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1959WRCLIT83693Toronto: Dalhousie University Press and University of Toronto Press 1959. xv36731pp. Large thick octavo. Gilt red cloth. Portrait and plates. Spine gilding very slightly oxidized otherwise near fine without dust jacket. First edition trade issue. Until the publication of David Richards' bibliography this was for a generation or two the most inclusive bibliography of A & B items. Dalhousie University Press and University of Toronto Press hardcover books
1959WRCLIT82851Toronto: Dalhousie University Press and University of Toronto Press 1959. xv36731pp. Large thick octavo. Gilt red cloth. Portrait and plates. Near fine without dust jacket. First edition trade issue. Until the publication of David Richards' bibliography this was for a generation or two the most inclusive bibliography of A & B items. Dalhousie University Press and University of Toronto Press hardcover books
1984007039Vermont: The Artist 1984. SCARCE original hand-colored woodblock print by the beloved Caldecott Award winning artist and illustrator. Pencil signed lower right "MA '84". Fine. Rudyard Kipling quote reads ; "GOD GAVE ALL MEN ALL EARTH TO LOVE BUT SINCE OUR HEARTS ARE SMALL ORDAINED FOR EACH ONE SPOT SHOULD PROVE BELOVED OVER ALL." . SIGNED BY ARTIST. Print. Fine. 11" w x 11 3/4" h. The Artist Paperback books
191740830New York: Harper & Brothers 1917. 1st printing. OCLC records 4 holding institutions. Printed paper wrappers stapled. Front wrapper with image of a seated Twain in his white suit cigar in mouth holding a kitten in his lap. General wear. Age toning. Very Good. Unpaginated though 13 pages of text including inner rear wrapper. "Kipling Meets Mark Twain" p. 13. Illustrated. 9-1/8" x 6" <br/><br/>"The story in this book is made up of extracts from the 'Life of Mark Twain' by Albert Bigelow Paine published by Harper & Brothers. In reading the following remember that Tom Sawyer was Mark Twain whose real name was Sam Clemens - Sid Sawyer was Henry Clemens - and Huck Finn was Tom Blankenship." The Kipling piece apparently first published in the New York Herald 1890 cf. Richards C513. [Harper & Brothers] unknown books
1926WRCLIT61921Garden City: Doubleday 1926. Quarto. Three quarter burgundy morocco and batik boards t.e.g. spine elaborately gilt extra by Bennett. Color plates. First American edition trade issue. Extremities rubbed but a very good copy. REILLY WWI p.190. RICHARDS A366. STEWART 525n. Doubleday hardcover books
1919WRCLIT71843London: Methuen and Co. 1919. Red cloth stamped in gilt t.e.g. Pictorial vignette on title. Very near fine in faintly soiled dust jacket with minor use at crown of spine. First edition trade issue of one of the key collective volumes of Kipling's war verse. Its popularity was anticipated by the publishers who ordered a printing of 100000 copies according to Richards. RICHARDS A320. STEWART 434. REILLY WWI p. 191. Methuen and Co. hardcover 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
192852436London: Macmillan 1928. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo. 20cm.; red cloth w stamped elephant in gilt on cover /titles gilt on spine; top edge gilt; dustjacket; 299pp.; light wear only a Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped with a short closed tear at crown of spine; small spot of soiling to front panel; a Near Fine or better DJ. This collection has thirty-one speeches. Macmillan unknown books
19090019New York: B. W. Dodge & Co 1909. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. 360pp. Second issue bound in a blue pictorial cloth depicting a ship on the high sea; red lettering spine and front cover. A clean bright copy in very good dust jacket with repair to rear panel along bottom edge duplicating the jacket design. <br/><br/> B. W. Dodge & Co hardcover books
1909722871909. KIPLING Rudyard. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. New York: B. W. Dodge & Company 1909. First American unauthorized edition. viii360 pp. Octavo. In a striking publisher's binding of dark blue cloth decorated on the spine and upper board with a wraparound seascape design showing a ship upon the sea below layers of clouds with the title and author's name in bright gilt. This is a near-fine copy being clean and crisp overall but skewed at spine and with a touch of shelfwear to cloth. This is a pirated edition containing thirty stories letters and articles and one poem of which twenty-two of the stories and the poem had previously appeared in Turn-overs. The individual pieces were written during Kipling's journey in 1889 from India to England and were first printed in periodicals The Civil & Military Gazette The Week's News and The Pioneer between 1888-90. To combat the sale of this unauthorized edition Kipling instructed Doubleday Page & Co. to issue a volume containing the same material at a reduced price. Stewart 324 Livingston 328. unknown books
1909122911New York: B. W. Dodge & Company 1909. First edition first issue of of Kipling's 1909 short story collection with gold lettering to the spine and front panel. Octavo original blue cloth with gold titles to the spine and front panel. In 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. Published in this unauthorized or pirated edition months before the authorized edition was approved by Kipling and published Abaft the Funnel includes such short stories as The Fallen Idol The Shadow of His Hand The Three Young Men A Death in the Camp and Chautauquaed. B. W. Dodge & Company hardcover books
19044003BOSTON BARTLETT 1904 1904. DARK GRAY BOARDS; 10 PAGES SECOND EDITION VERY GOOD. Hardcover. BOSTON, BARTLETT, 1904 hardcover books
1931122490London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1931. Deluxe first edition of this collection by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo original boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine gilt vignette to the front panel marbled endpapers ribbon bound in illustrated by Reginald Cleaver. Fine in the rare original publisher's box 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. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1902WRCLIT71957Stockholm: Hugo Gebers Förlag 1902. Small octavo. Pictorial red cloth stamped in white and black. Illustrations and plates. Ink gift inscription in upper margin of title a couple small spots on upper board and a few marginal smudges inner hinges show signs of having been repaired early on; still a good copy. First Swedish edition translated by H. Flygare. Published in the same year as the UK and US editions. Hugo Gebers Förlag hardcover books
1902196291Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz 1902. Rare Tauchnitz edition of Kipling's classic collection of stories with 22 illustrations by Kipling himself. Small octavo original cloth illustrated by Rudyard Kipling. In very good condition. Rare in the original cloth. Just So Stories has "achieved nursery immortality because a genius has married two of the most tried and trusted favorite media--the fable and the fairy-story" Muir 107. "Kipling's own witty black-and-white drawings. together with their extensive and ridiculous captions are one of the chief delights of the book" Carpenter & Prichard 285. Bernhard Tauchnitz hardcover books
1932163003GARDEN CITY DOUBLEDAY DORAN & COMPANY 1932 1932. DUST JACKET CLIPPED FIRST AMERICAN EDITION VERY GOOD FRESH COPY. 1st Edition. Hardcover. GARDEN CITY, DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY, 1932 hardcover books
1932197700London Macmillan and Co. Limited 1932. 1932. First edition. 8vo. Original gilt stamped red cloth t.e.g. Dust jacket unclipped; small nick. Fine fresh. F. Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1932. hardcover books
1906262228New York: Doubleday 1906. hardcover. very good. Rackham Arthur. 4 colored Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 8vo original green cloth stamped in gilt & black. New York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1906. First American Edition.<br/><br/> Ownership signature. The Rackham illustrations did not appear in the English Edition.<br/><br/> Doubleday unknown books
1906196103London Macmillan and Co. 1906. 1906. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated by H.R. Millan. Original gilt stamped red cloth. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. F. Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co. [1906]. hardcover books
19266653New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1926. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Donald Maxwell. Quarto. 94 pages 24 mounted color plates. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering in dust jacket with light wear at spine ends and age toning at spine. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1912121421Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1912. First edition of this selection of songs from Kipling's children's stories. Octavo original illustrated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. 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. Songs From Books contains songs The Recall Cuckoo Song The New Knighthood Puck Rewards and Fairies Kim Actions and Reactions and The Truthful Song among dozens of others. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1933196204London Macmillan 1933. 1933. First edition. Thin 8vo. Original full gilt stamped red morocco t.e.g. Dust jacket unclipped; no chips. Fine fresh. No signatures or bookplates. F. Hardcover. London, Macmillan [1933]. hardcover books
191852415New York: doubleday 1918. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm.; green cloth over dark gray boards; paper title plate on cover and spine; dustjacket; 101pp.; A Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped with tears to the extremities; Very Good only.<br/><br/>The book consists of four stories that read as letters home from soldiers from India and the North-West Frontier which take place in 1915 and 1916. "A Retired Gentleman" and "The Fumes of the Heart" are both fictionalized letters written from the perspective of wounded Indian soldiers a Rajput and a Sikh to their families. The second is cast as a dictated letter from a Sikh soldier to his brother and has dramatic asides and digressions from the injured soldier punctuating the text. As for the remaining two stories "The Private Account" is presented as a scene showing an Afghan family reading and responding to a letter from their son on the Western Front and the final story "A Trooper of Horse" takes the form of a letter from an unwounded Muslim soldier in France to his mother. doubleday unknown books
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