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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
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 books
1898120860London: 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 blue illustrated wrappers. In fine condition. Cover illustration by Norman Wilkinson. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase. 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 unknown 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
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
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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
1909277421New York: Dodge 1909. hardcover. fine. 8vo blue cloth stamped in black & gilt. N.Y.: B.W. Dodge 1909. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> First unauthorised edition appearing two months before the Doubleday Page edition. No dust jacket as issued.<br/><br/> Dodge unknown books
19090019New York: B. W. Dodge & Co 1909. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. 360pp. Second issue bound in a blue pictorial cloth depicting a ship on the high sea; red lettering spine and front cover. A clean bright copy in very good dust jacket with repair to rear panel along bottom edge duplicating the jacket design. <br/><br/> B. W. Dodge & Co hardcover books
190924013New York: B.W. Dodge 1909. First American Edition. Octavo 20cm. Pictorial deep blue textured cloth stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 360pp. Publisher's presentation copy inscribed on front endpaper: "Best wishes of the publisher see title page and his wife / Xmas 1909." First issue with gilt stamping to cloth later issues stamped in red. A fine bright copy in the original dustwrapper lightly worn a trifle darkened on spine Very Good. B.W. Dodge unknown books
1909WRCLIT41690New York: Dodge 1909. Pictorial cloth printed in black and lettered in gilt. First edition unauthorized primary binding with lettering in gilt rather than red. A cheap edition under Doubleday's imprint was authorized by Kipling to under cut Dodge's collection. Unfortunate adhesive booklabel of a noted Kipling collector pencil inscription on endsheet sign of old restoration between two gatherings spine tips frayed else good and sound. RICHARDS A227. STEWART 324. Dodge hardcover books
19098984New York: B.W. Dodge & Co 1909. First American unauthorized edition 8vo viii & 360pp.; minor rubbing to extremities binding slightly cocked else near fine in orig. blue cloth front cover stamped in black first issue later binding with lettering in red. Livingston 328. <br/><br/> B.W. Dodge & Co hardcover books
1909220923New York B.W. Dodge & Company 1909. 1909. First American edition unauthorized. 8vo. 360 pages. Original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt and black. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Stewart 324. Livingston 328. F. Hardcover. New York, B.W. Dodge & Company, 1909. hardcover books
1909WRCLIT41549New York: Dodge 1909. Pictorial cloth printed in black and red. First edition unauthorized second binding with lettering in red rather than gilt. A cheap edition under Doubleday's imprint was authorized by Kipling to under cut Dodge's collection. Bookplate cloth faded at edges as usual spine tips rubbed else good and sound. STEWART 324. RICHARDS A227. Dodge hardcover books
1909722871909. KIPLING Rudyard. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. New York: B. W. Dodge & Company 1909. First American unauthorized edition. viii360 pp. Octavo. In a striking publisher's binding of dark blue cloth decorated on the spine and upper board with a wraparound seascape design showing a ship upon the sea below layers of clouds with the title and author's name in bright gilt. This is a near-fine copy being clean and crisp overall but skewed at spine and with a touch of shelfwear to cloth. This is a pirated edition containing thirty stories letters and articles and one poem of which twenty-two of the stories and the poem had previously appeared in Turn-overs. The individual pieces were written during Kipling's journey in 1889 from India to England and were first printed in periodicals The Civil & Military Gazette The Week's News and The Pioneer between 1888-90. To combat the sale of this unauthorized edition Kipling instructed Doubleday Page & Co. to issue a volume containing the same material at a reduced price. Stewart 324 Livingston 328. unknown books