; bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown; scuffing to head & tail of spine with small tear to head glue burn to ffep; very good plus. Lacking dust jacket. Beautiful illustrations to accompany some of Kipling's most popular verse. Macmillan and Co. Limited unknown
1971583361New York: Boosey & Hawkes 1971. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 18pp. Stapled wrappers. Light shelfwear else near fine. For voice and piano with pedal marks. Plate imprint "S. 2668." Rudyard Kipling won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. Boosey & Hawkes unknown
1923590477Boston Mass: The Boston Music Company 1923. Softcover. Near Fine. Presumably the first and possibly only edition. Quarto. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Light toning and bumping to the corners else near fine. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "B.M.Co. 6689." The back cover features a sample of "The Nightingale Has a Lyre of Gold" by Wm. E. Henley and Benjamin Whelpley. Unrecorded by OCLC and appears to be equally scarce in the trade and we could not find any information about the the composer Thomasa Hunt. The Boston Music Company unknown
1915526316Cincinnati: The John Church Company 1915. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Folio. Three nested bifolia with a single-sheet-insert making 14 pages. Ex-library with a label and perforated stamp on the front cover and a date stamp 1916 on page three minor edgewear and light soiling to the exterior very good. For voice and piano. Plate number 17434 - 11. The front cover states "Written for and sung by David Bispham." Bispham was born in Philadelphia to a Quaker family and was barred from studying dramatic singing by his mother so he did not take it up until he was an adult. Starting out he faced a lot of discouragement but he went on to become one of America's leading baritones. His New York Times obituary describes him as "one of the foremost figures in the American concert opera and concert field. The John Church Company unknown
192648719London: A & C Black 1926. Hardcover. Illustrations by Malcolm Patterson. 8vo. Pale grey paper over boards. Ca. 50pp. 16 Illustrations. Very good. Faint binding edgewear with spine and edges age toned but internally tight and near fine. Tight and decent first edition of these back-to-back poems -- Kipling's "A Rector's Memory" and de le Mare's "A Memory -- published as a fundraiser for the University of St. Andrews' Student Welfare Scheme. The line drawings and etchings that follow illustrate various views of this ancient Scottish university. Small family crest bookplate on front pastedown SCIO CUI CONFIDO" -- I know in whom I trust designed by English illustrator and artist Fred Roe 1864-1937. Laid in is an interesting 8vo promotional handbill from A & C Black advertising this title and a second smaller 24mo handbill for a different Black title "St. Andrews Treasury of Scottish Verse". An interesting Kipling curiosity. A & C Black hardcover
1957003738Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good . A Near Fine - clean and tight Mid-Century edition noted "Young's People's Edition' in a clipped illustrated dust jacket. Originally issued in 1899 this is a wonderful reprint. It is a story about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. Volume has a small previous owner name stamp on front free end-paper else no other markings. Publishers tinted red top edge is in Excellent condition. Dust jacket has minute edge chips at both crown and foot of spine paper. Rear jacket panel lists other titles by author. 272 pages. Mylar protected jacket. <br/> <br/> Macmillan and Co., Ltd. hardcover
1978108303The Franklin Library; Franklin Center Pennsylvania 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine limited edition from The Franklin Library. Part of "The Collected Stories of The World's Greatest Writers" collection. Full leather bound with gilt detailing and a satin book marker. Negligible wear at the corners. The Franklin Library; Franklin Center Pennsylvania hardcover
197388522Avon Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club 1973. Hardcover. Fine/near fine slipcase. 27.5 x 21 cm. Quarto. 375pp.Blue and green cloth in slipcase. Limited to 2000 copies signed by the illustrator Charles Raymond of which this is copy 307.In slipcase. With the Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club loosely laid in. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
1973RKIPTAL00JKNLimited Editions Club 1973. Very Good. Kipling Rudyard. Tales of East and West. Raymond illustrator Charles. Avon CT: Limited Editions Club 1973. #1904 of 2000. 376pp. Illustrated. 4to. Half blue and half green cloth. Signed by author. Book condition: Very good. Book is immaculate having been protected by its slipcase which show slight surface wear and sunning. Signed by Raymond on colophon. Limited Editions Club hardcover
1976TB28072Avon Conn.: The Limited Editions Club 1976. Limited Edition. Fine in green and purple cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt decorations around the author's initials on the front board. A small quarto measuring 10 1/2" by 8". Without a dust jacket as issued; however the book is contained within a fine paper covered slip case. One of only 2000 copies printed with this copy identified as number 435 and signed by the illustrator Charles Raymond. Selections by Bernard Bergonzi. 375 pages of text and illustrated with line drawings and color lithographs by Charles Raymond. A very tight clean and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. The Limited Editions Club hardcover