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1927000754London: MacMillan & Co. 1927. 3/4 Morocco & Cloth. Near Fine. 7 5/8" x 5 1/8. London: Macmillan & Co. 1927. Fine binding edition by Dulau & Co. Ltd. of London. 7 5/8" x 5 1/8" 406 pp. 2 pp ads. Three quarter bound crimson morocco & cloth gilt ruled compartments on spine gilt lettered gilt-rolled raised bands marbled endpapers All Edges Gilt. Light rubbing to spine ends along joints and at corners else near fine; an extraordinarily bright handsome Dulau fine binding. See scans. Armorial bookplate at front pastedown of William George Riddell a descendant of the armigerous Clan Riddell based on the coat of arms. A collection of short stories originally published in 1898 the Day's Work is considered to be one of Kipling's better and most complex aggregations and is the subject of John Coate's recent scholarly treatment "The Day's Work: Kipling and the Idea of Sacrifice" 1997. Among the included stories is one with the title ".007" - though while Kipling certainly is at his adventurous best here that title bears no relation to the Ian Fleming character. Other tales include: The Bridge-Builders A Walking Delegate The Ship that found Herself The Tomb of His Ancestors The Devil and the Deep Sea William the Conqueror - Part I William the Conqueror - Part II .007 The Maltese Cat "Bread Upon the Waters" An Error in the Fourth Dimension My Sunday At Home and the Brushwood Boy. Striking looking volume on the shelf or cocktail table. Please see scans. l51n <br/> <br/> MacMillan & Co. hardcover
1914151116London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1914. The Bombay edition of this collection of 13 Kipling short stories mainly written between 1893 and 1896 while Kipling was living in Vermont. Octavo bound in three-quarters morocco over cloth covered boards by Morrell with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels top edge gilt marbled endpapers. In near fine 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
19109862London: Hodder & Soughton. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1910. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 8vo; Original lavender wraps with glassine also present. A little fading to cover edges and some wear and tearing to the glassine. . Hodder & Soughton paperback
1986Q-019812323XOxford University Press 1986-04-17. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Oxford University Press hardcover
1988Q-0152253866Voyager Books 1988-04-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Voyager Books paperback
195542920Rand McNally. 1955. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated paper over board hardcover binding. Shelf wear and some rubbing to the spine edges and corners with the corners slightly rubbed through.; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches . Rand McNally hardcover
1986808967Child's Play. Very Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1986. Hard Cover. B503 . Child's Play hardcover
191831145Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1918. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 101 pages; Minor soiling and wear to covers. This is the 1st issue of the book. Inside front cover with a little soiling. . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
191852415New York: doubleday 1918. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm.; green cloth over dark gray boards; paper title plate on cover and spine; dustjacket; 101pp.; A Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped with tears to the extremities; Very Good only.<br /> <br /> The book consists of four stories that read as letters home from soldiers from India and the North-West Frontier which take place in 1915 and 1916. "A Retired Gentleman" and "The Fumes of the Heart" are both fictionalized letters written from the perspective of wounded Indian soldiers a Rajput and a Sikh to their families. The second is cast as a dictated letter from a Sikh soldier to his brother and has dramatic asides and digressions from the injured soldier punctuating the text. As for the remaining two stories "The Private Account" is presented as a scene showing an Afghan family reading and responding to a letter from their son on the Western Front and the final story "A Trooper of Horse" takes the form of a letter from an unwounded Muslim soldier in France to his mother. doubleday unknown
1918003330Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co 1918. Hardcover. Very Good/good. 6 101 1 p.; 20 cm. Beige cloth spine with grey paper over boards. Paper labels on spine and front board printed in black with red borders. Dust jacket printed in red and black with advertisement for War Savings Stamps on back section. Advertisement for the YMCA on back flap. First edition. The first state with "recuiting depot" on p. 78 line 1. These stories framed as letters from Indian and Afghan soldiers were first published in the Saturday Evening Post in May and June 1917. Contents: A Retired Gentleman -- The Fumes of the Heart -- The Private Account -- A Trooper of Horse. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Frank P. Hadley. Book is in Very Good Condition: corners rubbed; head of spine starting to fray; clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good Condition: rubbed and soiled; old repair to inside; minor loss at ends of spine and flap folds. Doubleday, Page & Co hardcover
1918001471Garden City NY: Doubleday & Doran 1918. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First American Edition. First printing with "Recuiting" typo on page 78. Original green cloth with paper labels on the front cover and spine.Very attractive copy with some light soiling to the rear cover and bumping to the spine ends. Clean pages throughout. y. Doubleday & Doran hardcover
19183996Garden City New York Doubleday Page & Compnay 1918. 1918. First separate edition. 8vo. Original 1/2 tan cloth over gray boards printed paper spine and upper cover labels. Very good corners bumped. No dust jacket. 101 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Livingston 414. Provenance: from the estate of Zane Grey with his estate blindstamp in upper right corner of the half title page. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Compnay, 1918. hardcover
191928154New York: Doubleday Page 1919. Hardcover. Good in boards. No dust jacket. Rubbing to boards; fraying to edges. Sunning to spine. Doubleday Page hardcover
1920374461Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Comapny 1920. Limited Edition. No. 117 of 377 copies numbered and signed by Kipling. Photographically Illustrated by Lewis R. Freeman. pp. xxiv 44 unnumberred leaves. 8vo. Vellum spine ansd boards. Very good. Limited Edition. No. 117 of 377 copies numbered and signed by Kipling. Photographically Illustrated by Lewis R. Freeman. pp. xxiv 44 unnumberred leaves. 8vo. Livingston 449; Richards A331 Doubleday, Page & Comapny unknown
1920882010Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co. 1920. No. 188 of 375 copies numbered and signed by Kipling. Very modeate wear and light soiling to covers. "He must gogogo away from here! On the other side the world hes overdue. Send your road is clear before you when the old Springfret comes oer you And the Red Gods call for you!". Limited Edition. Excellent. Doubleday, Page & Co., unknown
19126124Doubleday Page and Co 1912. First Edition. Leather. GOOD. Publisher's deluxe green morocco leather binding with gilt-stamped drop-capped title and tooled border to front cover. Oblong 8vo of a single gathering hand stitched and tied in the middle. Cover is detached and edgeworn spine and tail sunned. Doubleday, Page and Co unknown
1912308658Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Co 1912. First trade edition preceded by a broadside printing. 9 leaves printed recto only within green border. oblong 12mo. Original decorative printed boards. Cloth chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. Covers detached spine separating internally fine and mostly unopened. First trade edition preceded by a broadside printing. 9 leaves printed recto only within green border. oblong 12mo. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Page & Co hardcover
1912001353Doubleday Page & Co. 1912 10 unnumbered leaves. Bound in dark green leather decorated and lettered in gilt. The spine is darkened otherwise a nice example of this scarce and fragile book. Oblong. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Doubleday, Page & Co. hardcover
1922123604Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1922. Rare first American edition of Kipling's classic work on the Sorbonne. Octavo original publisher's half vellum text in French and English. One of fifty copies. In near fine condition. Scarce. 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. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1910366297London: Methuen and Co 1910. Seventh edition. xiii 215 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full red calf boards with single gilt fillet border turn-ins with double gilt rule and floral cornerpieces a.e.g. by Bumpus. Attractive bookplate author's signature "Rudyard Kipling" on slip mounted at front; a few light scuffs to spine otherwise fine. Seventh edition. xiii 215 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition: Stewart 276; Richards A190 Methuen and Co unknown
190349091London: Methuen and Co. 1903. First edition. 8vo. xiv 213 1 pp. bound with the advertisements. Contemporary green full calf by Truslove & Hanson spine with raised bands gilt lettered direct to two panels and with a gilt device to the others gilt rules to the sides endpapers and all edges marbled. Spine faded to brown some mild rubbing else very good. Martindell 102. London: Methuen and Co. unknown
1903148872London: Methuen and Co 1903. Finely bound edition of Kipling's notable poetry collection. Duodecimo bound in three-quarters morocco with gilt titles and pictorial tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands all edges gilt marbled endpapers title page vignette. In very good condition inscription to the second free endpaper. First published in 1903 Kipling's The Five Nations included a number of new poems as well as several that had been previously published notably Recessional of 1897. In 1903 the United Kingdom consisted of four nations: England Ireland Scotland and Wales. It was soon suggested that Kipling's "five nations" were the "five free nations of Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa i.e. Cape Colony and 'the islands of the sea' i.e. the British Isles" - all dominated by Britons; and except in the last case by recent settlers. That suggestion was endorsed some one hundred years later. Methuen and Co unknown
1903612267London: Methuen and Company 1903. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition first state with misprint 'David' for 'Saul' on page 56 line 9 and ads dated July 1903. Octavo. Red cloth titled in gilt. Endpapers browned as usual slight wear at the spine else near fine. Methuen and Company hardcover
1903096339Garden City NY: Doublelday Page & Company 1903. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Gilt lettering and black blind stamped Viking ship on green covers. Top edge gilt. 8vo 215 pages. <br/> <br/> Doublelday, Page & Company hardcover
1903353132London: Methuen and Co 1903. First edition with "David" on p. 56. xiii 215 pp. 38-pages publisher's advertisements dated July 1903. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth boards with gilt titles on spine chipping at head of spine t.e.g. spine sunned; overall a very good copy. First edition with "David" on p. 56. xiii 215 pp. 38-pages publisher's advertisements dated July 1903. 1 vols. 8vo. Stewart 276. Stewart 276 <br/><br/> Methuen and Co hardcover