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1892026173UK: Sampson Low 1892. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st edition 1892. Includes `Wee Willie Winkie' `Under the Deodars' and `The Phantom Rickshaw'. First combined edition. Bookplate of Charles Hibbert Henry Williamson's father in law. The Hibbert's were a wealthy middle class family in Devon. Williamson' met his daughter Ida Loetitia at various hunting meets and fell in love. Kipling's collection of short stories on the British in India and the Supernatural. From a large collection of Henry Williamson's and his family's books. Includes a specially commissioned small bookplate affixed inside the book confirming this. Book is very good with quite bright boards. Spine tips lightly rubbed. Contents good. Light age toning.Text block a little slack. More images can be taken upon request. ref 17593 <br/> <br/> Sampson Low hardcover
1899biblio37627<p>Two Works in One Volume. New York City: Fenno & Company; First Edition 1899. 156139 pages. NearFine Hardcover no dj. SlateGray cloth Gilt Spine title and stamping. No Wear. Free of marks inscriptions etc. Excellent binding and hinges. 7.3"x4.9"x1.1". be2x.</p> Fenno & Company hardcover
1900894Q25Santiago de Chile: Hume & Co. 1900 . First edition. Paperback. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 5". None. A scarce first edition of this unauthorised collection of poetry and articles by Rudyard Kipling published in Chile and largely written during the Boer War. First edition in the publisher's original paper wraps. Scarce.From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son literary agent of Rudyard Kipling. Written by celebrated English novelist poet and short-story writer Rudyard Kipling known for his popular work 'The Jungle Book'. This collection of poetry was published in Chile with many of the poems written during Kipling's time working for the British War effort in the Boer War. Comprised of seven poems and two articles with two of the poems and both articles appearing here in book-form for the first time. This collection also includes letters from author Julian Ralph reporter Charles E. Hands and Douglas Story. This collection is suggested to be the only known case of a book being published in a country that was never visited by the author. The publisher Hume & Co. was said to be an huge admirer of Kipling's although overestimated the public demand meaning his print-run of 400 copies were largely left unsold or burnt. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally very smart with light offsetting and a little sunning. Small mark to the head of the rear wrap with slight markings from the staples externally and to endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean with slight age toning. Many pages have been left unopened. Very Good Indeed Hume & Co. paperback
189477151London:: Macmillan and Co. 1894. publisher's cloth with printed paper label on spine. . Some light foxing; spine label tanned with tiny chips at edges; lower corners bumped. Tight and sound. 8vo. With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling. Notes by R. C. Temple. Macmillan and Co., hardcover
189310900TRUE FIRST EDITION TOM SAWYER ABROAD in ST. NICHOLAS Magazine 1893-1895 Century first edition 4 Volumes Volumes 21 & 22 Parts 1 & 2 of each some wear to spine extremities and corner tips else a good to very good set in the publishers original highly decorated cloth. Also contains several EPISODES OF Palmer Cox's THE BROWNIES the first 4 stories from Kiplings JUNGLE BOOK Rikkii-Tikki-Tavi Tiger! Tiger! Mowgli's Brothers Toomai of the Elephants along with Howard Pyle's JACK BALLISTERS FORTUNE complete along with HERO TALES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY complete by Theodore Roosevelt et.al. A wonderful grouping. Century hardcover
189523528Cosmopolitan Press. Very Good-. 1895. Hardcover. Binding fairly solid. Pages unmarked and only slightly aged. Marbled page edges and flowered endpages. Red buckram cover has only minor wear but spine title is faded but legible. . Cosmopolitan Press hardcover
1898mon0003363415New York: R. H. Russell 1898. Hardcover. Good. . Cover shows moderate wear tear chipping edgewear rubbing and tanning. Name of former owner on the front pastedown. Pages tanned. New York: R. H. Russell hardcover