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190326208Paris: Mercure de France 1903. First French edition small 8vo pp. 378 4; bound in full diamondback rattlesnake we think not being herpetologists red morocco label on spine t.e.g.; some browning of the pages else very good. The prefatory "Etude" is 115-pages long. Not found in Livingston. <br/><br/> Mercure de France unknown books
1897120438London: W. Thacker & Co 1897. Rare Edition de Luxe of Kipling's first collection of verse. Octavo original publisher's half vellum over green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine and gilt vignette to the front panel. Tissue-guarded illustrations by Dudley Cleaver including frontispiece. One of one hundred and fifty numbered copies of the Edition de Luxe printed with two extra illustrations this is number 87. Ninth edition. In very good condition. Kipling published his first collection of verse Departmental Ditties in 1886 a year that also brought a change to the editors at the Civil and Military Gazette which allowed him more creative freedom and the ability to contribute short stories to the newspaper. Departmental Ditties includes Delilah The Legend of the Foreign Office The Story of Uriah The Betrothed The Moon of Other Days and The Fall of Jock Gillespie. W. Thacker & Co hardcover books
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 books
1898121340Boston: Dana Estes & Company 1898. First separate edition of Kipling's classic military tale. Octavo original decorated cloth illustrated by L. J. Bridgman frontispiece. In near 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. Kipling's The Drums of the Fore and Aft concerns an inexperienced Regular battalion on overseas service brigaded with a Highland Regiment and a Gurkha Regiment in Afghanistan. Unlike Kipling's other tales it concerns the disgrace of a battle almost lost rather than the glory of a battle won. Dana Estes & Company hardcover books
1903224704First edition first issue p. 56. Octavo. Original maroon gilt stamped cloth t.e.g. 38 publishers catalogue at end dated July 1903. Very good. Bookplate of Edward F. Burke on the front pastedown. Enclosed in a 1/2 red morocco slipcase with folding chemise. Methuen & Co. hardcover books
1923027565New York: Doubleday Page 1923. First Editions. Octavo. In two volumes. half-titles frontispiece maps 334pp. and 307pp. 11 maps in total. These two volumes discuss the experiences of the Irish guards from 1914 to 1918. The point of view is the battalions with the assistance of Regimental diaries private letters and documents. In his beautiful way Kipling transports the reader back to that sunny summer of 1914 when the rampant optimism gave way to the horror of the trenches. Kipling lost his son at Loos his remains not identified until 1992. It is his ability to write with power that makes this an eminently readable copy even now in the 21st century. Volume II also contains on pages 217-284 an index appendix A; Officers who were killed; B. NCO's who were killed and C. the award from the Victoria Cross to the many distinguished service medals. A fine set beautifully bound in a modern 3/4 black leather over black cloth raised bands compartments lettered and decorated in gilt top edges gilt endpapers renewed housed within black cloth slipcase. Doubleday, Page unknown books
1890220837Allahadad India Messrs A.H. Wheeler & Co./London Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington Ltd. 1890. 1890. First English edition. 8vo. Illustrated in black on front cover and oval vignette on rear cover by Lahore. 86 pages plus 2 pages advertisements. Original pictorial green/gray wrappers. Very good. This publication was No. 2 of the Indian Railway Library. Livingston #33. Author Olive Percival's copy with her signature on upper front cover 1906 and Percival's copy with her signature on upper front cover. F. Soft cover. Allahadad [India] Messrs, A.H. Wheeler & Co./London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ltd. [1890]. paperback books
1889WRCLIT69644Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co. 1889. 8106vii1pp. Pictorial wrappers. Morocco bookplate of Estelle Doheney. Rebacked and resewn with wrappers mounted partial split along upper joint internally very good. Cloth slipcase and chemise. First edition first form of the wrapper. One of 1500 copies published as No. 4 in the "Indian Railway Library." RICHARDS A17. STEWART 46. LIVINGSTON 37. A. H. Wheeler & Co. hardcover books
1898008933New York: R. H. Russell. Good with no dust jacket. 1898. First American Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Small folio. Tan pictorial paper boards with cloth spine and black and yellow imprint. Soiling rubbed edges and rubbed and bumped corners. Chips on rear top edge. Brown endpapers. Text pages have only one small foxed spot on December pages with browned ink offsets from the illustrations. The almanac has Nicholson's colored lithograph illustrations of each sport opposite verses written by Kipling about the sport with a calendar of Sundays at the front. Kipling p. 5.; Color Illustrations; Folio 13" - 23" tall . R. H. Russell hardcover books
18981287524London: W. Thacker & Co 1898. Tenth Edition. 8vo. 189 24 pages; G; bound in red cloth faded lettering to spine; front board has a crack to pastedown and cardboard cloth has crease but is intact; top edge of text block gilt others uncut; sun-fading to spine; some foxing to interior; two chips missing to middle of spine; inscription of previous owner on half-title page name on ffep; SIGNED flat on title page with Kipling's printed name crossed out; shelved case 0. 1287524. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. W. Thacker & Co unknown books
189742681NY: Century 1897. First American edn. W. Taber. 8vo pp. 323. Illustrated with 21 full-page black-and-white plates by W. Taber. Light green cloth stamped in dark green red and gilt. Former owner's inscriptions on end paper. A very good copy. Story of a Gloucester fishing boat. Kipling's first American novel written while the newlywed Kiplings lived in Vermont. Century unknown books
1909010385DoubledayPage & Company 1909. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Fine Copy With a Bright Spine.First Edition1909 Beautiful Copy. Doubleday,Page & Company Hardcover books
1892322129London: Methuen and Co. 18 Bury Street 1892. First edition thus. xix i 208 16ads.pp. 8vo. Original cloth. Very Good in half red morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition thus. xix i 208 16ads.pp. 8vo. This book of verse contains many of Kipling's most famous poems including "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" "Gunga Din" "Mandalay" "The Ballad of East and West" 'soldier Soldier" and "Ford o' Kabul River." -- all of which were first collected with Departmental Ditties Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses. Stewart 108; Livingston 90 Methuen and Co., 18 Bury Street unknown books
1892211192Calcutta: Thacker Spink 1892. hardcover. fine. 8vo artfully bound in full brown morocco gilt lettered spines with raised bands & floral device top edge gilt. Calcutta: Thacker Spink 1892. Seventh Edition.<br/><br/> Thacker Spink unknown books
1900229603London Macmillan and Co. Limited 1900. 1900. First English edition. 8vo. 1 page preface by Kipling. Attractively bound in 3/4 blue morocco over light blue/gray marbled boards spine with 5 raised bands with each compartment gilt ruled with small floral design in the corners two compartments with a gilt drum and 2 compartment with a gilt horn a.e.g.; light blue/gray marbled endpapers. Very good. 2 volumes complete. No signatures or bookplates. Livington 228. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1900. hardcover books
1922125630Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1922. First edition of what many consider Kipling's masterpiece. Octavo original cloth original publisher's decorated dark green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel top edge gilt illustrated. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Kim unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. The novel made the term "Great Game" popular and introduced the theme of great power rivalry and intrigue. It is set after the Second Afghan War which ended in 1881 but before the Third probably in the period 1893 to 1898. The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of the people culture and varied religions of India. "The book presents a vivid picture of India its teeming populations religions and superstitions and the life of the bazaars and the road." Considered by many to be Kipling's masterpiece opinion appears varied about its consideration as children's literature or not. Roger Sale in his history of children's literature concludes "Kim is the apotheosis of the Victorian cult of childhood but it shines now as bright as ever long after the Empire's collapse." Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel." Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1906RK010London: Macmillan and Co. 1906 First edition. Near fine in publisher's original red cloth with some fading to the spine and darkening of the boards and a former owner's bookplate. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. London: Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1926019989New York: Doubleday Page and Co 1926. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 150 copies of which the present copy is number 36 signed by Kipling. 94pp. nicely illustrated by Donald Maxwell with tipped in color plates bound in pale blue paper covered boards backed in vellum spine lettering and upper edge gilt uncut a bit of wear to corners a very nice clean copy without names or plates. Doubleday, Page and Co unknown books
18913647Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co 1891. Second edition. 810810pp. Including 14pp. of ads & reviews. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf circa 1920 in 1/2 brown morocco gilt over marbled boards original gray pictorial wrappers bound in. T.e.g. Bookplate on front pastedown of M. C. D. Borden whose valuable library was sold at auction in 1913. "A. H. Wheeler & Co.'s Indian Railway Library No. XIV." The second edition after an unauthorized first edition was suppressed by Kipling. Efforts were also made to suppress this second edition and it is quite scarce. Livingston BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF KIPLING #70. A. H. Wheeler & Co hardcover books
1903211194London: Methuen 1903. First. hardcover. fine. 12mo artfully bound in dark olive green morocco; gilt lettered spine with raised bands & floral devices stamped in gilt and red on the covers; inner dentelles. London: Methuen 1903. First English Edition. First issue with "David" on p.56.<br/><br/> Methuen unknown books
1925UKIPWRI00TWScribner's 1925 - 1932. Very Good. Kipling Rudyard. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling. The Works. 29 volumes. New York: Scribner's 1925 - 1932. 8vo. Book condition: Very good. Scribner's unknown books
1919004965England 1919. Cloth. Near Fine. Lovely meticulously rendered vignette illustrations framing the key letter on each page and on a few pages two vignettes. Oblong 9 by 13 cm. 28 pp. The album opens to a particularly nice pen and ink drawing of a schooner framed with highly decorative foliate baroque ornamentation. The first poem is Kipling's "If" each letter device accompanied by a painting of a different type of sail boat or ship. Ship motives are used again in "Love at Sea" by Swinburne. Another Kipling poem "The Explanation" is enlivened with paintings of colorful expressive fish. In our judgment these are the most charismatic of the illustrations. Other poems include Swinburne's "Rondel" "Before Sunset" "Song" and "Child's Song"; and some verses by Sappho. Other illustrative motives take in dragons flowers and floral daipers butterflies and coasts. The poems are rendered in a neat calligraphic hand and it is very easy to imagine this manuscript as something that might have been published as a gift book. <br/><br/> hardcover books
191228207London: Hodder & Stoughton 1912. Edition De Luxe printed on English handmade paper limited to 500 numbered copies this is no. 59 signed by the publisher Hodder Stoughton and the printer T. Constable; 4to pp. xix 1 476 1; title-p. printed in blue and black initials printed in blue; original full limp vellum lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine t.e.g. yapp edges blue silk ties; some inevitable soiling of the vellum else near fine. <br/><br/> Hodder & Stoughton hardcover books
190962191New York: B. W. Dodge & Company 1909. First Unauthorized Edition. viii 360 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth with seascape in black lettering in orange 2nd variant of binding fine copy in original tan dust jacket also showing some minor staining to back panel. In half red morocco slipcase. First Unauthorized Edition. viii 360 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. In Dust Jacket. Stewart 324 B. W. Dodge & Company unknown books
1915WRCLIT40093Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co. 1915. Six volumes. Cream wrappers printed in green. A fine set enclosed in a lightly rubbed half brown niger morocco slipcase and chemise. A complete set of the U.S. copyright printings of the installments in this series including: a I. THE AUXILIARY FLEET; b II. THE AUXILIARY FLEET; c III. SUBMARINES; d IV. SUBMARINES; and e VI. PATROLS. Each pamphlet was printed in an edition of seventy- five copies preceding by one day the appearances of the articles in the press and constitute the first appearances in book form or otherwise. RICHARDS A282. STEWART 394a-e. Doubleday, Page & Co. unknown books