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190530765NY: Doubleday Page and Co 1905. Lovely part leather/part marbleized board edition green leather and gilt/grey marbleized paper on cover and end papers in Very Good condition despite some wear at extremities and at crease between front cover and spine. Ex libris plate inside front cover. Facing title page two-color illustration with tissue overlay and cover page also in two colors. Many balck and white illustrations from the pen of Orson Lowell inside. A real treat!. Leather. Very Good/None. Illus. by Orson Lowell. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Doubleday Page and Co Hardcover
1907005653Macmillan & Co. Publishers cloth with gilt titles and design. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1907. Macmillan & Co. hardcover
1907203869London: Macmillan & Co Limited 1907. 1st Edition. Blue Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Townsend F. H. 92pp. 12 full page colour illustrative plates support the text of this first edition antiquarian book. Gilt embossed vignette to the front board and gilt embossed lettering to the board and spine. Light sunning to the edges of the boards. One very slight bump to one corner of the front board. Toning to the end papers.There is light foxing on empty pages between page 11and an illustration otherwise a very clean fresh and tight copy of this well preserved book. Macmillan & Co Limited hardcover
1907862F56London: Macmillan and Co 1907 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". F.H. Townsend. A lovely copy of the first edition of this charming fantasy novel from Rudyard Kipling illustrated with colour plates. The first edition of this work illustrated with twelve colour plates by F.H. Townsend an illustrator and the art editor of Punch magazine. Collated complete.Kipling's novel follows British army officer George Cottar following him from childhood and into his first posting to India. During his placement Cottar dreams of a young girl a dream that always starts with a heap of brushwood near the shore. Upon his return to England he meets the girl who has also been dreaming of him. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to spine head with discolouration to back strip. Boards bright. Tail of front hinge lightly strained but firmly held. Internally binding a touch strained. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good Macmillan and Co hardcover
1907028635UK: Macmillan 1907. First Edition Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. F H Townsend. 1st Edition 1907. Signed by the author to the title page. Signed trade editions are very uncommon. Illustrations in colour by F. H. Townsend. Kipling's novel follows British army officer George Cottar from childhood and into his first posting to India. In India Cottar dreams of a young girl a dream that always starts with a heap of brushwood near the shore. Upon his return to England he meets the girl who has also been dreaming of him. Book is very good and bright. Contents good. Excellent provenance. A really nice example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18468 <br/> <br/> Macmillan hardcover
1926149579London: Macmillian and Co. Limited 1926. The Bookman Portfolio 1926 Christmas issue containing three color illustrations inspired by Kipling's collection of poems "Sea and Sussex." Quarto original wrappers three colored plates laid in. In very good condition. Paintings by Donald Maxwell. From Rudyard Kipling's Verse. Sea and Sussex 1926 by Rudyard Kipling is a lyrical tribute to the English county he called home blending poetry and prose to celebrate its natural beauty maritime traditions and historical spirit. Written with both affection and precision the book captures Kipling’s deep connection to the Sussex landscape and its coastal life portraying the region as a timeless symbol of English resilience and identity. Macmillian and Co. Limited unknown
1927WRCLIT76860London: Macmillan and Co 1927. Twenty-six volumes of an eventual thirty-one. Large octavos. Holland backed blue boards printed spine labels t.e.g. others untrimmed. Some general slight tanning and shelfwear occasional inner hinges cracking or cracked occasional tan offsetting from endsheets to facing leaves several of the spare labels absent evidently utilized. Nonetheless a good reasonably sound set ideal for binding purposes. From an edition initially limited to 1050 copies of each through volume twenty and thereafter to five hundred copies of each volume printed on handmade paper and signed by Kipling in the first volume. There was a hiatus after the publication of the 26th volume in 1927 and the remaining five volumes finally appeared in 1938 resulting in a number of extant sets terminating with the final volume present here or with the 20th. RICHARDS D14. STEWART pp. 572-3. LIVINGSTON pp.454-6. Macmillan and Co hardcover books
191456974MacMillan & Co. 1914. Hardback. Very Good- in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. MacMillan & Co hardcover
1938CNSZ08London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1938. Hardcover. Very good. Volumes I through XXVI and Volume XXVIII quarto size approx. 6650 total pages signed by Rudyard Kipling in Volume I. Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 is perhaps best known today for "The Jungle Book" however he was prolific with a list almost too long to count of novels short stories poems and travel literature. In 1907 at the age of 41 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature the first English language writer to receive the award and the youngest recipient to date n.b. above information from Wiki. <br /> <br /> This set of his works "The Bombay Edition" has Kipling's signature in the first volume and is printed on paper especially made for the edition bearing the watermark "R elephant-headed Ganesha with swastika and lotus K". Note: for those who may not be aware of this the swastika was originally used as a symbol of many types of good wishes: health luck success etc.; it's usage goes back as far as the 4th century BCE - or perhaps even earlier. It is in use in many Eastern religions even today as a symbol of divinity - it was in all of these positive aspects that Kipling used the symbol. It wasn't until the appropriation of the symbol by the Nazi party in the early 20th century that it came to mean to many in Western and European cultures a symbol of hatred and anti-Semitism.<br /> <br /> The first twenty-five volumes issued in an edition of 1050 copies the first eight volumes in 1913 volumes nine through twenty-two in 1914 volume twenty-three in 1915 volume twenty-four in 1917 and volume twenty-five in 1919. It was not until 1927 that volume twenty-six was published obviously due to the Great War and the final five volumes being issued in 1938 these final volumes issued in an edition of only 500 copies. This has had the result that many available sets do not contain the later volumes. This set consists of volumes one through twenty-six consecutively with the addition of volume twenty-eight. <br /> <br /> ___DESCRIPTION: Each volume bound in half natural linen over blue paper-covered boards paper spine labels top edges gilt fore- and bottom edges uncut volumes one through twenty-five with the Ex-Libris of Albert Julian Pell on the front pastedown see Provenance below Kipling's signature in black ink on the edition fore-title each volume with the volume title page in blue and black each story with a blue initial capital each volume with a colophon with a Kipling's device in blue most but not all volumes with spare spine labels tipped in at the rear flyleaf; bindings are quarto size 9 7/8" by 6 3/4" pagination ranges from 135 to 357 pp.; note that the paper covering the boards on volume twenty-four does not match the other volumes it is close in colour but different in texture since the Ex-Libris matches the others in the set we surmise it was issued this way but our bibliography is silent on that issue; also note that volumes twenty-six and twenty-eight were acquired separately see notes below. <br /> <br /> ___CONDITION: The set is overall in solid very good condition; the bindings clean although the blue paper now shows offsetting from the glue a bit of very light bumping to the head and tail of the spines the spine labels all sunned and some with light wear strong square text blocks with mostly solid hinges a few tender or slightly cracked but still holding most corners lightly rubbed a few board edges lightly dinged the interiors mostly clean and bright a few pages with light foxing and other than the Ex-Libris free of prior owner markings. Exceptions to this that we see include a prior bookseller pencilled marking above the Ex-Libris in volume one the bottom front corner of volume seven appears to have been bent at some point both hinges in volume thirteen were repaired at some point with what appears to be archival paper but we cannot be certain volume twenty-four with a dark stain on the upper portion of the spine whatever caused that did not penetrate into the book as the interior is fine and there is also a small light stain on the front board volume twenty-five with a light scratch on the front board volume twenty-six has the note from Robert Kirkman to Serendipity books see Provenance below loosely laid in and in addition to overall soil there is some damage to the fore-edge of the front board and the first few leaves along with some short pencilled notes on the front and rear pastedowns; volume twenty-eight is ex-library with the library stamp on the spine near the tail as well as library markings to the front pastedown including the residue of the removal of the library pocket the binding somewhat shaken and a few gutters lightly cracked. <br /> <br /> ___PROVENANCE: Volumes one through twenty-five with the armorial Ex-Libris of Albert Julian Pell 1863-1916 with the motto "mente manuque" "With mind and hand". Pell graduated from Merton College Oxford and practised law. He attained the rank of Captain and Hon. Major in the 4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment and shortly before the outbreak of the Great War was attached to the General Staff of the Western Command. Volume twenty-six was acquired separately by U.K. bookseller Robert Kirkman Ltd. who sold it to Serendipity Books Oakland California; we have their note dated 21st March 2006 indicating that "remaining volumes will follow"; this set has volume twenty-eight but not twenty-seven oddly; and these final two volumes without the Ex-Libris of Major Pell. <br /> <br /> ___CITATION: Livingston pp. 454-456. <br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: Please note that due to the size and weight of this set additional postage will apply for both domestic and international customers; please inquire for details.<br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. 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1913145328London: MacMillan and Co. 1913-19. Hardcover. Near fine. Bombay Edition. Octavo. 25 volumes. Bound in half grey cloth and blue paper covered boards. Paper label on the spine. Top edge gilt. Other edges untrimmed. Top edge a bit dust soiled. Corners generally square with only slight bumping. A bit of slight foxing on the boards but the text block is very clean. Original blue silk book mark in each volume. Original printed dust wrappers for all volumes. Most in fine condition with a few having slight tears and two are missing a small piece from the base of the dust wrapper. A much superior set of this famous edition of Kipling's works. The Bombay edition of Kiplings works was limited to 1050 copies with Kipling signing below the half title. The works of Rudyard Kipling contains his poetry novels stories travel writings children s tales military tales and essays. Kipling became the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize 1907. 1913 MacMillan and Co. hardcover
1913141035London: Macmillan & Co. 1913-38. A handsomely bound set signed by the author on the half-title The Bombay Edition one of only 500 possible complete sets signed by the author on the half-title. The Bombay edition was initially published in 20 volumes and limited to 1000 copies. Kipling continued to write and the edition eventually grew to 31 volumes but the last 11 volumes were limited to 500 copies only. Because later volumes were issued separately and at a lower limitation complete sets such as this one are rare. 31 vols octavo. Attractively bound in recent burgundy morocco green morocco labels centre tool to spines gilt raised bands roll to boards gilt marbled endpapers top edges gilt others untrimmed. Mild partial toning to a couple of the half-titles an excellent set. hardcover
1913051574MacMillan. Good with no dust jacket. 1913. Signed. Hardcover. Hardcover. SIGNED by Rudyard Kipling. Volume I only. The Bombay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling limited to 1050 copies. Pale blue paper covered boards with tan linen spine. Paper title label on spine. Boards noticeably soiled. Edge wear and light fraying. Endpapers foxed. Smal tear to interior hinge. Signature page tanned. Deckle edges. Text pages are clean. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . MacMillan hardcover
1913ab 22LONDON: MACMILLAN 1913. Book. Fine. Hardcover. FIRST. Limited edition of 1050 sets . Signed on the half-title of volume 1. full red Morocco Finely bound in deep red half morocco raised bands and gilt rules to spines matching cloth sides top edge gilt others untrimmed. Printed from Florentine Press type on hand-made paperA BEAUTIFUL SET. MACMILLAN Hardcover
1913SET52-H&I-1London: Macmillan & Co Ltd. 1913-1919. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 9.5" by 6.5". Various. The complete limited and signed collection of works from prolific author novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling. Volume one is neatly signed in ink by Rudyard Kipling. Limited edition set with only 1050 originally being published. Eighteen of these volumes feature their original and extremely scarce dustwrappers. Vol. I Plain Tales From the Hills. Vol. II Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys: In Black and White. Vol. III Wee Willie Winkie. Under the Deodars. The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other stories. Vol IV and V From Sea to Sea and other sketches. Letters of Travel. 2 vol. Vol. VI Life's Handicap etc. Vol. VII The Light that Failed. Vol. VIII The Naulahka . By R. Kipling and Wolcott Balestier. Vol. IX Many Inventions. Vol. X 'Captains Courageous' etc. Vol. XI The Jungle Book. Vol. XII The Second Jungle Book. Vol. XIII The Day's Work. Vol. XIV Stalky & Co. Vol. XV Kim. Vol. XVI Just So Stories etc. Complete with twenty-two plates. Vol. XVII Traffics and Discoveries. Vol. XVIII Puck of Pook's Hill etc. Vol. XIX Rewards and Fairies. Vol. XX Actions and Reactions. Vol. XXI Departmental Ditties. Barrack-Room Ballads and other verses. Vol. XXII The Five Nations. The Seven Seas. Vol. XXIII Songs from Books. Vol. XXIV A Diversity of Creatures. Vol. XXV. The Years Between. The Muse Among the Motors. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius as distinct from fine intelligence that I have ever known." In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and to date he remains its youngest recipient. Among other honours he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood all of which he declined. The Bombay edition was initially published in 20 volumes and limited to 1000 copies. Kipling continued to write and it eventually grew to 31 volumes but the last 11 volumes were limited to 500 copies only. This collection is complete in twenty five volumes which was limited to 1050. With watermarks to the endpapers. In original publishers' half cloth bindings with paper covered boards. Eighteen of these volumes feature their original dustwrapper. Externally all volumes are generally sound with only some light rubbing and scattered marks. Slight foxing to the spine labels without dustwrappers. Both hinges to volume fourteen are strained with the rear being a little more tender. Dustwrappers are a little chipped with some slight loss to the head and tail of the spines. Dustwrappers are also quite foxed which is heavier to the spine of volume twenty-four and twenty-five. Very minor damp staining to the spine of volume three and four. Closed tear to the head of volume fifteen's spine as well as the tail of volume sixteen's. Volume twenty-four and twenty-five's dustwrappers have some evidence of past worming which is heavier to volume twenty-five. Internally all volumes are generally firmly bound and bright though with some slight straining to volume twenty-three. Some foxing to the endpapers and textblock edge. Many leaves are uncut. Replacements for the original spine labels bound into the rear of each volume. Very Good Macmillan & Co Ltd. hardcover
1998Q-1853261793Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1998-01-05. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Wordsworth Editions Ltd paperback
1988Q-0385260911Doubleday Anchor Books 1988-12-19. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Doubleday Anchor Books paperback
1930BIBLIO-51310Printed for private distribution New York first separate edition 1930. distributed privately; 91 copies printed. Quarter-cloth and orange boards 8vo 22 cm. 31 pp. The story had first appeared in American Magazine for July 1912: this unauthorized private separate printing substantially preceded the first collected appearance in the Sussex edition 1938. "The Benefactors" is a political tract set in a boiler-room similar to those in coal-burning vessels of the time in Hell where various souls are being punished for their sins. Richards A397 Near Fine in torn and browned glassine dustwrapper. Printed for private distribution, New York, first separate edition, 1930 hardcover
1930322150New York 1930. Number 51 of 91 copiees. 32pp. 8vo. Black cloth spine and orange boards. Almost fine. Number 51 of 91 copiees. 32pp. 8vo. A privately printed unauthorised printing of a Kipling short story that first appeared in the American Magazine and The National Review in July 1912. Richards A397; Livingston 560. Richards A397; Livingston 560 <br/><br/> hardcover
193011075New York: Privately Printed 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st edition limited to 91 copies this being #73. A Fine copy in Very Good glassine jacket. Octavo. Quarter cloth and boards with gilt spine title. The rear panel of the glassine is detached; some wear along the bottom edge. The text gatherings are unopened. Fine in Very Good plain glassine dust jacket. The glassine is now protected in mylar. Privately Printed hardcover
192640341London: J. A. Allen 1926. First issue. 8vo pp. 8. Frontis portrait. Paper wraps. Cover very slightly worn at corners o/w a nice copy. J. A. Allen unknown books
1926120430London: J. A. Allen & Co 1926. First separate edition first issue of this report issued on the occasion of Kipling's acceptance of the gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature. Octavo original wrappers. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard 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. Kipling was presented by Lord Balfour with the gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature at the centenary banquet of the society of the New Prince's Galleries Piccadilly on Wednesday July 7 1926. J. A. Allen & Co unknown books
1926WRCLIT40455London: J.A. Allen & Co. 1926. Printed wrappers. Portrait. First edition. About fine. STEWART 406. J.A. Allen & Co. unknown books
1926WRCLIT35981London: J.A. Allen & Co. 1926. Printed wrappers. Portrait. First edition. Two bookplates wrappers a bit dusty at edges very good. STEWART 406. J.A. Allen & Co. unknown books
1926005219London: J. A. Allen & Co. 1926. Near Fine wrappers lightly soiled. Originally appeared in "The Times" of London on July 8 1926. 8 pgs. with frontis portrait illustration. . First Issue. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. J. A. Allen & Co. Paperback books
192626628London: J. A. Allen & Co. 1926. First edition. Stapled terra cotta paper wrappers. Nick to lower edge else a near fine copy. 8 pp. 8vo. "Issued by permission of The Times in whose columns the report appeared on July 8 1926." Later printed in the Transactions of the Royal Literary Society for 1926. The frontispiece portrait of Kipling is by Spy. Stewart 561; Livingston Suppl 508. J. A. Allen & Co. unknown books