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19141062London: The Daily Telegraph in conjunction with The Daily Sketch The Glasgow Herald and Hodder and Stoughton. 1914. First edition. Presented by King George V to S. Lawes of the 1st Royal Berkshire Regiment at the 4th London General Hospital Denmark Hill on Christmas Day 1914 inscribed to front free endpaper. Quarto. Publisher's original cream cloth with decorative titles in green to the upper board and spine. Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece 16 tipped-in colour plates 1 further colour plate and 10 black and white plates. Additional printed presentation plate to front pastedown: "King Albert's Book with Sir Francis Trippel's Best Wishes for a Happy Xmas a Speedy Recovery and a Victorious New Year Xmas 1914". 188pp. A very good copy the binding square and firm with marking and darkening to the boards. The contents with toning to the endpapers scattered foxing and creasing to the corners of some of the tipped-in plates are otherwise in very good order. Inscribed in black ink to the front free endpaper: "S. Lawes. 1st Royal Berkshire. / December 25th - IH. / 4th London Genera Hospital / Denmark Hill. / Presented by His Majesty King George V" not in the King's hand.</p><p>Published in aid of the Belgium Fund the work includes contributions from over 250 figures from the worlds of literature art politics music and science.</p><p>Certainly not an uncommon book but an evocative copy presented by King George V to a wounded soldier on Christmas Day 1914 just five months in to the First World War. London: The Daily Telegraph in conjunction with The Daily Sketch, The Glasgow Herald, and Hodder and Stoughton. hardcover
1902140937189New York: John Lane The Bodley Head 1902. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. viii 565 10 ads pp. Original ribbed blue cloth decorated in gilt gilt topstain. Very Good with slightly soiled and scratched cloth spine gilt dulled hinges starting offsetting and foxing to prelims name on paste down and a few pencil marks in margins.<p><br /> <br /> A scarce poetry anthology featuring Rudyard Kipling Bliss Carman A. E. Houseman William Butler Yeats and 29 other younger poets with incongruously antiquated Arts-and-Crafts-style woodcut portraits mini-biographies and selections of their work. It was conceived as a follow-up to the scandalous The Yellow Book aimed at a similar readership and took around five years for the editor to realize. See Parker Sarah "Framing the Woman Poet: William Archer’s Poets of the Younger Generation.". John Lane The Bodley Head unknown
1931059208Oxford: Oxford University Press 1931. Second Impression . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo. OXFORD : 1931. Hardback. Dark-blue cloth; gilt lettered spine. Gilt motif to cover. In original cream printed dust-jacket price-clipped. No owner name or internal markings. Bright tight and clean. Jacket has minor wear only. NEAR FINE; Jacket VERY GOOD INDEED; now in a clear protective sleeve. SCARCE. Glenn I-A-iv-3. viii 216 pages. C.W. covers; Tho. Hardy Rob. Bridges .A.E. Housman Rudyard Kipling W.B. Yeats W. De la Mare G.K. Chesterton Wilfrid Gibson T.S. Eliot Sitwell Abercrombie Blunden & Robert Graves. 8vo. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books CHS Cumberland Everyman GKC Inklings Keswick Literature MacDonald Rarities Theology and History. . Oxford University Press. <br/> <br/> Oxford University Press hardcover
1930059209Oxford: Oxford University Press 1930. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. OXFORD : 1930. Variant-style binding. Hardback. Grey cloth; green lettered spine and cover. No owner name or internal markings. Bright tight and clean. Minor wear only. Spine dulled; internally excellent. VERY GOOD. Glenn I-A-iv-3. viii 216 pages. C.W. covers; Tho. Hardy Rob. Bridges .A.E. Housman Rudyard Kipling W.B. Yeats W. De la Mare G.K. Chesterton Wilfrid Gibson T.S. Eliot Sitwell Abercrombie Blunden & Robert Graves. 8vo. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books CHS Cumberland Everyman GKC Inklings Keswick Literature MacDonald Rarities Theology and History. . SCARCE. <br/> <br/> Oxford University Press hardcover
1930061388Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Co. 1930. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. Signed limited edition #35/525. Very good clean tight set. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged. <br/> <br/> Doubleday, Doran & Co. hardcover
1940BL-002303Pettigrew AR: Burt Randle 1940. 34 pp. Approximately 1/2 x 3/8". LIMITED EDITION of unknown quantity usually done in 50 - 80 copies at most. Green leather cover which is rubbed and has a few spots on the rear cover paper label on front cover wire clasp. A very good copy scarce. Bradbury Burt Randle 5The miniature books published by Burt Randle were usually "photographic reproductions of his Randle's very small handwriting" according to Bradbury. This is a very tiny collection of some of Kipling's inspirational poetry. "Lest we forget" Burt Randle hardcover
1930200070New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1930. Limited to 537 copies 525 of which are numbered and for sale. Good See Comments. No covers 6 exposed cords. xviii 1-6 7-393 pp. with facsimile frontis of Kipling's manuscript for "The Thousandth Man" printed as frontispiece to vol. I with tissue guard. Title page printed in red and black. I have two of these copies of Volume 1 each numbered and signed 41 and 42. They were never bound and both retain their untrimmed cords and temporary endpapers beyond those intended to be bound. They have spent the last 90 years together in the stockroom of a venerable but now closed New York City bookstore. They both retain their limitation page signed by Kipling and numbered. Please be aware you are buying an bound book as delivered by the publisher to the binders. Several possible uses for these volumes are evident an explanation for why they were never bound and where the other two volumes for each of these is are more distant and hypothetical bordering on fantasy. Beyonbd being lovely Kipling items and complete in their own right these volumes sold by the piece are a scarce representation of how books leave the printer's for the binder's. "First edition."/ "This edition printed from type that has now been distributed is limited to five hundred and thirty-seven sets. Twelve of these are for presentation. The first volume of each of the remaining five hundred and twenty-five numbered sets is signed by the author"--Front fly-leaf. Pictures upon request. The London printing of this set was accomplished in 1929 and included a signed etching of Kipling as the frontis. Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc unknown
19306276<p>Doubleday Doran and Company Garden City. Very Good. 1930. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 3 volume set. Limited edition no. 104 of 525 sets 12 others were presentation copies signed by Rudyard Kipling; frontispiece of volume one is a facsimile page from a handwritten manuscript of "The Thousandth Man". . Light tan/cream colored-boards light brown title labels. Gold design of an elephant with a flower swastika near its head on front boards of all 3 volumes. A few light smudges/scuffs on boards especially on volume III but no damage. Bindings tight. ; Signed by Author .</p> Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City hardcover
1930mon0003790474Doubleday Doran & Company 1930-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. . Complete 3 Volume Set. Signed Limited Edition. Limited to 525 copies this being # 497. Signed by Rudyard Kipling on the Limitation Page of Volume 1. - Bound in cream paper vellum over boards with red corner tips and red vertical strip to front and rear. Gilt Titles with red paper labels on spine. Gilt elephant with swastika decoration on front boards. Top page edges are gilt rest are untrimmed. Vol.1 xviii 395; Vol.2 xxii 367; Vol.3 xxi 354pp. - only slight shelf wear; mild sun fading to spines; minor wear/bumping to lower cover corners of Vol. 3. Otherwise very clean tight square and unmarked. A very good to fine set. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover
1929011146London: Macmillan. Complete in 3 volumes. Full leather. First edition limited to 525 numbered copies signed by the author. Number 262 signed by Kipling. With dry-point frontis portrait of Kipling by Frank Dodd signed by the artist in pencil. Composed in the Baskerville Fount and printed on hand-made paper at the Chiswick Press London 1929. 4to. 8 1/4" x 10 3/4" bound in full dark red morocco raised bands marbled endpapers top edge gilting and gilt tooled edging to the boards. Front edge of pages uncut. Some chipping at the crown of volume 1 darkening/loss at the heel of volume 3 some rub/wear to the leather at extremities. Very good clean sturdy set. Internally fine pages bright white unopened. . Very Good. Full-Leather. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1929. Macmillan hardcover
1930149539New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1930. Signed limited edition of the definitive collection of Kipling's poetry. Quarto three volumes original japon-backed boards with red paper labels to spines lettered gilt gilt motifs to front covers top edges gilt tissue-guarded frontispiece to volume one of a "The Thousandth Man" in Kipling's hand specially reproduced for this edition in facsimile. One of 525 copies signed by Kipling on the limitation page this is number 96. In good condition. One of the finest editions of Kipling's verse. “As a virtuoso in verse Kipling had more than one style at his command†Baugh et al. 1505 from earnest cockney dialect to soaring prophetic proclamation. This handsome three-volume collection presents all of Kipling’s poetry—including such memorable works as “Mandalay†“Gunga Din†and “Ifâ€â€”set in Baskerville type and printed on handmade paper at the Chiswick Press. With frontispiece portrait of Kipling in Volume I signed in pencil by the artist Francis Dodd. Livingston 545. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover
1929249261929. KIPLING Rudyard. Poems 1886-1929. 4tos. Three vols. Orig. full crushed morocco printed paper dust jackets. Frontis. portrait. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1929. First edition. Limited to 525 copies signed by Kipling. Printed on hand-made paper at the Chiswick Press. A very good set. unknown
1929299029London.: Macmillan. 1929. Limited edition #255 of 525 copies. Full red leather raised bands gilt spine titles top edges gilt marbled endpapers.untrimmed foredges gilt decorated turn-ins. Very good spines moderately worn and darkened. 4to. 27x20 cm. Signed by Kipling on the limitation page of volume 1. Bookplate of Southern California philanthropists Frank and Blanche Seaver on the versos of the ffeps. Heavy set will require extra shipping. weight: 11.5 lb. Portrait frontis signed by Francis Dodd. Macmillan. hardcover
193036775Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1930. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. Limited Edition. 3 Volume Set 4to. "This edition printed from type that has now been distributed is limited to five hundred and thirty-seven sets. Twelve of these are for presentation. The first volume of each of the remaining five hundred and twenty-five numbered sets is signed by the author." This is set number 114. Signed by Rudyard Kipling in black ink. Volume One includes a facsimile page opposite the title page of Rudyard Kipling's handwriting within the manuscript of "The Thousandth Man" limited to the copies of this edition of poems. Separated by bounded tissue. Light tan cloth boards with light brown title boxes along spines. Gold-embossed design of an elephant holding a flower with a swastika near its head on all three volume front covers. Many page leafs remain uncut. Shelfwear: light scuffing along cover edges heavy spine tanning to all volumes heavy smudge and scuff marks to front and back covers light fading to covers. Light foxing to page edges inside front and back covers and front and back free endpapers. Volume One is missing a small piece from the top of the spine. All three volumes are tightly bound with very clean and crisp pages. No marks. Overall volumes are in Good condition. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Hardcover
1930882280NewYork: Doubleday Doran & Co. 1930. This in No. 264 of 537 copies. A beautiful set of Kipling's poems bound in the publishers full white vellum red paper labels and elephant and swastika seal on front boards fore-edge untrimmed t.e.g. SIGNED BY KIPLING on the limitation page. A few small spots to the boards otherwise an exceedingly clean bright and fresh set. By the Author. Signed Limited Edition. Publisher's Off-White Vellum. Near Fine. 4to. 3 Volumes. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Hardcover
194957771Paris: Robert Laffont 1949. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. #2663 of 3000cc. 473pp. Small tape ghosts on endpapers else very good in publisher's wraps and onionskin jacket. <br/><br/> Robert Laffont paperback
1949103am1667<p>Paperback. Good. The binding on this book is sound and the text is unmarked The cover is worn along the edges. French language.</p> Robert Laffont paperback
1914241112-MB10Doubleday Page & Company 1914. Very Good hardcover 1914 Seven Seas edition SIGNED BY KIPLING on half-title page Limited Edition #18 of 1050 Volume ONE of Seven Seas ediiton. We also have several other volumes of this set that are NOT signed but still the Seven Seas limited edition . Signed. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Doubleday, Page & Company Hardcover
1991Q-0140183124Penguin Classics 1991-12-30. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Classics paperback
1964mon0000140672Macmillan 1964-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. in x in x in. NOT ex-library. Clean copy in good condition. Macmillan paperback
1928004767London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1928. An early story collection first published in 1888. This is a Very Good Plus copy of a Later Printing part of Macmillan's Uniform Edition of Kipling's works. Red cloth binding with a gilt medallion on the front cover; gilt titling on the spine; top-edge is gilt. An attractive series not common today particularly in wrapper. Nice bright text; 336 pages with a four-page catalog of his works in the rear. Spine has faintly darkened and there are two corner bumps; the frontis portrait has faintly offset to the title page. The dustwrapper is complete with a slightly darkened spine. In an archival plastic protector. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Macmillan and Co., Limited Hardcover
1993N 207Hertordshire: White Lotus Press 1993. Paperback. Good/no dj. 0.17. Plain Tales from the Hills White Lotus Press paperback
1915187-8<p>Handsome leather-bound revised edition. Clean tight and unmarked. An excellent example for collectors seeking a well-preserved Kipling without later rebinding.</p><p>First published in 1888 <em>Plain Tales from the Hills</em> introduced the world to Rudyard Kipling's sharp unsentimental and often darkly humorous vision of British colonial life in India. These interconnected stories—drawn from Kipling's early journalistic work—capture the contradictions of empire with remarkable clarity: loneliness ambition moral compromise and the quiet absurdities of power.</p><p>This <strong>1915 Doubleday Page & Company revised edition</strong> is presented in an elegant <strong>full leather binding</strong> with gilt lettering to the spine. The revised text reflects Kipling's later refinements while preserving the immediacy and bite that made these stories his literary breakthrough.</p><p>A handsome and highly readable volume this copy balances <strong>literary significance</strong> with <strong>aesthetic presence</strong> making it equally appealing for collectors Kipling enthusiasts or those building a refined classic literature library.</p> Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
19832091202133206776Kenkyu-sha 1983. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Kenkyu-sha paperback
19202733London: Macmillan& Co c. 1920. First edition thus. hardcover. Fair. blue on blue cloth with gilt titles. No dustjacket. 336m pages. plus 1 page of other publications at rear . Cloth boards rubbed. No dustjacket. Missing title page with date and publisher name. <br/><br/> Macmillan& Co hardcover
