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192628292London: Macmillan & Co 1926. First edition 8vo pp. 2 vi 416; very good copy in original red cloth gilt medallion on upper cover gilt lettering on spine t.e.g. A collection of 14 stories and 21 poems. Livingstone 506; Stewart 519. <br/><br/> Macmillan & Co hardcover books
19263992LONDON MACMILLAN 1926 1926. DUST JACKET FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD-FINE. F. Hardcover. LONDON, MACMILLAN, 1926 hardcover books
192662185London: Macmillan And Co. Limited 1926. First edition. 416 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth gilt lettering and Ganesha vignette t.e.g. Fine in dust jacket chipped at head of spine and adjoining back panel with small portion wanting else fine. First edition. 416 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stewart 519 Macmillan And Co., Limited unknown books
1926194552Toronto: S. B. Gundy 1926. First Canadian edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author's most sorrowful collections. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel black stamped ship vignette to the front panel. 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. S. B. Gundy hardcover books
1926122446Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1926. First American edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author's finest collections. Octavo original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel black stamped ship vignette to the front panel. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is 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, Page & Company hardcover books
1897RK014London: W. Thacker & Co. 1897 Ninth edition limited to 150 copies. Original cloth pages uncut. Near fine with light dust soiling and two small water stains to the front board. Overall a very attractive copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. London: W. Thacker & Co. hardcover books
1890147341890. New York: United States Book Company. Successors to John W. Lovell Company n.d. 1890. Original maroon cloth on beveled boards.<br/><br/> First though pirated Edition of both the "Barrack-Room Ballads" and the "Other Verses" not published in England until 1892; first American edition of "Departmental Ditties." The "Barrack-Room Ballads" include some of Kipling's best-loved verse such as "Gunga Din" "Danny Deever" "Tommy" "Mandalay" and "Fuzzy-Wuzzy." This copy is in the first binding state with "Lovell" at the foot of the spine even though Lovell had been "succeeded" by United States Book Company. The volume is in very good-plus perhaps near-fine condition spine gilt less than bright very light wear at the foot of the spine; the spine is not faded which is atypical for maroon cloth. Richards A48; Stewart 79. unknown books
1886315322Lahore: Civil and Military Press Gazette 1886. First Edition of Kipling's first published book. Tall narrow 4to. Bound original light brown printed wrappers in the form of an Indian civil service envelope overlapping flap. Laid into early straight blue grained morocco slipcase and chemise. With description from Charles Sessler's Bookshop. First Edition of Kipling's first published book. Tall narrow 4to. The first edition of Kipling's first published work. Kipling was made sub-editor of the Civil and Military Gazette an Anglophone newspaper in Lahore upon his return to India after his time at the United Service College; this volume collects his poetry printed therein. Richards A7; Stewart 8; Livingston 22 Civil and Military Press Gazette unknown books
1898WRCLIT78952New York: M.F. Mansfield 1898. 4198pp. Dark blue cloth with gilt decoration on upper board t.e.g. Portrait frontis. Very good and bright. Second expanded Mansfield edition a piracy based on the text of the 4th UK edition. The cover decoration is by Blanche McManus. RICHARDS EI-29n. STEWART p. M.F. Mansfield hardcover books
1892211192Calcutta: Thacker Spink 1892. hardcover. fine. 8vo artfully bound in full brown morocco gilt lettered spines with raised bands & floral device top edge gilt. Calcutta: Thacker Spink 1892. Seventh Edition.<br/><br/> Thacker Spink unknown books
1899WRCLIT36451London: George Newnes 1899. Terracotta pictorial wrappers. Newnes's popular edition in typically cheap dress with gaudy ads. Spine chipped at crown and toe paper tanned as usual some soiling to wrappers unfortunate bookplate of a noted Kipling collector but an intact copy. STEWART 14. George Newnes unknown books
1890WRCLIT72128Calcutta London & Bombay: Thacker Spink and Co. 1890. Deep blue cloth with elaborate gilt device on upper board replicating a note from Kipling. A bit of rubbing to the gilding front inner hinge very slightly cracking otherwise a very good bright copy. Fifth second English edition reprinting the text of the fourth First English edition and like it printed by Clowes & Sons. Nonetheless the claim was made replicating Kipling's hand and signature in the gilt cover decoration that new "Ditties & Verses" were included in this edition. The ads are dated September 1890. STEWART 11 & 12 ref. RICHARDS A31n. Thacker, Spink and Co. hardcover books
1890WRCLIT36472Calcutta London & Bombay: Thacker Spink and Co. 1890. Deep blue cloth with elaborate gilt device on upper board replicating a note from Kipling. Unfortunate adhesive bookplate of a noted Kipling collector on free endsheet a couple slight rubs to upper board otherwise a very good bright copy. Fifth second English edition reprinting the text of the fourth First English edition and like it printed by Clowes & Sons. Nonetheless the claim was made replicating Kipling's hand and signature in the gilt cover decoration that new "Ditties & Verses" were included in this edition. The ads are dated September 1890. STEWART 11 & 12 ref. RICHARDS A31n. Thacker, Spink and Co. hardcover books
1890WRCLIT71906Calcutta London & Bombay: Thacker Spink and Co. / W. Thacker & Co 1890. Deep blue cloth with elaborate gilt device on upper board replicating a note from Kipling. Bookplate of John Quinn on pastedown. Binding and gilding a bit rubbed with modest shelfwear at extremities front inner hinge cracking slightly half-title neatly excised; otherwise good and sound. Fourth edition but the first edition printed in the UK. The adverts at the end are dated February 1890 and are priced in dual currencies.This edition includes ten poems in addition to those included in the 1888 3rd edition and features revisions to others. RICHARDS A31. LIVINGSTON 14. STEWART 11. QUINN SALE 5060. Thacker, Spink and Co. / W. Thacker & Co hardcover books
1897WRCLIT77463London & Calcutta: W. Thacker / Thacker Spink and Co. 1897. Deep blue cloth lettered in gilt with gilt pictorial vignette on upper board t.e.g others untrimmed. Neat bookplate on pastedown faint smear of dolling on upper board but a bright tight copy. Ninth edition trade issue with frontis and plates by Dudley Cleaver. There were also two large paper issues. STEWART 13. W. Thacker / Thacker, Spink and Co. hardcover books
1897120438London: W. Thacker & Co 1897. Rare Edition de Luxe of Kipling's first collection of verse. Octavo original publisher's half vellum over green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine and gilt vignette to the front panel. Tissue-guarded illustrations by Dudley Cleaver including frontispiece. One of one hundred and fifty numbered copies of the Edition de Luxe printed with two extra illustrations this is number 87. Ninth edition. In very good condition. Kipling published his first collection of verse Departmental Ditties in 1886 a year that also brought a change to the editors at the Civil and Military Gazette which allowed him more creative freedom and the ability to contribute short stories to the newspaper. Departmental Ditties includes Delilah The Legend of the Foreign Office The Story of Uriah The Betrothed The Moon of Other Days and The Fall of Jock Gillespie. W. Thacker & Co hardcover books
1890121888New York: John H. Lovell Company 1890. First American edition of the poetry collection that established Kipling's fame with Lovell on the foot of the spine. Octavo original cloth. In very good condition. Written in vernacular dialect Kipling's The Barrack Room Ballads contains some of Kipling's most well-known work including the poems "Gunga Din" "Tommy" "Mandalay" and "Danny Deever" which established his early fame as a poet. The first poems were published in the Scots Observer in the first half of 1890 and collected in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses in 1892. Kipling later returned to the theme in a group of poems collected in The Seven Seas under the same title. A third group of vernacular Army poems from the Boer War titled "Service Songs" and published in The Five Nations 1903 can be considered part of the Ballads as can a number of other uncollected pieces. John H. Lovell Company hardcover books
1890WRCLIT71826New York: United States Book Co. / Lovell 1890. Plum cloth stamped in gilt t.e.g. Minor rubbing to spine ends otherwise an unusually nice copy very good or better. First U.S. edition first impression and first book publication of seventeen pieces. RICHARDS A48. STEWART 79. United States Book Co. / Lovell hardcover books
189065168NY:: United States Book Company John W. Lovell Company. Very Good. 1890. Hardcover. First American edition first issue Lovell at base of spine. Small octavo bound in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and design top edge gilt. A bit faded along the spine previous owner's name and date on front free endpaper light edge wear at the spine ends and corners else very good. Binding is solid and tight. ; 270 pages . United States Book Company (John W. Lovell Company), hardcover books
189029677NY: United States Book Co 1890. First American edn. 8vo pp. 270. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Owner's name on flyleaf bookplate. Cover somewhat scuffed and worn one hinge near tender o/w VG. Grolier Club Exhibit 110; Stewart 79. First Edition of both the "Barrack-Room Ballads" and the "Other Verses" not published in England until 1892; first American edition of "Departmental Ditties." Contains the first printing in book form of Kipling's great popular ballads including "Danny Deever" "Fuzzy Wuzzy" "Gunga Din" "Mandalay" etc. United States Book Co unknown books
1916288595Garden City: Doubleday 1916. First. pamphlet. fine. 4 pamphlets. Thin 8vo original yellow cream glazed wrappers. Garden City 1916. First Edition.<br/><br/> One of a few copies printed for copyright purposes and preceding the English edition. Fine copies preserved in a half red morocco slipcase.<br/><br/> Doubleday unknown books
1908WRCLIT72205London: Macmillan 1908. Stiff printed cloth wrapper. Portrait. Bookplate on pastedown wrapper slightly darkened and rubbed but a very good or better copy. First edition in book form. One of 3000 copies published and sold to the benefit of the Medical School and hospital. The wrapper of this copy has the price slash 12 mm. long. STEWART 543. RICHARDS A216. Macmillan hardcover books
1908WRCLIT41736London: Macmillan 1908. Stiff printed cloth wrapper over limp boards. Portrait. Two bookplates a couple soft creases in rear wrapper very good. First edition. in book form. One of 3000 copies published and sold to the benefit of the Medical School and hospital. STEWART 543. RICHARDS A216. Macmillan hardcover books
1908WRCLIT60789London: Macmillan 1908. Stiff printed cloth wrapper. Portrait. Text block trimmed inaccurately and extending an extra 6mm. beyond the wrapper at the lower edge otherwise about fine. First edition. in book form. One of 3000 copies published and sold to the benefit of the Medical School and hospital. The wrapper of this copy has the price slash 12 mm. long. STEWART 543. RICHARDS A216. Macmillan hardcover books
1908WRCLIT60788London: Macmillan 1908. Stiff printed cloth wrapper. Portrait. Wrapper slightly darkened and rubbed but a very good or better copy. First edition. in book form. One of 3000 copies published and sold to the benefit of the Medical School and hospital. The wrapper of this copy has the price slash 12 mm. long. STEWART 543. RICHARDS A216. Macmillan hardcover books