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1968256678Lunenburg: The Limited Editions Club 1968. Limited. hardcover. fine. David Gentleman. Introduction by Bonamy Dobree. Illustrations in color and black and white by David Gentleman. 383 pages. Short thick 4to green cloth-backed marbled boards with gilt-decorated spine matching board slipcase. Lunenburg VT: The Limited Editions Club 1968. A fine copy in a near fine slipcase.<br/><br/> Limited Edition one of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator.<br/><br/> The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1921WRCLIT70304Garden City: Doubleday 1921. Parchment and gilt boards. First American edition previously printed as a pamphlet in Britain. One of 108 copies. Parchment slightly mellowed and soiled typical offsetting to endsheets but a near very good copy. RICHARDS A334. STEWART 550. Doubleday hardcover books
19180490London: Methuen & Co 1918. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Small Octavo. vi 38pp. Bound in original pale blue wrappers printed in dark blue with light wear. Though they appeared separately three poems are here first collected "The Sons of Martha" "For All We Have and Are" and "The Holy War". A very good copy. <br/><br/> Methuen & Co paperback books
1909142265New York: Doubleday 1909. Octavo 1-2 1-2 3-77 78-86 leaves note: leaves following two preliminary leaves are printed on rectos only; last two leaves are stubs with single folded leaf inserted between them four inserted plates with color illustrations two by Frank X. Leyendecker and two by H. Reuterdahl original blue pictorial cloth front panel stamped in gold and silver spine panel stamped in gold pictorial endpapers fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First edition. Collected later the same year in ACTIONS AND REACTIONS. Classic science fiction story of the world of the future governed by the Aerial Board of Control. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-102; 1981 1-110; 1987 1-55; 1995 1-55; and 2004 II-603. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1234. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 465. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 37. Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 p. 145. Lewis Utopian Literature p. 107. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 129. Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 640. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 135. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V pp. 2053-054. Bleiler 1978 p. 115. Reginald 08282. Stewart 322. Cloth lightly rubbed at upper spine end corner tips and along bottom edges cloth lightly worn at lower spine end delicate inner front hinge tender but not cracked as if often the case with this book a very good copy with bright cover stamping. #142265 Doubleday unknown books
1909125869New York: Doubleday 1909. Octavo pp. 1-2 1-2 3-77 78-86 leaves note: leaves following two preliminary leaves are printed on rectos only; last two leaves are stubs with single folded leaf inserted between them four inserted plates with color illustrations two by Frank X. Leyendecker and two by H. Reuterdahl original pictorial blue cloth front panel stamped in gold and silver spine panel stamped in gold pictorial endpapers. First edition. Collected later the same year in ACTIONS AND REACTIONS. Classic science fiction story of the world of the future governed by the Aerial Board of Control. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-102; 1981 1-110; 1987 1-55; 1995 1-55; and 2004 II-603. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 465. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 37. Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 p. 145. Lewis Utopian Literature p. 107. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 129. Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 640. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 135. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature V pp. 2053-054. Bleiler 1978 p. 115. Reginald 08282. Stewart 322. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down. Mild wear/rubbing to spine ends and corners inner front hinge weak inner rear hinge cracked a bright very good copy. #125869 Doubleday unknown books
1927WRCLIT32617New York: Edgar H. Wells and Co. 1927. 523pp. Cloth t.e.g. Plates. Facsimiles. First trade edition. Very slight rubbing else very good. Edgar H. Wells and Co. hardcover books
1927WRCLIT83695New York: Edgar H. Wells and Co. 1927. 523pp. Cloth t.e.g. Plates. Facsimiles. First trade edition. Very good or better. Edgar H. Wells and Co. hardcover books
1927WRCLIT82849New York: Edgar H. Wells and Co. 1927. 523pp. Cloth t.e.g. Plates. Facsimiles. First trade edition. Very slight rubbing else near fine. Edgar H. Wells and Co. hardcover books
1914121494London: Methuen & Co. Ltd 1914. First edition of this collection of wartime verse with contributions by Shakespeare William Wordsworth Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling. Small octavo original wrappers. In good condition. Remember Louvain! contains contributions by William Wordsworth Alfred Noyes Walter Scott Walt Whitman James Thomson Andrew Lang Arthur Conan Doyle Rudyard Kipling and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow among many others. Methuen & Co. Ltd unknown books
1907121408London: Published By The Daily Mail For The Union Jack Club 1907. First edition of The Flag: The Book of the Union Jack Club with contributions by Rudyard Kipling Arthur Conan Doyle Marie Corelli and many others. Quarto original illustrated wrappers illustrated. In near fine condition. The Union Jack Club is an Armed Forces Club in central London England for enlisted members and veterans of the British Armed Services and their families. George V while the Prince of Wales laid the club's foundation stone in July 1904. It was officially opened three years later in July 1907 by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. The Flag: The Book of the Union Jack Club contains contributions by members Rudyard Kipling Arthur Conan Doyle Marie Corelli and George Meredith with an introductory extract from the speech of King Edward VII at the opening of of the Union Jack Club July 1 1907. Published By The Daily Mail For The Union Jack Club unknown books
194894154Garden City:: Doubleday & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1948. Hardcover. Volume One only. This copy is from the personal library of the late Madeleine L'Engle 1963 Newbery Award winner for her now classic young adult fantasy novel A WRINKLE IN TIME and bears her handwritten name and her family's on the front paste-down. Book club edition. Very good in a very good minor edge wear and age toning dust jacket.; 253 pages . Doubleday & Company, hardcover books
19327414Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Co 1932. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A very sharp copy of the 1932 stated 1st American edition. Clean and Near Fine with bright gilt-lettering at the front panel and spine in a crisp price-intact Near Fine dustjacket with very very lighty staining along the spine. Thick octavo 371 pgs. Housed in a custom-made quarter-morocco biox. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Doran & Co hardcover books
1902006517Philadelphia: The Curtis Publishing Company 1902. Volume XIX No. 11. Very Good Plus small mailing label front cover light soiling. A beautifully preserved copy. Cove art illustration by George Gibbs showing a couple playing the newly-introduced December 1901game of ping-pong. Contains "The Butterfly That Stamped" by Rudyard Kipling "How Charles Dana Gibson Started" by William Howard Russell and the first of the series "Inside of a Hundres Suburban Homes" with black and white photographs showing room arrangements of the day among many other articles. . First Edition. Magazine. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. The Curtis Publishing Company Paperback books
1919WRCLIT71844London: Methuen and Co. 1919. Red cloth stamped in gilt t.e.g. Pictorial vignette on title. Some tanning and light foxing to endsheets otherwise very good and bright in lightly worn dust jacket with a few small spots to spine panel. First edition trade issue of one of the key collective volumes of Kipling's war verse. Its popularity was anticipated by the publishers who ordered a printing of 100000 copies according to Richards. RICHARDS A320. STEWART 434. REILLY WWI p. 191. Methuen and Co. hardcover books
1906019976London: Macmillan and Co 1906. First Edition. Octavo. 306pp. 4pp. ads at rear. illustrated. The story of an impish sprite named Puck. He meets two children and tells them tales of Old England. Bound n red cloth central gilt emblem depicting an elephant head spine gilt edges rubbed some finger soiling to covers rear board with a strip near upper edge faded. A very good copy. Macmillan and Co unknown books
192852436London: Macmillan 1928. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo. 20cm.; red cloth w stamped elephant in gilt on cover /titles gilt on spine; top edge gilt; dustjacket; 299pp.; light wear only a Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped with a short closed tear at crown of spine; small spot of soiling to front panel; a Near Fine or better DJ. This collection has thirty-one speeches. Macmillan unknown books
19090019New York: B. W. Dodge & Co 1909. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. 360pp. Second issue bound in a blue pictorial cloth depicting a ship on the high sea; red lettering spine and front cover. A clean bright copy in very good dust jacket with repair to rear panel along bottom edge duplicating the jacket design. <br/><br/> B. W. Dodge & Co hardcover books
1909722871909. KIPLING Rudyard. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. New York: B. W. Dodge & Company 1909. First American unauthorized edition. viii360 pp. Octavo. In a striking publisher's binding of dark blue cloth decorated on the spine and upper board with a wraparound seascape design showing a ship upon the sea below layers of clouds with the title and author's name in bright gilt. This is a near-fine copy being clean and crisp overall but skewed at spine and with a touch of shelfwear to cloth. This is a pirated edition containing thirty stories letters and articles and one poem of which twenty-two of the stories and the poem had previously appeared in Turn-overs. The individual pieces were written during Kipling's journey in 1889 from India to England and were first printed in periodicals The Civil & Military Gazette The Week's News and The Pioneer between 1888-90. To combat the sale of this unauthorized edition Kipling instructed Doubleday Page & Co. to issue a volume containing the same material at a reduced price. Stewart 324 Livingston 328. unknown books
1909122911New York: B. W. Dodge & Company 1909. First edition first issue of of Kipling's 1909 short story collection with gold lettering to the spine and front panel. Octavo original blue cloth with gold titles to the spine and front panel. In fine condition. 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. Published in this unauthorized or pirated edition months before the authorized edition was approved by Kipling and published Abaft the Funnel includes such short stories as The Fallen Idol The Shadow of His Hand The Three Young Men A Death in the Camp and Chautauquaed. B. W. Dodge & Company hardcover books
19044003BOSTON BARTLETT 1904 1904. DARK GRAY BOARDS; 10 PAGES SECOND EDITION VERY GOOD. Hardcover. BOSTON, BARTLETT, 1904 hardcover books
1931122490London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1931. Deluxe first edition of this collection by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo original boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine gilt vignette to the front panel marbled endpapers ribbon bound in illustrated by Reginald Cleaver. Fine in the rare original publisher's box which is in 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., Limited hardcover books
1902WRCLIT71957Stockholm: Hugo Gebers Förlag 1902. Small octavo. Pictorial red cloth stamped in white and black. Illustrations and plates. Ink gift inscription in upper margin of title a couple small spots on upper board and a few marginal smudges inner hinges show signs of having been repaired early on; still a good copy. First Swedish edition translated by H. Flygare. Published in the same year as the UK and US editions. Hugo Gebers Förlag hardcover books
1902196291Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz 1902. Rare Tauchnitz edition of Kipling's classic collection of stories with 22 illustrations by Kipling himself. Small octavo original cloth illustrated by Rudyard Kipling. In very good condition. Rare in the original cloth. Just So Stories has "achieved nursery immortality because a genius has married two of the most tried and trusted favorite media--the fable and the fairy-story" Muir 107. "Kipling's own witty black-and-white drawings. together with their extensive and ridiculous captions are one of the chief delights of the book" Carpenter & Prichard 285. Bernhard Tauchnitz hardcover books
1932163003GARDEN CITY DOUBLEDAY DORAN & COMPANY 1932 1932. DUST JACKET CLIPPED FIRST AMERICAN EDITION VERY GOOD FRESH COPY. 1st Edition. Hardcover. GARDEN CITY, DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY, 1932 hardcover books
1932197700London Macmillan and Co. Limited 1932. 1932. First edition. 8vo. Original gilt stamped red cloth t.e.g. Dust jacket unclipped; small nick. Fine fresh. F. Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1932. hardcover books
