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SOUVENIRS OF FRANCE [In Two Volumes, I & II]
by Kipling, Rudyard
1933. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933. Original light yellow wrappers lettered in green. First Editions, being the American copyright issues -- 75 copies each, issued two weeks apart in March 1933 (to coincide with their periodical appearances in French and in English). This is a series of sketches that together form a personal memoir documenting Kipling's lifelong affection for France, from a childhood trip with his father to the Paris Exhibition of 1878, to beyond... Read More
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THE JUNGLE BOOK
by Kipling, Rudyard
1894. Decorated by J. Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E. New York: The Century Co., 1894. Original olive-green cloth decorated in gilt. First American Edition, published on the same day (May 22nd) as the English edition. Many of the illustrations are by John Lockwood Kipling, Rudyard's father. This book and THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK, along with KIM and JUST SO STORIES, constitute Kipling's best-loved work: For there is a unique magic in the JUNGLE BOOKs from the moment the infant Mowgli... Read More
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DESTROYERS AT JUTLAND [complete in four volumes]
by Kipling, Rudyard
1916. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. [Together, four volumes.] Original light yellow wrappers lettered in green. First Editions, being the American copyright issues -- consisting of only 70 copies each, published separately between October 18th and 30th, 1916. Each volume consists of Kipling's account of specific sea warfare, preceded by an original poem written for the occasion (including Vol I's "Have you news of my boy Jack?"). As with THE FRINGES OF THE FLEET, Kipling... Read More
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THE SIN OF WITCHCRAFT
by Kipling, Rudyard
1901. From The Times, March 15, 1900. Published by the Imperial South African Association. London: Printed by George Edward Wright, The Times Office, 1901. First Edition, following its appearance in March 1900 both in The Times of London and in The Mail of Cape Town. The Imperial South African Association was founded "to uphold British supremacy and to promote the interests of British subjects in South Africa..."; specifically, this piece "inveighs against the supposedly friendly or neutral Boers... Read More
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THE KIPLING CALENDAR [three] | 1914 | 1915 | 1916
by (Kipling, Rudyard)
1914. New York: Sully & Kleinteich, n.d. Three consecutive annual calendars, each consisting of 52-53 weekly leaves (each page with an aphorism from a Kipling work), within a heavy paper wrapper bound at the top with rawhide. Leaves and wrappers printed in orange and green (1914 & 1915) or orange and black (1916). These undoubtedly-unauthorized American calendars came out during the first three years of The Great War across the Atlantic (ironically, they bear Kipling's favorite Indian symbol... Read More
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WITH NUMBER THREE, Surgical & Medical, and New Poems
by Kipling, Rudyard
1900. Also Letters from Julian Ralph, Charles E. Hands and Douglas Story. Santiago de Chile: Hume & Co., 1900. Original printed fawn wrappers. First Edition (unauthorized), issued as a volume in the publisher's "Libreria Inglesa." This volume published in Chile includes three poems and two stories that Kipling wrote during the Boer War, plus four poems written earlier; it is the first edition in book form, anywhere, of the poems "Pharaoh and the Sergeant" and "Kitchener's School," and... Read More
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THE NAULAHKA: A Story of West and East
by Kipling, Rudyard & Balestier, Wolcott
1892. London: William Heinemann, 1892. 8 pp undated ads. Original salmon cloth decorated in brown. First Edition of Kipling's only serious attempt at literary collaboration. A Vermonter, Wolcott Balestier was an American author and publisher's agent in London; in fact in 1890 he and Heinemann had founded the Heinemann & Balestier publishing house in Leipzig (books in English for the Continental market). He had written about the American "Wild West," and Kipling of course had written about India.... Read More
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BEAST AND MAN IN INDIA
by (Kipling, Rudyard) Kipling, John Lockwood
1891. Kipling, John Lockwood. A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in their Relations with the People. With Illustrations. London: Macmillan and Co., 1891. 2 pp undated ads plus 55 pp ads dated May 1891. Original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First Edition of this volume written and illustrated by Rudyard Kipling's father -- the genesis of his son's two JUNGLE BOOKs, similarly illustrated by his father, and of JUST SO STORIES, illustrated by Rudyard. Each... Read More
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THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT and Other Places
by Kipling, Rudyard
1891. [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 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... Read More
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KIM
by Kipling, Rudyard
1901. London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with Ganesha device in gilt. First English Edition of the book that "is acknowledged as Kipling's masterpiece in fiction... The novel is the finest written about the India of the British Empire" [CGEL]. It follows the adventures of an orphan son of a British soldier who is raised by an Indian woman, becomes a disciple to a Lama, and ultimately becomes an undercover agent as... Read More
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THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS and UNDER THE DEODARS
by Kipling, Rudyard
1891. Authorized Edition. New York: Lovell, Coryell & Company, n.d. [1892]. Original maroon cloth, beveled. First Combined Edition, later issue (with Lovell Coryell, rather than United States Book Co., as the publisher). These two pieces first appeared in 1888 as the second and fourth numbers in the Indian Railway Series, Allahabad; John Lovell issued each in wrappers in 1890 in his "Westminster Series," before combining the two in the present volume (U.S. Book Co. in 1891, Lovell Coryell... Read More
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THE MANNER OF MEN
by Kipling, Rudyard
1930. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. Original light yellow wrappers lettered in green. First Edition of this short story, being the American copyright issue -- 75 copies printed and privately distributed in August 1930 in order to secure copyright protection in America. The main story is the voyage, generally reckoned to have taken place in or shortly after 60 AD, during which St. Paul was shipwrecked on the island of Malta, then called Melita --... Read More
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CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS. A Story of the Grand Banks
by Kipling, Rudyard
1897. With Illustrations by I.W. Taber. London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First English Edition, published about a month after the American. This is Kipling's great novel about the cod fishing fleet of Gloucester Massachusetts, written while the newlywed Kiplings lived in Vermont. Kipling freely acknowledged that the book owed much to Dr. James Conland of Brattleboro, who brought the Kiplings' elder daughter into... Read More
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Typed Letter Signed, to "Mr. John M. Proctor
by Kipling, Rudyard
1909. One page, on Kipling's "Bateman's | Burwash | Sussex" stationery. 14th Aug. 1909. This letter, addressed to "Dear Sir" but with the recipient's name and address ("9, King's Cross Road, W.C.") typed below, reads: I have received your letter of the 12th, together with the file of correspondence, which I return herewith. | I am only sorry that as I know nothing about the business side of inventions it is out of my power to assist you.... Read More
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CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS. A Story of the Grand Banks
by Kipling, Rudyard
1897. With Illustrations by I.W. Taber. London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First English Edition, published about a month after the American. This is Kipling's great novel about the cod fishing fleet of Gloucester Massachusetts, written while the newlywed Kiplings lived in Vermont. Kipling freely acknowledged that the book owed much to Dr. James Conland of Brattleboro, who brought the Kiplings' elder daughter into... Read More
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THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK
by Kipling, Rudyard
1895. Kipling, J. Lockwood. With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First English Edition (published three days after the American) of the sequel to THE JUNGLE BOOK, which had been published the year before. It continues with more tales of Mowgli that exemplify "The Laws of the Jungle" -- with illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling, Rudyard's father. This... Read More
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THE FRINGES OF THE FLEET [complete in six volumes]
by Kipling, Rudyard
1915. I & II. The Auxiliary Fleet. / III & IV. Submarines. / V & VI. Patrols. [Together, six volumes.] Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. Original light yellow wrappers lettered in green. First Editions, being the American copyright issues, limited (according to DP&Co's annotated copy) to 75 copies each. These six articles, written at the instance of the Ministry of Information, were issued separately from November 19th through December 1st, 1915. The English and American... Read More
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THE MARK OF CAIN
by Lang, Andrew
1886. [tattoos and flying machines!] Authorized Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. 2 pp undated ads. Original yellow wrappers printed in black. First American Edition of this mystery by the noted Scottish novelist, poet and literary critic -- perhaps now best known for the twelve "Fairy Books" for children (1889-1910) that he adapted and edited. Lang's THE MARK OF CAIN is one of the earliest novels to feature, in a big way, tattoos -- a man has... Read More
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THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK
by Lang, Andrew ("edited by")
1889. Ford, H. J.. [the first Fairy Book] With Numerous Illustrations by H.J. Ford and G.P. Jacomb Hood. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. 16 pp ads dated August 1889. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the first of the twelve "fairy books" put together by Andrew Lang (and in no small part by his wife Leonora). After BLUE came RED, GREEN, YELLOW, PINK, GREY, VIOLET, CRIMSON, BROWN, ORANGE, OLIVE... Read More
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THE BROWN FAIRY BOOK
by Lang, Andrew ("edited by")
1904. With Eight Coloured Plates and Numerous Illustrations by H.J. Ford. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904. Original brown cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the ninth "Fairy Book," organized and edited by Andrew Lang. There were twelve "Fairy Books" in all, each a different color, published from 1889 (BLUE) through 1910 (LILAC). In these books Lang retold many well-known fairy tales, not only for juveniles but also for adults. In their... Read More
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KANGAROO
by Lawrence, D.H.
1923. New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923. Original blue-grey cloth lettered in gilt, with pictorial dust jacket. First (American) Edition, published in the same month as Secker's UK edition, with priority uncertain. KANGAROO is Lawrence's Australian novel; at one time he expressed the desire to write a novel for each of the world's continents, and he might have accomplished this ambition had he been permitted a few more years of work...[Roberts] But he and Frieda moved on to Taos... Read More
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ST. MAWR. Together with The Princess
by Lawrence, D.H.
1925. London: Martin Secker, (1925). Original brown cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition, in the usual primary state (chocolate-brown cloth, with the error on the Contents page); Knopf's American edition, published two weeks later, did not include "The Princess." The heroine of ST. MAWR abandons her husband and post-war England and moves to a ranch near Taos, New Mexico -- exactly as D.H. and Frieda Lawrence had done the year before. This volume is in fine condition except... Read More
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THE VIRGIN AND THE GIPSY
by Lawrence, D.H.
1930. Florence: G. Orioli, 1930. Original cream paper boards decorated in orange-red, with printed spine label, with dust jacket. First Edition (issued as No. 4 in the publisher's "Lungarno Series"), consisting of 810 numbered copies -- of which this is No. 743. Lawrence had actually written this back in late 1925, after he and Frieda had returned from Taos to Europe for the last time. This Florence edition came out in May 1930, two months after D.H. Lawrence... Read More
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THE LADYBIRD | The Fox : The Captain's Doll
by Lawrence, D.H.
1923. London: Martin Secker, (1923). Original brown cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of this collection of three novellas, published eight months before Seltzer's American edition that was titled THE CAPTAIN'S DOLL: Three Novelettes. All three involve relationships during (and affected by) the waning months of the Great War, then just five years earlier... "The years 1916 and 1917 were the years when the old spirit died for ever in England. But Lady Beveridge struggled... Read More
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