MARDRUS, Joseph-Charles - SCHMIED, F.-L.Livre Rare Book
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19261290Paris, [Schmied], 1926. Un volume in-4 (27,7 x 20 cm), en feuilles, 102 pages, n.ch., couverture rempliée, chemise et étui décoré de l’éditeur, emboîtage de maroquin vert doublé de maroquin jonquille, dos titré (G. Cretté succ. de Marius Michel). Édition originale de la plus grande rareté, tirée à seulement 20 exemplaires numérotés sur japon. Splendide illustration en couleurs de François-Louis Schmied: environ 50 bois dont 18 de très grande taille, dans le texte, TOUS ENTIÈREMENT PEINTS À LA MAIN dans les ateliers de laquage de Jean Dunand ; près de 300 lettrines et bouts de lignes peintes à la main dans le texte, dans des harmonies de couleurs variant selon les pages, avec rehauts d'or, d'argent ou de blanc, traçant des motifs géométriques ou érotiques. Tirage unique à 20 exemplaires numérotés et signés du monogramme en rouge de FLS, tous sur papier Japon, celui-ci n° 13. Conservé à l'état d'origine dans un splendide coffret en maroquin doublé de Cretté. - Notes bibliographiques (pour ceux qui prennent le temps): « La Princesse Boudour est regardée par ceux qui savent voir, comme le livre capital de ce premier quart de siècle. Par sa graphie et sa technique générale, elle est une exception préméditée dans le faire de son auteur. Pour la réaliser, il s’est véritablement amusé, cette fois – en tant que lecteur enthousiaste des Mille nuits et une nuit - à commenter graphiquement le texte qu’il connaît si bien et dont il est comme imbibé [...]. Il nous a [...] octroyé le délectable cadeau de trois cent quatre-vingt-dix vignettes et en couleur, et toutes différentes, et qui se rapportent au texte [...]. Et cette munificence schmiedienne n’est-elle pas, en définitive, l’exaltation de notre modernité, et en conformité avec nos goûts, du faire des imagiers incomparables de l’Orient ? [...]. Avec quel attendrissement, avec quelle passion sourde et contenue, qui n’appartient qu’à lui, il a rendu, au moyen des fragiles outils du graveur et du coloriste, la grâce masculine des adolescents, et la tendre chair de banane des radieuses jouvencelles ! [...] Je pense que s’il fallait absolument appliquer une épithète au sourire des adolescentes schmiediennes, et même à celui des adolescents, rien ne leur conviendrait mieux que le mot ambigü... Une atmosphère de pures délices enveloppe cette oeuvre boudourienne, multiple, voluptueuse, spirituelle, et d’une telle essence d’authentique Orient qu’elle nous fait vraiment respirer tous les parfums de l’Arabie. » (Préface du catalogue de l’exposition Schmied à la galerie Arnold Seligmann Rey à New York, mars 1927, pp. 34-37).
19271833Paris, François-Louis Schmied, 1927. Un volume in-4, reliure plein maroquin bleu, doublure et gardes de soie brochée gris-bleu sertie d’un jeu de filets dorés, dos lisse orné, couverture, tranches dorées, étui bordé de même maroquin (G. Cretté succ. de Marius Michel). Édition originale et tirage unique de ce conte oriental de Joseph Charles Mardrus magnifiquement illustrée et ornementée par François-Louis Schmied qui assura lui-même la mise en page et l'impression de ce chef d'œuvre du livre Art déco : le trait des planches a été gravé sur bois, la peinture en a été exécutée à la main, d'après les originaux, dans les ateliers de laquage de Jean Dunand. Cette illustration se compose d'une couverture illustrée, un frontispice, 7 illustrations à pleine page, une grande planche dépliante formant un triptyque, 29 bandeaux horizontaux dont 22 grands, la plupart en-tête, 32 lettrines ornées ou petites vignettes dans le texte, 6 petits bandeaux verticaux et de nombreux bandeaux et lettres mis en couleurs et dorés. TIRAGE UNIQUE À 25 EXEMPLAIRES SUR JAPON, SIGNÉS PAR SCHMIED. Celui-ci (n° XXV) comporte l’une des rares suites des bois tirés en noir sur Japon. L'ouvrage est entièrement monté sur onglet.
1943123104Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers Inc. 1943. First edition second issue of this classic World War II-era short story collection containing J.D. Salinger's third published short story and first appearance in book form. 12mo original illustrated boards illustrated. Complied by R.M. Barrows edited by E. X. Pastor and with contributions from J.D. Salinger Richard Armour Hurd Barrett Pat Frank O. Henry Rudyard Kipling Jack Leonard and Damon Runyan among others. Signed by J.D. Salinger on the first page of his contribution The Hang of It on page 332. A commercial tale of a soldier who just can't seem to get "the hang of it" the story was first published in the July 12 1941 issue of Collier's magazine and subsequently in the 1942 and 1943 editions of The Kit Book For Soldiers marking Salinger's first appearance in book form. Salinger was drafted into the army in the spring of 1942 several months after the United States entered World War II where he saw combat with the 12th Infantry Regiment 4th Infantry Division. He was present at Utah Beach on D-Day in the Battle of the Bulge and the Battle of Hurtgen Forest. During the campaign from Normandy into Germany Salinger arranged to meet with Ernest Hemingway who was then working as a war correspondent in Paris. The meeting had a profound effect on Salinger and the development of his writing style; Hemingway was impressed by what Salinger shared with him of his early writing and the two corresponded frequently throughout the war. Salinger was later assigned to the 4th Counter Intelligence Corps in which he used his proficiency in French and German to interrogate prisoners of war and later witnessed the liberation of one of the Dachau Concentration Camps. In very good condition. Housed in the original box which is in near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. From the collection of a WWII soldier who had this signed by Salinger while the two were stationed overseas at the time of publication. An exceptional example signed by Salinger at a pivotal time in his life and before his almost complete withdrawal from society. Best-known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye American author J.D. Salinger published several short stories and five books throughout his lifetime. In a contributor's note Salinger gave to Harper's Magazine in 1946 he wrote: "I almost always write about very young people" a statement that has been referred to as his credo. Adolescents are featured or appear in all of Salinger's work from his first published short story "The Young Folks" 1940 to The Catcher in the Rye and his Glass family stories. In 1961 the critic Alfred Kazin explained that Salinger's choice of teenagers as a subject matter was one reason for his appeal to young readers but another was "a consciousness among youths that he speaks for them and virtually to them in a language that is peculiarly honest and their own with a vision of things that capture their most secret judgments of the world." For this reason Norman Mailer once remarked that Salinger was "the greatest mind ever to stay in prep school." Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc. hardcover books
190233101Toronto: George S. Morang & Co. Limited 1902. 1st Edition. Rudyard Kipling. Rudyard Kipling. 1st Edition. Signed by Author. From TBCL's Children's Bookcase. Kipling Rudyard. JUST SO STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN. Signed. Illustrated by the Author. Toronto: George S. Morang & Co. Limited. 1902. Unique Copy. First Canadian Edition. Sm. 4to. 249p. With 22 plates & many in-text illustrations. Cream cloth covered boards with titles & illustrations on the spine & upper cover stamped in black. An extraordinary example with three key manuscript highlights tipped-in: 1 - Opposite page 141 Kipling on a piece of club size stationery has written out in fact decoded the runes of Taffimai in 2 columns of 18 lines with the added "This is the identical tusk-on-uitch the tale of Taffimai ouas ritten. Etched by the author. / See Page 141 / Just So Stories / Double Day Page Edn 1902." 2 - Tipped opposite page 197 on a piece of club size stationery Kipling has deciphered the runes on the Mutton Bone illustrated in the story: The Cat That Walked By Himself. Inscribed: "On the mutton bone / page 197. Just So Stories". Two columns of decoding followed by: " I Rudyard Kipling drew this but because there was no mutton bone in the house I faked the anatomy from memory. R.K." 3 - One page als true copy neatly written & signed in blue fountain pen on the letterhead of the Canadian Copper Company Sussex dated Nov. 30th 1912 addressed to: David H. Brown esq. " Dear Sir / Many thanks for your amusing letter of the 12th. I am sorry that any of my handicraft should have disturbed your dinner. I should imagine it would be quite hopeless to find one in the small drawing what the runes meant but I have looked up the original pictures and found that on the cross bar of the H I put myself on record as having also written all the plays ascribed to Mrs. Gallop. I hope now that you and your friends will be able to return to their respective vocations. / Yours very sincerely / Rudyard Kipling". An extremely good example showing light use. Stewart 261. Notes binding is usually brown/orange cloth. First published in London by Macmillan in 1902 this is the uncommon Canadian edition of Kipling's most famous collection of twelve animal stories & twelve poems including "How the Camel Got His Hump" and "How the Leopard Got His Spots" "How the Whale Got his Throat" "The Elephant's Child" & "The Butterfly That Stamped." "Just So Stories has achieved nursery immortality because a genius has married two of the most tried and trusted media - the fable and the fairy-story" Muir 107. Stewart 260. BMC No.1 1984; 'Edwardian Children's Books'. 30820. George S. Morang & Co., Limited unknown
19141172901914. EXCEPTIONAL DELUXE BINDING KIPLING Rudyard. The Works of Rudyard Kipling. Twenty-seven volumes expanded to fifty-one. 8vo. 237 x 152 mm bound in full deluxe red morocco elaborate gilt borders spines elaborately gilt silk moire endleaves turn-ins inlaid with blue morocco gilt extra with wide dentelles composed of small ornamental tools and large flowers t.e.g. Garden City N.Y.: Doubleday Page & Co. 1914-1920. The Seven Seas Edition one of 1050 sets printed signed by the author. An extremely fine copy in a full red morocco binding of the absolute highest quality. Leather bound sets of this quality are very rarely seen on the market. The Seven Seas Edition is one of the most respected and sought-after collected works of Kipling ever printed. It includes: Wee Willie Winkie The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories Captains Courageous The Jungle Book The Second Jungle Book Puck of Pook's Hill Plain Tales from the Hills Life's Handicap The Day's Work Stalky & Co. Kim Just So Stories and much more. Ordinary copies were issued in cloth in twenty-seven volumes. This copy has been exquisitely bound and expanded to fifty-one volumes. PROVENANCE: John Francis Neylan with his bookplate designed by William H. Wilke and printed by John Henry Nash the famous California printer. Neylan 1885-1960 was a noted San Francisco lawyer who was chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of California. Additionally he was William Randolph Hearst's chief attorney with close ties to the Hearst newspapers and thus had enormous political clout and considerable wealth. Stewart Kipling pp. 573-574. hardcover books
190249105London: Macmillan & Co 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 249p quarto illustrated. A fine bright copy in a very good dust jacket. The design on the dust jacket differs from the design on the covers of the book. Just So Stories was Kipling's only self illustrated book. A fine bright copy with none of the usual flaking to the white pigment on the binding; armorial bookplate of George Jefferson Mersereau with the bookplate of A. Edward Newton above it on the front paste down. The extremely rare dust jacket is complete with only minor wear and tear and with a few archival tape reinforcements o the inside of the spine. Preserved in a custom cloth chemise and morocco-tipped slipcase <br/><br/> Macmillan & Co hardcover
1907896Q1New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1907 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 6". None. The first edition of Kipling's book of collected verse with the author's ink annotations and edits. Bound in the publisher's original burgundy cloth. An extremely scarce-to-see copy of this collection of Rudyard Kipling's poetry with annotations and edits by the author throughout. This work was originally published in October 1907. From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son literary agent of Rudyard Kipling.Throughout this copy of collected verse Kipling reworked the order layout contents and the occasional wording of the poems. Some of the changes to wording such as substituting "hansoms" for "traffic" in the final verse of 'The Broken Men' made the final version of the poem however others such as changing the name "Mary Pollock" to "Margaret Pollock" in 'The Derelict' did not showing Kipling's thought process in his editing. Annotations include: A line through the publisher on the title page. A line through the page opposite the title page entitled "Other Books by Rudyard Kipling". The third verse of "The Fires" has been removed xi. Punctuation amendments to most pages substituting comas exclamation marks and semi-colons. The occasional change to the wording used such as alternating "hansoms" for "traffic" in the final verse of "The Broken Men". On page 85 Kipling has written "To printer smaller type for all these sub-heads of song of the English R. K." "The Sacrifice of Er-hets" has a vertical line through it p168. "Service Songs" has been crossed out p190. The second verse of "The Gift of the Sea" has been crossed out p248.Pencil annotation not in Kipling's hand to p1 with "Dedication from "Barrack Room Ballads"" crossed out. On page 8 "Song of the Wise Children" is directed "To follow Sestina of the Tramps Royal" with similar directions given to "Buddha at Kamakura" p10 "The Broken Man" p13 "The "Mary Gloster"" p45 "South Africa" p118 "Dirge of Dead Sisters" p126 "Cleared" p132 "General Joubert" p145 "Before a Midnight Breaks in Storm" p193 "The Lesson" p200 "Rimmon" p210 "The Three-Decker" p220 "The Rhyme of the Three Captains" p222 "The Conundrum of the Workshops" p227 "Evarra and his Gods" p229 "In the Neolithic Age" p231 "The Story of Ung" p233 "The Fires" p236 "The Legends of Evil" p238 "Tomlinson" p241 "The Explanation" p246 "The Answer" p247 "The Gift of the Sea" p248 "The King" p250 and "The Last Rhyme of True Thomas" p252. Bound in the publisher's original burgundy cloth. Externally very good with light bumping to the extremities and a little rubbing to the head and tail of the spine. The occasional mark to cloth mainly to the rear board. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright with the author's ink edits and annotations throughout. Very Good Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1913187925New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1913-1926. A stately array of bindings The Seven Seas Edition number 63 of 1050 sets printed on watermarked paper and signed by the author on the half-title of Volume I. Intended as the American counterpart to Macmillan's Bombay Edition this deluxe signed limited edition was issued in 27 volumes. This set has been finely bound likely by the publishers in 51 slimmer and more readable volumes. 27 vols expanded to 51 octavo. Title pages printed in red and black rubricated initials in some vols illustrations to text of children's works. Likely publisher's deluxe red crushed morocco spines lettered in gilt compartments and corners of boards richly gilt wide turn-ins with multiple gilt rolls dark blue crushed morocco doublures with richly gilt frames cream silk flyleaves top edges gilt fore and bottom edges uncut cream bookmarkers. Bookplate of John Francis Neylan 1885-1960 attorney to William Randolph Hearst to first blanks. Spots of rubbing hear hinge of From Sea to Sea volume I part II cracked. Overall a fine set. Richards D15; Stewart pp. 573-4. hardcover
1937165903London: Macmillan and Company 1937-39. The most desirable collected edition The Sussex Edition number 72 of 525 sets only signed by the author in the first volume and containing two volumes of previously uncollected prose. Published after Kipling's death on 18 January 1936 this magnificent posthumous edition saw a small limitation and became even rarer following the destruction of many unsold sheets during the German bombing of London. In his last years and with his health failing Kipling remained determined to finish editing this "great retrospective work" which was first proposed in 1928. The edition was "fuller than that of any other. Kipling saw the proofs of at least 21 of the edition's 35 volumes before his death" and it is now "among the most prized and most expensive of all modern editions" Pinney p. 231. 35 vols large octavo. Printed on handmade paper with Ganesha watermark. Fly-titles printed in orange. Original full russet niger by James Burn & Co. spines lettered in gilt raised bands ruled in blind twin gilt fillet bordering covers turn-ins ruled in gilt and blind marbled endpapers top edges gilt and red on the rough other edges uncut. Bindings slightly darkened occasional light scuffs and internal marks otherwise clean. A near-fine set. Richards D23; Stewart pp. 577-80. Thomas Pinney The Letters of Rudyard Kipling vol. 6 1990. hardcover
1937BIBLIO-13244Macmillan and Co. Ltd London Sussex Edition 1937-39. Limited edition of 525 sets of which 500 signed by the author were for sale. However many of these were destroyed when the publisher's warehouse was bombed in 1941. 35 vols royal 8vo full russet Niger morocco handmade paper top edges rough-gilded other edges untrimmed. several thousand pages. The Sussex edition is the definitive edition of Kipling's works splendidly produced and much sought after by collectors. Some contemporary Macmillan advertising material described it thus: "The Sussex Edition had been planned some years before the author's death and was designed to rank as the definitive edition of all his works in prose and verse in the most complete and handsome form. Kipling had undertaken a detailed revision of the text for this purpose and had autographed and numbered the first volume of each set. He left behind him careful instructions regarding the unpublished or uncollected writings which are so conspicuous and interesting a feature of the Sussex Edition. This material includes over sixty stories articles and speeches besides such groups of papers as The War in the Mountains Eyes of Asia and Brazilian Sketches none of them previously published in book form if at all in this country and the whole of his early or uncollected verse." From a contemporary review in the TLS: "The publishers are justified in the use of the epithet "superb" to describe this edition. The fine hand-made paper and Bembo type are equally satisfactory : but perhaps the binding is still more notable. It is . Niger leather lettered and simply ornamented in gold. The volumes though ten inches by six and three quarter inches in size are comparatively slim and so easy to hold; and they have an air of durability and of being meant for reading as well as for keeping which is not always the case with éditions de luxe. Set No. 15 signed by Kipling. Unobtrusive 1 cm scratch to spine of volume 7 some spine bands just a trifle rubbed otherwise a splendid Fine set. Contents exceptionally clean with many volumes largely unopened. Macmillan and Co. Ltd, London, Sussex Edition, 1937-39 unknown
193736073London: Macmillan and Company 1937. 35 volumes large 8vo. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Original full russet niger morocco by James Burn & Co. for Macmillan spines lettered in gilt within raised bands double gilt rule to covers top edges gilt on the rough other edges uncut as issued marbled endpapers twin gilt and blind rules to turn-ins printed on handmade paper the first sheet of each signature bearing a Ganesha watermark. Bookseller's ticket to front endpapers. Spines a little sunned a few instances of very minor discolouration and scuffing to bindings. A near-fine set.<br/> <br/>Limited edition of 525 sets of which 500 signed by the author were for sale. However many of these were destroyed when the publisher's warehouse was bombed in 1941.<br/> <br/>The Sussex Edition number 101 of a limited edition of 525 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf of vol. I. In his last years and with his health failing Kipling continued the gathering-up of existing material that resulted in the great retrospective work. the Sussex Edition of his works undertaken by Macmillan as a monument to one of the firms most profitable authors. The idea for the edition went back to 1928 and work was begun by 1930. The selection fuller than that of any other edition was the work of Kipling and he saw the proofs of at least 21 of the editions 35 volumes before his death. Set in Bembo type on hand-made paper bound in Nigerian goatskin and limited to 525 sets the Sussex Edition did not begin publication until 1937; sales were slow in those depression years and a large number of the unbound sheets lying in a London warehouse was destroyed by German bombs. One result of this exaggerated scarcity is that the Sussex Edition is now among the most prized and most expensive of all modern editions ibid. Vol. 6: 1931-36 2004 p. 231. Though the edition was published posthumously Kipling had signed the limitation sheets prior to his death on 18 January 1936. A very attractive set of this superb edition.<br/> <br/>Richards D23; Stewart pp. 577-80. Macmillan and Company unknown books
1913141035London: Macmillan & Co. 1913-38. A handsomely bound set signed by the author on the half-title The Bombay Edition one of only 500 possible complete sets signed by the author on the half-title. The Bombay edition was initially published in 20 volumes and limited to 1000 copies. Kipling continued to write and the edition eventually grew to 31 volumes but the last 11 volumes were limited to 500 copies only. Because later volumes were issued separately and at a lower limitation complete sets such as this one are rare. 31 vols octavo. Attractively bound in recent burgundy morocco green morocco labels centre tool to spines gilt raised bands roll to boards gilt marbled endpapers top edges gilt others untrimmed. Mild partial toning to a couple of the half-titles an excellent set. hardcover
19377813London: The Macmillan Co 1937. The Sussex Edition. Very Good . One of 575 numbered sets signed by the author in the first volume. Leaves measuring 240 x 160 mm with the set occupying 141 cm 55 in of shelf space. A Very Good set. Bound for the publisher by James Burn & Co. in full reddish-brown Niger morocco. Double ruled in gilt. Spine in six compartments with raised bands. Top edge gilt. Sunning and speckling to some spines and some rubbing to raised bands and edges. Very clean throughout. Printed in Edinburgh by R&R Clark Ltd. on handmade paper.<br /> <br /> The Sussex Edition which has become the most desirable collected edition of Kipling's works was edited by Kipling himself and including two volumes of previously uncollected prose. The edition published the year after Kipling's death was intended as a complete retrospective on Kipling's career and the definitive edition of his works. The superbly produced set of course includes Kipling's most lauded fiction - The Jungle Book Kim and Just So Stories - as well as his poems and nonfiction capturing the scope of his literary output. <br /> <br /> A contemporary review in the Times Literary Supplement lauded the production: "The publishers are justified in the use of the epithet 'superb' to describe this edition. The fine hand-made paper and Bembo type are equally satisfactory but perhaps the binding is still more notable. It is.Niger leather lettered and simply ornamented in gold. The volumes.are comparatively slim and so easy to hold; and they have an air of durability and of being meant for reading as well as for keeping which is not always the case with éditions de luxe." Very Good . The Macmillan Co unknown
1941031596New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1941. Book. Fine. Cloth. Signed by Authors. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Number 637 of 1000 numbered sets signed by the author. 28 volumes. Octavo red gilt original dust jackets with decorative medallion on front. Top edges gilt fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Book plate on front paste-down endpaper. Uniquely each volume with its own red cloth slipcase with leather gilt title labels. Some mild wear on dust jackets. Rare find with each volume cased. Fine tight volumes and attractive set. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Hardcover
193042840Sous étui et couverture en demi-percaline grise avec étiquettes imprimées : 2 chemises de texte, une chemise de suites et une chemise à rabats et rubans pour la Suite pour Kim.Édition illustrée de 56 compositions d'après François-Louis SCHMIED dont un frontispice, 14 planches hors texte, 15 grandes vignettes, 15 lettrines et 11 culs-de-lampe, gravés par Philippe Gonin.
1937BIBLIO-52449Macmillan and Co. Ltd London Sussex Edition 1937-39. Limited edition of 525 sets of which 500 signed by the author were for sale. However many of these were destroyed when the publisher's warehouse was bombed in 1941. 35 vols royal 8vo full russet Niger morocco handmade paper top edges rough-gilded other edges untrimmed. several thousand pages. The Sussex edition is the definitive edition of Kipling's works splendidly produced and much sought after by collectors. Some contemporary Macmillan advertising material described it thus: "The Sussex Edition had been planned some years before the author's death and was designed to rank as the definitive edition of all his works in prose and verse in the most complete and handsome form. Kipling had undertaken a detailed revision of the text for this purpose and had autographed and numbered the first volume of each set. He left behind him careful instructions regarding the unpublished or uncollected writings which are so conspicuous and interesting a feature of the Sussex Edition. This material includes over sixty stories articles and speeches besides such groups of papers as The War in the Mountains Eyes of Asia and Brazilian Sketches none of them previously published in book form if at all in this country and the whole of his early or uncollected verse." From a contemporary review in the TLS: "The publishers are justified in the use of the epithet "superb" to describe this edition. The fine hand-made paper and Bembo type are equally satisfactory : but perhaps the binding is still more notable. It is . Niger leather lettered and simply ornamented in gold. The volumes though ten inches by six and three quarter inches in size are comparatively slim and so easy to hold; and they have an air of durability and of being meant for reading as well as for keeping which is not always the case with éditions de luxe. Set No.215. Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper of each volume: 'Ex Libris des Comtes Arrivabene Valenti-Gonzaga'. Spines rubbed and several volumes with some corner or edge-wear or small scrapes to the leather three volumes 5 6 7 with blotches to the spine sometimes extending slightly to the boards; otherwise a good set with good uniformity of colour not always the case with this edition. Internally excellent - clean fresh copies with most volumes unopened or largely so. Macmillan and Co. Ltd, London, Sussex Edition, 1937-39 hardcover
1941BIBLIO-14612Doubleday Doran & Co. Inc. Garden City Burwash edition 1941. Limited edition of 1010 numbered sets the first volume signed by Kipling. 28 vols full green morocco covers ruled in gilt upper covers stamped with gilt facsimile of Kipling's signature spines lettered and tooled in gilt in compartments five raised bands blindstamped turn-ins marbled endpaperstop edges gilt 23 cm. many thousand pages. I. Plain tales from the hills.-II. Soldiers three. The story of the Gadsbys. In black and white.-III. Wee Willie Winkie. Under the deodars. The phantom rickshaw and other stories.-IV. Life's handicap.-V. Many inventions.-VI. The day's work.-VII. Traffics and discoveries.-VIII. Debits and credits. Actions and reactions.-IX. A diversity of creatures.-X. Limits and renewals. "Thy servant a dog."-XI. The jungle books.-XII. Just so stories.-XIII. Puck of Pook's Hill. Rewards and fairies.-XIV. Stalky & Co. Land and sea tales.-XV. The light that failed. The naulahka.-XVI. Captains courageous. Kim.-XVII-XVIII. From sea to sea and other sketches.-XIX. Letters of travel 1892-1927.-XX. The war. A fleet in being.-XXI-XXII. The Irish guards in the Great War.-XXIII. Uncollected prose.-XXIV. A book of words. Souvenirs of France. Something of myself.-XXV. Departmental ditties and Barrack-room ballads.-XXVI. The seven seas. The five nations. The years between.-XXVII. Songs from books and Later songs from books.-XXVIII. Early verse. The muse among the motors. Miscellaneous. Set No. 60 signed by Kipling. A Fine set splendidly bound. Doubleday, Doran, & Co., Inc., [Garden City], Burwash edition, 1941 hardcover
1903154195London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903. Magnificent illustrations for Kipling's classic and considered by some to be the finest book illustrations ever published First edition sole impression. A report on the publication in the New York Times for 5 December 1903 stated that "the edition is strictly limited to 500 copies for England and America". This portfolio is a magnificent presentation of the Detmold brothers' celebrated book illustrations. Reviewing the London exhibition of the original artwork the Manchester Guardian commented that the Detmolds "are able to prevent their work from ever sinking to the level of mere illustration". The reviewer enthused that "the drawing of the Monkey People in the Cold Lairs who 'were not thinking of Mowgli's friends at all' is full of character subtle observation and invention. The figure of Bagheera in 'Mowgli and the Red Flower' has something of that beauty which hath terror in it. Baloo and Nag Kaa and Akela the lone wolf are brought before our eyes in a singularly convincing and engaging form". Folio. 16 coloured chromolithograph prints on thin card sheet sizes: 330 x 430 mm. tipped onto white board with grey window mounts mount sizes: 393 x 545 mm. with cover sheet to each illustration providing the title and a short extract from the book. Original green cloth chemise front cover lettered and with illustration in gilt containing title page contents leaf and 16 loose prints. Housed in a custom grey cloth folding box. Chemise worn with loss front cover detached bookplate removed lacking ties occasional chips and tears to extremities of cover sheets light browning to sheets fold to title page and contents leaf strengthened prints bright and unfaded; a good set. Manchester Guardian 5 November 1903. hardcover
1930549Paris Javal & Bourdeaux 1930 LE DOUARIN In-4(340X260mm) en feuilles, couverture illustrée. (Boîte-étui).
1913309191London: Macmillan 1913. hardcover. very good. 31 volumes. 3/4 green morocco tall 8vo ornately gilt spines green cloth top edges gilt others untrimmed. Extremes of some volumes chipped some hinges neatly strengthened. London: Macmillan and Co. 1913-1938. Bombay Edition.<br/> <br/> Signed by Rudyard Kipling in volume 1.<br/> <br/> Macmillan unknown
190213<p>8vo. Publisher's full red cloth decoratively stamped in black and white and lettered in white.</p><p>First edition.</p><p><strong>Magnificent copy in its original illustrated cardboard very fresh.</strong></p><p>Originally written for his daughter Josephine there are twelve such stories all charmingly illustrated by Kipling himself.</p><p>There we find in particular the famous story of <em>The Elephant's Child.</em></p> Macmillan hardcover
1913135262London: Macmillan & Company 1913-38. The Bombay edition of Rudyard Kipling's collected works. Octavo 31 volumes bound in full morocco by Riviere & Son gilt titles to the spine gilt tooling and ruling to the spine front and rear panels raised bands inner dentelles top edge gilt marbled endpapers. One of 1050 sets with volume one signed by Rudyard Kipling. In fine condition. A very sharp set. The works of Rudyard Kipling contains his poetry novels stories travel writings childrens tales military tales and essays. Kipling in 1907 became the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize. Macmillan & Company hardcover
193052362Lausanne Gonin et Cie 1930 2 volumes in-4, demi-maroquin vert, plats de papier bois, dos sans nerfs; doublures et gardes de papier vert fonc, ttes dores, non rogns, couvertures illustres.Ce superbe ouvrage entirement conu, illustr et dcor par F.L. Schmied, comporte 59 compositions en couleurs, dont une rpte sur les couvertures, une vignette rpte sur les pages de titre, 15 planches hors-texte, 15 ttes-de-chapitre, 15 lettrines et 12 culs-de-lampe. Tirage limit 160 exemplaires numrots sur papier du Japon, signs par l'diteur. Un des 120 exemplaires. Exemplaire enrichi dune des 160 suites numrotes sur japon de 15 planches supplmentaires en couleurs. De la bibliothque W. Vincens Bouguereau (ex-libris grav).
1912015439London: Hodder & Stoughton 1912. De Lux edition printed on Japanese vellum limited to 100 signed copies. Book measures 27.5x21.cm. Bound in full calf gilt titles and tooling along with swastika symbol to the spine front and rear panels along with a embossed gilt elephant on the front board top edges gilt others uncut. Calf lightly rubbed some minor abrasion wear. Generally bindings in very good condition. Internally pages clean. A very nice copy. The anthology Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling which was released by Hodder & Stoughton in 1912 is an outstanding compilation that encompasses the vast array of poetic accomplishments associated with Kipling. This signed and limited-edition deluxe copy not only exemplifies his lyrical prowess but also constitutes a significant artefact of literary history. Featuring Kipling's autograph and bound in opulent materials this edition is a collector's delight and a testament to the enduring legacy of one of the most renowned authors in British history. Limited Edition. Calf. Very Good. Large 8vo. Hodder & Stoughton Paperback
194157419Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1941. Limited Edition. No. 148 of one thousand sets signed by Kipling in the first volume. Twenty-eight octavo volumes; red gilt-blocked beveled cloth top edges gilt fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; in uniform dustjackets. Front endpapers with printed bookplates of Harry Bishop Clapp to each pastedown and James Glen Mead to each free endpaper. The latter have caused some mild rippling to the endleaves else a fresh fine set in the original printed dustwrappers uniformly fine and free of darkening or wear. <br /> <br /> The authoritative edition of Kipling's works rarely found in the original dustwrappers and almost unheard of in this condition certainly the finest set to reach the market in the past twenty or more years. RICHARDS D25. Doubleday, Doran & Company unknown
