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1929255629London : Hodder & Stoughton 1929. Fourth Inclusive Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and blind-bordered cloth edges very slightly toned. Corners sharp with an overall tight bright and clean impression. Physical description; 743 pages. Notes; SIGNED by the author with a tipped in portrait. Subjects; Rudyard Kipling 1856-1936. Collected Verse. Poetry. 1885-1926. London : Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
189434252London 1894 1895: MacMillan 1894. 1st Edition. Near Fine. J. Lockwood Kipling with W. H. Drake & P. Fren. J. Lockwood Kipling with W. H. Drake & P. Fren. 1st Edition. Kipling Rudyard THE JUNGLE BOOK AND THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK. London: Macmillan 1894 1895. 8vo. 212 238p. Classic First Editions First Issue. Wonderfully illustrated in black and white throughout by Kipling's father J. Lockwood Kipling with W. H. Drake & P. Frenzeny. The Jungle Book bound in full blue calf four raised bands gilt titles to spine blue endpapers the front cover bound in. A lovely near fine or better copy all edges gilt WITH The Second Jungle Book bound in gilt ruled and titled half red calf & linen five raised bands covers bound in at the rear. A fine excellent example. "This most desirable pair will always fill an honorable place in any library of children's books" Quayle 87. Richards A76 & A85; Stewart 123 & 132. Livingston 104 116. A lovely mixed set of one of the cornerstone titles in children's literature and Kipling highlight and along with Just So Stories his most beloved work. First published in magazine format in 1893-4. British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling was born in India lived there & in England & wrote these stories when he lived in Vermont. The tales are fables using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The verses of The Law of the Jungle for example lay down rules for the safety of individuals families and communities. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or "heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle." Other readers have interpreted the work as allegories of the politics & society of the time. The best-known of them are the three stories revolving around the adventures of an abandoned "man cub" Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian Jungle with the help of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the black panther & then has to fight the tiger Shere Khan. The most famous of the other stories are probably "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" the story of a heroic mongoose and "Toomai of the Elephants" the tale of a young elephant-handler. "The White Seal" in which the main character seeks a haven for his people where they would be safe from hunters has been considered a metaphor for Zionism then in its beginning. As with much of Kipling's work each of the stories is preceded by a piece of verseand succeeded by another. MacMillan unknown
120466London Macmillan and Co. 1894 & 1895. . First editions second printings both published in the same year as the first printings 2 volumes; 8vo 195 x135 mm; The Jungle Book: original dark grey/green coated endpapers 2 blank frontispiece vi 2 contents 212pp 42 illustrations including 19 full-page spotting is moderately persistent throughout minor loss to front pastedown; The Second Jungle Book: original dark grey-green endpapers 2 blank 4 240pp 39 text illustrations including head-and tail-piece vignettes and historiated initials volume two is exceptionally clean and page are bright; uniformly bound in publisher's blue cloth decoratively ruled and pictorially stamped in gilt on front covers spines lettered in gilt all edges gilt corners bumped shelf wear to volume one with small chip to embossed decoration front board is slightly cocked whereas volume two remains in immaculate condition overall very good.<br /><br /><br /><br /> The Jungle Book is a 'collection of stories published in 1894. The Second Jungle Book published in 1895 contains stories linked by poems. The stories tell mostly of Mowgli an Indian boy who is raised by wolves from infancy and who learns self-sufficiency and wisdom from the jungle animals. The book describes the social life of the wolf pack and more fancifully the justice and natural order of life in the jungle. Among the animals whose tales are related in the work are Akela the wolf; Baloo the brown bear; Shere Khan the boastful Bengal tiger who is Mowgli's enemy; Kaa the python; Bagheera the panther; and Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose.' Merriam-Webster's Encyclopaedia of Literature.<br /> Livingston 104 & 116 London, Macmillan and Co., 1894 & 1895. hardcover
1890157591New York: United States Book Company successors to John W. Lovell Company 1890 1891. Rare in this near-fine condition First US edition first printing of the first trade book edition of Kipling's novel. This semi-autobiographical work deals with the theme of unrequited love; the elusive character Maisie is based on the Slade artist Flo Garrard who Kipling was unsuccessful in courting following the breakdown of his engagement to Caroline Taylor in 1890. The true first edition comprises a copyright edition which was filed for copyright in the US on 7 November 1890 and the serial rights were acquired by Lippincott's Monthly Magazine for its January 1891 issue appearing in Australia the UK and the US. On 12 November 1890 a copy of the present book the first US edition was deposited in the Library of Congress. It was not sold however until Lippincott's had been published. This edition prints the 12-chapter version with the "happy ending". Although Kipling originally wrote the novel with a "sad ending" the "happy ending" was the first to appear in print. The 14-chapter "sad ending" version in which the hero dies in battle was deposited in the Library of Congress on 26 November. Octavo. Original orange wrappers lettered and illustrated in black 22 vols in "Lovell's Westminster Series" listed on inside of rear wrapper. Housed in a custom red cloth chemise and red morocco-backed slipcase. Head and foot of spine together with top edge of front wrapper slightly chipped minor creasing to spine gatherings unopened; a near-fine and bright copy. Livingston 62; Stewart 84; Grolier 122; Richards A50. hardcover
64101Macmillan. London. 1913-1919. 25 volumes. TOGETHER WITH : RUDYARD KIPLING'S Verse INCLUSIVE EDITION 1885-1918. Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1919. 3 volumes. Original maroon cloth gilt uncut faded a little wear to the head of one spine one rear board with a couple of fine scratches one rear board slightly marked contents clean and tight overall good copies. Bombay Edition in the original publisher's binding of linen-backed boards top edges gilt uncut and some volumes partially unopened paper spine labels 8 chipped and worn one of them with about half loss each volume with a spare label tipped-in at the back a few joints weak but holding a touch of wear to a couple of spine ends some foxing of the end-papers and boards text bright and clean a good set overall. Six Supplementary volumes to the Bombay Edition were issued from 1927 up until 1938. These are not included. Macmillan. London. 1913-1919. 25 volumes. hardcover
1909182188New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. A gorgeous gift First US edition with Robinson's illustrations trade issue in a luxurious contemporary binding. First published in London this handsome work was specifically produced for the the Christmas illustrated book market. This publication collects the titular poem alongside "The Coastwise Lights" "The Song of the Dead" "The Deep-sea Cables" and "The Song of the Sons". Quarto 280 x 215 mm. Illustrations throughout by Heath Robinson plates 5 and 23 bound as doublures. Finely bound in green morocco spine lettered and decorated in compartments in gilt boards elaborately ruled and decorated in gilt gilt doublures with an illustration mounted to board verso cream moire silk endpapers. Spine slightly darkened a little professional colour to extremities silk lifting light foxing to contents: a fresh copy in a handsome binding very good. hardcover
001451Wiltshire: book illustrated limited 2015. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Lute Vink. Signed Limited Edition of 20 copies only this copy No.5. Small square 4to pp18 loose leaf colour prints of the original oil paintings with tissue guards of the illustrations to the companion edition each signed by Lute Vink housed in clamshell presentation box. Green cloth covered box lined with burgundy felt with gilt titles to spine and gilt tiger to front board in fine condition. All plates and signed title page in fine condition. A superb copy from the dutch born south African artist a BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013 finalist. Very scarce. <br/> <br/> book illustrated limited hardcover
1913933T61New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1913-1926. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6.5". Not Stated. A smart complete twenty-seven volume set of this limited edition of the works of Rudyard Kipling signed by the author. Complete in twenty-seven volumes. The Seven Seas edition. Volume one is signed by the author to the half title. Limited to one thousand and fifty copies of which this is number five hundred and ninety-two. With the original note of receipt of subscription issued to Mr. Archibald Harrald. A collection of the works of Joseph Rudyard Kipling an English journalist novelist poet and short-story writer born in British India which inspired much of his work. Kipling is best known for the Jungle Book duology Kim the Just So Stories and many of his short stories considered an innovator in the art of the short story writing and noted as having "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". This set contains: Plain Tales from the Hills 1914. Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys: In Black and White 1913. Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories 1913. From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches in two volumes 1913. Life's Handicap 1914. The Light That Failed 1914. The Naulahka 1914. Many Inventions 1914. Captain Courageous 1914. The Jungle Book 1914. The Second Jungle Book 1914. The Day's Work 1914. Stalky & Co. 1914. Kim 1914. Just So Stories 1914. Traffics and Discoveries 1915. Puck of Pook's Hill 1915. Rewards and Fairies 1915. Actions and Reactions 1915. Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads 1915. The Five Nations and The Seven Seas Etc. 1915. Songs from Books 1915. A Diversity of Creatures 1917. The Years Between and Parodies 1919. Letters of Travel 1920. Debits and Credits 1926. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally very smart with minor rubbing to the extremities and light fading to the spines. The odd small mark to the boards with light loss of the spine labels of volumes I II and VI only. Replacement spine labels inserted into a couple of the volumes. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot or handling mark. Small parts of the text block remain unopened to the first and last few pages of the odd volume. Light tide marks to the rear endpapers of volume four. Very Good Indeed Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
112906Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1891. Cloth 4 leaves pp. 108 5 leaves. Very good no dust jacket. In grey-green wrappers protected by beautiful timely and authentic red thatch indian cloth binding. Both covers present front loose. Has had some professional restoration. Minor wear to cloth spine. Cover designs were engraved by Brownlow Fforde. Wheeler first published this collection in 1890 shortly after Kipling left India and without his permission. Kipling demanded that the work be destroyed and apparently all but three were of which only one is currently known. Wheeler then published a second edition this one which Kipling also attempted to suppress. The attempt to suppress was not as successful but this edition is still quite scarce. Indian Railway Library No. XIV. Imprint at bottom of page 108: 'Printed at the "Pioneer" Press Allahabad'. A.H. Wheeler & Co. Hardcover
1921bb_king_kipling<p><b>KIPLING Rudyard; KING Jessie M illus.</b></p><p><b><i>L'habitation forcée.</i></b></p><p>Translated into French by Louis Fabulet and Robert D'Humieres.</p><p>Paris: René Kieffer 1921.</p><p>Square 4to. 93 pp. colophon 2 adverts; pictorial wrappers with Art Deco style design in black outline with blue pochoir decoration original protective glassine wrapper lightly tanned overall a fine copy.</p><p>Illustrated with Twenty <b>pochoir</b> color plates by Jessie M. King.</p><p>One of a Limited edition of 550 copies of which 500 were printed on velin paper and 50 copies printed on japon paper.</p><p>This copy is number <b>196</b> of the 500 on velin paper.</p><p>The delicate illustrations for this book are considered to be some of King's finest; prepared during Jessie M. King's time in Paris. They are reproduced using the stencil technique known as Pochoir which produces clearer and more vibrant colors.</p><p>Reference: Taylor <i>Art Nouveau Book in Britain</i> p. 136.</p> René Kieffer paperback
1926140953Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1926. First edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author's most sorrowful collections. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel black stamped ship vignette to the front panel. Boldly signed by Rudyard Kipling on the title page. 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. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1901135312London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1901. First English edition of what many consider Kipling’s masterpiece. Octavo original cloth. Illustrated with photographs of clay reliefs by John Lockwood Kipling including tissue-guarded frontispiece two pages of advertisements at rear. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box. An exceptional example. 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." It was the basis for the 1950 film starring Errol Flynn Dean Stockwell and Paul Lukas. 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." Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1901136986London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1901. First English edition of what many consider Kipling’s masterpiece. Octavo original cloth. Illustrated with photographs of clay reliefs by John Lockwood Kipling including tissue-guarded frontispiece two pages of advertisements at rear. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco made by Asprey and Garrard. An exceptional example. 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." It was the basis for the 1950 film starring Errol Flynn Dean Stockwell and Paul Lukas. 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." Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1922123604Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1922. Rare first American edition of Kipling's classic work on the Sorbonne. Octavo original publisher's half vellum text in French and English. One of fifty copies. In near fine condition. Scarce. 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, Page & Company hardcover
1891121637London: Macmillan and Co 1891. First edition of Kipling's first novel. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles to the spine publisher's gilt emblem to the front panel. In very good condition. 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. Macmillan and Co hardcover
1909121674New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. First edition of Kipling's thrilling science fiction novella. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles to the spine elaborate gilt vignette to the front panel pictorial endpapers illustrated in color by Frank X. Leyendecker and H. Reuterdahl tissue-guarded frontispiece. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in 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. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
199560427Gallery. New. 1995. Paperback. 1895442214 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 96 pp. With 53 ills. 13 col. . 26 x 22 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Gallery paperback
2015124313I.B.Tauris. New. 2015. Hardcover. 1784533335 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened with a bonus offer-- . I.B.Tauris hardcover
3864Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc. As New. 1956. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hardcover. 0385042450 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 505 pages. IMPORTANT: A clean copy with no marks to the interior pages no writing or underlining. Pages are intact and tight to the spine. One color illustration many pen and ink illustrations. 27 of Kipling's best known and well-loved stories; an autobiographical sketch; and 58 of his poems. -- with a bonus offer--; . Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover
201197193Gallery. New. 2011. Hardcover. 0980996287 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 144 pages; 150 illustrations in color. -- with a bonus offer-- . Gallery hardcover
1898AQ20407London: Published by William Heinemann 1898. 12 Lithographs in colour on cartridge paper Original publisher's cloth-backed pictorial paper boards contemporary original glassine dustwrapper. A trifle marked short tears to dustwrapper at spine. Endpapers browned light offsetting else internally immaculate. A fine copy. A remarkably well-preserved copy of the first edition issued in 1897 with title pages postdated 1898 of this scarce sporting plate book illustrated by William Nicholson 1872-1949 with text by Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936. The 12 marvellous plates one for each month depict: Hunting January Coursing February Racing March Boating April Fishing May Cricket June Archery July Coaching August Shooting September Golf October Boxing November and Skating December. . First edition. Quarto. Published by William Heinemann hardcover
1891002222London: Macmillan & Co. 1891 1891. C. L. DODGSON'S COPY FIRST EDITION 3RD PRINTING. 1 vol. initialed on the title page by Dodgson bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped blue cloth front inner hinge fine rear inner hinge just starting outer hinges fine head and foot of spine fine internally clean and bright A VERY GOOD COPY. See "Dodgson At Auction" #368 London: Macmillan & Co., 1891 hardcover
7526London: Folio Society 1991. Bound by Haein Song in 2010 in a Bradel binding with reverse goatskin spine. 168 x 242 x 31 mms. Front and back boards covered in hand dyed goatskin with white tooling. Monoprinted endpapers with leather joint to panel doublures. Housed in the original red cloth clamshell box with printed label on spine.Haein Song originally from Seoul in South Korea is a fellow of Designer Bookbinders and a remarkable book artist. Her bindings and artist’s books are in many public and private collections and her work is much sought after. Folio Society hardcover
1911020095Bateman's 19 August 1911. Letter. Folds from mailing. Near Fine. Superb handwritten unpublished two-page letter on both sides of a 9" x 7" sheet of paper folded in half so that the writing is not back to back. Written to John Fleming the husband of Kipling's sister Alice "Trix" about Trix's mental health following her mental breakdown after the deaths of their parents which occurred the previous year. In part: "We are just back from a trip abroad and I find the enclosed letter for Trix waiting for me here. It is some time since I have had news and I have not cared to trouble you because I knew that if there was any news to tell you would have written it but I should like to know how Trix is progressing. Mr Macdonald has written me that Trix would like to have the painted fire screen from the dining room at The Gables Kipling's parents' home. I sent the . entrée dishes . to be put with her other things & I sent at the same time an 'Outward Bound' edition which you said you thought she would like to have." SIGNED in full. In the same month this letter was written Kipling wrote "In the Same Boat" a short story about psychological healing which was published in both HARPER'S MAGAZINE and later in the collection of tales A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES. With a printed description from Maggs Bros. <br/><br/>This was part of a Kipling family archive that came down through Helen MacDonald a great niece of Rudyard Kipling's mother Alice MacDonald. Alice's three sisters were married to Edward Burne Jones Edward Poynter and Alfred Baldwin father of 20th century British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. unknown
1901021965London: Macmillan and Co. 1901. First British Edition. Hardcover. About Fine. Published in the U.S. 16 days prior to the British publication. Bound by Bayntun in full red calf leather with gilt rules on the covers gilt-decorated spine with gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels gilt dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt 5" x 7-3/4". Considered to be Kipling's greatest work and the finest novel about the India of the British Empire. <br/><br/> Macmillan and Co. hardcover