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192010302Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1920 A spoof - poems in the style of Horace by Kipling and Graves translated into Latin with Latin preface and appendices. Latin/English facing pages. White titles much worn to illegibility on the spine no inscriptions or annotation tight and sound good no DJ. Basil Blackwell hardcover
192043906Oxford.: Blackwell. 1920. Printed boards. Endpapers browned. Small spot on cover. In Latin language. Very good. Blackwell. hardcover
193015587Small 4to. All orig. wrappers in a fine hvellum top-edge gilt. Uncut. No 300 of 285 numb. 50 a 334 "sur velin de Rives blanc" a total of 370 copies. With 30 fine engravings. hardcover
198739338FISCHER 05/1987. 1. softcover. FISCHER paperback
1906blb03262<p>New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Textured dark green cloth with stamped bright gilt lettering on front and spine. Viking ship is stamped in black on front and spine as well. Stamped double lined ruling around perimeter of front and top edge gilt. Book is tight square relatively sharp-cornered - with some minor bumping - and free of markings or flaws inside or out other than prior owners name on FFEP. Bought from the estate of the same owner - a one-owner book. This is the First Edition prior to the English edition which contain Four colored plates by Arthur Rackham which were not included in the English Edition. One is a frontispiece protected by tissue guard. 277 pp.</p> Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
190633412New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. First edition and the first with illustrations. Four illustrations in colour by Arthur Rackham. 8vo publisher’s original green cloth the spine and upper cover lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black with the design of the famous caravelle sailing ship. t.e.g 8 277 pp. A very pleasing copy the gilt and cloth bright. FIRST EDITION AND THE FIRST WITH THE RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS. The English edition was not illustrated. Stories from English history told by romantic characters to two children over whom Puck the fairy had cast a midsummer spell. It can count both as historical fantasy – since some of the stories told of the past have clear magical elements and as contemporary fantasy – since it depicts a magical being active and practicing his magic in the England of the early 1900s when the book was written. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
190611430<p>Macmillan and Co Limited. London. 1906. FIRST EDITION. 1st printing. 8vo. Illustrated with twenty line drawings by Millar. Finely bound in recent full red morocco raised bands gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt. A few light marks to some page edges but overall a lovely copy.</p> Macmillan and Co, Limited. London. 1906 hardcover
190646604Macmillan 1906. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece title in red and black and 19 full-page illustrations in the text neat contemporary signature on title; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt gilt top hand-made endpapers ribbon marker original gilt from upper board and backstrip mounted on new and separate leaves at front custom-made-slip-case an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Collects ten historical tales. Livingston 299. Macmillan, hardcover
1906317848New York: Doubleday 1906. First. hardcover. fine. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Handsomely rebound in full green morocco using the original pictorial cover New York: Doubleday 1906. First American edition. Fine.<br/> <br/> Doubleday unknown
194871337London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1948. Small 8vo. x 306 pp. Full green calf with red title label gilt borders decoration and lettering to spine; marbled endpapers top edge gilt. Slight marks and scratches to rear board joints and extremities. Internally clean. Black & white illustrations. . Near Fine. Gilt-decorated Calf. 1948. Macmillan and Co., Limited 1948 unknown
1906397400London : Macmillan 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original decorated gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 306 pages : illustrations frontis. ; 18 cm. Contents; Weland's sword -- Puck's song -- A tree song -- Young men at the manor -- Sir Richard's song -- The knights of the joyous venture -- Harp song of the dane women -- Thorkild's song -- Old men at Pevensey -- The runes on Weland's sword -- A centurion of the Thirtieth -- Cities and thrones and powers -- A British-Roman song -- On the great wall -- A song to Mithras -- The winged hats -- A pict song -- Hal o' the draft -- Prophets have honour all over the earth -- A smuggler's song -- ""Dymchurch Flit"" -- The bee boy's song -- A three-part song -- The treasure and the law -- Song of the fifth river -- The children's song. Subjects; Puck Legendary character ; Juvenile fiction. Puck Legendary character. Time travel ; Juvenile fiction. Space and time ; Juvenile fiction. Space and time. Time travel. Children's literature England 20th century. English fiction. Fairies ; Juvenile fiction. Fiction in English. London : Macmillan hardcover
19061497New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1906. First American Edition. Cloth. Good. Arthur Rackham. Green cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine imagine of ship embossed on cover wear to extremities top gilt page edge deckled pages edge and bottom. Signature of previous owner on front free endpaper. Frontispiece with heavily foxed tissue guard title page also foxed. <br /> 4 illustrations including frontispiece by Arthur Rackham. Pages 165 and 166 have open tear edges of ten lines of text obscured by tear. Some age toning throughout. 277 pp.<br /> <br /> <br /> First American Edition published two months before British Edition. Doubleday, Page & Co unknown
1911424984London : Macmillan 1911. 3rd edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Boards stained dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 306 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. Contents; Weland's sword -- Puck's song -- A tree song -- Young men at the manor -- Sir Richard's song -- The knights of the joyous venture -- Harp song of the dane women -- Thorkild's song -- Old men at Pevensey -- The runes on Weland's sword -- A centurion of the Thirtieth -- Cities and thrones and powers -- A British-Roman song -- On the great wall -- A song to Mithras -- The winged hats -- A pict song -- Hal o' the draft -- Prophets have honour all over the earth -- A smuggler's song -- ""Dymchurch Flit"" -- The bee boy's song -- A three-part song -- The treasure and the law -- Song of the fifth river -- The children's song. Subjects; Puck Legendary character ; Juvenile fiction. Puck Legendary characterBarton Andrew -1511 ; Juvenile literature. Cabot Sebastian approximately 1474-1557 ; Juvenile literature. John King of England 1167-1216 ; Juvenile literature. Time travel ; Juvenile fiction. Space and time ; Juvenile fiction. Fairy tales England. Folklore England. Roman period 55 B.C.-449 A.D ; Juvenile fiction. Folklore England ; Juvenile fiction. Children's poetry English. Fantasy fiction English. Historical fiction English. Puck Legendary character ; Juvenile literature. London : Macmillan hardcover
190621320London: MacMillan & Co 1906. First edition first printing of Puck of Puck's Hill by Rudyard Kipling published by MacMillan London in 1906 a First Issue with adverts at rear. Red boards with gilt elephant embossed vignette to front board & gilt titles nicking to spine tips and some surface damage to heal of the spine fading to the spine rubbing to corners gilt top stain to text block light pencil annotation marks throughout. A collection of short stories blending history fantasy and folklore. Set in England's Sussex countryside it follows two children Dan and Una who encounter Puck a mischievous sprite from English folklore. Puck introduces them to various historical characters including Roman soldiers and Norman knights who share tales of England's past. Through these stories Kipling explores themes of identity nationalism and the enduring spirit of England. The book serves as both entertainment and a celebration of English heritage showcasing Kipling's skillful storytelling and his love for the land and its legends. MacMillan & Co hardcover
190621406London: MacMillan & Co 1906. First edition first printing of 'Puck of Pook's Hill' First Issue with adverts at rear. Red boards with gilt elephant vignette to front board & gilt titles. A near fine copy. Clean boards with no marks of note. Nicking to spine tips. A touch of fading to the spine - rubbing to the spine tips and corners. No inscriptions. All plates present. A collection of short stories blending history fantasy and folklore. Set in England's Sussex countryside it follows two children Dan and Una who encounter Puck a mischievous sprite from English folklore. Puck introduces them to various historical characters including Roman soldiers and Norman knights who share tales of England's past. Through these stories Kipling explores themes of identity nationalism and the enduring spirit of England. The book serves as both entertainment and a celebration of English heritage showcasing Kipling's skillful storytelling and his love for the land and its legends. MacMillan & Co hardcover
1906235773New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906. First US edition first printing. Publisher's green cloth pictorially stamped in black with image of a ship titled in gilt teg. Mild foxing frontis tissue-guard extremities rubbed internally clean binding tight and square a near fine copy. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham; extra-illustrated with thirteen additional half-tone illustrations depicting scenes alongside Kipling's stories. 277pp. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BRITISH FANTASY<br /> <br /> In a whimsy-laced journey through time the trickster Puck summons visitors from across England’s past—from Roman legionaries to Norman knights and Magna Carta–era merchants—each weaving captivating stories steeped in history and folklore. Framed by evocative poems these vignettes blend fantasy with national legacy culminating in a celebration of England’s evolving identity. The first US edition is notable for its four haunting color plates by Arthur Rackham absent from the British edition.<br /> <br /> This copy is further distinguished as an extra-illustrated example enriched by a previous owner with thirteen additional half-tone illustrations depicting scenes of Ancient Rome. The juxtaposition of Kipling’s imaginative retelling of English history with Roman imagery creates a layered dialogue between text and illustration offering a fascinating glimpse into the interpretive creativity of early 20th-century collectors.<br /> <br /> Livingston 283. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown
1906330709New York: Doubleday 1906. First. hardcover. fine. 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/> Fine copy in a 1/2 green morocco slipcase.<br/> <br/> Doubleday unknown
190601AIR1358.<p>Original cloth rubbed and spine a bit faded some edge-wear including knocked corners. Binding a bit loose but sound though canted forward. Name of 'Gilkison' a New Zealand author on free front end-paper. Top edge gilt other edges tanned end-papers lightly foxed text block generally clean but a few grubby marks mostly in margins. Monochrome frontispiece and 19 drawings by H.R. Millar collated all present one with a creased corner. Inter-page adhesion affects two words on p. 304. The 10pp. booklist at rear is dated 10.10.06. Ten short stories and 16 poems.</p> Macmillan and Co., Limited. hardcover
19051594285517Doubleday Doran & Co. 1905. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Doubleday Doran & Co. hardcover
1906RK072New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1906 Illustrated with four color plates by Arthur Rackham including a frontispiece. First edition first printing published two months before the first UK edition. Publisher's green cloth with boat illustration in blind to front board lettered in gilt and top edge gilt. Near fine with clean and bright boards light wear to spine ends joints and corners and small marks to pp. 46-47 lines 15-21 on both pages slightly affected. Overall an excellent copy. In Puck of Pook's Hill two children playing in the English countryside are approached by the magical fairy Puck from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Over the course of the summer Puck introduces them to notable events and characters from British history told through ten connected short stories. Interspersed between the stories are poems by Kipling some of which were later selected by T.S. Eliot for inclusion in A Choice of Kipling's Verse 1941. Notably this first American edition includes illustrations by the legendary book illustrator Arthur Rackham whereas the first UK edition was illustrated by Harold R. Millar. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Rackham Arthur. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1914151124London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1914. The Bombay Edition of Kipling's collection of historical fantasy tales. Octavo bound in three quarters morocco over cloth covered boards by Morrell with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels top edge gilt marbled endpapers. 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. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
190652404London: Macmillan and Co. 1906. First edition. 8vo. x 306 pp. Contemporary red half calf over marbled boards by Matthews & Brooke of Bradford spines with raised bands gilt lettered direct to two panels and with a gilt flower device repeated to the others marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Frontispiece and 10 full page illustrations by H.R. Millar. Mild sunning to the spine very good. Martindell 107. London: Macmillan and Co. unknown
1926015137Garden City/New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1926 Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original embossed dark green cloth over boards with gilt lettering and illustration of a sailboat on the cover. Clipped light green dustjacket with green lettering has same illustration as on cover. Jacket has edgewear five vertical edge tears 1" or less and a small black dot on the boat picture. Top of textblock has spotting. Inside pages are clean. Large easy to read font. Scarce with dustjacket! 277 pp. . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1920206993London: Macmillan. 1920. vg. Hardcover. flexible red leather cover; gilt circle with elephant & swastika symbol; 6.75" tall; spine covered with gilt floral decoration & text; top edge gilt; b/w ;ates; red decoration on title page & page facing; gifters' inscription with long list of names of front endpage . Macmillan hardcover
1906147583London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1906. First edition first impression of one of Kipling's major books very rare in the dust jacket. Puck of Pook's Hill brings together ten stories and 16 poems which had previously appeared in journals. Octavo. Frontispiece and 19 full-page monochrome illustrations by H. R. Millar 4 pp. of publisher's advertisements at end. Original red cloth spine lettered in gilt gilt Ganesha device to front cover top edge gilt. With dust jacket. Corners a touch bumped the binding otherwise bright and firm internally clean and fresh. A very good copy in good only jacket small tape repairs to verso slight wear to extremities spine panel toned. Richards A205; Stewart 306. hardcover