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1898121444London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1898. First edition of this collection of articles written by Kipling when he joined the fleet of the Royal Navy at sea in 1898. Octavo original illustrated cloth. In very good condition. Cover illustration by Norman Wilkinson. Kipling's account of the recently strengthened fleet of the British Royal Navy at the turn of the 20th century first appeared as a group of five articles in the Morning Post in November 1898. Allowed to join the Fleet at sea Kipling here offers an intimate portrait of the ships and their crew. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
189942031New York Crowell 1899 hardcover. Includes four color plates by W.William St John Harper. Extra title-page decoration and presumably the gilt cover decoration by TBH Theodore Brown Hapgood. -- Hardcover bright gilt cover art 253 pages. Condition: very good minus lavender cloth cover is lightly and irregularly sunned; foxing to outer pages including the Hapgood woodcut margins; no jacket issued. Crowell hardcover
1900005239London: Methuen & Co. 1900. This anthology with contributions by many prominent British authors of the day was a charitable offering to the "War Fund." The war referenced was that with the Boers in South Africa. Aside from Kipling the authors are W.L. Alden Sir Walter Besant S.R. Crockett Mrs. B.M. Croker E.W. Hornung C.J. Cutlife Hyne A.E.W. Mason F. Frankfort Moore Max Pemberton Morley Roberts W. Pett Ridge H.G. Wells Percy White and Walter Wood. This is a Very Good copy of the First and only Edition. A scarce title. Red cloth binding ruled with titling in gilt on the spine and front cover. The front cover features a representation of field artillery drawn by a six-horse hitch. Clean text; 315 pages with a 47-page publisher's catalog "August 1900" in the rear. This is an ex-library copy with only a shool library stamp and note on the FFEP and a number on the spine. Rubbed at the margins spine slightly faded. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Methuen & Co. Hardcover
1899BOOKS18720New York NY: Doubleday & McClure Company. G/No Dustjacket. 1899. . Cloth. First Edition with Points . 12mo. 460 400 pp. shelfwear bumped ink writing inside cover page toning . Doubleday & McClure Company hardcover
1899001520New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. 1899. First American Edition. Hardcover. Bottom of spines a little spotted. Some pencil underlining. Very Good. Two volumes in publisher's blind-stamped green cloth. Kipling in India the Orient and elsewhere. Precedes the English edition. Livingston 227. With the error on page 90 of the second volume. <br/><br/> Doubleday & McClure Co. hardcover
1890129330Dark blue cover shows wear. Gilt around top page edges. Former owner's bookplate and name written in book otherwise interior is unmarked and clean. Pictures on request United States Book Company hardcover
189922571San Francisco: San Francisco Examiner 1899. Issued as a single sheet by the San Francisco Examiner and here folded into 32pp as intended by the publisher this unusual piece shows the interest of the American public in Kipling. Brief sketches and observations of American culture include: His Visit to California; Kipling Describes his Fight with a Salmon; Kipling on San Francisco; Recklessness in the Air; the Negro Problem; and Kipling's Drinking Men.<br /> <br /> This example in very good condition staple bound with no chipping just the usual browning associated with newspaper. 16mo 32pp illustrations. Portrait of Kipling at front wrapper. OCLC: 7378700. San Francisco Examiner unknown
1891002522London & New York: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1891. This collection contains Kipling's supernatural tale "The Mark of the Beast." A Very Good copy of the First Edition. Blue cloth binding now a blue/green on the spine ruled and with gilt decorations on the front cover and spine. Clean text; 352 pages with an extensive list 55 pages as of May 1891 of the publisher's other offerings in the rear; pages are rough-cut. There is a lean corners are bumped: the front gutter has cracked but is holding well. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Macmillan & Co., Ltd. Hardcover
1895038618New York: G.W. Dillingham 1895. First US Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. 340pp. Bound in light-green cloth decorated in dark green brown and gilt. Prior owner's name and book ticket on pastedown. 7.25" x 4.75" Livingston Kipling Bibliography 118. G.W. Dillingham unknown
1893596780Boston: White-Smith Music Pub. Co 1893. Softcover. Good. Presumably the first American edition. Folio. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Edgewear throughout including chips and tears an internal tape repair along the fold of the bifolium and rubbing and soiling to the exterior a complete but good only copy. For voice and piano. Plate number 10579 - 4. The back cover features short samples of five "new bass songs" including "Danny Deever" and "Mandalay" both by Kipling and Cobb. This American edition is unrecorded by OCLC and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. White-Smith Music Pub. Co unknown
189980120New York: Doubleday & McClure Co 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. The first American edition. This collection of linked short stories is based on Kipling's own experiences at the United Services College a military preparatory school. It follows the mischievous adventures of three boys - Stalky M'Turk and Beetle a stand-in for Kipling - as they use pranks and cunning to navigate school life often as training for their future roles in the British Empire. Octavo: xiv 310 pp. with the frontispiece with tissue guard and 7 full-page plates all halftones after illustrations by L. Raven Hill. In the publisher's green vertical ribbed cloth binding with green and black-stamped ruled borders and vignettes of a Viking ship and gilt-stamped titling. Top edge gilt with buff endpapers. Some mild edgewear; else near fine. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Doubleday & McClure Co hardcover
1899106972New York: Doubleday & McClure Company. 1899. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 1899. Doubleday and McClure Company. 310 pages. Owners name and bookplate on endpaper. Light shelwear else Very Good condition. First Printing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 310 pages . Doubleday & McClure Company hardcover
1898TB33467New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. 1898. First Edition. Very good in dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations on the spine and with the same on the front board to include a Viking ship under sail. The top edge of the text block is gilt. A small octavo measuring 8 by 5 1/4 inches with the first blank end sheet has been removed and rubbing and light wear to the cloth at the corners of the spine and to the tips of the boards. The upper fore tip has been bumped. The last 12 leaves have an ink stain in the lower margins at the extreme edge of the pages. Without a dust jacket. 431 pages of text. A collection of twelve short stories Illustrated with a frontispiece by W. D. Stevens and five plates by various artists. A very handsome and clean copy. Richards Rudyard Kipling A Bibliography A115 Doubleday & McClure Co. hardcover
1898106971London: MacMillan and Company. 1898. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 1898. Macmillan & Company. 381 pages. Owners name on endpaper and some shelfwear else Very Good condition. First U. K. Printing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 381 pages . MacMillan and Company hardcover
189025745Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1890 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Three issues bound in one volume. March and May 1890 January 1891. Binding is poor with insect damage to the surface and both front and rear hinges failing. Happily the contents are "fine." as-is. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . J. B. Lippincott hardcover
1897006001New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1897 New York: Scribner's 1897. First edition. 8vo. Three-quarter brown morocco over marble boards gilt in the marble. Six compartments raised ridges floppy art nouveau-style flowers with curvy gilt framing gilt titles. Top edge gilt. Marble endpapers with previous owner bookplate. Frontispiece plate protective tissue. Rough-cut thick laid paper. 329 pp. Frontispiece protective tissue plus two illustrations. Light edgwear to spine at hinges and ridges. Very good plus condition. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
189076254London:: Sampson Low Marston & Company nd 1890. Fourth edition. later gilt-lettered cloth; original illustrated wrappers bound in. . Attractive old bookplate on pastedown; slight tanning to the first and last leaves. 8vo. A. H. Wheeler & Co. Indian Railway Library No. 5. Sampson Low, Marston & Company, hardcover
1897005991New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1897 New York: Scribner's 1897. First edition. 8vo. Three-quarter brown morocco over marble boards gilt in the marble. Six compartments raised ridges floppy art nouveau-style flowers with curvy gilt framing gilt titles. Top edge gilt. Marble endpapers with previous owner bookplate. Frontispiece plate protective tissue. Rough-cut thick laid paper. 387 pp. Light edgwear. Very good. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
189933733London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1899. Uniform edition. 1/2 leather. Very Good. J. Lockwood Kipling. Uniform edition 1899. A Very Good copy. 8vo. 299 pp. bound in 1/2 brown leather with marbled boards top edge gilt six compartment spine with title in gilt. Spine is slightly sunned. Otherwise minor signs of shelf wear. Paper is toned text unmarked. Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown
1899026319New York: The Century Co. 1899. Book. Illus. by Kipling John Lockwood. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Green cloth with gilt titles and black animal decorations on spine and both covers. Top edges gilt. Clean and unmnarked. . The Century Co. Hardcover
18902146New York: Lovell Coryell & Company 1890. 1890 First American Edition. Small 8vo. 173 pp. Three-quarter red morocco with marbled paper boards. Rubbing to board edges hinges and spine small tears to top and bottom hinge edges Crown of spine chipped. Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. New York: Lovell, Coryell & Company, [1890]. hardcover
1897005990New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1897 New York: Scribner's 1897. No edition stated. 8vo. Three-quarter brown morocco over marble boards gilt in the marble. Six compartments raised ridges floppy art nouveau-style flowers with curvy gilt framing gilt titles. Top edge gilt. Marble endpapers with previous owner bookplate. Frontispiece plate protective tissue. Rough-cut thick laid paper. 359 pp. Rubbing to edges one corner worn. Very good condition. Scarce. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
18917030New York: Lovell Coryell & Company 1891. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. The 1891 1st American edition. VG- with light soiling at the panels and spine. Neat former owner name at front pastedown first blank and title page. 12mo 268 pgs. Housed in a handsome custom-made box with folding chemise. Lovell, Coryell & Company unknown
18992010111312Doubleday and McClure New York 1899 later printing book was pirated but likely 1st copy written US printing. Copyright on verso 1899 Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. Special Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Doubleday and McClure New York hardcover
1899092725F<p>Decorative binding on green cloth with sticker scar near spine. Title in gilt w/art nouveau border designed by Evangeline Mary Danielle no dj. Previous owner signature dated 1899. Newspaper clipping"The White Man's Burden" attached to rear endpaper. The clipping has left a ghost shadow opposite. 209pgs followed by Publishers adverts for other books.</p><p>".series of poems centered on Britain's role in colonialism and Empire building."</p> D.Appleton and Co hardcover