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1906006313New York City: Doubleday Page & Co 1906. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Arthur Rackham. 8vo 8 277 1pp. Beautiful First Printing of the First American Edition published two months prior to the English Edition. Bound in original pictorial green cloth with titles and viking ship vignette stamped in black gilt on the front board and spine. t.e.g. Four colored plates by Arthur Rackham present which were not present in the English Edition. Housed in a red cloth-covered chemise and matching quarter red morocco and red cloth slipcase. Bookplate on front paste-down.of popular American Author George Barr McCutcheon best known for the "Graustark" novels as well as"Brewster's Millions" made into several films of the same name. Bookseller ticket of Lauriat's of Boston on ffep. Square tight and clean throughout. Mild rubbing to hinges edges and tips. A hint of off-setting on the ffep from the bookplate but quite minor. Very well-preserved. A most handsome collectable copy. Doubleday Page & Co hardcover books
1906BB17273London: Macmillan & Co. 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Original red cloth. Clipping of Kipling on his Nobel Prize visit to Sweden in 1908 fixed to front flyleaf. <br/><br/> Macmillan & Co. hardcover books
1906021490London: Macmillan and Co 1906. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. Frontispiece 306pp. 2pp. ads. Illustrated with 11 engravings by H.R. Millar. includes 10 stories and 16 poems. Bound in red cloth centrally stamped in gilt with an elephant head spine lettering gilt corners bumped spine ends show a bit of wear with a damp stain near spine. From the library of Henry D. Moore Sherrerd who was from the Princeton volunteer ambulance service who received the Croix de Guerre by the French Government for bravery in removing wounded soldiers from the front in the worst of the fighting at Verdun. A good copy. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1906019976London: Macmillan and Co 1906. First Edition. Octavo. 306pp. 4pp. ads at rear. illustrated. The story of an impish sprite named Puck. He meets two children and tells them tales of Old England. Bound n red cloth central gilt emblem depicting an elephant head spine gilt edges rubbed some finger soiling to covers rear board with a strip near upper edge faded. A very good copy. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1906262228New York: Doubleday 1906. hardcover. very good. Rackham Arthur. 4 colored Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 8vo original green cloth stamped in gilt & black. New York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1906. First American Edition.<br/><br/> Ownership signature. The Rackham illustrations did not appear in the English Edition.<br/><br/> Doubleday unknown books
1906WRCLIT72368New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. Green cloth lettered in gilt stamped in black t.e.g. Frontis and three plates in color by Arthur Rackham. Spine extremities and bottom fore-tips a bit bumped and rubbed a couple smudges to rear endsheets but a very good copy. First U.S. edition and the first with the Rackham illustrations. STEWART 307. RICHARDS A206. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1906245949New York: doubleday 1906. First. hardcover. very good-. 4 Colored Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 8vo green cloth; some shelf-wear; several leaves roughly opened. N.Y.: Doubleday 1906. First American Edition.<br/><br/> Ownership inscription Christmas 1907. The Rackham illustrations did not appear in the English Edition.<br/><br/> doubleday unknown books
1906RK010London: Macmillan and Co. 1906 First edition. Near fine in publisher's original red cloth with some fading to the spine and darkening of the boards and a former owner's bookplate. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. London: Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
190628355London: Macmillan & Co 1906. First edition 8vo pp. x 306 4 ads; 20 plates; light shelf wear but generally a very good sound copy in original maroon cloth gilt medallion on upper cover gilt lettering on spine t.e.g. red cloth chemise and red cloth slipcase. Livingston 299. <br/><br/> Macmillan & Co hardcover books
1906196103London Macmillan and Co. 1906. 1906. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated by H.R. Millan. Original gilt stamped red cloth. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. F. Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co. [1906]. hardcover books
1906WRCLIT51965New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. Green cloth lettered in gilt stamped in black t.e.g. Frontis and three plates in color by Arthur Rackham. Spine ends and bottom fore-tips a bit bumped and rubbed endsheet gutters a bit darkened faint offset to front free endsheet but a very good bright copy. First U.S. edition and the first with the Rackham illustrations. STEWART 307. RICHARDS A206. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1906WRCLIT41728London: Macmillan and Co. 1906. Red cloth stamped in gilt t.e.g. Frontis and plates by H.R. Millar. First edition. Two bookplates trace of foxing to endsheet gutters binding slightly darkened and faintly rubbed at edges tips of spine a bit worn otherwise a very good bright copy. STEWART 306. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1906WRCLIT41729New York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1906. Green cloth lettered in gilt stamped in black t.e.g. Frontis and three plates in color by Arthur Rackham. First U.S. edition and the first with the Rackham illustrations. Spine ends a bit bumped and rubbed endsheet gutters a bit darkened unfortunate adhesive booklabel of a noted Kipling collector else a very good bright copy. STEWART 307. Doubleday, Page & Co. hardcover books
1933159816New York: Doubleday 1933. hardcover. fine. Handsomely rebound in full lime green morocco; gilt-decorated spine with raised bands top edge gilt. New York: Doubleday 1933. Fine.<br/><br/> Doubleday unknown books
1906013796London: Macmillan and CO. 1906. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Second printing. October 1906 in the month of first printing. No publisher's adverts. ---------<br />The stories originally appeared in the Strand Magazine in 1906. ------------ <br /><br />Puck of Pook's Hill is collection of fantasy tales based freely on English History linked by a frame narrative and punctuated by poems. Booth good history and good fiction both of a kind not common in 1906. ------------ <br />The tales portray a magical being Puck active and practicing his magic in the England of the early 1900s when the book was written. The book falls into both genres of historical fantasy and contemporary fantasy. ------------- <br />Early acceptance of the tales was slow due to Kipling's increasing unpopularity due to his roles as 'missionary of British Empire' but over time gained a prominent place in the canon of children's literature. In 1953 G. M. Trevelyan set his seal of approval upon the collection. ----------- <br /><i>Contemporary tree-calf-leather bindings with the stamped in gilt emblem of the London School of Dental Surgery on the front and a presentation plate on the front pastedown. Marled endpages with matching endpages. Five spine bands with gilt decorations and a red title label. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with rubbing on the spine hinges. 12mo; 7.5 inches </i>tall with 306 pages. 20 b/w illustrations by H.R. Millar. ----------- <br /><br /><b>Ref:</b> Bleiler 170; Allen 403; Carpenter 428-9; Darton 315 . Macmillan and CO. hardcover books
19064028New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Textblock Near Fine. No DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear tiny spot at gutter near heel of ffep tiny soft spot in ffep appears to be manufacturing flaw bottom corners very gently bumped else tight bright and unmarred. Green ribbed cloth boards gilt lettering in blind pictorial elements teg frontispiece tissueguard. 12mo. ix 277pp. Illus. color plates. Laid in publishers bookmark. <br/><br/>N.B.: the Rackham plates did not appear in the U.K. edition. Latimore & Haskell p. 28. Livingston 300. Period bookmark from DP&Co with advert on front for Kipling's Kim "Should be excluded from the public libraries BECAUSE EVERY ONE should own a copy." A very handsome copy of this rather uncommon classic. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
03541New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. First American Edition<br/>With Illustrations By Arthur Rackham<br/>Not Found in the British Edition<br/><br/>RACKHAM Arthur illustrator. Rudyard Kipling. Puck of Pook's Hill. New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. <br/><br/>First American edition with illustrations by Arthur Rackham not present in the first U.K. edition. Octavo 8 x 5 1/4 inches; 203 x 132 mm. 10 277 1 blank pp. Four color plates including frontispiece. <br/><br/>Original green cloth pictorially stamped in black with gilt lettering to upper board and spine. Top edge gilt others untrimmed. Neat ownership signature to front free-endpaper. A very good copy.<br/><br/>The first U.K. edition issued later in October 1906 than this first American had illustrations by H.R. Millar as well as many insignificant differences to the text<br/><br/>Latimore and Haskell p. 28. Riall p. 75. Livingston 300. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906 unknown books
1935285649Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1935. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Reprint edition of Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill. With no marks of any kind. Very Good dustjacket with small tears and wear to the extremities of the spine. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc unknown books
1906159304New York: Doubleday 1906. Octavo pp. 1-6 1-2 3-4 5-277 278: blank four inserted plates with color illustrations by Arthur Rackham title page printed in red and black original pictorial green cloth front and spine panels stamped in black and gold t.e.g. fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. Children's fantasy stories telling of Britain's past concluding with the signing of the Magna Carta. The American edition has more stories than the earlier British edition and the Rackham illustrations appear here for the first time the British edition was illustrated by H. R. Millar. Bleiler 1978 p. 115. Reginald 08276. Stewart 307. Several early leaves with a few fox marks several leaves roughly opened with loss to blank margins small chip and closed tear to pages 89/90 a sound good copy. #159304 Doubleday unknown books
1906125313Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz 1906. First Tauchnitz edition of Kipling's collection of historical fantasy tales. Octavo original wrappers. In good condition. 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. Bernhard Tauchnitz unknown books
123493Berlin-Charlottenburg: Bita Deutsches Berlagshaus n.d. Rare German edition of Kipling's collected Puck stories. Octavo original publisher's decorated cloth illustrated by H.R. Millar. Translated into German by E. Rosenbach. In near fine condition. 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. Bita Deutsches Berlagshaus 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
1965WRCLIT84876Np: Gift of the Two Horse Press to the Kipling Society 1965. Small broadside 18.4 x 13.2cm on glossy stiff card. Near fine with the adhesive booklabel of a noted Kipling collector on the verso. First printing thus noted as an "Uncollected item" here printed on shipboard as a memento attendant to the Kipling Centennial. RICHARDS A460. Gift of the Two Horse Press to the Kipling Society unknown books
1965WRCLIT41723Np: Gift of the Two Horse Press to the Kipling Society 1965. Small broadside 18.4 x 13.2cm on glossy stiff card. First printing thus noted as an "Uncollected item" here published attendant to the Kipling Centennial. Near fine with the adhesive booklabel of a noted Kipling collector on the verso. Gift of the Two Horse Press to the Kipling Society unknown books