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1923121578London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1923. First edition of Kipling's October 1953 address delivered to the students of St. Andrews discussing the challenges and necessity of individuality and independence. Octavo bound in full cloth with gilt titles 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. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
192429681Garden City NY: Doubleday Page 1924. First Edition. 8vo pp. 33. Green paper over boards paper label on front. Spine little torn at top donor's presentation and owner's stamp on flyleaf. One hinge tender o/w VG. Stewart 554. Doubleday, Page unknown books
192329558London: Macmillan 1923. First UK edn. 8vo pp. 32. Stewart 534 A nice copy. Macmillan unknown books
189052434New York: Lovell 1890. First Edition. Octavo. First Authorized Edition; 19.5cm; blue cloth covered boards titled in gilt on spine; top textblock in gilt; 771pp.; a Near Fine or better copy. A classic collection of 36 short stories. Lovell unknown books
189055000New York: United States Book Company Successor to John W. Lovell Company 142 to 150 Worth Street 1890. First edition. 771 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Blue cloth. Very good. First edition. 771 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Stewart 63 United States Book Company, Successor to John W. Lovell Company 142 to 150 Worth Street unknown books
1890125195New York: United States Book Company 1890. Hardbound. Good- general fragility and wear. Publishers blue cloth. 771pp. no illustrations. A most noteworthy copy bearing the copper-engraved bookplate of Henry Van Deventer Black which was designed by Mr. Black and engraved by Edwin Davis French. The book is signed by Henry Van Deventer Black and he has dated it Dec. 1892. He has also written that "This book has spent a winter on the Nile and been around the world" on the ffep. A few pencil lines to the contents perhaps indicating favorite passages. The bookplate is stunning in it's detail and beauty. United States Book Company hardcover books
1890121653New York: John W. Lovell Company 1890. First authorized edition of this classic collection by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo original cloth. Illustrations by L.J. Bridgman. In near fine condition. Tanselle #99.17. A very sharp example. Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907. His books include The Jungle Book and the Just So Stories. John W. Lovell Company hardcover books
199759512NY:: Serpedon. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 1885119380 . Edited and compiled from their diaries and papers. Foreword by George Webb. Illustrated. First printing thus. Fine in a near fine fading along the spine dust jacket. . Serpedon, hardcover books
189468158First Edition ìJungle Booksî in the Original Bindings KIPLING Rudyard. The Jungle Book. With illustrations by J.L. Kipling W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. London: Macmillan and Co. 1894. First edition second printing with two dates on verso of title-page. Small octavo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 181 x 120 mm. vi 2 212 pp. With frontispiece and tissue guard. Numerous illustrations including many full-page illustrations included in pagination. Together with: KIPLING Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. With illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling. London: Macmillan and Co. 1895. First edition. Small octavo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 181 x 120 mm. vi 238 2 ads pp. Numerous illustrations including many full-page illustrations included in pagination. Title-page with vignette illustrations. With two pages of publisher's advertisements. Two volumes. Original bright blue cloth decoratively stamped in gilt on front covers and spines and lettered in gilt on spines. Volume one with elephants stamped in gilt on front cover and a gilt cobra on the spine. Volume II with a cobra in gilt on front cover and a man and snake in gilt on the spine. All edges gilt. Original dark blue-green coated endpapers. Extremities of the spine and corners of the second book with a bit of rubbing. Final ad leaf in second book with some light foxing. Overall an about fine set. Rudyard Kipling has been called "perhaps the most original genius among English-writing novelists of the latter 19th and early 20th centuries." Certainly no other has been so widely acclaimed so eagerly read so lastingly loved by readers on both sides of the Atlantic. The honors bestowed upon him all over the world were capped in 1907 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Livingston 104 and 116. Martindell 61 and 63. Stewart 123 and 132. HBS 68158. $4500 Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1902WRCLIT71957Stockholm: Hugo Gebers Förlag 1902. Small octavo. Pictorial red cloth stamped in white and black. Illustrations and plates. Ink gift inscription in upper margin of title a couple small spots on upper board and a few marginal smudges inner hinges show signs of having been repaired early on; still a good copy. First Swedish edition translated by H. Flygare. Published in the same year as the UK and US editions. Hugo Gebers Förlag hardcover books
1903508811903. KIPLING Rudyard. THE JUST SO SONG BOOK. Being the songs from Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories set to music by Edward German. New York: Doubleday Page and Co. 1903. First American edition. Small 4to. green decorated cloth. Just about fine copy with a lovely illustrated cover. Stewart & Yeats 269-B Livingston 270. unknown books
20001340428Norwalk CT: Easton Press 2000. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-; bound in fine genuine Red leather with bright gilt spines gilt titling to spines gilt titling and illustrations on covers; gilt text block; silk endpapers; silk ribbon; spotting along textblock edges; shelved Easton Press. 1340428. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Easton Press hardcover books
1902RK060London: Macmillan & Co. 1902 First edition first printing. Illustrated by the author. Original publisher's red cloth stamped with illustrations of animals at a watering hole in black and white. A very good or better copy with only some rubbing to the extremities foxing to the endpapers and without the usual fading to the spine. A bright tight and attractive copy. A book that originated as a series of bedtime stories told by Kipling to his daughter Just So Stories contains chapters explaining the processes through which various animals came to look as they do including "How the Whale Got His Throat" and "How the Camel Got His Hump." This classic children's book takes its name from the fact that Kipling had to tell the stories "just so" or else run the risk of upsetting his daughter. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. London: Macmillan & Co. hardcover books
1902WRCLIT79635London: Macmillan and Co. 1902. Small quarto. Pictorial cloth. Illustrations by the author. First edition. Spine and edges rubbed foxing to endsheets with some offset discolorations around the edges of the endleaves from the cloth dye some areas of white stamping faint a few marginal smudges; just an average copy. RICHARDS A181. STEWART 260. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1902196291Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz 1902. Rare Tauchnitz edition of Kipling's classic collection of stories with 22 illustrations by Kipling himself. Small octavo original cloth illustrated by Rudyard Kipling. In very good condition. Rare in the original cloth. Just So Stories has "achieved nursery immortality because a genius has married two of the most tried and trusted favorite media--the fable and the fairy-story" Muir 107. "Kipling's own witty black-and-white drawings. together with their extensive and ridiculous captions are one of the chief delights of the book" Carpenter & Prichard 285. Bernhard Tauchnitz hardcover books
1902112320London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1902. First edition first issue of Kipling's classic collection of stories illustrated with 22 <span class="glossaryQtip qTip">plates </span>designed by Kipling himself. Octavo original black-and white-stamped pictorial red cloth. In near fine condition with light rubbing and wear. Just So Stories has "achieved nursery immortality because a genius has married two of the most tried and trusted favorite media--the fable and the fairy-story" Muir 107. "Kipling's own witty black-and-white drawings. together with their extensive and ridiculous captions are one of the chief delights of the book" Carpenter & Prichard 285. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1902108254London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1902. First edition first issue of Kipling's classic collection of stories illustrated with 22 <span class="glossaryQtip qTip">plates </span>designed by Kipling himself. Octavo original black-and white-stamped pictorial red cloth. Inscribed by Bertram Rota the owner of the Bodley House bookstore in London "S.W. Jackson's copy of my boyhood's favorite book. This copy survived fire and water when so many of its fellows were destroyed by Nazi barbarism at Bodley House in October 1940. After being stored nearby and escaping more bombs it returned to the resurrected bookshop and now leaves Bodley House to find sanctuary in friendly hands in a luckier land. With all good wishes Bertram Rota June 6th 1941." Bertram Rota began selling books in 1923 and was essentially the first bookseller to specialize in modern first editions. In 1923 Rota moved operations to the former location of the Bodley Head publishing house on Vigo Street in London where in spite of sustaining a direct hit during a Nazi blitzkrieg the bookshop remained for twenty-eight years. In near fine condition with light rubbing. Exceptional with fascinating provenance. Just So Stories has "achieved nursery immortality because a genius has married two of the most tried and trusted favorite media--the fable and the fairy-story" Muir 107. "Kipling's own witty black-and-white drawings. together with their extensive and ridiculous captions are one of the chief delights of the book" Carpenter & Prichard 285. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
190299731London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1902. First edition first issue of Kipling's classic collection of stories illustrated with 22 <span class="glossaryQtip qTip">plates </span>designed by Kipling himself. Octavo original black-and white-stamped pictorial red cloth. In near fine condition with light rubbing. A nice example. Just So Stories has "achieved nursery immortality because a genius has married two of the most tried and trusted favorite media--the fable and the fairy-story" Muir 107. "Kipling's own witty black-and-white drawings. together with their extensive and ridiculous captions are one of the chief delights of the book" Carpenter & Prichard 285. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
190295185London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1902. First edition first issue of Kipling's classic collection of stories illustrated with 22 <span class="glossaryQtip qTip">plates </span>designed by Kipling himself. Octavo original black-and white-stamped pictorial red cloth. In near fine condition. By far one of the nicest examples we have handled. Just So Stories has "achieved nursery immortality because a genius has married two of the most tried and trusted favorite media--the fable and the fairy-story" Muir 107. "Kipling's own witty black-and-white drawings. together with their extensive and ridiculous captions are one of the chief delights of the book" Carpenter & Prichard 285. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
190224541London: Macmillan and Co 1902. First edition large 8vo pp. 6 249 2; 22 plates by Kipling; full red niger morocco t.e.g. gilt lettered direct on gilt paneled spine original pictorial red cloth front cover bound in at the back. "Just So Stories has achieved nursery immortality because a genius has married two of the most tried and trusted media - the fable and the fairy-story" Muir 107. Livingston 267. <br/><br/> Macmillan and Co hardcover books
1930125970New York: Garden City Publishing Co. n.d. ca. 1930. Later printing of Kipling's classic collection of stories. Octavo original cloth with pictorial onlay with Kipling's original illustrations and coloured plates by Joseph M. Gleeson and Paul Bransom. In near fine condition. Ownership name. Just So Stories has "achieved nursery immortality because a genius has married two of the most tried and trusted favorite media--the fable and the fairy-story" Muir 107. "Kipling's own witty black-and-white drawings. together with their extensive and ridiculous captions are one of the chief delights of the book" Carpenter & Prichard 285. Garden City Publishing Co. hardcover books
190252408Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1902. Small 8vo pp. 254. Illustrated by the author with a fold-out map opposite p. 112. Blue cloth. Rear hinge tender front hinge mended; cover somewhat worn but glued at front side of spine and tight; VG. Tauchnitz unknown books
190255576London: Macmillan 1902. Reprint October 1902. Slim 4to pp. 249 adv. Bound in red cloth stamped in black and white little rubbed at the extremities a very good copy issued on month after the first edition. Name stamp on end paper adv brochure laid in. Richards A181; Stewart 260. These stories include How the Camel Got His Hump and How The Leopard Got His Spots. Macmillan unknown books
1918406898Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1918. Some light soiling and toning generally near-fine. 8vo. 8 pages. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers; green cloth chemise and slipcase. First edition of this poem printed for copyright purposes. Ricvhardson A312; Stewart 461. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1918224241Garden City New York Doubleday Page & Company 1918. 1918. First American edition issued for copyright purposes. Original stiff cream wrappers stamped in dark green. Enclosed in a 1/2 red morocco slipcase with folding chemise. Large bookplate of B. George Ulizio on the chemise. No signatures or bookplates on the pamphlet. Fine. Stewart 461. F. Soft cover. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918. paperback books