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1909125869New York: Doubleday 1909. Octavo pp. 1-2 1-2 3-77 78-86 leaves note: leaves following two preliminary leaves are printed on rectos only; last two leaves are stubs with single folded leaf inserted between them four inserted plates with color illustrations two by Frank X. Leyendecker and two by H. Reuterdahl original pictorial blue cloth front panel stamped in gold and silver spine panel stamped in gold pictorial endpapers. First edition. Collected later the same year in ACTIONS AND REACTIONS. Classic science fiction story of the world of the future governed by the Aerial Board of Control. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-102; 1981 1-110; 1987 1-55; 1995 1-55; and 2004 II-603. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 465. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 37. Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 p. 145. Lewis Utopian Literature p. 107. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 129. Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 640. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 135. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature V pp. 2053-054. Bleiler 1978 p. 115. Reginald 08282. Stewart 322. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down. Mild wear/rubbing to spine ends and corners inner front hinge weak inner rear hinge cracked a bright very good copy. #125869 Doubleday unknown books
1899121504New York: Doubleday and McClure Company 1899. First separate edition of Kipling's Without Benefit of Clergy. Octavo original illustrated cloth. 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 and McClure Company hardcover books
1927WRCLIT32617New York: Edgar H. Wells and Co. 1927. 523pp. Cloth t.e.g. Plates. Facsimiles. First trade edition. Very slight rubbing else very good. Edgar H. Wells and Co. hardcover books
1927WRCLIT83695New York: Edgar H. Wells and Co. 1927. 523pp. Cloth t.e.g. Plates. Facsimiles. First trade edition. Very good or better. Edgar H. Wells and Co. hardcover books
1927WRCLIT82849New York: Edgar H. Wells and Co. 1927. 523pp. Cloth t.e.g. Plates. Facsimiles. First trade edition. Very slight rubbing else near fine. Edgar H. Wells and Co. hardcover books
1914121494London: Methuen & Co. Ltd 1914. First edition of this collection of wartime verse with contributions by Shakespeare William Wordsworth Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling. Small octavo original wrappers. In good condition. Remember Louvain! contains contributions by William Wordsworth Alfred Noyes Walter Scott Walt Whitman James Thomson Andrew Lang Arthur Conan Doyle Rudyard Kipling and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow among many others. Methuen & Co. Ltd unknown books
1907121408London: Published By The Daily Mail For The Union Jack Club 1907. First edition of The Flag: The Book of the Union Jack Club with contributions by Rudyard Kipling Arthur Conan Doyle Marie Corelli and many others. Quarto original illustrated wrappers illustrated. In near fine condition. The Union Jack Club is an Armed Forces Club in central London England for enlisted members and veterans of the British Armed Services and their families. George V while the Prince of Wales laid the club's foundation stone in July 1904. It was officially opened three years later in July 1907 by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. The Flag: The Book of the Union Jack Club contains contributions by members Rudyard Kipling Arthur Conan Doyle Marie Corelli and George Meredith with an introductory extract from the speech of King Edward VII at the opening of of the Union Jack Club July 1 1907. Published By The Daily Mail For The Union Jack Club unknown books
194894154Garden City:: Doubleday & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1948. Hardcover. Volume One only. This copy is from the personal library of the late Madeleine L'Engle 1963 Newbery Award winner for her now classic young adult fantasy novel A WRINKLE IN TIME and bears her handwritten name and her family's on the front paste-down. Book club edition. Very good in a very good minor edge wear and age toning dust jacket.; 253 pages . Doubleday & Company, hardcover books
19327414Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Co 1932. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A very sharp copy of the 1932 stated 1st American edition. Clean and Near Fine with bright gilt-lettering at the front panel and spine in a crisp price-intact Near Fine dustjacket with very very lighty staining along the spine. Thick octavo 371 pgs. Housed in a custom-made quarter-morocco biox. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Doran & Co hardcover books
1902006517Philadelphia: The Curtis Publishing Company 1902. Volume XIX No. 11. Very Good Plus small mailing label front cover light soiling. A beautifully preserved copy. Cove art illustration by George Gibbs showing a couple playing the newly-introduced December 1901game of ping-pong. Contains "The Butterfly That Stamped" by Rudyard Kipling "How Charles Dana Gibson Started" by William Howard Russell and the first of the series "Inside of a Hundres Suburban Homes" with black and white photographs showing room arrangements of the day among many other articles. . First Edition. Magazine. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. The Curtis Publishing Company Paperback books
18987828New York: M.F. Mansfield Publisher 1898. Decorative Cloth. A perfectly serviceable copy of the 1898 2nd edition. G in its maroon cloth with light scuffing to the panels and light chipping at its edges. 64mo 1 of 500 copies on Enfield Deckle Edge Paper. Decoratve cover of a hovering vampire bat and endpapers from designs made by Blanche McManus. <br/><br/> M.F. Mansfield, Publisher hardcover books
1919WRCLIT71844London: Methuen and Co. 1919. Red cloth stamped in gilt t.e.g. Pictorial vignette on title. Some tanning and light foxing to endsheets otherwise very good and bright in lightly worn dust jacket with a few small spots to spine panel. 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
190928356New York: Doubleday Page and Company 1909. First American edition 8vo pp. 8 324; 8 plates; light wear to extremities else a very good copy or better in original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt and black. Livingston 324; Stewart 321. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Page and Company hardcover books
190920212London: Macmillan and Co 1909. First English edition 8vo pp. 6 302 12 ads; light soiling to spine and light wear to extremities else a very good copy or better in original maroon cloth. <br/><br/> Macmillan and Co hardcover books
18999025New York: Doubleday & McClure Co 1899. First American edition 8vo 12 & 310pp. 8 illustrations by L. Raven-Hill; extremities rubbed hinges starting else a very good sound copy in original green cloth with caravel design in black on front cover and lettering in gold on front cover and spine t.e.g. Livingston 215. <br/><br/> Doubleday & McClure Co hardcover books
19049001New York: Doubleday Page and Co 1904. First American edition 8vo vi & 363pp.; slight water-staining affecting rear cover bottom spine and rear endpapers minor wear to top and bottom of spine else a near fine copy in original green cloth with caravel design on front cover in black and gilt lettering and spine. Livingston 290. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Page and Co hardcover books
1899224732New York M.F. Mansfield & A. Wessels Publishers 1899. 1899. First edition. Thin 8vo. Issue #2 only. Original stiff blue wrappers with red cord tie designed by Blanche McManus. Fine fresh condition. Includes an essay on Kipling by Andrew Lang. F. Soft cover. New York, M.F. Mansfield & A. Wessels Publishers, 1899. paperback books
189132788London: Macmillan 1891. First Edition. 8vo pp. 351. Red cloth stamped in gilt. Cover ilittle worn at corners and ends of spine one hinge near tender o/w VG. Volumes under this title were published by Macmillan & Co. both in London and New York in 1891 this being the somewhat earlier American edition. They contain all the stories in MINE OWN PEOPLE 1891 with the exception of 'A Conference of the Powers' together with sixteen additional stories and one poem." - Stewart 99; Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 955. Clute and Grant eds The Encyclopedia of Fantasy 1997 p. 541. Wilson Shadows in the Attic p. 306. Bleiler 1978 p. 115. A series of short stories including a number that are supernatural. Macmillan unknown books
1906021490London: Macmillan and Co 1906. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. Frontispiece 306pp. 2pp. ads. Illustrated with 11 engravings by H.R. Millar. includes 10 stories and 16 poems. Bound in red cloth centrally stamped in gilt with an elephant head spine lettering gilt corners bumped spine ends show a bit of wear with a damp stain near spine. From the library of Henry D. Moore Sherrerd who was from the Princeton volunteer ambulance service who received the Croix de Guerre by the French Government for bravery in removing wounded soldiers from the front in the worst of the fighting at Verdun. A good copy. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1896WRCLIT83014New York: D. Appleton 1896. Gray cloth with metallic tones elaborately decorated in gilt t.e.g. others untrimmed. Spine slightly cocked edges a bit shelf- rubbed pencil erasures and light foxing to front endsheets; a good copy. First trade edition following the copyright and preceding the UK edition which included text variations. STEWART 139. RICHARDS A92. D. Appleton hardcover books
1904WRCLIT27475London: Macmillan 1904. Gilt cloth t.e.g. First British edition corrected '25.8.04' state of the ads. Fore- edge a bit foxed else a very good bright copy in somewhat tanned and chipped dust jacket. STEWART 295. Macmillan hardcover books
1892198038LONDON HEINEMANN 1892 1892. ORIGINAL GILT AND BLINDSTAMPED SALMON CLOTH; 8 PAGES OF PUBLISHER'S ADS AT END FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. LONDON, HEINEMANN, 1892 hardcover books
189829540London: Macmillan 1898. First Edition. 8vo pp. 381. TEG. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. One hinge tender cover little worn o/w VG. Stewart 180 With the 16pp.catalogue dated "15.9.98" called for by Stewart. Macmillan unknown books
189225093New York & London: Macmillan 1892. First American edition 12mo pp. xvi 207 8 ads; endpapers browning else a very good copy in orig. blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Includes the poems "Danny Deever" "Gunga Din" "The Ballad of East and West" and "Mandalay." <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover books
18999026London: Macmillan and Co 1899. First English edition 8vo ix-xii 272pp. plus 2pp. ads; extremities rubbed spine and covers lightly soiled binding slightly askew front hinge starting else a near fine copy in original red cloth with Ganesha device on front cover and lettering in gold on cover and spine title-p. printed in red & black t.e.g. Livingston 216. <br/><br/> Macmillan and Co hardcover books