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1897121438London: Chatto & Windus 1897. The New Edition of My First Book with contributions by Rudyard Kipling Arthur Conan Doyle H. Rider Haggard and Robert Louis Stevenson. Octavo original cloth illustrated frontispiece. Introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. 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. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
18981287524London: W. Thacker & Co 1898. Tenth Edition. 8vo. 189 24 pages; G; bound in red cloth faded lettering to spine; front board has a crack to pastedown and cardboard cloth has crease but is intact; top edge of text block gilt others uncut; sun-fading to spine; some foxing to interior; two chips missing to middle of spine; inscription of previous owner on half-title page name on ffep; SIGNED flat on title page with Kipling's printed name crossed out; shelved case 0. 1287524. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. W. Thacker & Co unknown books
1895123443London: James Clarke & Co. 1895. First edition of this humorous collection of poems for recitation including Rudyard Kipling's Tommy and Lewis Carroll's The Walrus and the Carpenter. Octavo original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition. 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. Kipling's 1890 poem Tommy addresses the ordinary British soldier of Kipling's time in a sympathetic manner written from the point of view of such a soldier and contrasting the treatment he receives from the general public during peace and during war. James Clarke & Co. unknown books
1900122456London: Methuen & Co 1900. First edition of this anthology published and sold to benefit the officers and men of the British Army in South Africa during the Boer Wars. Octavo original publisher's decorated cloth. In very good condition. For Britain's Soldiers: A Contribution to the Needs of our Fighting Men and Their Families includes: Sir Walter Besant's The Memory Cell Rudyard Kipling's The Son of His Father H.G. Wells' Miss Winchelsea's Heart and Walter Wood's The Atonement of the "Vanguard's" Skipper among others. Methuen & Co hardcover books
189962817Chicago: George M. Hill. Good. 1899. Hardcover. First Edition. Front hinge repaired rear hinge cracked. Red cloth with gilt stamping. Spine ends and edges rubbed and chipped some light soiling to covers. Contents show some light toning otherwise bright and complete. A Good copy. . George M. Hill hardcover books
1899010944Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1899. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Full leather . Marbled endpapers . First American Edition . An excellent copy . The leather is well preserved . The graphics are bright on the fronf board . The interior is bright and clean no marks of any kind . This is one of Kipling's most interesting works and is now very scarce . Thomas Y. Crowell Company hardcover
189807578Uk.: Macmillan and Co Ltd 1898. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. This little book are the notes Rudyard Kipling made on two trips with the channel squadron. The light blue boards are sun-faded and has light wear to the head and base of the spine and the corners are bumped the text block is lightly tanned and intact there is a date and signature not the authors on the front endpaper. Book price includes 2nd class parcel post in UK only. . Macmillan and Co Ltd hardcover
1897139000London: William Heinemann 1898 ma 1897. In-4 p. mm. 316x245 mz. tela editoriale piatti in cartonato figurato con titolo in nero al piatto anteriore e marca tipografica in verde e nero al piatto poster.; di pp.nn. 34 così composto: frontespizio con la stessa marca tipografica a colori eseguita da Nicholson che raffigura un mulino a vento di Rottingdean; 1 pag. con il verso di Kipling Here is a horse to tame - Here is a gun to handle.; un calendario datato 1899 su 2 pagine cui fanno seguito 12 pregevoli tavole litografate a colori realizzate da Nicholson con a fronte un breve verso di Kipling; ogni tavola è dedicata a uno sport uno per ogni mese dell'anno: Hunting January - Coursing February - Racing March - Boating April - Fishing May - Cricket June - Archery July - Coaching August - Shooting September - Golf October - Boxing November - Skating December.In fine due pagine pubblicitarie di altre opere di Nicholson An Alphabet - London Types di cui l'ultima presente solo nel ns. esemplare.Cfr. Martindell Bibl. of the works of R. Kipling n. 70 - Dictionnaire des illustrateurs p. 759: William Nicholson 1873-1949 peintre et dessinateur anglais. Associé à partir de 1894 à son beau-frère James Pryde ils devinrent vite sous le nom de Beggarstaff brothers Mendiants associés les meilleures affichistes de Grand-Bretagne. Nicholson fut aussi illustrateur et réalisa des décors de théatre. Comme peintre il exposa des paysages des natures mortes et des portraits de personnalités londoniennes. Esemplare ben conservato. William Heinemann, hardcover
1899012539Macmillan & Co. Ltd. London 1899. Book. Good. Hardcover. 21cm. Good condition with gilt decorative medallion on front and gilt title and upper compressed page edges. Includes 21 b/w illustrations. Macmillan & Co. Ltd. London Hardcover
189034399New York: United States Book Company Successors to John W. Lovell Company 1890. First Edition First State of Barrack-Room Ballads and First U.S. Edition of Departmental Ditties in First State Binding. 8vo publisher's original maroon cloth the upper cover and spine panel lettered and decorated in gilt top edge gilt housed in a foldover chemise. vi 270 pp. A fine copy of this rare and important book. FIRST EDITIONS. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES is usually considered to be Kipling’s first book written while he was working as a journalist stationed in India however details of that period of his life are somewhat sketchy. It was originally published in Calcutta by Thacker Spink and Co. On March 9th of 1899 Kipling purchased the copyright for Å2000 and thereafter the regular publishers of this collection were Methuen in London and Doubleday in New York. United States Book Company Successors to John W. Lovell Company hardcover
189924818Newnes 1899. 8vo. Newnes Edition; strongly bound in contemporary red buckram upper board lettered in gilt backstrip and lower board mildly and unevenly sunned else a very good bright clean copy. The sole Newnes edition. Newnes secured rights of publication from Thacker and issued the only cheap editions in the UK. Kipling himself purchased the rights from Newnes and thereafter appointed as his publishers Methuen in the UK and Doubleday in the US. Livingston 19. Newnes, hardcover
1900mon0000189457Macmillan and Co Ltd 1900-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. NOT ex-library. Hardback/Hardcover clean text sound binding. 1960 third edition. Macmillan and Co Ltd hardcover
189636191Macmillan 1896. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece original tissue guard present 20 plates and numerous wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces by A. S. Hartwick preliminaries very lightly spotted frontispiece guard moderately spotted and offset to title small neat signature on front free endpaper; original pictorial blue cloth gilt fife and drummer boys from plate facing p.58 elaborately blocked in gilt on upper board pictorial back gilt all edges gilt a very bright crisp clean copy. Collects seven stories first published between 1888 and 1890. Livingston 133; Martindale 67; Stewart 157. Macmillan, hardcover
189041165A H Wheeler & Co. Allahabad 1890. 8vo. Third Edition thus; original illustrated wrappers sewed as issued wrappers with small losses at edges else a bright clean copy. In the pale green wrappers of Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington with Wheeler's Indian Railway logo on front. Collects seven tales: The God from the Machine Private Learoyd's Story The Big Drunk Draf The Solid Muldoon With the Main Guard In the Matter of a Private Black Jack. ALL EARLY ISSUES ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. A H Wheeler & Co., Allahabad, unknown
189619238Macmillan 1896. 8vo. Second Impression thus bookplate scar on front paste-down; original blue cloth upper board blocked in gilt and blind gilt back uncut black endpapers backstrip very lightly sunned else a remarkably well-preserved bright clean copy. With 6pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end and a small printed portrait of the author mounted on front free endpaper verso. For the first Macmillan edition of the previous year the text was revised and two stories - 'Of Those Called' and 'The Wreck of the Visigoth' - added. To Soldiers Three. In this second impression these two tales were omitted and a new story - 'L'Envoi' - added to The Story of the Gadsbys. Scarce especially in this condition. Livingston 119 recording the first edition of the previous year. Macmillan, hardcover
189934602New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. 1899. First Edition. Illustrated with 8 full page illustrations on coated paper. 8vo publisher’s original green cloth the spine and upper cover lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black with the design of the famous caravelle sailing ship. 12 310 pp. A handsome copy quite bright clean and with very little evidence of use or age. FIRST EDITION AND VERY SCARCE IN PLEASING CONDITION. The story of Kipling’s school days at Westward Ho! in Devon. Doubleday & McClure Co. hardcover
1899003215London: MacMillan 1899 navy cloth with blind decorated upper board and gilt titling to upper board and spine MACMILLAN'S COLONIAL LIBRARY at base of spine cloth lightly rubbed to edges some minor discolouration lacks fep erased pencil scar to half title light foxing to closed edges untrimmed edges lightly bumped corners 272pp 8pp Colonial Library adverts dated 10 9 99. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6 - 7 tall. MacMillan hardcover
189828926New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. 1898. First Edition. With title-page within a red and black decorative frame and eight full page illustrations on coated paper. 8vo publisher’s original green cloth the spine and upper cover lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black with the design of the famous caravelle sailing ship. 6 431pp. A fine and bright copy with only very light evidence of shelving or age clean and fresh. FIRST EDITION and a collection of twelve good stories including “The Ship that Found Herself†“The Devil and the Deep Sea†“William the Conquerer†“.007†“Bread Upon the Waters†“An Error in the Fourth Dimension†“The Brushwood Boy†and others. Includes some of the author’s best. Doubleday & McClure Co. hardcover
189433510New York: The Century Company 1894. First American edition With a frontispiece and 34 illustrated plates. 8vo publisher's original green cloth with gilt lettering and gilt vignette on the upper cover blindstamped designs gilt pictorial vignettes and gilt lettering on the spine. xviii 303. A bright and clean copy some light spotting occasionally as is typical the backstrip lightly mellowed. Kipling’s classic work on life in the jungle. Kipling’s best loved work. The Jungle Book represents a collection of Kipling’s best loved stories for children. The first stories are built around the premise of a human child lost in the jungles and raised by wild animals. Among the noted characters are Mowgli the child Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear. The beloved tale of Riki Tiki Tavi is also among these enchanting stories. The Century Company hardcover
18926683<p>William Heinemann. London.1892. FIRST EDITION. 1st impression. A near very good clean copy in the original publishers binding of brick red cloth letttered and decorated in brown to the boards the spine lettered in gilt. Plain white endpapers with both inner hinges solid and without any the cracking often found in copies of this title. Some rubbing to the cloth extremities but overall a near very good copy.:.</p> William Heinemann. London.,1892 hardcover
189511197<p>Macmillan and co. London. 1895. FIRST EDITION First printing. 8vo. 7.2 x 5.1 inches. Illustrated throughout by J. Lockwood Kipling. A bright and clean copy finely bound by Bayntun Riviere Bookbinders of Bath England. Lovely full blue calf the spine with five raised bands each decorated with a floral gilt roll. Compartments fully decorated and double ruled in gilt including Mowgli Elephant Tiger and Wolf heads. Red and brown labels ruled and lettered in gilt. Double gilt ruled border on boards with gilt stamped Wolf head to the centre of the front board panel. Gilt inner dentelles and decorative roll to board edges. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Some rubbing to the extremities but overall a very attractive copy of this classic book.</p> Macmillan and co. London. 1895 hardcover
190010704Macmillan and Co. London. 1900. Seventh edition. 8vo. 7.4 x 4.7 inches. Foxing to the blank endpapers and the first and last couple of leaves otherwise a clean copy in a beautiful fine leather binding by Bumpus of full dark blue crushed morocco. Spine with five raised bands each with three gilt dots. The compartments ruled lettered and fully decorated with small flower emblems all in gilt. Both boards with four ruled lines and flower and leaf designs in the middle panel all in gilt. Board edges double ruled in gilt Turn-ins with double ruled lines and flower and leaf designs all in gilt. plain white endpapers. All edges gilt. Blue silk bookmarker sewn in. A fine and beautiful binding. --- An early edition of this popular collection of KIpling's poetry. First published in 1896. Macmillan and Co. London. 1900 hardcover
1888500045011London: A H Wheeler & Sampson Low 1888. First Edition. . Paperback. Good. 8vo. disbound & undated. I think there was only one edition of this before it was incorporated into Soldirs Three. nothing before title page on the reverse is an advertisement for Sarsaparilla preface contents 85pp one unumbered page "L'envoi". <br/> <br/> A H Wheeler & Sampson Low paperback
1888012140Allahabad: A H Wheeler 1888 sewn sheets in remains of printed paper wrappers 96pp lacks rear wrapper front wrapper well chipped to edges contents; Wee Willie Winkie Baa Baa Black Sheep His Majesty the King The Drums of the Fore and Aft contents generally tidy one page has some marginal ink scribbles not too unattractive some leaves of the final signature are detached but present a binding copy original pictorial greyish-green wraps titled & illustrated in black "Indian Railway Library No. 6" First English Edition sixth printing of the second issue of the first edition without the period after the H i.e. A.H Wheeler on the cover. undated 1888 states No 6 on the cover but is listed as number 4 on the advertisement 500 gram rate . reprint. Original Wraps. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. A H Wheeler paperback
189854774Boston: Privately Printed 1898. First Thus. Sextodecimo 15cm; sewn; issued in stiff paper wrappers lettered from the types of the title page; 4 leaves- title and text; frontispiece; vignette designed by E.J Clark printed in red is repeated throughout occupying half of each page; light rubbing; upper rear corner of back cover has tiny nick; Very Good lacking the envelope. <br /> <br /> Inspiration for the 1909 Broadway production A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne and subsequently the 1915 silent film "A Fool There Was" starring Theda Bara. LIVINGSTON 151; wikipedia. Privately Printed unknown
