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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
189854774Boston: Privately Printed 1898. First Thus. Sextodecimo 15cm; sewn; issued in stiff paper wrappers lettered from the types of the title page; 4 leaves- title and text; frontispiece; vignette designed by E.J Clark printed in red is repeated throughout occupying half of each page; light rubbing; upper rear corner of back cover has tiny nick; Very Good lacking the envelope. <br /> <br /> Inspiration for the 1909 Broadway production A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne and subsequently the 1915 silent film "A Fool There Was" starring Theda Bara. LIVINGSTON 151; wikipedia. Privately Printed unknown
1898307522London: Macmillan & Co 1898. Softcover. Very Good. First edition wrappered issue. Pictorial blue wrappers. Light wear at the extremities a very good or better copy. Stewart 191. Macmillan & Co unknown
1892033583Calcutta: Thacker Spink & Co 1892. Book. Very Good-. Hardcover. 208pp. Brick cloth boards gilt titles on spine. Binding secure spine straight corners a bit bumped. FFEP loose but still attached. Slight foxing to pages prior to body of text. Clean unmarked text block apart from the expected age toning. Deckle edged pages. 16pp of publisher's ads in back. Rear hinge just showing. Variously credited as first Indian edition printed from the English sheets and third edition. Either way an early Kipling edition hailing from Calcutta. Scarce. Thacker, Spink & Co Hardcover
1897206280New York: Century Co 1897. Hardcover. VG: Writing graphite cursive analytical and stamp on front free end page. Notations on the table of contents. Clean body pages. A green casebound book with gilt text on the spine. viii 323 pages; contains black-and-white illustrations. Century Co hardcover
1897206279New York: Century Co 1897. Hardcover. VG: Wear to the corners and edges. Crack between front end pages. Previous owner name on front free end page. Faint stains and warping to the pages. Readable with solid binding. A green casebound book with gilt text on the spine. viii 323 pages; contains black-and-white illustrations. Century Co hardcover
18971397627New York: The Century Co 1897. Early Edition. Hardcover. Octavo viii 323 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Sunning to spine. Spine cocked. General shelf wear primarily to head and tail of spine and to corners of boards. Mild soiling to rear board. Top edge of textblock gilt. Previous bookseller's stamp to front pastedown. Previous owner's signature to front free endpaper. Age toning throughout. Shelved in Case 14. 1397627. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Century Co hardcover
1897002523New York: The Century Company 1897. One of Kipling's most popular novels and the source for Spencer Tracy's Academy Award in 1937. This is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition issued the same year as the English version. Green cloth decorative cover featuring a sailing ship and stamped in black red and gilt. Clean text; 323 pages; top-edge gilt others rough deckle. Very slight lean very light bumps. Front gutter is starting to crack but without ill effect. A solid copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Century Company Hardcover
1900122350London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1900. First English edition of this collection of Kipling’s essays about his 1889 travels from India to Burma China Japan and the United States en route to England. Octavo original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt elephant emblem to the front panel top edge gilt. In very good condition with rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine. Ownership name. 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
189317938London:: Macmillan and Co. 1893. First edition. original blue gilt cloth. Old ink signature on half-title; a bright attractive near fine copy; very slightly shelf-slanted. 8vo. Macmillan and Co., hardcover
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
1890005025New York: United States Book Company Successor to John W. Lovell Company 1890. First published in 1888; this is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition Second Issue. An uncommon to scarce edition. Brown cloth binding; ruled titled and with decoration of two musicians on the front cover in maroon. Noted as "Indian Tales - I." Titling decoration and reproduced Kipling signature on the spine. Clean text; vi continues from 7 to 287 pages; dark blue endpapers. Title Page notes as "Authorized Edition." There is no publication date but 1890. Light rubbing around the margins; decorations on spine diminished so. Some spotting to prelims and TP. Cracked at the TP but holding nicely. Basically a sound copy of this uncommon book. In an arcvhival plastic protector. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. United States Book Company Successor to John W. Lovell Company Hardcover
1897005992New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1897 New York: Scribner's 1897. First edition. 8vo. Three-quarter brown morocco over marble boards gilt in the marble. Six compartments raised ridges floppy art nouveau-style flowers with curvy gilt framing gilt titles. Top edge gilt. Marble endpapers with previous owner bookplate. Frontispiece plate protective tissue. Rough-cut thick laid paper. 589 pp. in two volumes. Frontispiece protective tissue plus two illustrations in each volume. Light edgwear. Very good plus condition. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
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
1900149566Boston: Alfred Bartlett 1900. Rare August 1900 issue of The Cornhill Booklet containing Rudyard Kipling's "Occasional Poems." Duodecimo original wrappers volume one number two printed in red and black illustrated with the original detached portrait of Kipling from an etching by William Strang laid in. In very good condition. Illustrated and designed by H.W. Colby. Rudyard Kipling’s occasional poems reflect his distinctive ability to merge public commentary with poetic craft transforming topical or ephemeral subjects into enduring reflections on empire duty and human character. Written primarily during his years in British India and later reprinted in collections such as Departmental Ditties and Other Verses 1886 these works—originally composed for newspapers and limited pamphlets—combine wit irony and moral insight to capture the social texture of colonial life. Alfred Bartlett unknown
1898005285London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1898. A collection of 13 stories written while Kipling was resident in America considered to be some of his best "day's" work. Includes "007: which is not a theft from Ian Fleming unless quantum mechanics has struck again. This is a Very Good Plus copy of the First English Edition. Dark blue cloth binding ruled with gilt titling and decorations. Clean text 381 pages top edge gilt. Eighteen page catalog dated 15-9-98 in the rear. Bookplate on the front paste-down of Wilhelmine Harrod OBE 1911-2005 writer and architectural preservationist.also an ink signature in a different name that Quercus judges as earlier. Tiny bumping/rub; some spotting to endpapers and page ends. A solid attractive copy in an archival plastic protector. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Macmillan and Co., Limited Hardcover
1898blb03263New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. 1898. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Textured dark green cloth with stamped bright gilt lettering on front and spine. Viking ship is stamped in black on front and spine as well. Stamped double lined ruling around perimeter of front and top edge gilt. Book is tight square relatively sharp-cornered - with some minor bumping - and free of markings or major flaws inside or out other than prior owners name on FFEP and a few spots on spine where cloth has bubbled up a tiny bit. Prior owner: ""Mr. Henry J. Hosner sp Jr. January 1 1899"" in neat script on FFEP. Illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard and seven additional plates by W. L. Sonntag E. L. Blumenschein and W. D. Stevens. This edition preceded the British edition by about five weeks and is the First Edition First Printing signified by a printing error on page 189 - a half closed 'o' in the word 'into' on page 189. A mixed collection of twelve stories by Kipling while he was living in Vermont. Included in these stories is one titled ""007."" 431 pp. 1st / 1st Doubleday & McClure Co. hardcover
1900RARE54New York: GEORGE MUNRO'S SONS 1900. stapled wraps. INCLUDES THE RECRUDESCENCE OF IMRAY and TAMGAY DOOLA. This work is not dated pages are tanned and brittle. GEORGE MUNRO'S SONS paperback
