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190224541London: Macmillan and Co 1902. First edition large 8vo pp. 6 249 2; 22 plates by Kipling; full red niger morocco t.e.g. gilt lettered direct on gilt paneled spine original pictorial red cloth front cover bound in at the back. "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. Livingston 267. <br/><br/> Macmillan and Co hardcover books
189121453Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co 1891. First published and second Indian edition issued as no. 14 in Wheeler's Indian Railway Library series; 8vo pp. 4 ads and opinions of the press 4 108 10 ads and opinions of the press; original printed front wrapper a little chipped at edges no loss of letterpress bottom third of spine perished and with a clean tear in the upper cover no loss; the whole in a half red morocco slipcase. Stewart 93; Livingston 70. <br/><br/> A.H. Wheeler & Co unknown books
190224541London: Macmillan and Co 1902. First edition large 8vo pp. 6 249 2; 22 plates by Kipling; full red niger morocco t.e.g. gilt lettered direct on gilt paneled spine original pictorial red cloth front cover bound in at the back. "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. Livingston 267. Macmillan and Co unknown
192958599Paris: Henri Jonquières 1929. Fine. Henri Jonquières Paris 1929 12 x 19 cm broché First edition of the French translation one of 10 numbered copies on Madagascar the deluxe issue. A very handsome copy. Henri Jonquières unknown
1914001227London: The Times / J.P. Bland 1915 1914. Book. Good. Hardcover. Collection of The Times Monthly Reviews of the War with the following dates: October 1 1914 Campaign in France; November 3 1914 Campaign in France and Belgium; December 1 1914 The Campaign in Poland; January 5 1915 The Advance of the Allies in the West; March 1 1915 The War in the West week by week; April 1 1915 The British Victories in Flanders. Plan of the Battlefields of Neuve Chapelle and St. Eloi.; May 1 1915 The Critical Battlefield in Flanders; June 1 1915 The Battlefields of French Artois; July 1 1915 In the District of the Somme; August 1 1915 Review of the First Year of the War; September 1 1915 The New Landing in Gallipoli Peninsula; October 1 1915 The German Advance into West Russia; October 6 1915 The War Clouds of the Balkans' map war reports; November 1 1915 The Invasion of Serbia; December 1 1915 Greece and the Balkan Campaign; January 4 1916 The Threatened Invasion of Egypt; February 1 1916 The Approaches to Salonika; March 1 1916 Diary of the war war reports. The Maps double page: 1. The Main Fortress of the Western Campaign 2. Map of the Frontier of France 3. Map of the Western Campaign 4. Map of Paris Environs 5. Map of the North-Eastern Theatre of War 6. Map of the Balkans 7. Map of the World 8. Map of the North Sea 9. The Times War Maps showing 4 small maps - The Partitions of Poland 2 maps Austro-Montenegrau Frontier Austro-Italian Frontier 10. Map of the are of the European War in 2 sheets. During the course of 1914 and 1915 some of the most celebrated poets of the day published their work The Times. These included Kipling Laurence Binyon 1869-1943 de La Mare Noyes et al. This special supplement collected these poems illustrated with evocative line drawings. This issue preceded the election of the Lloyd George cabinet of 1916 and Northcliffe's appointment as Director of Propaganda. Although undoubtedly patriotic in its inspiration this supplement is less shrill in tone than its contemporary Northcliffe's Overseas Daily Mail which expressed in no uncertain terms its mission to recruit young men from the Dominions into the sorry ranks of those bogged down on the Western Front. In good condition edges tanned with tears wet stain on some pages on the bend. . The Times / J.P. Bland [1915] Hardcover
15451Allahabad: A H Wheeler & co 1888. True first Indian edition. 8vo vii 104pp vii. Original green-grey paper wrappers. The wrappers are detached but present the backstrip is lightly chipped there is a tear to the first page of advertisements and there are small chips to the leading edge of pp 19-24. Nonetheless the contents are in good to very good condition and this is a good copy overall of a fragile book. The book is now housed in a red cloth and morocco case with a red cloth chemise wear to the top edge of the case. The true first edition first issue with "Mufid I am Press Lahore" on the front wrapper Martindell pp27/28. Allahabad: A H Wheeler & co, [1888]. hardcover
42265regretting that he does "not see the least chance of being able to come up to London in time for your meeting but I do not think it is necessary to assure you of my very keen interest in the object of it. Nobody who has travelled even up and down the line from the colony to Pretoria can fail to see the enormous amount of work that there is to be done and of course away from the line that work is even more urgent." 1 side A4 Bateman's Burwash 6th June unknown
73168London: Macmillan and Company 1902. Illustrated FIRST EDITION first impression in second issue binding with lettering intact. Large Octavo 24 x 19cm pp.6 249 3 With illustrations by the author. Publisher's decorative red cloth boards blocked in white and black depicting notable incidents from the stories. Contents clean no ink names minor spotting to endpapers cloth with a few small marks and rubs inside paper joints at rear cracked otherwise an excellent copy. The original collection of Kipling's popular animal stories including "How the Whale Got his Throat" "The Elephant's Child" and "The Butterfly That Stamped" Stewart 260 Richards A181. London: Macmillan and Company, 1902 unknown
192555068Mercure de France | Paris 1925 | 12.50 x 19 cm | broché
000242Sampson Low Marston Searle London 1890. First English. edition. Pictorial. Good. Some minor chipping binding rubbed and soiled. 8vo. Bound with "In Black and White" "The City of Dreadful Night" all First English editions in original wraps. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle London, 1890. paperback
1909700632London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909 London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909 First English separate edition. First autograph edition. Number 167 of edition of 500. Signed and numbered by the artist W. Heath Robinson on the verso of an additional leaf placed before the fore-title bound in white vellum lettered in gold and illustrated on the front in dark green and gold. Boards are somewhat strung original case is missing. Printed on heavy untrimmed cream stock thirty tipped-in color illustrations with paper not tissue guards plus B&W drawings on every page. "The Song of the English" was first published in the English Illustrated Magazine May 1893. It was then presented as a collection by The Seven Seas. This edition published by Hodder & Stoughton was produced for the Christmas season in 1909. The poetry collection which includes six subsidiary poems with illustrations in colour and black and white by W Heath Robinson. These are some of Kipling's earliest verses setting out his version of the British Empire and the duties that it imposes on the English people. His definition of 'the English' is wide embracing all of the Anglo-Saxon dominions and probably the United States. The theme underlying this collection is that the English are the Chosen under the Lord as long as they obey the Higher Law a theme he again returned to in "Recessional "1897 and "White Man's Burden" 1898. The illustrator William Heath Robinson 1872 -1944 was born and educated in London. His early career involved illustrating books - among others: Hans Christian Andersen's Danish Fairy Tales and Legends 1897; The Arabian Nights 1899; Tales From Shakespeare 1902 and Twelfth Night 1908 Andersen's Fairy Tales 1913 A Midsummer Night's Dream 1914 Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies 1915 and Walter de la Mare's Peacock Pie 1916. In the course of his work Heath Robinson also wrote and illustrated three children's books The Adventures of Uncle Lubin 1902 Bill the Minder 1912 and Peter Quip in Search of a Friend 1922. Uncle Lubin is regarded as the start of Heath Robinson's career in the depiction of unlikely machines. During the First World War he drew large numbers of cartoons depicting ever-more-unlikely secret weapons being used by the combatants. In England his name became a byword for unlikely contraptions very like Rube Goldberg's name became in the US. By Heath Robinson Illustrator. Edition of 500. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Published. Illus. by W. Heath Robinson. Thick Crown Quarto. Signed by Illustrator. Edition of 500. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Published. Illus. by W. Heath Robinson. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
18973108<p>London: Macmillan 1897. 8vo Rebound by Bayntun-Riviere. First English Edition illustrations by I.W. Taber. Gilt page block. Clean throughout. Rebound with original covers inserted in back.</p> Macmillan hardcover
190929913London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909. Limited edition no. 272 of 500 copies signed by Robinson 4to xvi 114 pp. 30 coloured plates tipped in with captioned tissues plus further black and white illustrations in the text. Original publisher's gilt decorated vellum t.e.g. lacking the ties and with some light soiling and browning. London: Hodder & Stoughton unknown
121373London Macmillan and Co. 1895. . First edition; 8vo 195 x135 mm; 39 text illustrations including head and tail-piece vignettes and historiated initials contemporary gift inscription to ffep usual age-toning and spotting to prelims blemish to pp 176-177; publisher's blue cloth decoratively ruled and pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover spine lettered in gilt all edges gilt embossed front cover unusually bright despite minor shelf wear and small stain to front cover in very good condition; 2 blank 6 238pp 2 advertisements.<br /><br /><br /><br /> The Jungle Book is a 'collection of stories published in 1894; it's sequel 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 116 London, Macmillan and Co., 1895. hardcover
58165London: William Heinemann 1898. FIRST EDITION. 4to. 31 x 25 cm. Original pictorial boards printed in black advertisement for "An Alphabet" at rear. 12 full page lithographed illustrations each with accompanying leaf of verse by Kipling. Light soiling to binding f.f.e.p. browned inner hinge partially cracked but holding strong contents clean and fresh. William Nicholson 1872 – 1949 was a British painter of still-life landscape and portraits. He also worked as a wood-engraver as an illustrator as an author of children's books and as a designer for the theatre. London: William Heinemann, 1898. hardcover
1919028549UK: Methuen 1919. First Edition Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1919. Signed by the author to the title page. Signed trade editions are very uncommon. Forty-five poems and a series of epitaphs. First appearance of 3 of the poems. Book is very good and bright. Spine a little lightened. Contents good. The wrapper is very good and very bright. Repriced on spine. Excellent provenance. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18468/18472 <br/> <br/> Methuen hardcover
1900894Q25Santiago de Chile: Hume & Co. 1900 . First edition. Paperback. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 5". None. A scarce first edition of this unauthorised collection of poetry and articles by Rudyard Kipling published in Chile and largely written during the Boer War. First edition in the publisher's original paper wraps. Scarce.From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son literary agent of Rudyard Kipling. Written by celebrated English novelist poet and short-story writer Rudyard Kipling known for his popular work 'The Jungle Book'. This collection of poetry was published in Chile with many of the poems written during Kipling's time working for the British War effort in the Boer War. Comprised of seven poems and two articles with two of the poems and both articles appearing here in book-form for the first time. This collection also includes letters from author Julian Ralph reporter Charles E. Hands and Douglas Story. This collection is suggested to be the only known case of a book being published in a country that was never visited by the author. The publisher Hume & Co. was said to be an huge admirer of Kipling's although overestimated the public demand meaning his print-run of 400 copies were largely left unsold or burnt. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally very smart with light offsetting and a little sunning. Small mark to the head of the rear wrap with slight markings from the staples externally and to endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean with slight age toning. Many pages have been left unopened. Very Good Indeed Hume & Co. paperback
1898218743New York: R. H. Russell 1898. First American edition. Illustrated with 12 colored lithographs after Nicholson's hand-colored woodblocks one for each month. 1 vols. Thin 4to. Buff pictorial paper boards linen cloth spine. Very good copy. First American edition. Illustrated with 12 colored lithographs after Nicholson's hand-colored woodblocks one for each month. 1 vols. Thin 4to. This Nicholson gem which along with his LONDON TYPES and TWELVE PORTRAITS represents the summit of Nicholson's art in this medium. The twelve sports one for each month are: 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 each accompanied by a whimsical verse by Kipling. Campbell William Nicholson: The Graphic Work33c and pp. 44-54; Livingston 145; Grolier Kipling p. 5 R. H. Russell unknown
1897202London: Macmillan 1897. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Kipling's popular nautical tale with vivid descriptions of the Massachusetts fishing industry. The basis for the 1937 film starring Spencer Tracy Lionel Barrymore and Mickey Rooney. London: Macmillan 1897. Octavo original cloth gilt all edges gilt. With illustrations by I.W. Taber. Book slightly cocked as often; a few spots to cloth crease to rear endpaper. Text unusually clean and cloth gilt bright. Without scarce dust jacket. Macmillan hardcover books
1927WRCLIT76860London: Macmillan and Co 1927. Twenty-six volumes of an eventual thirty-one. Large octavos. Holland backed blue boards printed spine labels t.e.g. others untrimmed. Some general slight tanning and shelfwear occasional inner hinges cracking or cracked occasional tan offsetting from endsheets to facing leaves several of the spare labels absent evidently utilized. Nonetheless a good reasonably sound set ideal for binding purposes. From an edition initially limited to 1050 copies of each through volume twenty and thereafter to five hundred copies of each volume printed on handmade paper and signed by Kipling in the first volume. There was a hiatus after the publication of the 26th volume in 1927 and the remaining five volumes finally appeared in 1938 resulting in a number of extant sets terminating with the final volume present here or with the 20th. RICHARDS D14. STEWART pp. 572-3. LIVINGSTON pp.454-6. Macmillan and Co hardcover books
1891124503Allahabad: Wheeler 1891. First. paperback. very good. 108 pp. ads. Thin 8vo original gray-green printed wrappers corners of front wrapper chipped. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler 1891.<br/><br/> Excellent copy of the first published technically the second Indian edition an unauthorized collection with the same title having been printed in 1890 but suppressed. Printed at the "Pioneer" Press bottom of p 108. Issued as No.IV of the Indian Railway Library. Stewart 93. Livingston 70.<br/><br/> Wheeler unknown books
19091262601London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909. First Edition. 4to. unpaginated; VG; bound in white vellum with gilt lettering and gilt green and red vignettes on front board and spine; 30 tipped-in color plates in a green decorative border with printed tissue-guards including frontispiece; ties missing; top edge gilt others uncut; this edition is limited to five hundred copies signed by the artist and numbered of which this is number 45; foxing throughout does not impact color plates; bookplate belonging to Jacobi R. W. Robinson on inside front board; boards curving as is typical of vellum; DC consignment; shelved case 14. 1262601. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
19091262601London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto unpaginated. In Very Good condition. Bound in white vellum with gilt lettering and gilt green and red vignettes on front board and spine. Thirty tipped-in color plates with green decorative border and printed tissue-guards including frontispiece. Ties missing. Top edge gilt; fore edge and lower edge uncut. This edition is limited to five hundred copies signed by the artist and numbered of which this is number 75. Foxing throughout not impacting color plates. Bookplate belonging to Jacobi R. W. Robinson on inside front board. Boards curving as is typical of vellum. DC Consignment. Shelved in Case 14. 1262601. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
1897202London: Macmillan 1897. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Kipling's popular nautical tale with vivid descriptions of the Massachusetts fishing industry. The basis for the 1937 film starring Spencer Tracy Lionel Barrymore and Mickey Rooney. London: Macmillan 1897. Octavo original cloth gilt all edges gilt. With illustrations by I.W. Taber. Book slightly cocked as often; a few spots to cloth crease to rear endpaper. Text unusually clean and cloth gilt bright. Without scarce dust jacket. Macmillan hardcover
190240117London: Macmillan and Co 1902. Very good plus. First edition of this children's classic with twelve myths about the origins of the animals illustrated by the author himself. Kipling wrote JUST SO STORIES for his own children particularly his first child Josephine "Effie" to help her fall asleep. Kipling was the son of an artist and the nephew of Edward Burne-Jones; his accomplished illustrations for these stories draw on influences as wide as Navajo art Japanese prints and the drawings of Aubrey Beardsley. While Kipling's own reputation would rise and fall alongside the culture of British imperialism these stories do not borrow from the folklore of other cultures: they constitute their own form of legend which English-speaking children of the next hundred years would experience through the sound of their parents' voices before bed. Large octavo. 9.25'' x 7''. Original full pictorial red cloth stamped in black and white spine lettered and ornamented in white. Illustrated by Kipling with 22 full-page black-and-white plates and vignettes throughout text. First impression in the second issue binding with higher quality white coloring used for stamping the first issue binding flaked severely and required change. 6 249 3 pages. Bookplate on front pastedown ink gift inscription on front free endpaper. Touch of toning to spine rubbing at spine ends and corners some foxing to first and last few leaves. Macmillan and Co unknown