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1909121500London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1909. First British edition of Kipling's Actions and Reactions signed and lengthily inscribed by him with a poem. Octavo original cloth with gilt elephant emblem to the front panel. Presentation copy signed and inscribed by Rudyard Kipling with a verse from his poem The Press "To RD Rudyard Kipling. Who once had served to the sultry hour when roaring like a gale The Harrild and the Hoe devour The league-long paper bale And has lit his pipe in the morning calm That follows the midnight stress - He has sold his heart to the old black art Men call the daily press R.K." In very good condition. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed by Kipling. 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 books
1909121490London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1909. Macmillan's Colonial Library edition of Kipling's Actions and Reactions intended for circulation only in India and The British Colonies. Octavo original wrappers. 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. Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown books
1935121476London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1935. First edition of the collected Puck stories. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles and vignettes to the spine and front panel illustrated by H. R. Millar and Charles E. Brock frontispiece in color. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Set in multiple periods of English history Kipling's Puck stories are each narrated to two children living near Burwash in the High Weald of Sussex in the area of Kipling's own house Bateman's by people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck or told by Puck himself. Puck who refers to himself as "the oldest Old Thing in England" is better known as a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. The genres of the stories range from authentic historical novella A Centurion of the Thirtieth On the Great Wall to children's fantasy Dymchurch Flit. Each story is bracketed by a poem which relates in some manner to the theme or subject of the story. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1981Embry 176240U. of Oklahoma Press 1981. First edition first printing. Fine in near fine lightly sunned dust jacket in mylar cover. U. of Oklahoma Press, 1981. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1899120954Boston: Brown and Company 1899. Rare unauthorized edition of this collection of 7 essays written after Kipling's first visit to America which first appeared in 1891. Octavo original publisher's decorated blue cloth tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Kipling. Introduction by G. P. T. In fine condition. Housed in a custom chemise slipcase. Kipling made his first visit to America in 1891 where he began his travels in San Francisco before a whirlwind trip around the entire country during which he met Mark Twain and was deeply impressed. American Notes includes At The Golden Gate American Salmon The Yellowstone and America's Defenceless Coasts. Brown and Company hardcover books
1928WRCLIT41592Np: Privately printed by G. Engel 1928. 4pp. Folded small quarto leaflet. Illustration. First edition of this essay for which 'strange' is indeed the operative word. Wraps a bit smudged and nicked else a very good copy. Privately printed by G. Engel paperback books
1928WRCLIT36454Np: Privately printed by G. Engel 1928. 4pp. Folded small quarto leaflet. Illustration. First edition of this essay for which 'strange' is indeed the operative word. Wraps a bit smudged unfortunate adhesive bookplate of a noted Kipling collector on upper wrapper else a very good copy. Privately printed by G. Engel paperback books
1898269122New York: R.H. Russell 1898. First. hardcover. very good-. Nicholson William. Illustrated with 12 colored plates after woodcuts by William Nicholson with text in facing pages. Thin folio pictorial boards well-worn at edges and with some soiling and light penciling on covers; contemporary gift inscription on front endpaper. New York: R.H. Russell 1898. First American edition.<br/><br/> Overall a very good- copy. All the plates are in clean condition with some offset to the opposite text pages as usual. There is one rather large purplish stain on Horse Racing text page the rear of Dog Coursing plate but images are un-effected.<br/><br/> R.H. Russell unknown books
1898008933New York: R. H. Russell. Good with no dust jacket. 1898. First American Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Small folio. Tan pictorial paper boards with cloth spine and black and yellow imprint. Soiling rubbed edges and rubbed and bumped corners. Chips on rear top edge. Brown endpapers. Text pages have only one small foxed spot on December pages with browned ink offsets from the illustrations. The almanac has Nicholson's colored lithograph illustrations of each sport opposite verses written by Kipling about the sport with a calendar of Sundays at the front. Kipling p. 5.; Color Illustrations; Folio 13" - 23" tall . R. H. Russell hardcover books
1898WRCLIT79521London: William Heinemann 1898. Quarto. Pictorial boards neatly rebacked with cloth binder's tape. Boards slightly tanned with a faint small splash mark on upper boards and a bit of wear at edges and foretips light foxing to endsheets usual offset from blockprints to facing pages of text; stiff a good sound copy. First edition ordinary issue illustrated with 12 full-page illustrations after colored woodblocks by Nicholson. RICHARDS A105. William Heinemann hardcover books
1898122250London: Heinemann 1898. hardcover. very good. Nicholson William. Illustrated with 13 tinted linoleum cuts by William Nicholson. Short slim folio handsomely bound in full brown morocco; gilt-stamped and inlaid with red morocco rosettes on covers raised bands inner dentelles. London: Heinemann 1898 story clippings range from 1914-1917. Very good.<br/><br/> The pamphlet in original pictorial wrappers is bound-in along with a unique well-planned 33 page scrapbook of neatly mounted Kipling stories taken from illustrated journals such as the Saturday Evening Post The Daily Express London and the Detroit Free Press Christmas Edition. Also includes the 8 page song sheet for "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" with words written by Kipling.<br/><br/> Heinemann unknown books
1893228647Boston Perry Mason & Co. 1893. 1893. First edition thus. Folio. Complete issue pages 501-512. Illustrations. Some tears and old repairs at folds. Enclosed in 1/2 brown morocco slipcase. Scarce. Kipling's contribution appears on pages 506 507. See Livingston p. 171 #140. Soft cover. Very Good. Boston [Perry Mason & Co.] 1893. paperback books
19381320293New York: Doubleday Doran & Company 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; First edition; G/G-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine cream illustrated black print; DJ has tears at spine ends and flap corners small tears to bottom and top edges shelfwear peripheral fading; Boards in blue cloth with gold print cocked spine mild wear to corners and spine caps; Text block has owner bookplate on front pastedown slight tanning to endpapers blue-tinted top edge clean text; 198 pages illustrated b&w. 1320293. FP New Rockville Stock. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover books
1933123072London: John Murray 1933. First edition of this charming collection of ant stories for children. Octavo original cloth. With contributions by Stanley Baldwin Basil Cave Baden-Powell Beverly Nichols and Rudyard 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. John Murray hardcover books
1926466241926. KIPLING Rudyard. AROUND THE WORLD WITH KIPLING. From The Mandalay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1926. 8vo. maroon cloth paper label to spine; t.e.g; illustrated. Near fine. unknown books
1926121484Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1926. First edition of this collection of five essays regarding Kipling's life and work with an extensive index of his works and folding map at rear. Octavo original cloth pictorial endpapers illustrated frontispiece portrait of Kipling. Very good in the original dust jacket which is in 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. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
192821325ENew York: Walter J. Black 1928. First Edition. 249 pages. Very good lightly handled copy without dust jacket. A collection of 21 mystery stories including ‘The Purloined Letter’ by Edgar Allan Poe ‘In Various Roles’ by Guy De Maupassant ‘Four Just Men’ by Edgar Wallace ‘The Stolen White Elephant’ by Mark Twain ‘A Case of Identity’ by A. Conan Doyle ‘The Tragedies in the Greek Room’ by Sax Rohmer ‘The Majesty of Justice’ by Anatole France ‘Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastophe’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne and ‘Miss Youghal’s Sais’ by Rudyard Kipling. Walter J. Black unknown books
1892147361892. New York: Macmillan and Co. 1892. 8 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth with front cover vignette in gilt.<br/><br/> First American Edition published nine days before the English edition which was titled BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS and Other Verses. Included in "Barrack-Room Ballads" are such well-known verses as "Danny Deever" "Tommy" "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" "Gunga Din" and "Mandalay"; these had appeared in the 1890 pirated volume DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES. published by New York Book Co. Leading off "Ballads" and the whole book is "The Ballad of East and West" ". and never the twain shall meet"; this is its first appearance in a Kipling book as it had appeared only in the 1891 poetry anthology LYRA HEROICA. Condition is near-fine with light rubbing at the extremities. This American volume is considerably scarcer than its British counterpart. Richards A68; Stewart 110. unknown books
1892WRCLIT72127New York & London: Macmillan and Co. 1892. Gilt decorated blue cloth t.e.g. The free endsheets have caused offset tanning to facing blank a trace of rubbing otherwise a very good copy. First US edition preceding the comparable UK edition by a few days. RICHARDS A68. LIVINGSTON 91. STEWART 109. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
189225093New York & London: Macmillan 1892. First American edition 12mo pp. xvi 207 8 ads; endpapers browning else a very good copy in orig. blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Includes the poems "Danny Deever" "Gunga Din" "The Ballad of East and West" and "Mandalay." <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover books
1892724161892. KIPLING Rudyard. BALLADS AND BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS. New York & London: Macmillan & Co. 1892. First American edition. 12mo. blue cloth stamped and decorated in gilt teg. Bookplate to ffep bookseller's label to rear pastedown. One leaf of rear advertisements has a torn corner. Titles of a few poems written in pencil on the final blank page. Shelfwear and light soil to boards with very slightly bumped bottom opening corners. Very good plus. Stewart 109. unknown books
1893122034New York: Macmillan and Co 1893. First American edition of the new edition with four additional poems of perhaps Kipling's most popular poetry collection. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles to the spine gilt vignette to the front panel top edge gilt. 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. Macmillan and Co hardcover books
189226751New York: Macmillan & Co. 1892. 12mo. xvi 207 8adv. pp. <br><br>First American edition. Includes the poems "Gunga Din" "The Ballad of East and West" "Mandalay" and "Gentlemen Rankers" to mention only four. Publisher's blue cloth front cover stamped in gilt with an image of a an Indian and a horse. Small area of discoloration on spine. Exsocial club library: call number on endpaper rubber-stamp on title-page no other markings. Macmillan & Co. hardcover books
1892322129London: Methuen and Co. 18 Bury Street 1892. First edition thus. xix i 208 16ads.pp. 8vo. Original cloth. Very Good in half red morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition thus. xix i 208 16ads.pp. 8vo. This book of verse contains many of Kipling's most famous poems including "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" "Gunga Din" "Mandalay" "The Ballad of East and West" 'soldier Soldier" and "Ford o' Kabul River." -- all of which were first collected with Departmental Ditties Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses. Stewart 108; Livingston 90 Methuen and Co., 18 Bury Street unknown books
1892BB17270London: Methuen & Co. 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Small 8vo. Original cloth; 208 pp. 16 pp. of ads. An unusually nice copy of a book easily prone to wear. <br/><br/> Methuen & Co. hardcover books
