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18987547London: Macmillan 1898 First edition. Dark blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Octavo. . Light shelfwear. A near fine copy bright and tight. Macmillan, hardcover
1898895Z22London: Macmillan and Co. 1898. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5". None . The first edition of this collection of short stories by the award winning author Rudyard Kipling. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth. This work was written by the Nobel Prize winning author Rudyard Kipling and features a collection of thirteen short stories including 'The Ship that Found Herself' 'The Devil and the Deep Sea' and 'Bread upon Waters'. Four of the stories include anthropomorphic characters. Publisher's advertisements to the rear.From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son literary agent of Rudyard Kipling. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally smart with creasing to the rear slight fading to the spine bumping to the extremities small closed tears to the head and tail of the spine and slight rubbing to the extremities and joints. Bookplate belonging to 'A. P. Watt' to the front pastedown with front hinge starting and offsetting and spotting to the endpapers. Internally generally firmly bound with evidence of strain in places. Very Good Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1898921Y14London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1898. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5". None. A very smart first edition of this short story collection by Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling. The first edition of this work by short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling. In the publisher's original blue cloth with decorative gilt to the front board and spine. 'The Day's Work' comprises thirteen short stories which were mainly written between 1893 and 1896 while Kipling was living in Vermont. With four of the stories featuring anthropomorphic characters. With eighteen pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally very smart. With moderate rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean save for the few spots to the endpapers. Very Good Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1899MD28034Charles Scribner's Sons 1899. First Edition. Hardback. Very good condition. Brown boards and Gold lettering and design. Dust jacket: No dust jacket. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1899001939NEW YORK: DOUBLEDAY & MCCLURE CO. 1899 431 p. PUBLICATION DATE 1899. COPYRIGHT 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898. BOOK DESCRIPTION: GREEN RIBBED CLOTH HARDBOUND WITH BLACK/GILT GOLD STAMPED TITLE/PICTORAL ILLUSTRATION ON SPINE COVER/FRONT BOARD GILT GOLD UPPER LEAF EDGE TEXT ACCOMPANIED BY NUMEROUS BLACK/WHITE PLATES. DIMENSIONS: 8 1/8" x 5 1/2" x 1 3/8." CONDITION: VERY GOOD; BUMPED/RUBBED SPINE CROWN/HEEL/CORNER TIPS VERY LIGHT SPORADIC SPOTTING OF BOARDS WEAR AT EXTREMITIES LIGHT FRAYING STRONG SQUARE SPINE/BINDING STARTING TO LOOSEN DEDICATION PAGE STARTING TO LOOSEN AT TOP ATTACHMENT BRIGHT/CLEAN AGE TONED PAGES. A NICE COPY. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. DOUBLEDAY, & MCCLURE CO. hardcover
18981117London: Macmillan and co. 1898. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprinted October 1898 First published September 1898 Blue cloth boards with gilt decoration and gilt title to spine 381 pages plus 2 pages adverts to rear <br/><br/> Macmillan and co. hardcover
1900613208New York: George Munro's Sons 1900. Softcover. Very Good. First edition by this publisher likely a piracy the first American edition was issued a decade earlier. 12mo. 98pp. Pictorial wrappers. Pages browned still a sound very good copy. George Munro's Sons unknown
1890345797New York: Harper & Brothers 1890. First edition. Portrait. xii 182 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter green morocco t.e.g. preserving original blue green front wrapper. Uniformly toned to brown. Very good plus letter fine. First edition. Portrait. xii 182 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Collection of six stories previously published in various Harper serials the last story The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney being a piracy.<br /> No. 680 in Harper's Franklin Square Library series. <br /> This publication is the first time a portrait of Kipling appears in one of his books.<br /> This copy retains the front wrapper which lists series titles from 680 to 589 where Richards reports 681-590.<br /> <br /> With a one-page autograph letter signed on Savile Club letterhead inserted at front:<br /> <br /> Dear Mrs. Fowler<br /> Very many thanks for your kind invitation. I fear however that my engagements will not permit me to accept it.<br /> Sincerely<br /> Rudyard Kipling<br /> Mar. 25 '91. Richards A 43; Ballard XXXIII; Stewart 76; Livingston 57 Harper & Brothers unknown
189022293New York: Harper & Brothers 1890. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; original printed wrappers in custom blue cloth double slipcase gilt-lettered spine; xii1822adspp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Wrappers chipped and worn along extremities with several shallow losses not affecting text contemporary ownership signature to upper wrapper spine quite darkened and cracked with small losses; interior near fine. An About Very Good copy of this fragile piece. Harper's Franklin Square Library no. 680. Harper & Brothers unknown
1890249895New York: Harper & Brothers 1890. First edition. Portrait. xii 182 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Light blue green printed wrappers spine worn back cover separating else a Very Good copy of this rare fragile book. In half blue morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition. Portrait. xii 182 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Collection of six stories previously published in various Harper serials the last story The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney being a piracy.<br /> No. 680 in Harper's Franklin Square Library series. <br /> This publication is the first time a portrait of Kipling appears in one of his books.<br /> This copy retains the front and back wrappers; the inside front wrapper here lists series titles from 680 to 589 where Richards reports 681-590. Richards A 43; Ballard XXXIII; Stewart 76; Livingston 57 Harper & Brothers unknown
1890GEN28-C-25London: Harper and Brothers 1890. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". None. The first American edition of this collection of short stories by Kipling WIth frontispiece engraving of the author. Containing The Courting of Dinah Shadd The Man Who Was A Conference of the Powers Without Benefit of Clergy On Greenhow HIll The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney and a biographical sketch of Kipling by Andrew Lang. In a cloth binding. Externally sound though with some marks and bumping. Loss to spine label. Front hinge strained. Slight wear to the head of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Pages are generally bright and clean. Very Good Harper and Brothers hardcover
189036281NY: Harper & Brothers. Good with no dust jacket. September 1890. First Edition. Paperback. The Courting of Dinah Shadd and Other Stories With a Biographical and Critical Sketch by Andrew Lang. 1st American edition preceding the first authorized American edition. In The Athenaeum of October 4 1890 on the authority of Mr. Kipling it was stated that these stories had been collected by Messrs. Harper without permission and they were accused of literary piracy an accusation which Harper denied. Livinston 57. Xii 182 ads 2 pp. Losses to the paper spine and inner margins of wraps corners slightly rounded. Ownership scrawled on title page. Marginal pencilling to ads a cello tape repair. First time a portrait of Kipling appears in one of his books. This along with "Holy War" 2 leaves. Lon: Methuen & Co. nd Written 1917 at top of p2. Toned. Lot consists of 2 pieces. . Harper & Brothers paperback
1900E24356Irvington NY: Cosmopolitan 1900. Softcover. Good. Full issue of the magazine from November 1900. A particularly sought after issue as it contains the first installment of H.G. Wells' "The First Men In The Moon" with illustrations by E. Herring; opening installment of "The Way That He took" by Kipling with illustrations by Gordon R. Grant; "What Communities Lose by the Competitive System" by Jack London an article that won the $200 Cosmopolitan Prize for pieces on 'Loss by Lack of Cooperation". 104 pp. plus a section at rear of photographs of notable plays and actors of the day and a large section of ads most illustrated and a few color tinted at rear. Tight but good only with chipping about the edges of the wrappers and some staining light tidemarking outer portions of a good number of pages. Cosmopolitan unknown
1900149566Boston: Alfred Bartlett 1900. Rare August 1900 issue of The Cornhill Booklet containing Rudyard Kipling's "Occasional Poems." Duodecimo original wrappers volume one number two printed in red and black illustrated with the original detached portrait of Kipling from an etching by William Strang laid in. In very good condition. Illustrated and designed by H.W. Colby. Rudyard Kipling’s occasional poems reflect his distinctive ability to merge public commentary with poetic craft transforming topical or ephemeral subjects into enduring reflections on empire duty and human character. Written primarily during his years in British India and later reprinted in collections such as Departmental Ditties and Other Verses 1886 these works—originally composed for newspapers and limited pamphlets—combine wit irony and moral insight to capture the social texture of colonial life. Alfred Bartlett unknown
1899mon0003287696A. Grosset & Co 1899-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0.8000 10.1000 5.9000. A. Grosset & Co hardcover
18999032199New York: Alex. Grosset & Co 1899. 1st. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. Bound in publisher's original yellow-orange cloth with spine stamped in red cover stamped in red and illustrated black. Top edge gilt. Illustrated frontispiece. Two illustrated plates in black and white. Several pages unopened. Mild rubbing to corners and head and heel of spine not through cloth. Darkening to cloth front back and spine. 5 x 7 1/4 inches. <br/><br/> Alex. Grosset & Co hardcover
1891157181891. Hugh Walpole's copy Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1891. 4 pp preliminary plus 9 pp terminal ads undated with prices in rupees. Original grey-green pictorial wrappers<br/> <br/> First Published Edition technically the second Indian edition following the suppressed 1890 edition which had considerably different contents and of which only six copies are known. This 1891-dated Allahabad edition printed there came next followed by the 1891 edition with joint Allahabad / London imprint the first English edition printed in the UK. This was issued as No. XIV in the "Indian Railway Library" -- though Wheeler published this THE SMITH ADMINISTRATION and LETTERS OF MARQUE without authority after Kipling had left India for England. As is typical for this volume that is extremely fragile more delicate than the authorized titles condition is good-to-very good -- with about half of the wrapper's spine perished and with chips at some corners. Livingston says of this edition "although it is very scarce copies can be found." Richards A52 mistakenly showing this edition as undated; Stewart 93; Martindell 42; Livingston 70. Housed in a cloth clamshell case. Provenance: 1 there is an indecipherable signature with the date 1891 written across the front cover; 2 at the top of the title page is the signature of Hugh Walpole 1884-1941 the English novelist born in New Zealand; he also added his "Brackenburn" leather bookplate to the inside of the front wrapper. The interior of the clamshell case bears the label of W. & G. Foyle Ltd of Charing Cross Road. unknown
1899026850New York NY: Alex. Grosset & Co. 1899. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Farrand Charles D. We are all backwoodsmen and barbarians together" writes Kipling as he chronicles a trip to Calcutta a city that "holds out false hopes of some return" one that is "not wholly foreign.say rather too familiar." In 92 deckle-edged pages with pictorial frontispiece of the author & 2 interior plates. Orig. published in London in 1891 this is the First American Edition First Printing from 1899. With orange cloth-covered boards decorated in stark black & lettered in red to front & spine the latter of which is severely faded this slim hardcover is in Good condition: very clean sewn binding strong & straight pages mildly tanned but completely save for a gift inscription dated 1902 to ffep. The lower-outer page edges show a very faint dampstain barely evident save for on the plates. Light exterior soil & mild rubbing to extremities; no DJ. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive never "stock" images of books we don't actually have Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Pacific time; later orders weekends & holidays ship very next business day. <br/> <br/> Alex. Grosset & Co. hardcover
189152994London: Sampson Low Marston & Co 1891. First U.K. Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.5 cm. In faded green printed paper wrappers; housed in red morocco slipcase and matching chemise tooled in gilt; 1-96pp; rear wrapper with 2pp of ads. With the errata slip tipped onto the title page. Some toning to the covers light chips on right edge; front cover attached but tender - a complete Very Good or better example in attractive morocco slipcase. Issued as no.14 in the A.H. Wheeler & Co. "Indian Railway Library."<br /> LIVINGSTON 71. Sampson Low Marston & Co unknown
1891014252London United Kingdom: Allahbad: Published By Messrs A H Wheeler & Co London: Sampson Low Marston & Company Ltd 1891. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First UK edition First Printing. Pp.86. n.d circa 1891. Original illustrated wrappers cloth internally pages unmarked. Adverts to the rear cover and inside front cover and rear cover.Tight binding the wrappers have chips and wear to the extremities. Errata slip before title as called for. Small label to front by previous owner with date of purchase 2014 . Allahbad: Published By Messrs A H Wheeler & Co ,London: Sampson Low Marston & Company Ltd Paperback
1891265647Allahabad: Wheeler 1891. paperback. good. 96pp thin 8vo printed gray green wrappers; lightly edge-chipped. Allahabad & London: A.H. Wheeler & Sampson Low Marston n.d. 1891. First English Edition.<br/> <br/> Volume XIV of the Indian Railway Library. Errata slip attached to title page.<br/> <br/> Wheeler unknown
1891343404Allahabad / London: A.H. Wheeler & Co. / SampsonLow Marston 1891. Softcover. Good. First English edition. 12mo. Illustrated green wrappers. 96pp. Errata slip bound-in. Small owner's name and small chip on front wrap a couple of modest chips on rear wrap spine somewhat eroded another small embossed stamp of an American author on title-page a good copy in custom cloth chemise and slipcase. Scarce. A.H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson,Low, Marston unknown
18913962Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co. . 1891. First British Edition. Flexible covers. Good. Covers frail and with moderate chipping. Professionally repaired with japonese tissue paper. Errata slip nicely tape repaired. ; Including errata sheet bound-in. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 96 pages . A. H. Wheeler & Co. unknown
189941937New York: Alex Grosset and Co 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition thus. Offsetting to the endpapers boards soiled and lightly rubbed else very good. Alex Grosset and Co hardcover
1900009860Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1900 Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1900. Early reprint. Attractive three-quarter cloth binding over unusual marble boards. Gilt titles. 270 pp. Near fine. Tauchnitz hardcover