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1365831744.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1998324716San Francisco: Arion Press 1998. Limited. hardcover. fine. Introduction by Thomas Pinney. Illustrations by Vincent Perez. Thin 8vo linen with wrap-around paper label. San Francisco: Arion Press 1998. Limited Edition. Fine.<br/> <br/> Kipling's only science fiction story. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the artist.<br/> <br/> Arion Press unknown
1434440184.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1909082125004Doubleday Page & Company 1909. Hardcover. Good. Good condition ex-libris copy with a sticker on the inside of the front cover. Name written on the first page. Tissue guard protection the illustration before the title page. One page may be clipped out before the book begins. Pages look free of notations but a few have light soiling. Exterior has wear with bumping along the edges. Spine feels a little loose. Front cover illustration looks clean and crisp. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1023981467.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1909545New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. First thus. Hardback. Very Good. Leyendecker Frank X. Xavier; Reuterdahl H. Henry. A fascinating read and with remarkable cover art. Few people know that Rudyard Kipling briefly ventured into writing science fiction. This book With the Night Mail was his first enthusiastic attempt. It is a novella that originally appeared in magazines in 1905 before Doubleday Page and Company published it with some minor changes as a book unto itself-with an absolutely gorgeous gilt and silver cover--in 1909. The story imagines life in the 21st century when transport by airships-later to be called "dirigibles" in real life-was so commonplace that it was regulated by a trans-world agency known as the Aerial Board of Control which was in charge of traffic and rescues. Kipling tells the story of what happens when a postal airship on a typical transatlantic night run to Quebec encounters another airship in trouble and losing altitude just as a storm is whipping up. It's an imaginative story with a creative new vocabulary but Kipling also obviously drew from the familiar. The Aerial Board of Control or the A.B.C. reminiscent of an international coast guard for instance similar to the one regulating shipping around Britain in the early 20th century; meanwhile airships were on the cusp of commercial viability at the time Kipling was writing and were being publicly tested over Paris. But as real as they may have been in 1905 they certainly fed Kipling's imagination. He used them as the jumping-off point for world creation. Besides the text of the story itself Doubleday Page and Company collected other items Kipling created in connection with it--such as the "Aerial Board of Control Bulletin" and fictitious advertisements related to airships similar to those that frequently appeared in the back of books published during this era--and presented them as additional documentation to back up his story. Kipling became so enthralled with his own creation that he wrote a second longer story titled "As Easy as ABC" in 1907 though it was not published until 1912. Both works have been highly influential. Modern readers might be struck by how much they remind them of the steampunk genre close to a hundred years before steampunk became popular. Kipling anticipated a number of technologies in his A.B.C. stories that came into real-life use decades later. As a stylist science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein found Kipling's use of indirect exposition in With the Night Mail very influential on his own work. There is even a series of computer role-playing games based on the A.B.C.<br /> <br /> Because the texts within this copy were first published in magazines Doubleday Page and Company did not officially label its 1909 release as a "first edition" so we are calling our copy a "First Edition Thus." It is lovingly illustrated with color plates by Frank X. Leyendecker and H. for Henry Reuterdahl. One plate opposite the title page is fronted by a tipped-in sheet of tissue paper; it also has a small closed tear on its fore edge that is limited to the margin and does not affect the image itself in any way. A similar fore edge tear is on an unnumbered page in the back of the book. Page 18 is soiled in its margins and some of that has carried over to the blank facing page. Both front and rear endpapers are illustrated by two-page painting signed by Leyendecker. The front flysheet of this illustration has come loose-apparently this is a common problem with this book--but is otherwise undamaged and is included in its appropriate place; someone has written "#50" in ink in small figures on the inside cover. The bottom back inside hinge is starting to tear but otherwise the binding is sound and tight. Pagination for this book is.odd. Only the recto pages are printed and not all of them are numbered. Several sellers have noted what appears to be a cut out page before the half-title page but our examination suggests that it is instead related to the binding process and not a flaw. The book is bound in dark blue cloth with gilt and silver foil lettering and decoration. The covers and spine show light shelf wear and bumping along the edges and corners but otherwise are in quite good condition. The decoration on the front cover is remarkable illustrating an airship floating in the stars and clouds with the title integrated in the picture and the author's name below. The spine has gilt lettering for the title author and publisher's name but also an illustration of people in the gondola of an airship also in gilt. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
1909017817New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. 1st Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Small 8vo 77pp. plus 7 leaves of ads in rear. Sharp First Edition Bound in navy cloth with gilt lettering and gilt and white illustration on front board. Illustrated end-papers. Color frontispiece and three additional full-color plates. Square tight and clean throughout with little if any toning or foxing. Hinges starting but firm. Mild wear to spine ends tips. A very pleasing collectable copy at a great price. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
1909mon0003949660Doubleday 1909T. hardcover. Good. . lacking dj. cover shows minor wear pages tanned and clean. Doubleday hardcover
1909000022406New York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1909. first thus. hardcover. Very good. Frank X. Leyendecker and H. Reutendahl. Octavo dark teal blue cloth with pictorial design of an airship and titles in gilt and silver. 77 pages printed on one side only rectos unpaginated 9 leaves advertising section. Illustrated by Frank X. Leyendecker and H. Reutendahl. Color illustrated endpapers by Leyendecker. 4 color plates. Former owner bookplate smallish on front paste-down endpaper. A little wear at cover edges. Livingston 318. Bleiler 1978 p. 115. First serialized in America in McClure's in 1905. As part of the story Kipling also placed phony ads for dirigible and aeronautical products in the magazine. This book contains those as well as correspondence and reviews. Studio <br/><br/> Doubleday, Page & Co. hardcover
1889298999.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1998KIPLINGR008213The Arion Press San Francisco. 1998. First edition thus. Introduction by Thomas Pinney. Octavo. 119 pages. Illustrations by Vincent Perez. Full canvas. Printed title-label label on upper cover and spine. Printed under the direction of Andrew Hoyem. "Zounds! Science fiction from 1905. Predicting aeronautics in the year 2000 to be primarily dirigible. Airplanes outmoded. Airships the main means of conveyance for passengers and freight. The mail airmail of course transported across the Atlantic overnight." - from the 8-page Prospectus which is present.One of 250 numbered copies signed by the artist.Fine in the original printed reinforced envelope which is creased. The Arion Press, San Francisco. unknown
1909121674New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. First edition of Kipling's thrilling science fiction novella. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles to the spine elaborate gilt vignette to the front panel pictorial endpapers illustrated in color by Frank X. Leyendecker and H. Reuterdahl tissue-guarded frontispiece. Fine in the rare 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
1935869523.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1909007526New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. Book. Illus. by Leyendecker Frank X. / Reuterdahl H. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. subtitled: Together with Extracts from the Contemporary Magazine in which it appeared. -Illus. by 4 Color Plates and Endpapers By Frank Leyendecker and H. Reuterdahhl. Decorative Cloth. First American Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Science fiction in a dirigible imagined by Kipling for the year 2000. 77 Pages numbered & printed on only one side 8 pages of aeronautical advertisements which are also fantasy. Original dark green cloth with a laid on cover of clouds and dirigible and stars in silver and gilt. gilt spine letters and design. In glassine wrapper. Doubleday, Page & Company Hardcover
19986293San Francisco: The Arion Press 1998. Limited Edition. One of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the artist this being copy no.160. Octavo 25.5cm; full beige canvas cloth with printed title label mounted across spine and front cover; publisher's original reinforced string-tied envelope with printed labels; ii45-1197pp with an applied frontispiece portrait of Kipling and 32 illustrations by Vincent Perez. Fine in a Near Fine envelope with some mild external wear and some very faint creasing along one edge. Fine press edition of Kipling's science fiction story set in the year 2000 first published in the November 1905 issue of McClure's Magazine. With an introduction by Thomas Pinney. Arion No.54. The Arion Press unknown
1909293084doubleday first edition 1909. near fine faint spine damp marks doubleday unknown
1909293085doubleday first edition 1909. almost near fine some writing inside doubleday unknown
1330288912.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1909JK4358Doubleday Page & Company 1909. Hardcover. Good. 1909; reprinted in book form; blue cloth covered boards with gold titles; covers contain rubbing and shelf wear; interior contains foxing and toning; interior is unmarked; 12mo 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall 77 pages Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
0364751452.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
19091546<p>This is a first edition of <em>With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D</em>. by the British author Rudyard Kipling. In 1905 Kipling began serializing this science fiction novella in the American monthly <em>McClure's Magazine</em>.</p><p>The story follows the exploits of an intercontinental mail dirigible battling foul weather while a planet-wide Aerial Board of Control enforces a rigid system of command and control not only in the skies which are increasingly crowded with every manner of zeppelin but also in world affairs.<br /><br />Kipling got so excited by his own utopian vision that he wrote and placed phony ads in McClure's for dirigible and aeronautical products. He also wrote and placed phony news items e.g. that the Aerial Board of Control outlawed war in 1967 — by "reserving to every nation the right of waging war so long as it does not interfere with traffic and all that that implies."</p><p>In 1909 Doubleday Page gathered all of this together--the story the ads and the phony articles then added reviews and correspondence. It had the story illustrated by the commercial artist Frank Leyendecker and the painter Henry Reuterdahl and published it all as one book.</p><p>This is a copy of that book.</p><p>In total it's about 100 pages maybe 125 they're not all numbered. There is minor wear to the corners and edges of the book. There is a white smear on the cover which you can see in photo #1--it would be worth it to take it to a professional to have the covers cleaned. There's a small mark on the outside of pages 27-29 and a tiny mark on the outside of pages 11 and 12 and a larger mark on the outside of pages 53-55. Also someone cut out one of the front endpapers--it would have been blank.</p><p>Other than that the book is perfect. Thick high-quality paper. The pages are nice and bright the binding is tight and the illustrations are beautiful.</p><p>Note: Image #1 is a scan.</p><p><em>If you buy more than one item I am happy to combine shipping</em>.</p><p><strong>IMPORTANT: The shipping price stated here is for Canada and the USA only. If you are elsewhere please contact me for a shipping price BEFORE you purchase.</strong></p> Doubleday Page hardcover
1909010385DoubledayPage & Company 1909. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Fine Copy With a Bright Spine.First Edition1909 Beautiful Copy. Doubleday,Page & Company Hardcover
1900120640Santiago: Hume & Co 1900. First edition of this unauthorized collection of seven Kipling poems and two articles. Octavo original wrappers. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase. Rare. Published in 1900 this unauthorized collection of seven Kipling poems includes A Song of the White Men With Number Three Surgical and Medical Auld Lang Syne Pharaoh and the Sergeant Kitchener's School White Horses and The Absent-Minded Beggar. Hume & Co unknown
1900149441900. Also Letters from Julian Ralph Charles E. Hands and Douglas Story. Santiago de Chile: Hume & Co. 1900. Original printed fawn wrappers.<br/> <br/> First Edition unauthorized issued as a volume in the publisher's "Libreria Inglesa." This volume published in Chile includes three poems and two stories that Kipling wrote during the Boer War plus four poems written earlier; it is the first edition in book form anywhere of the poems "Pharaoh and the Sergeant" and "Kitchener's School" and of the Boer War tales "With Number Three" and "Surgical and Medical." "It has been said that this is the only case on record of a first edition of a book being published in a country never visited by the author and where people did not speak his language" Richards. Hume the proprietor of Santiago's main bookstore was a huge Kipling fan but it appears that he overestimated the Chilean Kipling market: he supposedly printed 400 copies but few sold and the remainder were either burned in 1906 or pulped at a paper mill in 1911 -- though some copies like this one apparently were neither read nor burned nor pulped. For this copy is as new -- no wear no soil leaves still unopened. Richards A166; Stewart 240. Housed in a cloth slipcase with inner chemise. unknown
