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1898895Z22London: Macmillan and Co. 1898. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5". None . The first edition of this collection of short stories by the award winning author Rudyard Kipling. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth. This work was written by the Nobel Prize winning author Rudyard Kipling and features a collection of thirteen short stories including 'The Ship that Found Herself' 'The Devil and the Deep Sea' and 'Bread upon Waters'. Four of the stories include anthropomorphic characters. Publisher's advertisements to the rear.From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son literary agent of Rudyard Kipling. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally smart with creasing to the rear slight fading to the spine bumping to the extremities small closed tears to the head and tail of the spine and slight rubbing to the extremities and joints. Bookplate belonging to 'A. P. Watt' to the front pastedown with front hinge starting and offsetting and spotting to the endpapers. Internally generally firmly bound with evidence of strain in places. Very Good Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1898921Y14London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1898. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5". None. A very smart first edition of this short story collection by Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling. The first edition of this work by short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling. In the publisher's original blue cloth with decorative gilt to the front board and spine. 'The Day's Work' comprises thirteen short stories which were mainly written between 1893 and 1896 while Kipling was living in Vermont. With four of the stories featuring anthropomorphic characters. With eighteen pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally very smart. With moderate rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean save for the few spots to the endpapers. Very Good Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1899MD28034Charles Scribner's Sons 1899. First Edition. Hardback. Very good condition. Brown boards and Gold lettering and design. Dust jacket: No dust jacket. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1899001939NEW YORK: DOUBLEDAY & MCCLURE CO. 1899 431 p. PUBLICATION DATE 1899. COPYRIGHT 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898. BOOK DESCRIPTION: GREEN RIBBED CLOTH HARDBOUND WITH BLACK/GILT GOLD STAMPED TITLE/PICTORAL ILLUSTRATION ON SPINE COVER/FRONT BOARD GILT GOLD UPPER LEAF EDGE TEXT ACCOMPANIED BY NUMEROUS BLACK/WHITE PLATES. DIMENSIONS: 8 1/8" x 5 1/2" x 1 3/8." CONDITION: VERY GOOD; BUMPED/RUBBED SPINE CROWN/HEEL/CORNER TIPS VERY LIGHT SPORADIC SPOTTING OF BOARDS WEAR AT EXTREMITIES LIGHT FRAYING STRONG SQUARE SPINE/BINDING STARTING TO LOOSEN DEDICATION PAGE STARTING TO LOOSEN AT TOP ATTACHMENT BRIGHT/CLEAN AGE TONED PAGES. A NICE COPY. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. DOUBLEDAY, & MCCLURE CO. hardcover
18981117London: Macmillan and co. 1898. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprinted October 1898 First published September 1898 Blue cloth boards with gilt decoration and gilt title to spine 381 pages plus 2 pages adverts to rear <br/><br/> Macmillan and co. hardcover
18981250310.29<p>The Roycrofters East Aurora NY 1898. Arts Crafts Printing Roycroft . Very Good. 8vo hardcover. Suede binding. Vg condition. Presentation copy inscribed by Elbert Hubbard on the front endpaper to George H. Daniels General Passenger Agent for the New York Central Railroad and an early patron. Covers and contents clean no marking or writing. Binding square and tight 90 pp.</p> The Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY hardcover
1899115400Roycrofters 1899. Hardcover. Fine/No jacket. #775/950cc signed by Elbert Hubbard and binder Bernice Lofland. Leatherbound in folded case and slipcase. Roycrofters hardcover
18981222E046Roycroft East Aurora USA: Elbert Hubbard at the Roycroft Shop 1898. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 90. Very Good Plus/Near Fine. 5.75 x 9.25 inches 14.5 x 23.5 cm. Slipcase: Custom built slip case in brown buckram lined with brown card. Previous owners bookplate inside front cover. Excellent condition. Overall case condition is Near Fine. Book: First printing. One of the 950 trade copies although limitation is not stated. Limp green suede binding with yapp edges. Browning and light creasing to edges. Page edges untrimmed. Red silk pastedown endpapers. Red silk ribbon bookmark. First initial in each poem printed in blue and black. Colophon and running title printed in red. Tanning to free endpapers very clean text throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to leading blank. An unauthorised American edition. Contains a selection of poems taken from 'Departmental Ditties' and 'Barrack Room Ballads' including 'The Dipsy Chanty' The Last Chantey 'The Vampire' and 'Gunga Din'. A very nice example. Richards E1-27. Overall book condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 5.75 x 9.25 inches 14.5 x 23.5 cm. Elbert Hubbard at the Roycroft Shop hardcover
1899636C33New York: Doubleday and McClure Company 1899. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 6.5" by 4.5". None. A lovely two volume set of the work of Rudyard Kipling both first U.S. editions. This set features two fictional works by Kipling 'Without The Benefit of Clergy' and 'The Drums of Fore and Aft'. Uniformly bound in the original cloth binding with a elephant illustration to the front board both of these volumes are the first U. S. editions. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a English journalist novelist poet and short story writer. Born in colonial India Kipling spent his school days in England. One of the leading authors of the 19th and 20th century he is perhaps famous for his novel 'The Jungle Book'. An extremely influential and popular writer poet Alison Brackenbury once stated 'Kipling is poetry's Dicken's'. In 1907 aged 42 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature making him the first English language writer to receive the accolade. Rudyard Kipling is of course best remember his novel 'The Jungle Book'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally excellent with minor shelfwear and rubbing to the spine. Light offsetting to the front and rear endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine Doubleday and McClure Company hardcover
18981219E017New York: Brentano's 1898. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 71. Very Good. 3.75 x 6.25 inches 10 x 16 cm. First American separate edition of this short story taken from the 'Wee Willie Winkie' collection 1889. An unauthorized pirate edition. First printing: with the J.J. Little printer's device to verso of title page and final page listing six volumes in the series three by Kipling. Green cloth binding with decorative boards gilt lettering to spine. Top page edge gilt other edges untrimmed. Slight flecking to spine very clean text throughout. Two previous owner bookplates to front endpaper. Scarce. Richards A121 E1-33. Overall condition is Very Good. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £11.00; USA £15.00; Oceania £16.00; Rest of World £18.00. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 3.75 x 6.25 inches 10 x 16 cm. Brentano's hardcover
18995474New York: Doubleday and McClure Company 1899. First Thus. Very Good. First thus and first standalone American edition of this story. Bound in cream pictoral cloth over boards with the illustration of an elephant walking though a jungle on the front and back. Slight darkening of the spine some scuffing though minor and from rubbing at edges. The interior is clean and clear. <br /> <br /> Pages: 4 95 Dimensions: 69/16 x 4¼ x 7/16. Doubleday and McClure 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
1894mon0003267591New York: The Century Co. 1894. Hardcover. Good. . First U.S. edition first printing with no additional printings noted. Lacking dust jacket. Olive cloth cover with decoration in blind and gilt on both boards and the spine top edges gilt. Cover with minor soiling some tears and rubbing to the corners and spine ends bumped corners and rubbing. Names of two former owners written on the front free endpaper. Pages with some minor scattered foxing. Staining on pages 132 and 133 from a flower that was once pressed there but the text is still readable. New York: The Century Co. hardcover
1900028998UK: Macmillan 1900. New Edition 2nd Printing. Cloth. Very Good . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. J Lockwood Kipling. New Uniform Editions 2nd Imps 1900/1901. This new Uniform edition was used for all future Kipling works until he died. Illustrated throughout by J Lockwood Kipling. Full decorative cloth binding. Books are very good and bright. Contents good. Inscription to very foxed endpapers. More images can be taken upon request. Ref14973/16169 <br/> <br/> Macmillan hardcover
1897C203303Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1897. Paperback . Very Good. Slight wear and fading to cover faint damp-marking to top edge middle gathering slightly loose otherwise very good. Tauchnitz, paperback
18965516London: Macmillan and Co 1896. First Edition 1894 4th reprint. hardback with no dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gold elephants motif on the front cover. illustrations by kiplingDrake and Frenzeny In very good condition. No inscriptions or markings. Spine faded and torn top and bottom. interior sound and clean with some age browning. 1896 Macmillan and Co hardcover
1895030039UK: Macmillan 1895. First Edition 4th Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 4th Imp 1895. Same format and printed a year later after the 1st Edition. Book is very good with quite bright boards and gilt work. Slight rubbing to spine tips and corners. Odd marks to cloth. Contents good. Light foxing to pages. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18931 <br/> <br/> Macmillan hardcover
1895031347UK: Macmillan 1895. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. J L Kipling W H Drake P Frenzeny. Two Volume Set of the two Jungle books. In the same format and style as the 1st editions. The Jungle Book is printed 1895 4th Imp and the Second Jungle Book is 1895 1st edition. Books are very good and quite bright. Light edge rubbing. Spines slightly darkened and gilt a little dulled. Contents quite good. Foxing to varying degrees to the pages. Two inscriptions to the inner page of the Jungle book. Quite a bright set. More images can be taken upon request. Ref19307/19308 <br/> <br/> Macmillan hardcover
1897031417UK: Macmillan 1897. First Edition 4th Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 6th Imp 1897. Same format and printed a few years later after the 1st Edition. Book is very good with quite bright boards and gilt work. Slight rubbing to spine tips and corners. Odd marks to cloth. Spine age toned. Contents good. Foxing to some pages. Early pages with newspaper cuttings from the 1920's. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18891 <br/> <br/> Macmillan hardcover
1895031562UK: Macmillan 1895. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. J L Kipling W H Drake P Frenzeny. Two Volume Set of the two Jungle books. Signed slip tipped into the inner page by Rudyard Kipling. In the same format and style as the 1st editions. The Jungle Book is printed 1896 5th Imp and the Second Jungle Book is 1895 1st edition. Books are very good and bright. Light edge rubbing.Spine on Jungle book darkened. Contents quite good. Foxing to varying degrees to the pages of the Jungle book. Quite a bright set. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17453/17421/19329 <br/> <br/> Macmillan hardcover
1894035343New York: The Century Co. 1894. First American Editions 1894 & 1895. 8vos with 303 pages & 324 pages. Illustrated with drawings in the text by John Lockwood Kipling Rudyard's father and the American artists W. H. Drake and Paul Frenzeny. The books are in good condition. The Jungle Book has one small black ink stain on front panel one small black ink stain to top of rear panel rubbing to edges of boards and previous gift presentation on front free end paper. The second jungle book has rubbing to edges badly opened pages from 57 to 60 without loss of text a perforated bookseller stamp to top right of front free end paper and gift presentation to title page from mother. Both volumes have hinges that are strong and intact. A Classic set. The Jungle Books have been adapted many times in a wide variety of media in literature and film. Robert Heinlein wrote the Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land 1961 when his wife Virginia suggested a new version of The Jungle Book but with a child raised by Martians instead of wolves. Green & Salmon Orange spines/gold text. #035343. First American Editions. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. Illus. by W. . Drake John Lockwood Illustrators. 8vo. Children's Literature. The Century Co. Hardcover
1895498<p>Macmillan and Company. London. Set of two. The Jungle Book 1895 later printing/first printing. The Second Jungle Book 1895 first printing. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to spine and front boards. All edges gilt. Dark blue/green endpapers. Both show spines faded generalized shelf wear to boards former owener signature on flyleaf foxing throughout slight lean to spine ends of spine rubbed and hinges starting. see photos. Kipling's <em>The Jungle Book</em> and <em>The Second Jungle Book</em> are classic story collections set in the Indian wilderness. They primarily follow Mowgli a "man-cub" raised by wolves as he learns the Law of the Jungle from mentors like Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. Beyond Mowgli's adventures the books include famous standalone tales like "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" blending moral fables with vivid depictions of nature. Numberous illustrations by J. L. Kipling W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. Each 5x7.5 in. 212pg/238 pg.</p> Macmillan and Company hardcover
1898C218833London: Macmillan 1898. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. vii 212pp. Original dark blue cloth with gilt spine titles and gilt illustrations all edges gilt. Covers slightly worn marked and faded with slight nicking to spine ends contents lightly shaken with a few spots to pages otherwise very good. Name to endpaper. Macmillan, hardcover
1898mon0001616182Macmillan 1898. hardcover. Good. . Hardback. Minor crease marks to spine and cover. No dust jack et. Edge if spine torn Macmillan hardcover
1897mon0001580980Macmillan and Co. 1897. Hardcover. Good. . First edition 6th Printing.The boards have some marking due to age and the top and bottom of spine are scuffed.The hinges and binding are firm with no loose pages.Edges are tanned and pages have some foxing. Previous owner's name on inside of front board and stamped on ffe title pagelast page and endpaper. Macmillan and Co. hardcover