3 592 résultats
1912959T58London: Macmillan and Co. Limited; Methuen and Co. Ltd. 1912-1928. Leather. Good. 7" by 4.5". Not Stated. A smart collection of eleven volumes of pocket-sized books from Kipling with illustrations throughout. Eleven volumes mixed editions and printings. Illustrated throughout. A collection of the works of Joseph Rudyard Kipling an English journalist novelist poet and short-story writer who was born in British India. Kipling is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story and in 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first English-language writer to receive the prize and at the age of forty-one its youngest recipient to date. With illustrations from a collection of British artists including John Lockwood Kipling an English art teacher illustrator and museum curator. This set contains: Stalky & Co. 1912. The Jungle Book 1913. The Second Jungle Book 1912. Departmental Ditties and Other Verses 1913. Kim 1913. Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses 1914. The Day's Work 1915. Songs From Books 1915. A Diversity of Creatures 1917. Rewards and Fairies 1923. Just So Stories 1928. In the original full red calf binding. Externally smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spines with light loss to the head and tail of the spine of the odd volume. Small marks to the boards with the odd small crack or tear to the spines. Splits to the front joint of The Second Jungle Book. Front board detached but present to A Diversity of Creatures. Front hinges starting but firm to most volumes. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. A contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper of the odd volume. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Creases to the rear few pages of The Day's Work. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown of Stalky & Co with a newspaper article tipped in to the front endpaper of Songs from Books. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown of Just So Stories. Good Macmillan and Co., Limited; Methuen and Co., Ltd. hardcover
1917005300Doubleday Page & Company 1917. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. An excellent copy. Graphics are bright on the front board and spine. Gold gilt on page edges is very bright. Book is sound and tight. Interior is clean no marks. Name of previous owner on second front endpaper. Wear to leather at top of spine. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
191771107London 1917. 8vo. Originalt rødt helshirtingbind med vignett i gull på fordekkelen. viii 441 s. Macmilland and Co. Limited Engelsk. <br/><br/><em>Første utgave. Med navn i samtidig hånd på forsatsbladet. </em> unknown
1917607844London: Macmillan 1917. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Red cloth gilt. Rear hinge neatly repaired corners a little bumped very good or better. Macmillan hardcover
1917019402London: Macmillan And Co 1917. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Green hardcover. Spine and edges of the cover are darkened. Corners lightly bumped. Endpapers are darkened. Foxing to the first few pages. Rare in the Greens Cloth for British first editions. <br/> <br/> Macmillan And Co hardcover
1917KIPLINGR010607Macmillan London. 1917. First edition. Octavo. pp viii 442. Four pages of adverts at rear. Top edge gilt. Fourteen stories interspersed with poems. Red buckram covers with gilt device on front.Free endpapers partially tanned. Very good indeed. No dustwrapper. Macmillan, London. hardcover
1917333373London: Macmillan 1917. First edition. viii 442 4 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket in red cloth slipcase and chemise. First edition. viii 442 4 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stewart 408 Macmillan unknown
1917217422London: Macmillan 1917. First edition. viii 442 4 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth. Some faint spotting else Fine. First edition. viii 442 4 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stories and poems by the master. This original cover device contains along with an elephant head Kipling's tribal good-luck device of the swastika. Stewart 408. Stewart 408 <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover
191754969London:: Macmillan and Co. 1917. First edition. publisher's red gilt cloth t.e.g. in dust jacket. A near fine copy in a jacket with shallow chipping at the top of the spine not affecting lettering and some very light use. 8vo. Macmillan and Co., hardcover
1917105160London: MacMillan and Co. Limited 1917. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. viii4411pp. 4pp. adspp. Small Octavo in original red cloth with gilt device on front. Free endpapers browned else an solid clean copy. very good 1917 MacMillan and Co., Limited hardcover
191783935London: Macmillan 1917. First Edition. hardcover. fine. 8vo full brown leather gilt; g.t. London: Macmillan 1917. First Edition. Fine.<br/> <br/> Macmillan unknown
1917852A45London: Macmillan and Co. 1917. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5". None . A bright first impression of this collection of tales by celebrated author Rudyard Kipling. The first edition first impression of this work with the publisher's name to back strip measuring over 28mm in length shorter in later impressions. Collection of Rudyard Kipling's stories accompanied by verses as often seen in Kipling's anthologies. With four leaves of publisher's advertisements to rear. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only lightly bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean but for the odd light minor spotting to the very occasional leaf. Very Good Indeed Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1917WRCLIT84706London: Macmillan 1917. Gilt red cloth t.e.g. Trace of foxing at fore-edge otherwise a fine bright copy in a near fine crisp example of the second form of the printed dust jacket marred solely by a small snag at the crown of the upper spine fold. Half red morocco slipcase and chemise a trace rubbed. First edition of this collection that includes a substantial selection of Kipling's most significant fantasy stories. The binding is in the first state with the spine imprint slightly exceeding 1" in width. RICHARDS A295. STEWART 408. BLEILER SF 1235. Macmillan hardcover books
1917WRCLIT41693London: Macmillan 1917. Gilt red cloth t.e.g. First edition. Two bookplates free endsheets tanned as usual bookseller's descriptions tipped to rear pastedown cloth a trifle darkened about good. Includes some of Kipling's most significant fantasy stories. STEWART 408. BLEILER SF 1235. Macmillan hardcover books
1917WRCLIT41581London: Macmillan 1917. Gilt red cloth t.e.g. First edition. Large bookplate on pastedown free endsheets tanned as usual cloth a trifle darkened about very good. Includes some of Kipling's most significant fantasy stories. STEWART 408. BLEILER SF 1235. Macmillan hardcover books
191783935London: Macmillan 1917. First Edition. hardcover. fine. 8vo full brown leather gilt; g.t. London: Macmillan 1917. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Macmillan unknown books
1987RO60006337Penguin Books. 1987. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos fané, Intérieur bon état. 366 pages. Couverture illustrée en couleur.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
1919525601 vol. 12mo. half-leather bind., 4 raised bands on spine, Standard collection of British and American authors, Louis Conard publisher, Paris, 1919, 388 pp.
191775586London: Macmillan and Co. 1917. Octavo pp. i-iv v vi vii-viii 1-441 442 443-444: blank 445-448: ads title page printed in red and black original red cloth Ganesha device stamped in gold on front panel spine panel lettered in gold t.e.g. First edition. A mixed collection of fourteen stories and fourteen poems. Includes the first book appearance of the long tale of the future "As Easy as A.B.C." the sequel to "With the Night Mail" first published in FAMILY MAGAZINE in 1912. "The future world is dominated by the Ariel Board of Control which regulates the movements of massive dirigible airships . This story set in 2065 offers a more elaborate account of a society anxiously preoccupied with Malthusian problems and Marxian class conflict . In this story the dictatorial A.B.C. sends a new aircraft to sort out a rebellion in Illinois" Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-603. Also collects "In the Same Boat" 1911 a tale "of psychic horrors which becomes rationalized fantasy" and "Swept and Garnished" 1915 "Kipling's grimmest supernatural fiction" Clute and Grant. Anatomy of Wonder 1981 1-110; 1987 1-55; 1995 1-55 and2004 II-603. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1235. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 46. Clute and Grant eds The Encyclopedia of Fantasy p. 541. Clute and Nicholls eds The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction p. 670. Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 p. 146. Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 641. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 152. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V pp. 2053-54. Bleiler 1978 p. 115. Stewart 408. Hairline crack along inner front hinge repaired else a fine bright copy. Bookplate of Indiana novelist George Barr McCutcheon 1866-1928 affixed to front paste-down. #75586 Macmillan and Co. unknown books
1917122480Doubleday Page & Company: Garden City NY 1917. First American edition of this collection of Kipling tales including several science fiction stories. Octavo original dark green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel black stamped ship vignette to the front panel. 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. A Diversity of Creatures contains As Easy as A.B.C. The Honours of War The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat In the Presence and The Edge of Evening. Garden City, NY hardcover books
1966feb10949Pentru Literatura Universala 1966. Used. 1966; Romanian Edition of A doua carte a junglei vol.1 BPT 325; For more details please contact me Pentru Literatura Universala unknown
1966feb10950Pentru Literatura Universala 1966. Used. 1966; Romanian Edition of A doua carte a junglei vol.2 BPT 326; For more details please contact me Pentru Literatura Universala unknown
1914126349London: Hodder & Stoughton 1914. First edition of Durand's definitive handbook to Kipling's poetry. Royal octavo original quarter buckram over paper-covered boards paper spine label top edge gilt. 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. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
1911439671Oxford : At the Clarendon Press 1911. 1st editionj. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Foxing to edges. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 250 pages 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations some colour maps ; 25 cm. Contents: From the earliest times to the departure of the Romans -- Saxon England -- The Norman Kings 1066-1154 -- Henry II to Henry III 1154-1272 ; the beginnings of parliament -- The three Edwards 1272-1377 -- The end of the Middle Ages ; Richard II to Richard III 1377-1485 -- The Tudors and the awakening of England 1485-1603 -- The early stuarts and the Great Civil War 1603-1660 -- The fall of the stuarts and the revolution 1660-1688 -- William III to George II 1688-1760 ; the grower of empire -- The American rebellion and the Great French War 17601815 ; reign of George III -- George III to George V 1815-1911. Subjects: History ; Textbooks. Great Britain History ; Juvenile literature. Oxford : At the Clarendon Press hardcover
1911318348London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Oxford / Clarendon 1911; same date on title and copyright pages no additional printings indicated; 250pp. with 15 color plates 12 full page black and white illustrations and five maps. Binding is sturdy and fully intact; light wear to edges of blue cloth boards a few small stains on front board some light surface scratches on rear board; white titling and knight illustration on front board lightly rubbed but otherwise bold gilt titling on spine remains bright and bold; illustrations and text very good throughout all plates present; gilt top edge dulled. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges will apply for international and/or expedited shipping. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis Minnesota. Oxford at the Clarendon Press hardcover