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1923W31505New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1923. Original dark blue cloth paper spine labels with blue lettering and gilit medallion ornament on upper covers. Spine labels a little chipped but not affecting text. Hinges starting in Vol. 1. Some wear on spine ends and edges. TEG other edges untrimmed. Brick Row NY dealer ticket on front pastedown Vol. 1. First American Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Doubleday, Page & Company Hardcover books
1897157490New York: D. Appleton and Company 1897. Hardcover. VG Lovely binding; slight soiling to cloth; light foxing on occasional pages; otherwise crisp and clean. Brown cloth gilt letters and decoration on spine and front cover gilt top edges; 209 text pp. plus 6 ad pp. at rear. A collection of 43 poems and ballads penned by renown English author Rudyard Kipling. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1919120774London: Methuen and Co. Ltd 1919. First edition of this collection of 45 poems often considered Kipling's darkest work. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Kipling's The Years Between includes: The Benefactors The Choice A Death-Bed Epitaphs Natural Theology A Pilgrim's Way and The Song of the Lathes. Methuen and Co., Ltd hardcover books
1904WRCLIT71910London: Macmillan 1904. Gilt cloth t.e.g. First British edition uncorrected '35.8.04' state of the ads. Endsheets foxed but a very good copy in internally mended and rather darkened and chipped printed dust jacket. STEWART 295. RICHARDS A198. Macmillan hardcover books
1904140831021London: Macmillan & Co 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition First Printing. First issue hardcover with ads at rear dated 35.8.04. In a lovely later state dust jacket printed in black ink first state was printed in red. In VG condition. Pages show foxing heaviest at prelims terminals and side edge of page block. Light edge wear to cloth light rubbing to gilt stamping slight darkening to spine cloth. The dust jacket shows edge wear with chipping at corners and loss to top of spine as well as a few tears and creases darkening to spine panel. Uncommon in early dust jacket. Macmillan & Co hardcover books
1892193054LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1892 1892. ORIGINAL TERRA COTTA CLOTH STAMPED IN GILT AND DARK RED; LIVINGSTON 85. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. LONDON, WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1892 hardcover books
1911123044Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1911. First edition of Kipling and Fletcher's history of Great Britain for boys and girls. Quarto original cloth illustrated with colored plates and maps by Henry Ford. In very good condition. Kipling and Fletcher's A History of England covers the history of Great Britain and the British Empire from the departure of the Romans through Saxon England and the Middle Ages the eras of the Tudors and Stuarts the American Rebellion and Great French War up until the Kingdom and Dominion of the Georges. Fletcher contributed most of the historical text with Kipling's assistance and contribution of 23 poems. Illustrator Henry Ford was best known for his work in Andrew Lang's colored Fairy books. The Clarendon Press hardcover books
120349London: Hodder and Stoughton nd. First edition of this book for Girl Guides containing stories by Rudyard Kipling Katharine Tyman Bella Sindey Woolf and many others. Quarto original publishers cloth with colored pictorial onlay to the front panel. With seven illustrations in color by Edmund Dulac Margaret Tarrant Lawson Wood Heath Robinson and others on mounted plates. In very good condition. Edited by Ann Kindersley The Guiding Book contains Rudyard Kipling's To The True Romance John Masefield's The Examples of Great Men Roger Mackarness's Royalty Bella Sidney Woolf's Padmavati and Katharine Tynan's Saints and Warriors among many other tales. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover books
1892194285New York: Macmillan and Co 1892. First American edition of Kipling and Balestier's ambitious narrative. Octavo original publisher's cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel. In very good condition. The Naulahka: A Story of West and East was originally serialized in Century Magazine from November 1891 to July 1892. Written in by Kipling in collaboration with American writer and publishing agent Wolcott Balestier and set in the fictional state of "Rahore" believed to be based on Rajputana it is an intriguing story of ambition love and royal court trappings. Kipling would later name his historic Shingle Style house in Dummerston Vermont Naulakha where he resided from 1893 to 1896 and wrote Captains Courageous The Jungle Book The Day's Work and The Seven Seas and did work on Kim and The Just So Stories. Macmillan and Co hardcover books
190912012Boston / London:: Edinburgh Society. Very Good. 1909. Hardcover. B000RFZAAI . Complete in ten volumes: BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS AND OTHER VERSES LETTERS OF MARQUE THE LIGHT THAT FAILED MINE OWN PEOPLETHE PHANTOM 'RICKSHAW PLAIN TALK FROM THE HILLS SOLDIERS THREE THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS IN BLACK AND WHITE UNDER THE DEODARS and WEE WILLIE WINKIE: CITY OF THE DREADFUL NIGHT AMERICAN NOTES. Illustrated - about four plates per volume. The Edinburgh de luxe edition one thousand copies. Octavos bound in blue cloth with paper labels along the spines top edges gilt. Age toning to spine labels else all volumes are very good. No dust jackets. . Edinburgh Society, hardcover books
1968191405Lunenburg Vermont: The Limited Editions Club 1968. The Limited Editions Club edition of Kipling's Jungle Books. Quarto original half cloth over marbled boards all edges speckled green. Illustrated by David Gentleman. Introduction by Bonamy Dobree. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by David Gentleman this is number 134. Fine in the original green slipcase which is in near fine condition. Kipling's Jungle Books center on the story of Mowgli an orphaned 'man-cub' who is raised in the jungle of India by wolves where he comes to learn the Laws of the Jungle. A major theme throughout the books is abandonment followed by fostering as in the life of Mowgli echoing Kipling's own childhood. Another is law vs. freedom; the stories are not about animal behavior but about human archetypes in animal form. The books remain popular to this day and have been adapted several times for film and other media including the classic Walt Disney 1967 animation and its 2016 remake. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1938WRCLIT83690Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1938. xiv2333pp. Gilt cloth. A near fine unopened copy without dust jacket. First edition. Signed by the compiler on the title-page and inscribed by her on the half- title. The inscription is to a great extent illegible a testament to Livingston's deteriorating eyesight. Harvard University Press hardcover books
1899WRCLIT41661New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. 1899. Printed paper boards. Frontis portrait. Tiny loss from crown of spine edges a bit rubbed and slightly darkened two small spots of endsheets unfortunate adhesive book label of noted Kipling collector else a very good copy of a fragile book. First separate edition the text revised. Copy #4 of one hundred copies printed. A substantial Kipling-approved biographical sketch published in WINDSOR and McCLURE'S MAGAZINE and included in the 1899 Doubleday edition of PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS. LIVINGSTON 26n. Doubleday & McClure Co. hardcover books
1912D1238Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth ornate blindstamped border and gilt-stamped lettering and illustration on upper board gilt-stamped lettering and border on spine; with 10 tipped plates printed in green and black in ornate blue and red borders. Spine tips rubbed and frayed; hinges weak. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1936121648Brattleboro: Stephen Daye Press 1936. First edition of Howard Rice's Rudyard Kipling in New England. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. In his review in the Boston Herald Carl Van Doren recommended ". this indispensable Kipling item with its pleasant informing story of the four years 1892-96 Kipling lived in Vermont near Brattleboro where he had his first house where his first child was born and where he wrote 'The Jungle Books." Stephen Daye Press hardcover books
1901014822DoubledayPage & Company 1901. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In Decorative Cloth First Edition 1901/1901 Excellent Fresh Copy Book Plate. Doubleday,Page & Company Hardcover books
1926285606Garden City New York: Doubleday Page and Company 1926. Three Quarters Leather. Very Good binding. The Sea and Sussex with illustrations by Donald Maxwell and verses by Rudyard Kipling complete with 24 plates. Verse and illustration on opposite pages. No marks of any kind. Three quarters polished navy calf over blue cloth; gilt lettering and decoration on the spine. Very Good. Very Good binding. Doubleday, Page and Company unknown books
1897186620Leipzig. : Bernhard Tauchnitz. 1897. Copyright edition. . Later quarter marbled calf over marbled boards raised bands gilt spine decorations marbled endpapers red silk ribbon marker. . A near fine copy in an exceptionally nice binding some marginal yellowing to pages. . . small 8vo. Bernhard Tauchnitz. hardcover books
1906019976London: Macmillan and Co 1906. First Edition. Octavo. 306pp. 4pp. ads at rear. illustrated. The story of an impish sprite named Puck. He meets two children and tells them tales of Old England. Bound n red cloth central gilt emblem depicting an elephant head spine gilt edges rubbed some finger soiling to covers rear board with a strip near upper edge faded. A very good copy. Macmillan and Co unknown books
190029538London: Macmillan 1900. First U.K. edition issued some months after the American edition. Two-volume set. Two volumes. 8vo pp. 497 438. Red cloth stamped in gilt. TEG. Owner's bookplate on pastedowns covers slightly worn at ends of spines one small worm hold at bottom of a few pages o/w VG. Stewart 199. Macmillan unknown books
189329539London: Macmillan 1893. First Edition. 8vo pp. 365. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. cover little worn along the hinges rear hinge paper cracked o/w VG. Stewart 118. "This collection consisting of fourteen stories and two poems was published in 1893 by Macmillan and Co. in London and by D. Appleton and Company in New York. Ten of the stories had appeared previously in periodicals. Macmillan unknown books
189951210London: Macmillan. Very Good. 1899. Hardcover. London: macmillan and Co. Limited 1899. First Edition. Erased signature and embossed stamp just showing on endpaper hinges just starting covers show some light wear contents are slightly toned around edges overall a clean Very Good copy in mylar. . Macmillan hardcover books
191775586London: Macmillan and Co. 1917. Octavo pp. i-iv v vi vii-viii 1-441 442 443-444: blank 445-448: ads title page printed in red and black original red cloth Ganesha device stamped in gold on front panel spine panel lettered in gold t.e.g. First edition. A mixed collection of fourteen stories and fourteen poems. Includes the first book appearance of the long tale of the future "As Easy as A.B.C." the sequel to "With the Night Mail" first published in FAMILY MAGAZINE in 1912. "The future world is dominated by the Ariel Board of Control which regulates the movements of massive dirigible airships . This story set in 2065 offers a more elaborate account of a society anxiously preoccupied with Malthusian problems and Marxian class conflict . In this story the dictatorial A.B.C. sends a new aircraft to sort out a rebellion in Illinois" Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-603. Also collects "In the Same Boat" 1911 a tale "of psychic horrors which becomes rationalized fantasy" and "Swept and Garnished" 1915 "Kipling's grimmest supernatural fiction" Clute and Grant. Anatomy of Wonder 1981 1-110; 1987 1-55; 1995 1-55 and2004 II-603. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1235. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 46. Clute and Grant eds The Encyclopedia of Fantasy p. 541. Clute and Nicholls eds The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction p. 670. Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 p. 146. Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 641. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 152. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V pp. 2053-54. Bleiler 1978 p. 115. Stewart 408. Hairline crack along inner front hinge repaired else a fine bright copy. Bookplate of Indiana novelist George Barr McCutcheon 1866-1928 affixed to front paste-down. #75586 Macmillan and Co. unknown books
18986649London: Macmillan and Co 1898. First Edition First Issue. Original Wraps. Very Good. Small Octavo. 84 pages. Bound in original blue pictorial wrappers. Minor wear at fore-edge of front wrapper; very good in a handsome cloth covered slipcase. <br/><br/> Macmillan and Co paperback books
190946461909. FE. KIPLING Rudyard. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. New York: B.W. Dodge & Co. 1909. First edition pirated first issue binding. Among the earliest copies bound. Embossed and lettered in gold. The binding is textured to highlight the pictorial design. This copy has been over-opened between pages 8 and 9. There is some shelfwear at the heel crown and the outside corners. The gold lettering is bright though the black illustration has been rubbed in one spot. This is a very good copy. Livingston #328. unknown books