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1897120712London: Macmillan 1897. First edition<i> </i>of Kipling's richly detailed tale of American deep-sea fishing with <span class="glossaryQtip qTip">frontispiece</span> and 21 illustrations by I.W. Taber. Octavo original blue cloth elegantly stamped in gilt.<i> </i>In near fine condition with light shelfwear. An exceptional example. Like his two Jungle Books Kipling wrote this morality tale of life aboard a New England fishing boat while living near Brattleboro Vermont his wife's hometown. The book thus contains "something of his feelings about America--both his affection and his irritation" Carpenter & Prichard 296. "This is the only book of Kipling's which is set entirely in America. All the characters are American. Not only that but the heart of the book--its moral in a single sentence--is one of Kipling's main beliefs of this period expressed in terms essentially American or perhaps more particularly New England. He put it later in verse: 'And the Gods of the Copy-book Maxims said: 'If you don't work you will die!' It is a saga of hard physical work in conflict with natural forces. It is a book which could hardly have been written by anyone who did not admire Huckleberry Finn; it is a book whose claim to survival rests mainly on detail and it is all American detail" Mason 119. Macmillan hardcover books
1897317744New York: The Century Co 1897. First American Edition. Illusrtated by I.W. Taber. 323pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pictorial Green cloth spine slightly faded else VG. First American Edition. Illusrtated by I.W. Taber. 323pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Century Co unknown books
1897164553New York: The Century Co. 1897. Octavo pp. i-vi vii-viii ix-x 1-323 324-326: blank twenty-one plates with illustrations by L. W. Taber original pictorial gray green cloth front panel stamped in red black and gold spine panel stamped in black and gold rear panel stamped in black top edge gilt other edges rough trimmed. First American edition. "Kipling's third attempt to write a long story was made during his residence in the United States and the background for this novel centers around the deep-sea fishing industry of Gloucester Massachusetts. The story first appeared in serial form in McCLURE'S MAGAZINE November 1896 to May 1897 with twenty-five illustrations by I. W. Taber and in PEARSON'S MAGAZINE December 1896 to April 1897 with forty-one illustrations by I. W. Taber and Fred T. Jane . The American edition published by the Century Co. and the English by Macmillan & Co. were both published in 1897. The texts differ from one another in a number of minor details." - Stewart pp. 149-150. "The work has always been popular in the USA and various versions have been filmed." - Sutherland Victorian Fiction p. 104. Stewart 164. Neat 1897 Christmas gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Slight spine lean lower front corner tips lightly rubbed upper front corner tip lightly bumped a nearly fine copy. A lovely copy of this classic. #164553 The Century Co. unknown books
1897RK058London: Macmillan & Co. 1897 Illustrated by Isaiah West Taber. First edition. Publisher's dark blue cloth with sailor illustrations and wave rulings stamped in gilt to the front board and spine lettered in gilt all edges gilt coated black endpapers. A very good or better copy with some wear and rubbing to the extremities mostly at spine ends contemporary former owner pencil signature to half-title light scattered foxing throughout. A bright and attractive copy. Originally published serially in McClure's Magazine beginning in November 1896 Captains Courageous is a story about Harvey Cheyne the marooned son a wealthy railroad magnate who is rescued by fishermen off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. After being tossed overboard an ocean liner Harvey meets Disko Troop captain of the small fishing boat We're Here who refuses to take the young man back to port but agrees to take him on as part of the crew. Over the course of the novel Harvey befriends the captain's son Dan who helps the arrogant millionaire develop into a hard-working honest young man who is self-reliant and content with living simply. This first edition of Captains Courageous in book form contains twenty-two plates of black and white illustrations by Taber including a frontispiece. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Taber Isaiah West. London: Macmillan & Co. hardcover books
189843480New York: The Century Co 1898. 8vo pp. viii 2 323; frontispiece full-page illustrations by I.W. Taber; original green pictorial cloth stamped in black red and gilt gilt-lettered spine t.e.g.; spine darkened cloth a bit soiled; contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper newsprint clipping of Kipling's autograph mounted to p. v with offsetting to facing page else textblock fine. Reprint of the first 1897 American edition. <br/><br/> The Century Co hardcover books
189742681NY: Century 1897. First American edn. W. Taber. 8vo pp. 323. Illustrated with 21 full-page black-and-white plates by W. Taber. Light green cloth stamped in dark green red and gilt. Former owner's inscriptions on end paper. A very good copy. Story of a Gloucester fishing boat. Kipling's first American novel written while the newlywed Kiplings lived in Vermont. Century unknown books
189729678NY: Century 1897. First American edn. 8vo pp. 323. Illustrated. Light green cloth stamped in dark green red and gilt. Owner's bookplate and stamps on endpapers. Cover somewhat soiled and worn o/w VG. Story of a Gloucester fising boat. Century unknown books
1899121051New York: Alex Grossett and Company 1899. First edition of this collection of Kipling's stories for children which includes Wee Willie Winkie and Baa Baa Black Sheep. Octavo original decorated cloth. Illustrated by Charles D. Farrand and others tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Kipling. 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. Alex Grossett and Company hardcover books
1898TB30609New York: M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels n.d. 1898. Second Edition. Very near fine in red ribbed cloth covered boards with gilt text and borders on the front board with printed end sheets A 16mo of 6 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches with modest light soiling to the front board. Without a dust jacket. One of only 500 cloth bound copies printed. This copy lacks the limitation page which appeared in the first limited edition printed earlier in the same year. 32 pages of text. A collection of five verses including: The Explanation; The Vampire; Mandalay; Recessional and The Three Captains. Richards E1-26 M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels hardcover books
189967694Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling KIPLING Rudyard. Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1899-1928. Uniform edition. Complete in 25 octavo volumes. Nicely bound in half red levant morocco over red cloth front covers decoratively gilt-stamped with a circular elephant emblem spines decoratively tooled in gilt five raised bands. Top edge gilt. Illustrated in black and white throughout. A fine set. Contains the following titles: Stalky & Co. 1899. Traffics and Discoveries 1904. Rewards and Fairies 1915. The Day's Work 1916. Diversity of Creatures 1917. Actions and Reactions 1917. Kim 1919. Just So Stories 1919. Puck of Pook's Hill 1919. The Jungle Book 1920. The Second Jungle Book1920. Letters of Travel 1920. Captain Courageous 1922. The Light That Failed 1922. The Naulahka 1922. Soldiers Three 1923. Wee Willie Winkie Under the Deodars 1926. Debits & Credits 1926. From Sea to Sea1927. Land & Sea Tales 1928. Many Intentions 1928. Plain Tales from the Hills 1928. A Book of Words 1928. Life's Handicap 1928. Livingston see p. 292. Martindell 130. HBS 67694. $2000 Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1897RK014London: W. Thacker & Co. 1897 Ninth edition limited to 150 copies. Original cloth pages uncut. Near fine with light dust soiling and two small water stains to the front board. Overall a very attractive copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. London: W. Thacker & Co. hardcover books
1890147341890. New York: United States Book Company. Successors to John W. Lovell Company n.d. 1890. Original maroon cloth on beveled boards.<br/><br/> First though pirated Edition of both the "Barrack-Room Ballads" and the "Other Verses" not published in England until 1892; first American edition of "Departmental Ditties." The "Barrack-Room Ballads" include some of Kipling's best-loved verse such as "Gunga Din" "Danny Deever" "Tommy" "Mandalay" and "Fuzzy-Wuzzy." This copy is in the first binding state with "Lovell" at the foot of the spine even though Lovell had been "succeeded" by United States Book Company. The volume is in very good-plus perhaps near-fine condition spine gilt less than bright very light wear at the foot of the spine; the spine is not faded which is atypical for maroon cloth. Richards A48; Stewart 79. unknown books
1886315322Lahore: Civil and Military Press Gazette 1886. First Edition of Kipling's first published book. Tall narrow 4to. Bound original light brown printed wrappers in the form of an Indian civil service envelope overlapping flap. Laid into early straight blue grained morocco slipcase and chemise. With description from Charles Sessler's Bookshop. First Edition of Kipling's first published book. Tall narrow 4to. The first edition of Kipling's first published work. Kipling was made sub-editor of the Civil and Military Gazette an Anglophone newspaper in Lahore upon his return to India after his time at the United Service College; this volume collects his poetry printed therein. Richards A7; Stewart 8; Livingston 22 Civil and Military Press Gazette unknown books
1898WRCLIT78952New York: M.F. Mansfield 1898. 4198pp. Dark blue cloth with gilt decoration on upper board t.e.g. Portrait frontis. Very good and bright. Second expanded Mansfield edition a piracy based on the text of the 4th UK edition. The cover decoration is by Blanche McManus. RICHARDS EI-29n. STEWART p. M.F. Mansfield hardcover books
1892211192Calcutta: Thacker Spink 1892. hardcover. fine. 8vo artfully bound in full brown morocco gilt lettered spines with raised bands & floral device top edge gilt. Calcutta: Thacker Spink 1892. Seventh Edition.<br/><br/> Thacker Spink unknown books
1899WRCLIT36451London: George Newnes 1899. Terracotta pictorial wrappers. Newnes's popular edition in typically cheap dress with gaudy ads. Spine chipped at crown and toe paper tanned as usual some soiling to wrappers unfortunate bookplate of a noted Kipling collector but an intact copy. STEWART 14. George Newnes unknown books
1890WRCLIT72128Calcutta London & Bombay: Thacker Spink and Co. 1890. Deep blue cloth with elaborate gilt device on upper board replicating a note from Kipling. A bit of rubbing to the gilding front inner hinge very slightly cracking otherwise a very good bright copy. Fifth second English edition reprinting the text of the fourth First English edition and like it printed by Clowes & Sons. Nonetheless the claim was made replicating Kipling's hand and signature in the gilt cover decoration that new "Ditties & Verses" were included in this edition. The ads are dated September 1890. STEWART 11 & 12 ref. RICHARDS A31n. Thacker, Spink and Co. hardcover books
1890WRCLIT36472Calcutta London & Bombay: Thacker Spink and Co. 1890. Deep blue cloth with elaborate gilt device on upper board replicating a note from Kipling. Unfortunate adhesive bookplate of a noted Kipling collector on free endsheet a couple slight rubs to upper board otherwise a very good bright copy. Fifth second English edition reprinting the text of the fourth First English edition and like it printed by Clowes & Sons. Nonetheless the claim was made replicating Kipling's hand and signature in the gilt cover decoration that new "Ditties & Verses" were included in this edition. The ads are dated September 1890. STEWART 11 & 12 ref. RICHARDS A31n. Thacker, Spink and Co. hardcover books
1890WRCLIT71906Calcutta London & Bombay: Thacker Spink and Co. / W. Thacker & Co 1890. Deep blue cloth with elaborate gilt device on upper board replicating a note from Kipling. Bookplate of John Quinn on pastedown. Binding and gilding a bit rubbed with modest shelfwear at extremities front inner hinge cracking slightly half-title neatly excised; otherwise good and sound. Fourth edition but the first edition printed in the UK. The adverts at the end are dated February 1890 and are priced in dual currencies.This edition includes ten poems in addition to those included in the 1888 3rd edition and features revisions to others. RICHARDS A31. LIVINGSTON 14. STEWART 11. QUINN SALE 5060. Thacker, Spink and Co. / W. Thacker & Co hardcover books
1897WRCLIT77463London & Calcutta: W. Thacker / Thacker Spink and Co. 1897. Deep blue cloth lettered in gilt with gilt pictorial vignette on upper board t.e.g others untrimmed. Neat bookplate on pastedown faint smear of dolling on upper board but a bright tight copy. Ninth edition trade issue with frontis and plates by Dudley Cleaver. There were also two large paper issues. STEWART 13. W. Thacker / Thacker, Spink and Co. hardcover books
1897120438London: W. Thacker & Co 1897. Rare Edition de Luxe of Kipling's first collection of verse. Octavo original publisher's half vellum over green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine and gilt vignette to the front panel. Tissue-guarded illustrations by Dudley Cleaver including frontispiece. One of one hundred and fifty numbered copies of the Edition de Luxe printed with two extra illustrations this is number 87. Ninth edition. In very good condition. Kipling published his first collection of verse Departmental Ditties in 1886 a year that also brought a change to the editors at the Civil and Military Gazette which allowed him more creative freedom and the ability to contribute short stories to the newspaper. Departmental Ditties includes Delilah The Legend of the Foreign Office The Story of Uriah The Betrothed The Moon of Other Days and The Fall of Jock Gillespie. W. Thacker & Co hardcover books
1890121888New York: John H. Lovell Company 1890. First American edition of the poetry collection that established Kipling's fame with Lovell on the foot of the spine. Octavo original cloth. In very good condition. Written in vernacular dialect Kipling's The Barrack Room Ballads contains some of Kipling's most well-known work including the poems "Gunga Din" "Tommy" "Mandalay" and "Danny Deever" which established his early fame as a poet. The first poems were published in the Scots Observer in the first half of 1890 and collected in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses in 1892. Kipling later returned to the theme in a group of poems collected in The Seven Seas under the same title. A third group of vernacular Army poems from the Boer War titled "Service Songs" and published in The Five Nations 1903 can be considered part of the Ballads as can a number of other uncollected pieces. John H. Lovell Company hardcover books
1890WRCLIT71826New York: United States Book Co. / Lovell 1890. Plum cloth stamped in gilt t.e.g. Minor rubbing to spine ends otherwise an unusually nice copy very good or better. First U.S. edition first impression and first book publication of seventeen pieces. RICHARDS A48. STEWART 79. United States Book Co. / Lovell hardcover books
189065168NY:: United States Book Company John W. Lovell Company. Very Good. 1890. Hardcover. First American edition first issue Lovell at base of spine. Small octavo bound in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and design top edge gilt. A bit faded along the spine previous owner's name and date on front free endpaper light edge wear at the spine ends and corners else very good. Binding is solid and tight. ; 270 pages . United States Book Company (John W. Lovell Company), hardcover books
189029677NY: United States Book Co 1890. First American edn. 8vo pp. 270. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Owner's name on flyleaf bookplate. Cover somewhat scuffed and worn one hinge near tender o/w VG. Grolier Club Exhibit 110; Stewart 79. First Edition of both the "Barrack-Room Ballads" and the "Other Verses" not published in England until 1892; first American edition of "Departmental Ditties." Contains the first printing in book form of Kipling's great popular ballads including "Danny Deever" "Fuzzy Wuzzy" "Gunga Din" "Mandalay" etc. United States Book Co unknown books