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1928004767London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1928. An early story collection first published in 1888. This is a Very Good Plus copy of a Later Printing part of Macmillan's Uniform Edition of Kipling's works. Red cloth binding with a gilt medallion on the front cover; gilt titling on the spine; top-edge is gilt. An attractive series not common today particularly in wrapper. Nice bright text; 336 pages with a four-page catalog of his works in the rear. Spine has faintly darkened and there are two corner bumps; the frontis portrait has faintly offset to the title page. The dustwrapper is complete with a slightly darkened spine. In an archival plastic protector. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Macmillan and Co., Limited Hardcover
1993N 207Hertordshire: White Lotus Press 1993. Paperback. Good/no dj. 0.17. Plain Tales from the Hills White Lotus Press paperback
194957771Paris: Robert Laffont 1949. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. #2663 of 3000cc. 473pp. Small tape ghosts on endpapers else very good in publisher's wraps and onionskin jacket. <br/><br/> Robert Laffont paperback
1930200070New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1930. Limited to 537 copies 525 of which are numbered and for sale. Good See Comments. No covers 6 exposed cords. xviii 1-6 7-393 pp. with facsimile frontis of Kipling's manuscript for "The Thousandth Man" printed as frontispiece to vol. I with tissue guard. Title page printed in red and black. I have two of these copies of Volume 1 each numbered and signed 41 and 42. They were never bound and both retain their untrimmed cords and temporary endpapers beyond those intended to be bound. They have spent the last 90 years together in the stockroom of a venerable but now closed New York City bookstore. They both retain their limitation page signed by Kipling and numbered. Please be aware you are buying an bound book as delivered by the publisher to the binders. Several possible uses for these volumes are evident an explanation for why they were never bound and where the other two volumes for each of these is are more distant and hypothetical bordering on fantasy. Beyonbd being lovely Kipling items and complete in their own right these volumes sold by the piece are a scarce representation of how books leave the printer's for the binder's. "First edition."/ "This edition printed from type that has now been distributed is limited to five hundred and thirty-seven sets. Twelve of these are for presentation. The first volume of each of the remaining five hundred and twenty-five numbered sets is signed by the author"--Front fly-leaf. Pictures upon request. The London printing of this set was accomplished in 1929 and included a signed etching of Kipling as the frontis. Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc unknown
19306276<p>Doubleday Doran and Company Garden City. Very Good. 1930. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 3 volume set. Limited edition no. 104 of 525 sets 12 others were presentation copies signed by Rudyard Kipling; frontispiece of volume one is a facsimile page from a handwritten manuscript of "The Thousandth Man". . Light tan/cream colored-boards light brown title labels. Gold design of an elephant with a flower swastika near its head on front boards of all 3 volumes. A few light smudges/scuffs on boards especially on volume III but no damage. Bindings tight. ; Signed by Author .</p> Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City hardcover
1930mon0003790474Doubleday Doran & Company 1930-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. . Complete 3 Volume Set. Signed Limited Edition. Limited to 525 copies this being # 497. Signed by Rudyard Kipling on the Limitation Page of Volume 1. - Bound in cream paper vellum over boards with red corner tips and red vertical strip to front and rear. Gilt Titles with red paper labels on spine. Gilt elephant with swastika decoration on front boards. Top page edges are gilt rest are untrimmed. Vol.1 xviii 395; Vol.2 xxii 367; Vol.3 xxi 354pp. - only slight shelf wear; mild sun fading to spines; minor wear/bumping to lower cover corners of Vol. 3. Otherwise very clean tight square and unmarked. A very good to fine set. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover
1929011146London: Macmillan. Complete in 3 volumes. Full leather. First edition limited to 525 numbered copies signed by the author. Number 262 signed by Kipling. With dry-point frontis portrait of Kipling by Frank Dodd signed by the artist in pencil. Composed in the Baskerville Fount and printed on hand-made paper at the Chiswick Press London 1929. 4to. 8 1/4" x 10 3/4" bound in full dark red morocco raised bands marbled endpapers top edge gilting and gilt tooled edging to the boards. Front edge of pages uncut. Some chipping at the crown of volume 1 darkening/loss at the heel of volume 3 some rub/wear to the leather at extremities. Very good clean sturdy set. Internally fine pages bright white unopened. . Very Good. Full-Leather. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1929. Macmillan hardcover
1930149539New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1930. Signed limited edition of the definitive collection of Kipling's poetry. Quarto three volumes original japon-backed boards with red paper labels to spines lettered gilt gilt motifs to front covers top edges gilt tissue-guarded frontispiece to volume one of a "The Thousandth Man" in Kipling's hand specially reproduced for this edition in facsimile. One of 525 copies signed by Kipling on the limitation page this is number 96. In good condition. One of the finest editions of Kipling's verse. “As a virtuoso in verse Kipling had more than one style at his command†Baugh et al. 1505 from earnest cockney dialect to soaring prophetic proclamation. This handsome three-volume collection presents all of Kipling’s poetry—including such memorable works as “Mandalay†“Gunga Din†and “Ifâ€â€”set in Baskerville type and printed on handmade paper at the Chiswick Press. With frontispiece portrait of Kipling in Volume I signed in pencil by the artist Francis Dodd. Livingston 545. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover
1929249261929. KIPLING Rudyard. Poems 1886-1929. 4tos. Three vols. Orig. full crushed morocco printed paper dust jackets. Frontis. portrait. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1929. First edition. Limited to 525 copies signed by Kipling. Printed on hand-made paper at the Chiswick Press. A very good set. unknown
1929299029London.: Macmillan. 1929. Limited edition #255 of 525 copies. Full red leather raised bands gilt spine titles top edges gilt marbled endpapers.untrimmed foredges gilt decorated turn-ins. Very good spines moderately worn and darkened. 4to. 27x20 cm. Signed by Kipling on the limitation page of volume 1. Bookplate of Southern California philanthropists Frank and Blanche Seaver on the versos of the ffeps. Heavy set will require extra shipping. weight: 11.5 lb. Portrait frontis signed by Francis Dodd. Macmillan. hardcover
193036775Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1930. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. Limited Edition. 3 Volume Set 4to. "This edition printed from type that has now been distributed is limited to five hundred and thirty-seven sets. Twelve of these are for presentation. The first volume of each of the remaining five hundred and twenty-five numbered sets is signed by the author." This is set number 114. Signed by Rudyard Kipling in black ink. Volume One includes a facsimile page opposite the title page of Rudyard Kipling's handwriting within the manuscript of "The Thousandth Man" limited to the copies of this edition of poems. Separated by bounded tissue. Light tan cloth boards with light brown title boxes along spines. Gold-embossed design of an elephant holding a flower with a swastika near its head on all three volume front covers. Many page leafs remain uncut. Shelfwear: light scuffing along cover edges heavy spine tanning to all volumes heavy smudge and scuff marks to front and back covers light fading to covers. Light foxing to page edges inside front and back covers and front and back free endpapers. Volume One is missing a small piece from the top of the spine. All three volumes are tightly bound with very clean and crisp pages. No marks. Overall volumes are in Good condition. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Hardcover
1930882280NewYork: Doubleday Doran & Co. 1930. This in No. 264 of 537 copies. A beautiful set of Kipling's poems bound in the publishers full white vellum red paper labels and elephant and swastika seal on front boards fore-edge untrimmed t.e.g. SIGNED BY KIPLING on the limitation page. A few small spots to the boards otherwise an exceedingly clean bright and fresh set. By the Author. Signed Limited Edition. Publisher's Off-White Vellum. Near Fine. 4to. 3 Volumes. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Hardcover
1930116358Paris : Paul Hartmann 1930. 260x200mm. reliure demi-maroquin ˆ coins bleue avec titre et auteur dorÂŽs au dos ˆ quatre faux-nerfs. Tranche supÂŽrieure dorÂŽe. Plat et garde papier marbrÂŽ. Couvertures et dos conservÂŽs. TrÂs belle reliure.TrÂs bel exemplaire sur papier vÂŽlin de Rives blanc numÂŽrotÂŽ n.¡ 172 / 334. 1542 Paul Hartmann unknown
1906317848New York: Doubleday 1906. First. hardcover. fine. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Handsomely rebound in full green morocco using the original pictorial cover New York: Doubleday 1906. First American edition. Fine.<br/> <br/> Doubleday unknown
194871337London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1948. Small 8vo. x 306 pp. Full green calf with red title label gilt borders decoration and lettering to spine; marbled endpapers top edge gilt. Slight marks and scratches to rear board joints and extremities. Internally clean. Black & white illustrations. . Near Fine. Gilt-decorated Calf. 1948. Macmillan and Co., Limited 1948 unknown
1906397400London : Macmillan 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original decorated gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 306 pages : illustrations frontis. ; 18 cm. Contents; Weland's sword -- Puck's song -- A tree song -- Young men at the manor -- Sir Richard's song -- The knights of the joyous venture -- Harp song of the dane women -- Thorkild's song -- Old men at Pevensey -- The runes on Weland's sword -- A centurion of the Thirtieth -- Cities and thrones and powers -- A British-Roman song -- On the great wall -- A song to Mithras -- The winged hats -- A pict song -- Hal o' the draft -- Prophets have honour all over the earth -- A smuggler's song -- ""Dymchurch Flit"" -- The bee boy's song -- A three-part song -- The treasure and the law -- Song of the fifth river -- The children's song. Subjects; Puck Legendary character ; Juvenile fiction. Puck Legendary character. Time travel ; Juvenile fiction. Space and time ; Juvenile fiction. Space and time. Time travel. Children's literature England 20th century. English fiction. Fairies ; Juvenile fiction. Fiction in English. London : Macmillan hardcover
19061497New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1906. First American Edition. Cloth. Good. Arthur Rackham. Green cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine imagine of ship embossed on cover wear to extremities top gilt page edge deckled pages edge and bottom. Signature of previous owner on front free endpaper. Frontispiece with heavily foxed tissue guard title page also foxed. <br /> 4 illustrations including frontispiece by Arthur Rackham. Pages 165 and 166 have open tear edges of ten lines of text obscured by tear. Some age toning throughout. 277 pp.<br /> <br /> <br /> First American Edition published two months before British Edition. Doubleday, Page & Co unknown
1911424984London : Macmillan 1911. 3rd edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Boards stained dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 306 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. Contents; Weland's sword -- Puck's song -- A tree song -- Young men at the manor -- Sir Richard's song -- The knights of the joyous venture -- Harp song of the dane women -- Thorkild's song -- Old men at Pevensey -- The runes on Weland's sword -- A centurion of the Thirtieth -- Cities and thrones and powers -- A British-Roman song -- On the great wall -- A song to Mithras -- The winged hats -- A pict song -- Hal o' the draft -- Prophets have honour all over the earth -- A smuggler's song -- ""Dymchurch Flit"" -- The bee boy's song -- A three-part song -- The treasure and the law -- Song of the fifth river -- The children's song. Subjects; Puck Legendary character ; Juvenile fiction. Puck Legendary characterBarton Andrew -1511 ; Juvenile literature. Cabot Sebastian approximately 1474-1557 ; Juvenile literature. John King of England 1167-1216 ; Juvenile literature. Time travel ; Juvenile fiction. Space and time ; Juvenile fiction. Fairy tales England. Folklore England. Roman period 55 B.C.-449 A.D ; Juvenile fiction. Folklore England ; Juvenile fiction. Children's poetry English. Fantasy fiction English. Historical fiction English. Puck Legendary character ; Juvenile literature. London : Macmillan hardcover
190621320London: MacMillan & Co 1906. First edition first printing of Puck of Puck's Hill by Rudyard Kipling published by MacMillan London in 1906 a First Issue with adverts at rear. Red boards with gilt elephant embossed vignette to front board & gilt titles nicking to spine tips and some surface damage to heal of the spine fading to the spine rubbing to corners gilt top stain to text block light pencil annotation marks throughout. A collection of short stories blending history fantasy and folklore. Set in England's Sussex countryside it follows two children Dan and Una who encounter Puck a mischievous sprite from English folklore. Puck introduces them to various historical characters including Roman soldiers and Norman knights who share tales of England's past. Through these stories Kipling explores themes of identity nationalism and the enduring spirit of England. The book serves as both entertainment and a celebration of English heritage showcasing Kipling's skillful storytelling and his love for the land and its legends. MacMillan & Co hardcover
190621406London: MacMillan & Co 1906. First edition first printing of 'Puck of Pook's Hill' First Issue with adverts at rear. Red boards with gilt elephant vignette to front board & gilt titles. A near fine copy. Clean boards with no marks of note. Nicking to spine tips. A touch of fading to the spine - rubbing to the spine tips and corners. No inscriptions. All plates present. A collection of short stories blending history fantasy and folklore. Set in England's Sussex countryside it follows two children Dan and Una who encounter Puck a mischievous sprite from English folklore. Puck introduces them to various historical characters including Roman soldiers and Norman knights who share tales of England's past. Through these stories Kipling explores themes of identity nationalism and the enduring spirit of England. The book serves as both entertainment and a celebration of English heritage showcasing Kipling's skillful storytelling and his love for the land and its legends. MacMillan & Co hardcover
1906235773New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. First US edition first printing. Publisher's green cloth pictorially stamped in black with image of a ship titled in gilt teg. Mild foxing frontis tissue-guard extremities rubbed internally clean binding tight and square a near fine copy. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham; extra-illustrated with thirteen additional half-tone illustrations depicting scenes alongside Kipling's stories. 277pp. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BRITISH FANTASY<br /> <br /> In a whimsy-laced journey through time the trickster Puck summons visitors from across England’s past—from Roman legionaries to Norman knights and Magna Carta–era merchants—each weaving captivating stories steeped in history and folklore. Framed by evocative poems these vignettes blend fantasy with national legacy culminating in a celebration of England’s evolving identity. The first US edition is notable for its four haunting color plates by Arthur Rackham absent from the British edition.<br /> <br /> This copy is further distinguished as an extra-illustrated example enriched by a previous owner with thirteen additional half-tone illustrations depicting scenes of Ancient Rome. The juxtaposition of Kipling’s imaginative retelling of English history with Roman imagery creates a layered dialogue between text and illustration offering a fascinating glimpse into the interpretive creativity of early 20th-century collectors.<br /> <br /> Livingston 283. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
1906330709New York: Doubleday 1906. First. hardcover. fine. Rackham Arthur. 4 colored Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 8vo original green cloth stamped in gilt & black. New York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1906. First American Edition.<br/> <br/> Fine copy in a 1/2 green morocco slipcase.<br/> <br/> Doubleday unknown
190601AIR1358.<p>Original cloth rubbed and spine a bit faded some edge-wear including knocked corners. Binding a bit loose but sound though canted forward. Name of 'Gilkison' a New Zealand author on free front end-paper. Top edge gilt other edges tanned end-papers lightly foxed text block generally clean but a few grubby marks mostly in margins. Monochrome frontispiece and 19 drawings by H.R. Millar collated all present one with a creased corner. Inter-page adhesion affects two words on p. 304. The 10pp. booklist at rear is dated 10.10.06. Ten short stories and 16 poems.</p> Macmillan and Co., Limited. hardcover
19051594285517Doubleday Doran & Co. 1905. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Doubleday Doran & Co. hardcover
1906RK072New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906 Illustrated with four color plates by Arthur Rackham including a frontispiece. First edition first printing published two months before the first UK edition. Publisher's green cloth with boat illustration in blind to front board lettered in gilt and top edge gilt. Near fine with clean and bright boards light wear to spine ends joints and corners and small marks to pp. 46-47 lines 15-21 on both pages slightly affected. Overall an excellent copy. In Puck of Pook's Hill two children playing in the English countryside are approached by the magical fairy Puck from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Over the course of the summer Puck introduces them to notable events and characters from British history told through ten connected short stories. Interspersed between the stories are poems by Kipling some of which were later selected by T.S. Eliot for inclusion in A Choice of Kipling's Verse 1941. Notably this first American edition includes illustrations by the legendary book illustrator Arthur Rackham whereas the first UK edition was illustrated by Harold R. Millar. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Rackham Arthur. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover