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1930WRCLIT83696New York: The Grolier Club 1930. Two volumes. Large octavos. Linen and gilt boards paper spine labels t.e.g. others untrimmed. Plates facsimiles. Hint of tanning at edges otherwise fine the first in chipped glassine in trifle discolored slipcases with repaired cracks. First editions. Each is one of 325 numbered copies printed on Fabriano paper at the Plimpton Press. RICHARDS B87 & B/43. STEWART 580. ASAF 93 & 94. The Grolier Club hardcover books
1930WRCLIT83809New York: The Grolier Club 1930. Large octavo. Linen and gilt boards paper spine label t.e.g. Portrait. First edition. One of 325 copies printed at the Plimpton Press. Bookplate spine and boards a bit darkened at edges and slightly soiled one lower corner slightly bruised else very good. The Grolier Club hardcover books
1968WRCLIT63633New York: Burt Franklin 1968. Thick octavo. Cloth. Facsimile reprint of the 1927 first edition. Slight rubbing else very good with dust jacket as issued. A reprint of the 1938 supplement was published separately. Burt Franklin hardcover books
1968WRCLIT63645New York: Burt Franklin 1968. Small octavo. Cloth. Reprint of 1938 edition. Near fine lacking dust jacket. Burt Franklin hardcover books
1927WRCLIT32617New York: Edgar H. Wells and Co. 1927. 523pp. Cloth t.e.g. Plates. Facsimiles. First trade edition. Very slight rubbing else very good. Edgar H. Wells and Co. hardcover books
1927WRCLIT83689New York: Edgar H. Wells and Co. 1927. 523pp. Plates. Facsimiles. Half cloth and marbled boards edges rough-trimmed. Fore-tips bumped some edgewear and a bit of darkening to spine otherwise very good. First edition. One of fifty-five copies specially printed on large paper under the direction of Bruce Rogers at the Harvard University Press signed by the compiler. Uncommon in this format. Edgar H. Wells and Co. hardcover books
1927WRCLIT83695New York: Edgar H. Wells and Co. 1927. 523pp. Cloth t.e.g. Plates. Facsimiles. First trade edition. Very good or better. Edgar H. Wells and Co. hardcover books
1927WRCLIT82849New York: Edgar H. Wells and Co. 1927. 523pp. Cloth t.e.g. Plates. Facsimiles. First trade edition. Very slight rubbing else near fine. Edgar H. Wells and Co. hardcover books
1938WRCLIT83690Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1938. xiv2333pp. Gilt cloth. A near fine unopened copy without dust jacket. First edition. Signed by the compiler on the title-page and inscribed by her on the half- title. The inscription is to a great extent illegible a testament to Livingston's deteriorating eyesight. Harvard University Press hardcover books
1923WRCLIT83694London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1923. Gilt plum cloth. Frontispiece caricature fifty-one plates. The much enlarged second edition limited to 700 numbered copies for sale. Trace of tanning but a very good copy with shards of the dust jacket laid in. John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover books
1923WRCLIT63649London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1923. Gilt cloth. Frontispiece caricature fifty- one plates. The much enlarged second edition limited to 700 copies. Sewing strained between pp. 112-113 shelf wear at toe of spine else a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover books
1937WRCLIT41665New Haven: Yale Library Associates 1937. Wrappers printed label. Facsimile. First edition. Unfortunate adhesive booklabel of a noted Kipling collector else about fine. STEWART 226. Yale Library Associates unknown books
1937WRCLIT41721New Haven: Yale Library Associates 1937. Wrappers printed label. Facsimile. First edition. Upper wrapper a bit tanned and lightly creased very good. STEWART 226. Yale Library Associates unknown books
1937WRCLIT41720New Haven: Yale Library Associates 1937. Wrappers printed label. Facsimile. First edition. Unfortunate adhesive booklabel of a noted Kipling collector wrappers a bit smudged paper label soiled just a good copy. STEWART 226. Yale Library Associates unknown books
1899WRCLIT41661New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. 1899. Printed paper boards. Frontis portrait. Tiny loss from crown of spine edges a bit rubbed and slightly darkened two small spots of endsheets unfortunate adhesive book label of noted Kipling collector else a very good copy of a fragile book. First separate edition the text revised. Copy #4 of one hundred copies printed. A substantial Kipling-approved biographical sketch published in WINDSOR and McCLURE'S MAGAZINE and included in the 1899 Doubleday edition of PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS. LIVINGSTON 26n. Doubleday & McClure Co. hardcover books
1936WRCLIT83016Brattleboro VT: Stephen Daye Press 1936. 39pp. Gilt cloth. Photograph and facsimile. Endsheets and edges slightly dusty otherwise very good and bright without dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed "With best wishes from the author's father. Christmas 1936." RICHARDS B124. Stephen Daye Press hardcover books
1959WRCLIT83693Toronto: Dalhousie University Press and University of Toronto Press 1959. xv36731pp. Large thick octavo. Gilt red cloth. Portrait and plates. Spine gilding very slightly oxidized otherwise near fine without dust jacket. First edition trade issue. Until the publication of David Richards' bibliography this was for a generation or two the most inclusive bibliography of A & B items. Dalhousie University Press and University of Toronto Press hardcover books
1959WRCLIT82851Toronto: Dalhousie University Press and University of Toronto Press 1959. xv36731pp. Large thick octavo. Gilt red cloth. Portrait and plates. Near fine without dust jacket. First edition trade issue. Until the publication of David Richards' bibliography this was for a generation or two the most inclusive bibliography of A & B items. Dalhousie University Press and University of Toronto Press hardcover books
18971326987New York: The Century Co 1897. Hardcover. 12mo; pp 323; Good-; green spine with gilt text; no jacket; cloth has modest soiling to exterior; mild edge wear; gilt and red illustration to front; green border to panels; strong boards; text block has slight toning to exterior edges; previous owner's name to front pastedown; missing ffep; slight cracks to front gutter at half title page; frontispiece; interior edges slightly toned; text pages show slight toning toward interior edges; illustrated; top edge gilt;. 1326987. FP New Rockville Stock. The Century Co hardcover books
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 books
1897121438London: Chatto & Windus 1897. The New Edition of My First Book with contributions by Rudyard Kipling Arthur Conan Doyle H. Rider Haggard and Robert Louis Stevenson. Octavo original cloth illustrated frontispiece. Introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. 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. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1914121494London: Methuen & Co. Ltd 1914. First edition of this collection of wartime verse with contributions by Shakespeare William Wordsworth Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling. Small octavo original wrappers. In good condition. Remember Louvain! contains contributions by William Wordsworth Alfred Noyes Walter Scott Walt Whitman James Thomson Andrew Lang Arthur Conan Doyle Rudyard Kipling and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow among many others. Methuen & Co. Ltd unknown books
19732264545The Limited Editions Club 1973. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Raymond Charles. Signed by illustrator. Limited edition #920 of 2000 copies. Signed by illustrator on limitation page. Includes publisher's slipcase. A few tiny scuffs to slipcase. 1973 Hard Cover. xiii 1 375 3 pp. A selection of short stories by the author of The Jungle Book who was also known for his poetry with an introduction by editor Bernard Bergonzi. Includes: Lispeth; The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case; The Madness of Private Ortheris; The Phantom 'Rickshaw; Baa Baa Black Sheep; On Greenhow Hill; The Man Who Was; Without Benefit of Clergy; The City of Dreadful Night; At the End of the Passage; The Finest Story in the World; Love-o'-Women; The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot; The Bridge-Builders; The Ship That Found Herself; Wireless; They; Mrs. Bathhurst; Mary Postgate; The Wish House; The Gardener; The Eye of Allah; Dayspring Mishandled. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1921123962Novo Portu E Typographeo Yalensi 1921. The Yale Alumni Association edition of this collection Kipling and Graves' translations of the Odes of Horace. Octavo original wrappers. In very good condition. Quintus Horatius Flaccus known in the English-speaking world as Horace was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus also known as Octavian. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes yet he is also full of charm and grace versatile in his figures and felicitously daring in his choice of words." Novo Portu E Typographeo Yalensi unknown books
1922121962Oxonii Apud Basilium Blackwell 1922. First edition of this collection Kipling and Graves' translations of the Odes of Horace. Octavo original half vellum. One of 160 numbered copies this is number 47. In near fine condition. Quintus Horatius Flaccus known in the English-speaking world as Horace was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus also known as Octavian. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes yet he is also full of charm and grace versatile in his figures and felicitously daring in his choice of words." Oxonii Apud Basilium Blackwell hardcover books
