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189012697New York: Harper & Brothers 1890. 8vo. Frontis. xii 182 2 adv. pp. <br><br>First American edition: No. 680 in the "Harper's Franklin Square Library" series with an introduction by Andrew Lang. Harper & Brothers published these stories without Kipling's permission resulting in a copyright dispute. Original printed paper wrappers front cover torn and separated back cover lacking. Contents page with inked owner's name in upper margin. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1890301156New York: Harper & Brothers 1890. First edition. Portrait. xii 182 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Half green morocco original wrappers bound in. Spine toned. Very good plus. Pencil marks on contents page. John Quinn bookplate. First edition. Portrait. xii 182 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Quinn Copy. 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 A43; Ballard XXXIII; Stewart 76; Livingston 57 Harper & Brothers unknown books
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 books
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 books
1898WRCLIT77658Jamaica NY: The Marion Press 1898. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. Tiny nick at crown of lower wrapper joint trivial use at overlap edges otherwise about fine. First edition. Copy #93 of 120 copies printed on behalf of Paul Lemperley for subscribers this copy being designated in an early hand in light blue pencil for Kipling himself. Collects the documents pertaining to Kipling's disagreement with Harper & Bros. over the story including the collective letter signed by Hardy Besant and Black. From the Nelson Doubleday collection sale and surprisingly uncommon in this decent condition. STEWART 706. RICHARDS B22. LIVINGSTON 58. The Marion Press unknown books
189929648New York: Doubleday and McClure 1899. 16mo p. 6 83; frontispiece portrait title-p. printed in red and black; spine darkened and spine extremities rubbed else very good in original pictorial cream cloth stamped in white and olive. See Livingston p. 84. <br/><br/> Doubleday and McClure hardcover books
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
18913647Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co 1891. Second edition. 810810pp. Including 14pp. of ads & reviews. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf circa 1920 in 1/2 brown morocco gilt over marbled boards original gray pictorial wrappers bound in. T.e.g. Bookplate on front pastedown of M. C. D. Borden whose valuable library was sold at auction in 1913. "A. H. Wheeler & Co.'s Indian Railway Library No. XIV." The second edition after an unauthorized first edition was suppressed by Kipling. Efforts were also made to suppress this second edition and it is quite scarce. Livingston BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF KIPLING #70. A. H. Wheeler & Co hardcover books
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 books
1891241451Allahabad: Wheeler 1891. paperback. good. Thin 8vo printed wrappers. Allahabad & London: A.H. Wheeler & Sampson Low Marston n.d. 1891. First English Edition.<br/><br/> Lacks front wrapper & front flyleaf; back wrapper is chipped. Errata slip attached to title page.<br/><br/> Wheeler unknown books
189121453Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co 1891. First published and second Indian edition issued as no. 14 in Wheeler's Indian Railway Library series; 8vo pp. 4 ads and opinions of the press 4 108 10 ads and opinions of the press; original printed front wrapper a little chipped at edges no loss of letterpress bottom third of spine perished and with a clean tear in the upper cover no loss; the whole in a half red morocco slipcase. Stewart 93; Livingston 70. <br/><br/> A.H. Wheeler & Co unknown books
1891WRCLIT41594Allahabad & London: A.H. Wheeler & Co / Sampson Low et al 1891. Large octavo. Pictorial wrappers detached and rather chipped. First U.K. edition printed in the style of the RAILWAY LIBRARY series XIV. Tan offsetting to title and last page from wrappers publisher's slip detached but present; the text block is very good. An ordinary copy of this title offered w.a.f. STEWART 94. A.H. Wheeler & Co / Sampson Low [et al] unknown books
1891124503Allahabad: Wheeler 1891. First. paperback. very good. 108 pp. ads. Thin 8vo original gray-green printed wrappers corners of front wrapper chipped. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler 1891.<br/><br/> Excellent copy of the first published technically the second Indian edition an unauthorized collection with the same title having been printed in 1890 but suppressed. Printed at the "Pioneer" Press bottom of p 108. Issued as No.IV of the Indian Railway Library. Stewart 93. Livingston 70.<br/><br/> Wheeler unknown books
1891WRCLIT55923Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1891. 4410810pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Rebacked at an early date with plain paper upper wrapper wanting significant chips at corners one piece is laid in with clean tear up from bottom edge of upper wrapper parallel to spine and following the left frame of the pictorial vignette smaller corner chip to lower wrapper a few small nicks to prelims but internally about very good. Half morocco slipcase and chemise. First published edition following the suppression of the 1890 edition under the same title and with additions. Issued as no. XIV in Wheeler's Indian Railway Library series preceding the printing with the dual Allahabad and London imprint. RICHARDS A52. STEWART 93. LIVINGSTON 70. A.H. Wheeler & Co. unknown books
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
