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189022293New York: Harper & Brothers 1890. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; original printed wrappers in custom blue cloth double slipcase gilt-lettered spine; xii1822adspp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Wrappers chipped and worn along extremities with several shallow losses not affecting text contemporary ownership signature to upper wrapper spine quite darkened and cracked with small losses; interior near fine. An About Very Good copy of this fragile piece. Harper's Franklin Square Library no. 680. Harper & Brothers unknown
1890249895New York: Harper & Brothers 1890. First edition. Portrait. xii 182 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Light blue green printed wrappers spine worn back cover separating else a Very Good copy of this rare fragile book. In half blue morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition. Portrait. xii 182 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Collection of six stories previously published in various Harper serials the last story The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney being a piracy.<br /> No. 680 in Harper's Franklin Square Library series. <br /> This publication is the first time a portrait of Kipling appears in one of his books.<br /> This copy retains the front and back wrappers; the inside front wrapper here lists series titles from 680 to 589 where Richards reports 681-590. Richards A 43; Ballard XXXIII; Stewart 76; Livingston 57 Harper & Brothers unknown
18988883MacMillan & Co. 1898. Hardcover. 8vo size 381pp plus publisher's catalogue original cloth boards decorations in gilt at top edge of front board with title on spine spine rubbed on hinges tail of spine slightly worn and nicked top of spine frayed and worn text very clean overall good MacMillan & Co. hardcover
189858428NY: Doubleday & McClure Co. 1898. First American Edition. Livingston 169. A collection of twelve stories by Kipling. This edition preceded the British edition by about five weeks. .A collection of twelve stories by Kipling. This edition preceded the British edition by about five weeks. Kipling made the ship design impressed on the front cover. The American sheets were also used in the publication of the Canadian edition also dated 1898. 8vo. pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt; top edge gilt; 431 pages. Very Good covers nice & bright pencil name & date "1898" on front endpaper- could easily be erased; bit of scuffing to gilt on top edge. A nice copy! Doubleday & McClure Co. unknown
1898TB33467New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. 1898. First Edition. Very good in dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations on the spine and with the same on the front board to include a Viking ship under sail. The top edge of the text block is gilt. A small octavo measuring 8 by 5 1/4 inches with the first blank end sheet has been removed and rubbing and light wear to the cloth at the corners of the spine and to the tips of the boards. The upper fore tip has been bumped. The last 12 leaves have an ink stain in the lower margins at the extreme edge of the pages. Without a dust jacket. 431 pages of text. A collection of twelve short stories Illustrated with a frontispiece by W. D. Stevens and five plates by various artists. A very handsome and clean copy. Richards Rudyard Kipling A Bibliography A115 Doubleday & McClure Co. hardcover
1899611710New York: Doubleday & McClure 1899. Hardcover. Near Fine. Early American edition with the "o" half closed in the word 'into' on page 189. Green pictorial boards stamped in black and gilt top edge gilt. Edges of cloth lightly rubbed corners slightly bumped near fine. Twelve short stories. Doubleday & McClure hardcover
1898611705London: Macmillan 1898. Hardcover. Fine. First English edition. Octavo. Blue cloth gilt. A fine copy. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. Slipcase shows some wear but it has protected the book which is bright and fresh splendidly. Macmillan hardcover
189852399London: Macmillan and Co. 1898. First edition. 8vo. vi 381 1 pp. Contemporary red half calf over marbled boards by Matthews & Brooke of Bradford spines with raised bands gilt lettered direct to two panels and with a gilt flower device repeated to the others marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Some discolouration and light wear to the spine and corners else very good. Martindell 72. London: Macmillan and Co. unknown
1899mon0000054461London: MacMillan and Co. 1899-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. 1893 First edition without jacket on blue cloth will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable London: MacMillan and Co. hardcover
1898WB18281London: Macmillan 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Original blue gilt stamped cloth. Early reprint from October 1898 one month after the first printing. Signature of Lady Emily Tournour to title. Book label of Lord Winterton to top of front pastedown. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover
1898305707London : Macmillan 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Bookplate on front paste-down. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Some wear to spine. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 381p. ; 20cm. Subjects: English fiction. London : Macmillan hardcover
18981030201898 Edition: Doubleday & Mc Clure. Very Good. 1898. Hardcover. 1898 Edition by Doubleday & McClure. Green gilt text bright illustrated boards Very Good mild shelf wear to edges. Book is firm in binding age toned endpapers 431 pages 7 b&w illustrations by various artists. Frontispiece b&w illustration of steam engine by W.D. Stevens with tissue guard. Free of any markings not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 431 pages . Doubleday & Mc Clure hardcover
1898005285London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1898. A collection of 13 stories written while Kipling was resident in America considered to be some of his best "day's" work. Includes "007: which is not a theft from Ian Fleming unless quantum mechanics has struck again. This is a Very Good Plus copy of the First English Edition. Dark blue cloth binding ruled with gilt titling and decorations. Clean text 381 pages top edge gilt. Eighteen page catalog dated 15-9-98 in the rear. Bookplate on the front paste-down of Wilhelmine Harrod OBE 1911-2005 writer and architectural preservationist.also an ink signature in a different name that Quercus judges as earlier. Tiny bumping/rub; some spotting to endpapers and page ends. A solid attractive copy in an archival plastic protector. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Macmillan and Co., Limited Hardcover
1898106971London: MacMillan and Company. 1898. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 1898. Macmillan & Company. 381 pages. Owners name on endpaper and some shelfwear else Very Good condition. First U. K. Printing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 381 pages . MacMillan and Company hardcover
1898324697London: Macmillan 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in blue cloth with gold decorative stamping top edge gilt light wear at the spine ends and corners a little scuffing along the edges of the spine spine cracked in the center. Macmillan hardcover
1898002872New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. 1898 New York: Doubleday & McClure 1898. First American edition. 8vo. Green cloth binding decorated with sailing ship in black gold titles top edge gilt. Rough-cut pages. 431 pp. Frontispiece protective tissue plus seven illustrations. Light bumping remnants of owner name on ffep. Very good condition. Doubleday & McClure Co. hardcover
18987547London: Macmillan 1898 First edition. Dark blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Octavo. . Light shelfwear. A near fine copy bright and tight. Macmillan, hardcover
1898blb03263New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. 1898. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Textured dark green cloth with stamped bright gilt lettering on front and spine. Viking ship is stamped in black on front and spine as well. Stamped double lined ruling around perimeter of front and top edge gilt. Book is tight square relatively sharp-cornered - with some minor bumping - and free of markings or major flaws inside or out other than prior owners name on FFEP and a few spots on spine where cloth has bubbled up a tiny bit. Prior owner: ""Mr. Henry J. Hosner sp Jr. January 1 1899"" in neat script on FFEP. Illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard and seven additional plates by W. L. Sonntag E. L. Blumenschein and W. D. Stevens. This edition preceded the British edition by about five weeks and is the First Edition First Printing signified by a printing error on page 189 - a half closed 'o' in the word 'into' on page 189. A mixed collection of twelve stories by Kipling while he was living in Vermont. Included in these stories is one titled ""007."" 431 pp. 1st / 1st Doubleday & McClure Co. hardcover
1898119005Toronto: George N. Morang 1898. Rare unauthorized Canadian edition of this collection of 13 Kipling short stories mainly written between 1893 and 1896 while Kipling was living in Vermont. Octavo original wrappers. According to Stuart this unauthorized Canadian edition was printed from the same plates as the American edition published by Grosset and Dunlap and so this edition precedes both the first British and first Canadian trade edition Stuart 179. In very good condition. Housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell box. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard 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 The Day's Work includes The Bridge-Builders The Ship that Found Herself The Devil and the Deep Sea The Maltese Cat and Bread Upon The Waters and The Brushwood Boy. George N. Morang unknown
1899BIBLIO-51308The Roycroft shop East Aurora 1899. Limited edition of 950 copies. Limp green suede gilt cover-title and blindstamped ship image on front cover red endpapers 8vo. 93 pp printed in red and black blue hand-coloured initials. A collection of 27 poems attractively printed at the Roycroft press. Yeats states that the edition was suppressed with "about 60 copies in circulation from 100 illuminated and 950 plain copies" kipling Journal December 1952. Copy No. 721 signed and numbered by Elbert Hubbard. Bookplate of Charles H. Milburn on front free endpaper. Inevitable creasing to papp edges but Very Good in a used chemise and card slipcase. The Roycroft shop, [East Aurora], 1899 unknown
18998813East Aurora NY: The Roycrofters 1899. First edition thus. Very Good. 8 1/4'' x 5''. 92pp. Edition limited to 950 copies printed on unmarked handmade paper and bound in decorated suede. This is copy number 856 signed Elbert Hubbard. General light wear. Inner front hinge starting. The Roycrofters unknown
1898156864Boston: Dana Estes and Company 1898. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bridgman L.J. Full gray cloth bords with black red and gilt illustration and red title. Light wear and fraying to edges. 5""w x 7 1/8""h. 72 pages. Illustrated frontispiece partially detached. Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman. Bookstore label and embossed stamp. Keywords: Jakin and Lew Drummer boys Regimental band Afghanistan Battle War Short Story L. J. Bridgman Dana Estes and Company hardcover
1898613212Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company 1898. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition by this publisher likely a piracy. 12mo. Green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt. Offsetting on endpapers from jacket flaps near fine in lightly worn near fine dust jacket. Rare in jacket. Henry Altemus Company hardcover
1898613211New York: George Munro's Sons 1898. Softcover. Very Good. First edition by this publisher likely a piracy. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers. Pages browned chips on the wrappers a good or better copy of a fragile volume. George Munro's Sons unknown
1899120480London: F. Tennyson Neely 1899. First Neely's Booklet Library edition of Kipling's classic military tale. Octavo original wrappers as issued frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard 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 The Drums of the Fore and Aft concerns an inexperienced Regular battalion on overseas service brigaded with a Highland Regiment and a Gurkha Regiment in Afghanistan. Unlike Kipling's other tales it concerns the disgrace of a battle almost lost rather than the glory of a battle won. F. Tennyson Neely unknown
