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1895MJ126London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 1895. 1st UK edition . Hardcover. Vg. 8vo. J.Lockwood Kipling. 238ii pub. ads. pp. Original blue cloth gilt with cobra device to the front board and spine. Wavy rules to the upper and lower cover. All edges gilt. B/w illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling. Neat owners signature 'Margaret Theodosia Batten' in ink and contemporary to the issue. 1874-1930. An attractive copy near fine except for cracked inner green end-papers but a sound strong binding. <br/> <br/> Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1895445679London ; New York : Macmillan and Co. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition first printing. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands slightly rubbed with generalised toning to the boards. Hinges starting. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 238 pages 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Notes; Includes bookseller's advertisements on 2 unnumbered pages at end. Black and white illustrations throughout. Head- and tail pieces and some half tone illustrations. Contents; How fear came -- The law of the jungle -- The miracle of Purun Bhagat -- A song of Kabir -- Letting in the jungle -- Mowgli's song against people -- The undertakers -- A ripple song -- The King's Ankus -- The song of the little hunter -- Quiquern -- Angutivun tina -- Red dog -- Chil's song -- The spring running -- The outsong. Subjects; Mowgli Fictitious character ; Fiction. Mowgli Fictitious character. Mowgli Fictitious character ; Juvenile fiction. 1895. Jungle animals ; Fiction. Jungle animals. Animals ; Fiction. Children's stories 1895. Children's poetry 1895. Didactic literature English. English literature 19th century. Kipling Rudyard. Feral children India ; Juvenile fiction. Jungle animals India ; Juvenile fiction. London ; New York : Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1888752R53Allahabad & London: A. H. Wheeler & Co Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington Ltd. 1888. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5. None. A scarce and well-preserved first edition of this early work by Rudyard Kipling. Most renowned for 'The Jungle Book' 'Kim' and 'Just so Stories' Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 is seen as a pioneer for the short story form and a classic author of children's fiction. He was born in India the inspiration behind a vast amount of his writings which include 'The Jungle Book' 'Just So Stories' and 'Kim'.'Under the Deodars' is a short story collection featuring six stories. This edition was first published for the Indian Railway Library in Allahabad and London. The Indian Railway Library was a series of pamphlets intended to offer cheap 'throwaway' reading material for travellers and began as an idea of Kipling's to fund his return to England. 'Under the Deodars' was his fourth release of six for the Library.In the publisher's original paper wraps with green-grey wraps illustrated by Kipling's father John Lockwood Kipling. In paper wraps. Externally with some wear and minor loss to the paper at the edges. Internally firmly bound pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed A. H. Wheeler & Co, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington Ltd. unknown
1899981H39London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 18991937. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5". H. R. Millar; Frank Craig; Various. A substantial sixteen-volume collection of Rudyard Kipling"s works including several first editions and illustrated volumes charting his literary career. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original red cloth binding with Kipling's signature elephant head stamped in gilt to the front boards. A smart collection of sixteen volumes of Rudyard Kipling"s works including nine first editions and early printings spanning from Stalky & Co. 1899 to Something of Myself 1937.Several volumes are illustrated including Kim Puck of Pook"s Hill and "Captains Courageous". This collection consists of:Stalky & Co. 1899. First edition. Kim 1901. First edition. This copy is illustrated with ten monochrome plates including a frontispiece. Collated complete. Traffics and Discoveries 1904. First edition. Puck of Pook"s Hill 1906. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 19 plate illustrations by H. R. Millar. Collated complete. Actions and Reactions 1909. First edition. A Diversity of Creatures 1917. First edition. Rewards and Fairies 1923. First published in 1910 this is the fourth reprint. This copy is illustrated with four monochrome plates by Frank Craig. Collated complete. Debits and Credits 1926. First edition. Plain Tales From the Hills 1928. This copy is a later reprint. This copy is illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. A Book of Words: Selections from Speeches and Addresses Delivered Between 1906 and 1927 1928. First edition. Life"s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People 1928. First published in 1891 this is a later reprint. Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys in Black and White 1930. Originally published in 1895 this is a later reprint. This volume comes with the publisher"s original unclipped dust wrapper. "Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks 1932. First published in 1897 this is a later reprint of the uniform edition. Illustrated with 20 monochrome plates and one in-text illustration. Collated complete. Limits and Renewals 1932. First edition. The Light that Failed 1935. First published in March 1891 this is a later reprint. Something of Myself: For My Friends Known and Unknown 1937. First edition. This copy is illustrated with a monochrome portrait frontispiece. Rudyard Kipling 18651936 was an English novelist short story writer and poet best known for The Jungle Book Kim and his evocative tales of British India he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. Bound in the publisher's original cloth binding. Previous owner"s bookplate to front paste down of "Actions" with slight offsetting ad rubbing to endpapers. Spines slightly faded more so to older copies. The odd minor handling mark to boards. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities occasionally resulting in slight fraying to cloth or very minor loss to cloth. Previous owner"s contemporary inscription to front free endpaper of "Traffics" "Puck" "Stalky" and "Captains Courageous." Hinges of "Kim" "Stalky" cracked with binding materials slightly exposed but holding. Small newspaper clipping affixed to front paste down of "Puck" with small inscription. Discreet bookseller"s label to front paste down of "Traffics." Hinges of "Puck" slightly strained in places with binding slightly less firm than other copies but holding. Offsetting from a newspaper cutting loosely inserted to the dedication and copyright pages of "The Light." Dust wrapper of "Soldiers Three" very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting the odd very small closed tear chip and crease. Slight soiling to wraps. Age toning heavier to spine. The odd minor handling mark to wraps. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots to first and last few leaves and fore edge. Slight creasing to final few leaves of "Handicap" Very Good Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1892119266New York: United States Book Company 1892. Scarce early printing of perhaps Kipling’s most popular poetry collection. Octavo original wrappers as issued. In near fine condition. Exceptionally rare. 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. United States Book Company unknown
189719618London: Macmillan and Co 1897. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19cm; royal blue cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; all edges gilt; 245pp 1 2 ads. Previous owner's name and date opposite half-title; edges lightly rubbed gilt has dulled bit of sunning to spine with a tiny patch of sticker-pull at front pastedown 2 small glue spots on rear endpaper and a 2" crack at lower rear hinge; Very Good. One of the great 19th century adventure stories basis for Victor Fleming's Oscar-winning adaptation in 1937 starring Spencer Tracy Lionel Barrymore and Freddie Bartholomew. Macmillan and Co unknown
189055000New York: United States Book Company Successor to John W. Lovell Company 142 to 150 Worth Street 1890. First edition. 771 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Blue cloth. Very good. First edition. 771 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Stewart 63 United States Book Company, Successor to John W. Lovell Company 142 to 150 Worth Street unknown
1891200923Allabahad: Wheeler 1891. First. hardcover. fine. Tall thin 8vo finely bound in full brown morocco with rosettes & garland encircling the letter "K"; original cloth covers bound in. Allabahad 1891. First Indian edition.<br/> <br/> Ownership name on title & half title otherwise fine.<br/> <br/> Wheeler unknown
19009720London c. 1900. Second Anglo-Boer War souvenir handkerchief 45 x 45 cm printed in blue ink on fine linen a couple of trivial spots blank verso. Set in the borders of a map showing the contested regions of South Africa chiefly Orange Free State and Transvaal is the text of Rudyard Kipling's poem 'The Absent-Minded Beggar' with the music of Arthur Sullivan. The map is further adorned with portraits of Queen Victoria and Field Marshal Lord Roberts who was commander of British forces in the field between December 1899 and December 1900. It was published by the Daily Mail then a relatively new but highly successful British newspaper: established in 1896 its circulation had soared to over a million - the largest in the world - by the war's end in 1902. Kipling presented his poem to the Mail which established a charitable fund soon known as the Absent Minded Beggar Fund to provide comforts for British troops on campaign and support for their families at home. Sullivan was prevailed upon to set it to music and it was first sung in public in November 1899. It caught the public mood and was reproduced in many forms. The handkerchiefs were in circulation by March 1900. Local newspapers carry advertisements from wholesalers and retailers around the country all promising to donate a portion of the profits to the fund. Advertising in the Bradford Daily Telegraph 8 March 1900 one vendor described them as the latest novelty a work of art further suggesting that they could make a useful present everybody pleased with them. An Exeter draper excitedly advertised another delivery in the March 28 issue of the Western Echo. They seem to have sold for between twopence and threepence each. Map unknown
189974556London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1899. 8vo. Two volumes both first editions thus Uniform editions. vii 276 2; vi 299 2 pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt elephant and swastika medallion to boards; top edge gilt. Light rubbing and bumping a few marks to boards of first volume and spine of first volume a little faded. Opening sections of first volume a little sprung with very infrequent spotting across both volumes. Bookplates of Henry Tod. Black and white full page illustrations to first volume with in-text illustrations to second. The illustrations predominantly by J. L. Kipling but with some by W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny in first volume. VG to NF. . Very Good. Gilt Decorated Cloth. First Editions Thus. 1899. Macmillan & Co., Limited 1899 hardcover
18901019E015Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1890. 4th Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 93 3 8 85 3 96 104 96. Very Good Minus. 5.5 x 8.5 inches 14 x 21.5 cm. Quarter red cloth with marbled boards rubbing to board edges light wear to corners. Light foxing to endpapers previous owner's name to front pastedown endpaper. Some light patches of foxing to text outside margin of two pages in Soldiers Three have slight damage from a label appears to be an original binding flaw. Original wraps priced at 1 Rupee are bound in with all issues and have varying degrees of damage - most have small sections of loss to edges and/or corners rear cover of Soldiers Three has a large section of loss rear cover of Wee Willie Winkie has a hole to the centre. All issues are the fourth Indian edition published in 1890 this includes Soldiers Three despite it stating Second Indian Edition to the title page. This edition used the same sheets as the first English Edition pagination is the same as the English edition but some of the ads are omitted. Each of these titles had a total Indian issue of 3000 copies. Roberts notes that the fourth Indian edition did not sell well and some copies are known to be stamped to the cover margin in purple ink: 'To still further popularize this Celebrated Series the price is reduced to Eight Annas per volume.' This is stamp is present to front wrappers of all issues in this collection. A rare group of Indian editions including the sought after 'Phantom Rickshaw' a collection of supernatural tales. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches 14 x 21.5 cm. A.H. Wheeler & Co. hardcover
1899021575UK: Macmillan 1899. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good /No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. J L Kipling W H Drake P Frenzeny. 1st Printing 1899 in the Uniform Edition and very un-common. This format became the normal publication for all future printing of Kiplings new works. An attractive book. Book is very good with light rubbing to cloth edges. Quite bright cloth and spines. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16196 <br/> <br/> Macmillan hardcover
189612370THE TRUE FIRST EDITIONS "CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS" & ST. IVES in McClures Magazine for 1896-1898 first edition 3 volumes #8 9 & 10 November 1896 through April 1898 some light wear to the corner tips some light rubbing and scuffing else vg or better copies bound in half leather with marbled boards and raised spines. Also includes the work of Walt Whitman thrice Arthur Conan Doyle thrice John Kendrick Bangs Browning Stephen Crane twice Robert Barr 4 times S.P. Langley Guglielmo Marconi Mark Twain Fridtjof Nansen as well as writings about Benjamin Franklin U.S. Grant Alexander Hamilton Abraham Lincoln William T. Sherman George Washington John Wilkes Booth Henry Clay Grover Cleveland Heavier Than Air Aeroplanes Andrew Jackson The Civil War The Klondike Gold Fields The Log of the Mayflower Queen Victoria John Quincy Adams The Andree Party Balloon Expedition to the Pole Wireless Telegraphy The Railroads et.al. Century hardcover
189724318London:Macmillan and Co. Limited 1897. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2019/01/0_img_2063.jpg. London:Macmillan and Co. Limited. 1897. 1st English edition. viii245pp2pp ads. Illustrated by I.W. Taber. All edges gilt. Hardcover. Blue boards lightly soiled and shelfworn with gilt on front cover bright but gilt on the spine dulled. Internally paper just slightly age-toned with a hint of foxing to first and last pages but free of previous owners marks or signatures. A very good copy. London:Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
189052434New York: Lovell 1890. First Edition. Octavo. First Authorized Edition; 19.5cm; blue cloth covered boards titled in gilt on spine; top textblock in gilt; 771pp.; a Near Fine or better copy. A classic collection of 36 short stories. Lovell unknown
1894856New York: The Century Co. 1894. First American edition. Very good. <p>Octavo. Publisher's original green cloth gilt lettering and elephant on upper panel gilt tiger on rear blindstamped designs gilt animal vignettes and lettering to the spine. t.e.g. xvii33033 pp. Frontispiece and 34 illustrated plates. Designated as a "Printers Copy" on front and rear pastedown there are some faded fingerprints on some pages foretips bumped very slightly cocked forged signatures of Eugene Field on the first free endpaper and Rudyard Kipling on the title page else very good. <br /> <br /> First American edition. In the 1920s and 1930s after burning through his father the poet and children's author Eugene Field's genuine estate his son Eugene "Pinny" Field II teamed up with the Chicago bookseller Harry Dayton Sickles to "enlarge" the late poet's library. In order to manufacture instant provenance for otherwise ordinary books they reproduced Eugene Field Sr's original bookplate oddly not present here wrote signed inscriptions to Field Sr. signed his name and "Chicago" and the date of either 1893 or 1895. They were very fond of forging Kipling's signature. Latest research suggests it was Sickles who was the forger Field the willing accomplice. Note on front free endpaper "Signed by Kipling" apparently someone was fooled.</p> . The Century Co. unknown
188962188Calcutta: Thacker Spink and Co. London: W. Thacker and Co 1889. Second edition with "Kidnapper" reading on contents page. 1 vols. 8vo. Original olive green cloth with ornamental bands at top and bottom of front cover spine lettered in gilt upper cover lettered in black rubbed some fraying and soiling squash endpapers some light spotting and browning generally marginal 32 pages publisher's advertisements at back dated December 1889. Second edition with "Kidnapper" reading on contents page. 1 vols. 8vo. Richards 22; Stewart 18; Livingston 24 Thacker, Spink and Co., London: W. Thacker and Co unknown
1891343404Allahabad / London: A.H. Wheeler & Co. / SampsonLow Marston 1891. Softcover. Good. First English edition. 12mo. Illustrated green wrappers. 96pp. Errata slip bound-in. Small owner's name and small chip on front wrap a couple of modest chips on rear wrap spine somewhat eroded another small embossed stamp of an American author on title-page a good copy in custom cloth chemise and slipcase. Scarce. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson,Low, Marston unknown
18993141New York: Doubleday & McClure 1899. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. No DJ as Issued. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. A handsome set of this extremely readable collection. Light shelf wear several spots of careful repair to leather else tight bright and unmarred. Small 8vo. Various Pagination. Illus. b/w plates. Doubleday & McClure hardcover
1898201207London: William Heinemann 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Features words by Rudyard Kipling the author of "Captains Courageous" and "The Jungle Book." Includes 12 color lithographic plates by William Nicholson. A very good plus copy in paper covered boards with cloth spine but with some splitting to the front and rear internal hinges some other minor wear and with a vintage bookstore stocker to the rear pastedown. Plates in fine condition with some slight offsetting to the facing pages. No dust jacket. A very nice copy of this classic. William Heinemann unknown
1896ST19567-086London: Methuen and Co 1896. First British Edition. 185 x 120 mm. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4". xv iii 230 pp. <br/> VERY ATTRACTIVE SCARLET POLISHED CALF GILT BY FROST stamp-signed on front flyleaf covers with double fillet border raised bands spine compartments with antique scrolling cornerpieces and centerpiece green and maroon morocco labels richly gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Engraved title page. Stewart 140; Livingston 131; Martindell 59. A group of seven leaves lightly foxed otherwise a virtually mint copy inside and out the decorative binding exceptionally bright.<br/> <br/> This is a very pleasing copy in quite an attractive leather binding of a collection of 51 Kipling poems including "Song of the English" "The Rhyme of the Three Sealers" and "The Story of Ung." Day writes that "people uninterested in poetry 'qua' poetry were thrilled by the splendor and spread of empire as glorified in this work. Kipling's Toryism made the mediocre Alfred Austin the poet laureate in 1896 but Kipling was the unofficial laureate of the British empire." One of Britain's best-known writers Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 is most famous for his works portraying the lives of the native population and colonialists on the Indian subcontinent. He was born in Bombay where his father ran an art school and he lived in India until the age of six. He was sent to school in England but chose to return to the East at 18. He proved to be a prolific author writing novels tales for children and adults and many poems. Kipling's wife was American and they lived for a time in Vermont but from 1896 the couple settled in England. Among his many honors are a Nobel Prize 1907 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature 1926 which had previously only been awarded to Scott Meredith and Hardy. Copies of the present book are easy to find but they are not so readily available in reasonably priced pretty bindings like the one offered here. Methuen and Co unknown
1891832W43London: Ward Lock and Co. 1891 . First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6.5". Not stated. The first UK edition of Rudyard Kipling's first novel rebound in half calf from the original Lippincott's monthly magazine. The first UK edition of The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling in half calf binding. From the original Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Dated January 1891. First published in the US in 1890. Rebound in leather. Includes the other works published in this issue as originally printed. Includes nine other works by various authors.The Lippincott's Monthly Magazine was an American based magazine and published original works many of which became literary successes. Alongside Kipling Lippincott's published Anthony Trollope Oscar Wilde and more. This is Nobel-Prize award winning English author Rudyard Kipling's first novel. In half calf binding with marbled boards. Externally very smart. There is some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities which has resulted in some slight wear to the leather in these areas. The front hinge is slightly strained. The pages are bright and clean with the occasional spot. Very Good Indeed Ward, Lock and Co. hardcover
1891121480London: Ward Lock and Co. 1891. The January 1891 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine containing the first appearance of Kipling's early novel The Light That Failed. Octavo original wrappers. In very good condition. Rare. Written when Rudyard Kipling was 26 years old The Light That Failed is semi-autobiographical; being based upon his own unrequited love for Florence Garrard. Most of the novel is set in London but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said. It follows the life of Dick Heldar an artist and painter who goes blind and his unrequited love for his childhood playmate Maisie. Though it was poorly received by critics the novel has remained in print for over a century. It was also adapted into a play two silent films as well as a drama film. Ward, Lock, and Co. unknown
1892126908New York: The Minerva Publishing Company 1892. Rare early separate edition of Kipling's second collection of short stories. Octavo original wrappers. The Marco-Botsaris Series No. 10. In very good condition. The first publication of Soldiers Three was as No 1 of A.H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library a slim volume of 97 pages printed at the “Pioneer†Press Allahabad in 1888 called Soldiers Three: a collection of stories setting forth certain passages in the lives and adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney Stanley Ortheris and John Learoyd done into type and edited by Rudyard Kipling. In 1899 it became part of the book Soldiers Three and Other Stories known to most people by the simpler title Soldiers Three. It is this collection whose contents are listed here. To the original Soldiers Three were added nos 2 and 3 of the Indian Railway Library The Story of the Gadsbys which is written in dramatic form and In Black and White looking more at the native Indians than the British. Both of these were also published in 1888. The Minerva Publishing Company unknown
1889613723Allahabad: Messers A. H. Wheeler & Co 1889. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 96pp. Rebound in early half red cloth and marbled paper covered boards. Original printed front wrapper affixed on front board. Rear wrap and ads lacking. Bookplate of Victor Scharrer on verso of titlepage small name stamp of a previous owner partly effaced on titlepage boards modestly rubbed and worn a pleasing very good copy. Issued in A. H. Wheeler & Co’s Indian Railway Library No. 4. Messers A. H. Wheeler & Co hardcover