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1912008425Garden City: Doubleday Page and Co. 1912. First separate edition in book form. Nine leaves printed on one side only ruled in green decorative border throughout. Oblong 12 mo 4 3/8" h x 6 1/2" w string-tied. Very Good boards a bit soiled some toning to end pages only slight ripples in paper covering rear board. Binding sound and holding quite nicely. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Very Good. Oblong 12mo . Doubleday, Page and Co. Hardcover books
1915221090Garden City Doubleday Page & Company 1915. 1915. First American edition. 12mo. Dust jacket unclipped; few small chips. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. "Includes 6 new poems.especially written for this book." Livingston 401. F. Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. hardcover books
19173964JGarden City: Doubleday 1917. First Edition - American Copyright Issue. Printed in a tiny quantity by the publisher to secure the copyright. Published 8 December 1917 distributed privately. Number of copies unknown. Richards A300 locates 14 copies. Precedes the English edition "Published: December 1917 at 2p." Poetry. Paperbound. Fine in printed wrappers. Doubleday unknown books
1923W31505New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1923. Original dark blue cloth paper spine labels with blue lettering and gilit medallion ornament on upper covers. Spine labels a little chipped but not affecting text. Hinges starting in Vol. 1. Some wear on spine ends and edges. TEG other edges untrimmed. Brick Row NY dealer ticket on front pastedown Vol. 1. First American Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Doubleday, Page & 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
1919120774London: Methuen and Co. Ltd 1919. First edition of this collection of 45 poems often considered Kipling's darkest work. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good 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. Kipling's The Years Between includes: The Benefactors The Choice A Death-Bed Epitaphs Natural Theology A Pilgrim's Way and The Song of the Lathes. Methuen and Co., Ltd hardcover books
1904WRCLIT71910London: Macmillan 1904. Gilt cloth t.e.g. First British edition uncorrected '35.8.04' state of the ads. Endsheets foxed but a very good copy in internally mended and rather darkened and chipped printed dust jacket. STEWART 295. RICHARDS A198. Macmillan hardcover books
1904140831021London: Macmillan & Co 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition First Printing. First issue hardcover with ads at rear dated 35.8.04. In a lovely later state dust jacket printed in black ink first state was printed in red. In VG condition. Pages show foxing heaviest at prelims terminals and side edge of page block. Light edge wear to cloth light rubbing to gilt stamping slight darkening to spine cloth. The dust jacket shows edge wear with chipping at corners and loss to top of spine as well as a few tears and creases darkening to spine panel. Uncommon in early dust jacket. Macmillan & Co 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
1911123044Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1911. First edition of Kipling and Fletcher's history of Great Britain for boys and girls. Quarto original cloth illustrated with colored plates and maps by Henry Ford. In very good condition. Kipling and Fletcher's A History of England covers the history of Great Britain and the British Empire from the departure of the Romans through Saxon England and the Middle Ages the eras of the Tudors and Stuarts the American Rebellion and Great French War up until the Kingdom and Dominion of the Georges. Fletcher contributed most of the historical text with Kipling's assistance and contribution of 23 poems. Illustrator Henry Ford was best known for his work in Andrew Lang's colored Fairy books. The Clarendon Press hardcover books
120349London: Hodder and Stoughton nd. First edition of this book for Girl Guides containing stories by Rudyard Kipling Katharine Tyman Bella Sindey Woolf and many others. Quarto original publishers cloth with colored pictorial onlay to the front panel. With seven illustrations in color by Edmund Dulac Margaret Tarrant Lawson Wood Heath Robinson and others on mounted plates. In very good condition. Edited by Ann Kindersley The Guiding Book contains Rudyard Kipling's To The True Romance John Masefield's The Examples of Great Men Roger Mackarness's Royalty Bella Sidney Woolf's Padmavati and Katharine Tynan's Saints and Warriors among many other tales. Hodder and Stoughton 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
190912012Boston / London:: Edinburgh Society. Very Good. 1909. Hardcover. B000RFZAAI . Complete in ten volumes: BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS AND OTHER VERSES LETTERS OF MARQUE THE LIGHT THAT FAILED MINE OWN PEOPLETHE PHANTOM 'RICKSHAW PLAIN TALK FROM THE HILLS SOLDIERS THREE THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS IN BLACK AND WHITE UNDER THE DEODARS and WEE WILLIE WINKIE: CITY OF THE DREADFUL NIGHT AMERICAN NOTES. Illustrated - about four plates per volume. The Edinburgh de luxe edition one thousand copies. Octavos bound in blue cloth with paper labels along the spines top edges gilt. Age toning to spine labels else all volumes are very good. No dust jackets. . Edinburgh Society, hardcover books
1968191405Lunenburg Vermont: The Limited Editions Club 1968. The Limited Editions Club edition of Kipling's Jungle Books. Quarto original half cloth over marbled boards all edges speckled green. Illustrated by David Gentleman. Introduction by Bonamy Dobree. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by David Gentleman this is number 134. Fine in the original green slipcase which is in near fine condition. 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. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1938WRCLIT83690Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1938. xiv2333pp. Gilt cloth. A near fine unopened copy without dust jacket. First edition. Signed by the compiler on the title-page and inscribed by her on the half- title. The inscription is to a great extent illegible a testament to Livingston's deteriorating eyesight. Harvard University Press 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
1912D1238Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth ornate blindstamped border and gilt-stamped lettering and illustration on upper board gilt-stamped lettering and border on spine; with 10 tipped plates printed in green and black in ornate blue and red borders. Spine tips rubbed and frayed; hinges weak. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1936121648Brattleboro: Stephen Daye Press 1936. First edition of Howard Rice's Rudyard Kipling in New England. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. In his review in the Boston Herald Carl Van Doren recommended ". this indispensable Kipling item with its pleasant informing story of the four years 1892-96 Kipling lived in Vermont near Brattleboro where he had his first house where his first child was born and where he wrote 'The Jungle Books." Stephen Daye Press hardcover books
1901014822DoubledayPage & Company 1901. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In Decorative Cloth First Edition 1901/1901 Excellent Fresh Copy Book Plate. Doubleday,Page & Company Hardcover books
1926285606Garden City New York: Doubleday Page and Company 1926. Three Quarters Leather. Very Good binding. The Sea and Sussex with illustrations by Donald Maxwell and verses by Rudyard Kipling complete with 24 plates. Verse and illustration on opposite pages. No marks of any kind. Three quarters polished navy calf over blue cloth; gilt lettering and decoration on the spine. Very Good. Very Good binding. Doubleday, Page and Company unknown books
189029677NY: United States Book Co 1890. First American edn. 8vo pp. 270. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Owner's name on flyleaf bookplate. Cover somewhat scuffed and worn one hinge near tender o/w VG. Grolier Club Exhibit 110; Stewart 79. First Edition of both the "Barrack-Room Ballads" and the "Other Verses" not published in England until 1892; first American edition of "Departmental Ditties." Contains the first printing in book form of Kipling's great popular ballads including "Danny Deever" "Fuzzy Wuzzy" "Gunga Din" "Mandalay" etc. United States Book Co unknown books
19018997New York: Doubleday Page and Co 1901. First American edition 8vo 6 460pp. 10 illustrations; minor wear to spine hinges starting small white stains to rear cover else a very good copy or better in original dark green cloth with black design and lettering in gold on front cover and spine t.e.g. Livingston 248. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Page and Co hardcover books
193246768New York: Doubleday Doran & Co 1932. First American edition 8vo pp. v 1 371; fine copy in original green embossed cloth gilt-lettered on upper cover and spine near fine clipped dust jacket. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Doran & Co hardcover books
1899135301899. New York: Doubleday & McClure Company 1899. Original blind-stamped sea green cloth.<br/><br/> First Edition the English edition is dated 1900. These volumes include the first authorized edition of "American Notes" "Letters of Marque" "The City of Dreadful Night" and "The Smith Administration"; according to Kipling's Preface he was "forced" to issue this title "by the enterprise of various publishers" who were pirating and embellishing his earlier works. The half-title versos bear Kipling's usual icon from India the swastika -- which until the 1930s signified peace and continuity. This is a near-fine set with just a touch of rubbing. Richards A131; Stewart 198. unknown books
1891137341891. Authorized Edition. New York: Lovell Coryell & Company n.d. 1892. Original maroon cloth beveled. First Combined Edition later issue with Lovell Coryell rather than United States Book Co. as the publisher. These two pieces first appeared in 1888 as the second and fourth numbers in the Indian Railway Series Allahabad; John Lovell issued each in wrappers in 1890 in his "Westminster Series" before combining the two in the present volume U.S. Book Co. in 1891 Lovell Coryell in 1892. This would be a fine copy were it not for the slight fading of the maroon spine -- almost unavoidable for this color. See Richards A42 note; Stewart 50. This is the George Barr McCutcheon copy with his bookplate housed in a morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. <br/><br/> hardcover books