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1928WRCLIT41669London: Macmillan 1928. Gilt red cloth t.e.g. First collective edition including a number of war-related items. Some flecking and slight mottling to cloth at edges else about very good in dust jacket. RICHARDS A372. STEWART 536. Macmillan hardcover books
1928WRCLIT72348London: Macmillan 1928. Gilt red cloth t.e.g. First collective edition including a number of war-related items. Bookplate on pastedown crown of spine faintly frayed otherwise very good and bright in dust jacket with shallow loss at crown of spine. RICHARDS A372. STEWART 536. Macmillan hardcover books
192813336Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. Very Good. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth gilt; light wear and very slight soiling; ex library with usual markings; contents clean and complete. . Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc. hardcover books
192864408Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company. Very Good. 1928. Hardcover. 279 pages red cloth with gilt stamping. Slight scuffing at edges otherwise Very Good in a slightly scuffed price-clipped dust jacket. . Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover books
1925WRCLIT41584London: Methuen 1925. Small octavo. Printed wrapper over stiff wrappers. First collective edition in this format wrapper issue preceding the issue in boards and including the first appearance in book form of one poem. Wrappers a bit darkened at edges small nick small leather bookplate on front flap offset opposite isolated foxing else very good. STEWART 515. REILLY WWI p.190. Methuen hardcover books
1925WRCLIT25472Garden City: Doubleday 1925. Cream wrappers printed in green. Very good. First American edition one of 94 copies printed for copyright purposes. STEWART 516. RICHARDS A356. Doubleday unknown books
1925121544London: Methuen & Co Ltd 1925. First English edition of this collection of Kipling's songs. Octavo original wrappers. 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. Methuen & Co, Ltd unknown books
1917WRCLIT84706London: Macmillan 1917. Gilt red cloth t.e.g. Trace of foxing at fore-edge otherwise a fine bright copy in a near fine crisp example of the second form of the printed dust jacket marred solely by a small snag at the crown of the upper spine fold. Half red morocco slipcase and chemise a trace rubbed. First edition of this collection that includes a substantial selection of Kipling's most significant fantasy stories. The binding is in the first state with the spine imprint slightly exceeding 1" in width. RICHARDS A295. STEWART 408. BLEILER SF 1235. Macmillan hardcover books
1917WRCLIT41693London: Macmillan 1917. Gilt red cloth t.e.g. First edition. Two bookplates free endsheets tanned as usual bookseller's descriptions tipped to rear pastedown cloth a trifle darkened about good. Includes some of Kipling's most significant fantasy stories. STEWART 408. BLEILER SF 1235. Macmillan hardcover books
1917WRCLIT41581London: Macmillan 1917. Gilt red cloth t.e.g. First edition. Large bookplate on pastedown free endsheets tanned as usual cloth a trifle darkened about very good. Includes some of Kipling's most significant fantasy stories. STEWART 408. BLEILER SF 1235. Macmillan hardcover books
191783935London: Macmillan 1917. First Edition. hardcover. fine. 8vo full brown leather gilt; g.t. London: Macmillan 1917. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Macmillan unknown 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
1917122480Doubleday Page & Company: Garden City NY 1917. First American edition of this collection of Kipling tales including several science fiction stories. Octavo original dark green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel black stamped ship vignette to the front panel. In near fine 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. A Diversity of Creatures contains As Easy as A.B.C. The Honours of War The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat In the Presence and The Edge of Evening. Garden City, NY hardcover books
193529542Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran 1935. First Edition. 8vo pp. 936. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. VG. Doubleday, Doran unknown books
1924WRCLIT83945Chicago: American Crossarm & Conduit Co. 1924. Small folded leaflet 17.5 x 11.5 cm with facsimile of the letter printed on top panel. Laid into oversize printed wrapper 23.5 x 15cm. Fine but without the original mailing envelope. First unauthorized printing one of 200 copies prepared for private distribution by the owner of the original letter William M. Carpenter. RICHARDS B/31. STEWART 738. American Crossarm & Conduit Co. unknown books
1917WRCLIT77661Garden City: Doubleday 1917. Cream wrappers printed in green bound up by the French Bindery in full forest green crushed morocco raised bands gilt and blind- ruled side panels gilt inner dentelles with title in gilt above an inset red morocco rose with blindstamped leaves and gilt edges within the upper panel. Internally fine but the morocco binding is spine faded and the upper joint is cracked toward the crown but sound. First edition in book form of this Christmas poem printed for copyright purposes in an edition of 84 copies. From the Nelson Doubleday collection with his bookplate on the front pastedown. RICHARDS A292. STEWART 454. Doubleday hardcover books
1917WRCLIT40099Garden City: Doubleday 1917. Cream wrappers printed in green. A near fine copy. First edition in book form of this poem printed for copyright purposes in an edition of 84 copies. RICHARDS A292. STEWART 454. Doubleday unknown books
1909120708New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1909. Scarce separate edition of Kipling's song for the Boy Scouts. Octavo original wrappers. One of only 20 copies printed by Doubleday for copyright purposes. In near fine condition. Bookplate. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. Scarce. 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, Page & Co unknown books
1918WRCLIT21963Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co. 1918. Printed wrappers. Fine in lightly rubbed half morocco slipcase. First edition in book form one of eighty copies printed to protect U.S. copyright. RICHARDS A309. STEWART 460. Doubleday, Page & Co. unknown books
1918WRCLIT41424Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co. 1918. Cream wrappers printed in green. Near fine in plain cloth folder labeled in manuscript. First edition in book form one of eighty copies printed to protect U.S. copyright. RICHARDS A309. STEWART 460. Doubleday, Page & Co. hardcover books
1918WRCLIT40085Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co. 1918. Cream wrappers printed in green. Near fine. First edition in book form one of eighty copies printed to protect U.S. copyright. RICHARDS A309. STEWART 460. Doubleday, Page & Co. unknown books
1926WRCLIT83687Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1926. Cream-yellow wrapper printed in green. Fine in somewhat rubbed half morocco slipcase. First edition published in order to protect US copyright. RICHARDS A361. LIVINGSTON 510. STEWART 667. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
1909120821London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909. First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by Robinson. Quarto original blue cloth gilt pictorial to the front panel gilt titles and tooling to the spine. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson with 30 mounted color plates lettered tissue guards. In near fine condition. "This poem originally appeared in The English Illustrated Magazine May 1893 prior to its inclusion in The Seven Seas 1896" Martindell. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover books
1928220835New York Privately Printed 1928. 1928. First edition unauthorized. Thin 8vo. Title page illustration. Original blue/gray boards with printed paper label on spine uncut. Glassine dust jacket. Very good-fine fresh copy. No signatures or bookplates. #84/93 numbered copies. Stewart 412. F. Hardcover. New York, Privately Printed, 1928. hardcover books
1909TB31533New York: B. W. Dodge & Company 1909. First Edition. First Printing Very good in its original dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and front board on top of embossed cover and spine with the recesses in black with the silhouette of a sailing ship. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down and with light rubbing and wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. Without a dust jacket as issued. The book lacked a jacket until the third printing. 360 pages of text. A collection of 31 short stories. This copy is the unauthorized US printing of one of Kipling's earlier works. The first authorized US edition was published by Doubleday Page & Company in 1909. Richards; A227 & A232 B. W. Dodge & Company hardcover books
