Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Rudyard Kipling. The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney. F M Buckles & Company, New York, 1899.
Price: US$5.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small 8vo, 87 pages, very good condition in publisher's cloth binding, top edge gilt, corners of boards and top and bottom of spine bumped and slightly rubbed, from the library of John and Maggie Phillips with their book label and an earlier ink ownership inscription dated 1900.
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$9.33 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: first edition, [vi], [192] pp., original decorated cloth now worn, joints partly severed, working copy. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Recessional A Victorian Ode. M.F. Mansfield & A Wessels, 1899.
Price: US$17.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of five hundred copies printed on Windsor deckle edge paper with decorative embellishments by Blanche MaManus Tan, cloth covered boards with a lovely red and gilt illustration of five men in royal attire blowing gilt horns with flags of rampant lions hanging from their long horns. Text is heavy parchment pages with decorations in red. Light age toning to endpapers, bit of soil on ecru colored cloth boards, light rubbing to tips, one page age toned from a laid in paper, now gone. It is a series of progressive scenes in red line drawings on ecru paper followed by a page of about a paragraph of text. 28 pp.
Seller: HORSE BOOKS PLUS LLC, Boston, VA, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. A Kipling Note Book, Number 2. M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, New York, 1899.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Illustrations, Anecdotes, Bibliographical and Biographical Facts About This Foremost Writer of Fiction" Octavo, 32 pp. In wraps. Wraps are splitting along spine and show some edgewear.
Seller: Black Paw Books, Marshfield Hills, MA, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. Under the Deodars. R. F. Fenno & Company, New York, 1899.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: spine faded, corners bumped. Light green cloth gilt title and elephant decoration, top edge gilt. According to James McGregor Stewart, the bibliographer, an unauthorized edition. Kipling brought a complaint against R.F.Fenno in the U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York in 1900. Eight stories :The Education of Otis Yeere; At the Pit's Mouth; A Wayside Comedy; The Hill of Illusion; A Second Rate Woman; Only A Subaltern; In the Matter of A Private; The Enlightenments of Pagett M.P., first published in the Indian Railroad series. A bit uncommon in this edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hard Cover. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!
Seller: The Book Shed, Benson, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: Black covers, gilt and red decoration, top edge gilt, 188 pages plus index. Covers show light rubbing and wear around edges. name inked on title page and front pastedown, front endpages foxed.; 4 1/4 x 7 "
Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Danny Deever. F. M. Buckles & Company, New York, 1899.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Approx. 4 3/8" wide by 7 1/4". Original paper covers, four page poem, title page, and frontis. ; 6 + frontis pages
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Betrothed. M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, New York, 1899.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Covers are detached but present. Private owner's Kipling Collection label on front free endpaper.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Parker, W. B.. The Religion Of Mr. Kipling. M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, New York, 1899.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rear cover soiled, front cover less so.;
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 192 page hardcover with illustrations. Cloth exterior is lightly worn and the gold title on front and spine is minimally chipped. Gilt top edge. Prior owner name on front endpaper and the hinges are starting to loosen and crack. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean - good condition. A good reference, and quite useable, but not a collectors copy. A reading copy.
Seller: G.J. Askins Bookseller, New Lebanon, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: - Small 4to, pictorial buff boards (rubbed, bumped & darkened); titled & elaborately illustrated in gilt & orange on front cover; t.e.g. Pictorial cream wraps bound in as endpapers, as issued (remnants of removed gift label on front endpaper). 16 leaves, including endpapers. Text printed in orange & black. Illustrated with 5 full-page plates, printed in orange, by Blanche McManus. Good. Limited edition of 500 copies "printed on Windsor deckle edge paper in November of the year eighteen hundred ninety-nine". [Stewart p.620].The plates by Blanche McManus depict armored knights readying for battle.
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard.. Mine Own People.. F. M. Lupton Publishing Company,, NY:, 1899.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus. Duodecimo, bound in tan cloth with ornate yellow, green, and gilt design and lettering. Light shelf wear and aging, else very good. ; 255 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover has rubbing wear with farbic worn off in very small spots on corners and at the bottom and top of the spine; Spine is cracking; Pages are browned and have foxing inside the front and back covers
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.66 + shipping
Description: First edition hard back binding in publisher's original maroon elephant decorated orange cloth covers, faded title and author lettering to the spine, gilt title to the front cover, fore and lower page edges untrimmed. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 141 printed pages of text with tissue-guarded frontispiece and two further full-page monochrome illustrations. Includes Rudyard Kipling on interviewing Mark Twain for The Herald. Corners and spine ends turned over and in Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936)
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
KIPLING, Rudyard.. A Kipling Note Book, No. 2.. New York, M.F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, 1899., 1899.
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 17-32, with 7 'supplements' on green card loosely inserted; some spotting; disbound in blue printed wrappers; both wrappers detached and browned with tears and chips to edges.Contains notes on Kipling's early works, and suppressed editions, and extracts from prefaces to a number of his works. The supplements comprise copies of the cover illustrations for Kipling's earliest works, as published by the Indian Railway Library.
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardbound, no dust jacket. 1st US edition. Minor wear to board edges & spine, otherwise very good.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Recessional a Victorian Ode. M. F. Mansfeild & A. Wessels, New York, 1899.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: limited to 500 copies. illustrations by Blanche McManus. printed on Windsor deckle edgepaper. light spots to covers. text printed in black and red. ; 5 3/4 x 8 1/8 "
Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 63 p. Printed on one side only. Top edge gilt. Inked manuscript notations adding extra translations of Indian words found in DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES. 12mo. 195mm. Original full red cloth binding lettered in gold. Spine faded. First American Edition. Hardbound. Very good. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist who is now chiefly remembered for: his celebration of British imperialism; tales and poems of British soldiers in India; and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. KIP BX 1 0.0
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard.. Danny Deever.. New York: F.M. Buckles & Company, [n.d., 1899]., 1899.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: From Buckles's Kipling Booklets series. 8 pp. booklet printed in dark blue and red, with frontispiece of the author. Textured cream wrappers, also in dark blue and red, tied with bright yellow thread; lightly dusty overall, a trifle soiled. Fine.
Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada
Kipling, Rudyard.. Tommy.. New York: F.M. Buckles & Company, [n.d., 1899]., 1899.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: From Buckles's Kipling Booklets series. 8 pp. booklet printed in light blue and brown, with frontispiece of the author. Pale green wrappers, also in light blue and brown, tied with bright yellow thread; hint of dusting; shadow of crease to lower edge. Fine.
Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada
Kipling, Rudyard. TEN GEMS FROM KIPLING. F. M. Buckles and Company, New York, 1899.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York: F. M. Buckles & Company, 1899. 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches: pp. 72. Sage-green cloth-covered boards (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") with teal binding, spine-lettered in gilt. Woodcut image paste-on to front board with design (black and white with red border and black-and-red lettering) consisting of an Eagle, an Elephant and a Lion (images repeated at bottom of front and rear endpapers), with cone-laden Pine branches and bracken. Frontis photo of a bespectacled Kipling. Paper is a lovely laid bond, lettering is light green with red borders. Decorated drop-caps to each section. Binder's mark: "Powers & Stein, Designers & Printers" Moderate rubbing to extremities, light soiling, and a small (3/4") red stain to rear board, near spine, at center. Text is unmarked. Binding solid, sound. Poem selection includes "Recessional", "The Vampire", "Tommy", "Fuzzy Wuzzy", "Belts", "Danny Deever", "The Betrothed", "Mandalay", "Gunga Din", "The Undertaker's Horse"
Seller: Blackwood Bookhouse; Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Mandalay. M.F. mansfield & A. Wessels, New York, 1899.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With Drawings by Blanche McManus
Seller: Benjamin Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Kipling, Rudyard; Blanche McManus.. Mandalay.. New York: M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, 1899.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 16mo. 16 pp. Hard Cover. Very Good. Sticker pasted on front board. Beige cloth boards. Minor toning to pages. Color illustrations. Scarce.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition, no additional printings. Illustrated with facsimile covers, drawings by Kipling, and photos of paintings; 25 page bibliography; the biography takes up most of the rest of the book with discussion of Kipling's works; and an index. Good (soiled gold cloth covers with faded gilt letters on the spine; lightly cocked; shelfworn; spine ends bumped; cracked at reverse frontispiece and pp64-65, 80-81, 144-5, 160-1; faint stain to top edge of pp163 to rfep); 188pp + index.
Seller: Page 1 Books - Special Collection Room, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A complete run of 12 issues in two tan cloth volumes with red titles. Firm copies with light soiling to boards. Vol.1 issues 1-6 96pp Vol.2 issues 7-12 92pp. 16mo.s
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard).. Kiplingiana. US ed.. 1899,, 1899.
Price: US$94.24 + shipping
Description: (KIPLING, Rudyard). Kiplingiana : Biographical and Bibliographical Notes Anent Rudyard Kipling. With Illustrations. N.Y.: M.F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, (1899). Pp 188. Sm 8vo, black cloth, lettering in gilt on front cover and spine, red bordered map to front cover, t.e.g. Stewart 223. Lightly rubbed, split at front inner hinge, else vg. 125.00
Seller: John W. Doull, Bookseller, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Thin 8vo. Issue #2 only. Original stiff blue wrappers with red cord tie, designed by Blanche McManus. Fine, fresh condition. Includes an essay on Kipling by Andrew Lang.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Description: Illus., 6 x 4", cloth backed gilt-lettered boards, teg, 32pp, covers a bit rubbed and soiled, extremities a little bumped and worn, hinges loose, contents toned, with a dark spot in lower margin of pp11-12. LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. SCARCE.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Mansfield and Wessels, New York, 1899. Hard Cover. Various (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition, no additional printings. Illustrated with facsimile covers, drawings by Kipling, and photos of paintings; 25 page bibliography; the biography takes up most of the rest of the book with discussion of Kipling's works; and an index. near fine pink cloth covered boards with map showing British colonies in red and bright gilt titles on cover and spine, some pages uncut, very slight wear to head heel and edges of spine scarce
Seller: Suibhne's Rare and Collectible Books, Newbury, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$173.17 + shipping
Description: A smart copy of this collection of contributions to The School Budget written by Kipling and Beerbohm. Of this edition, five hundred copies were printed in Enfield Deckle-Edge paper. Scarce work.Illustrated with two double-page plates and one full-page illustration, with facsimile prints of the binding of The School Budget to the endpapers. Collated complete.A reprint of the contributions made by Kipling and Beerbohm to The School Budget issues of May 14th and May 28th, 1898, a small publication issued fortnightly for boys at the Horsmonden School in Kent. Containing a letter from Kipling with six "Hints on Schoolboy Etiquette" and a caricature of him by Beerbohm. Written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling, an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist, and Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm, an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist.From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son, literary agent of Rudyard Kipling. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, smart with light wear and small marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form of this small publication âpublished fortnightly by boys for boysâ at the Horsmonden School Kent containing a letter from Rudyard Kipling with six âHints on Schoolboy Etiquetteâ and a caricature of him by Max Beerbohm. 16mo, original half cloth. In near fine condition. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India, which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. 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.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. The Betrothed. M. F. Mansfield and A. Wessels, New York, 1899.
Price: US$230.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A smart copy of this tongue-in-cheek poem from Rudyard Kipling, illustrated throughout. Of this edition, five hundred copies were printed on Strathmore Deckle Edge Paper of which this is one. Illustrated throughout. A tongue-in-cheek poem in a breach of promise, or contract to marry case, in which the narrator is asked by his fiancé to choose between her and his cigars. Written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling, an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. Illustrated by Blanche McManus, an American writer and artist.From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son, literary agent of Rudyard Kipling. In the original quarter yellow cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, smart with light wear and marks to the boards. Front hinge failed. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Age toning to the endpapers. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition Thus. Original blue cloth, printed dustjackets, and lower portion of original carrying case. According to The Annual American Catalogue for 1900, the set sold for $1.50. A very scarce collection of 19th Century dustjackets, all the stories except for Morrowbie Jukes were published separately a year earlier by Brentano and by Doubleday and McClure [Flora Livingston 'Bibliography of the Works of Rudyard Kipling', 1927] A Very Good set, jackets modestly darkened, Morrowbie title with more darkening to jacket than other titles, Man Who Would Be King title with closed tear across front panel, half inch chip at top spine end.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.