Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Unpaginated. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson with 30 tipped-in color plates and numerous text illustrations in black and white. Folio, publisher's crimson gilt-decorated cloth. The text block is over-opened and several spots; cloth damaged at corners and extremities of spine. The color plates and their captioned tissues are lovely.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. A Song of the English. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. Quarto. Green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration on front and spine. Cracking at spine. Contains 30 full-colour illustrated plates with intact annotated tissue guards as well as b/w woodcut in-text illustrations throughout. Some pages are detached.
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Rudyard Kipling // W. Heath Robinson (illustrator). Song of the English. Doubleday Page & Co, 1909.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Publishers green cloth, spine & cover decorations and titles in gilt. Illustrated by Robinson with 30 tipped in color plates with captioned tissue guard sheets, numerous black & white head and tail pieces. Backstrip little sunned, near fine.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. A Song of the English. Doubleday, Page and Co, 1909.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First illustrated edition by William Heath Robinson. Covers shelfworn.with some spotting on spine. Binding is a bit cracked, but still solid.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto, unpaginated; G+; bound in publisher's red cloth, gilt titling and decorations; some rubbing and shelfwear, chipping to tail of spine; gutter showing at multiple signature breaks; with 30 color plates by W. Heath Robinson; shelved case 14. 1342356. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. A Song of the English. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This FIRST AMERICAN EDITION by Doubleday is much scarcer than the First English by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1909, although they are very similar in character. Bright gilt work to the front board and spine. Gilt pictorial armorial device. Fine bookplate of William Maffett. 30 full-page plate illustrations in full colour, many textual vignettes, etc, by W. Heath Robinson. Thick tissue guards. Unpaginated but COMPLETE. Photographs sent upon request. Offered by Hirschfeld Galleries of Saint Louis--Rare Books--Since 1931.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HB NODustJacket, Stated 1st US Edition, November, 1909, NODJ, Decorative Oversized Red Cloth Gold Gilt Decorations & Titles Nice Bright, Light Stain & Rub to Bottom Front Cover, Tiny Tears Chips Extremities, Cover Spine slightly Darkened with Rip Tear Ends Spine, VG+/VG-, AS-IS, NOJACKET, Small piece missing across top Spine & Light Stains at Bottom but Titles Intact Spine Cvr, Interior nice tight Clean light FoX, Wear, Light stains Bottom Some pages, Couple Loose Pages, Unpaginated, Few pages light Chipping on Edge, Stains back Bottom Cover
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Mild cover wear, else a clean copy. 30 tipped in color plates by W. Heath Robinson.
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
(Robinson, W. Heath) Kipling, Rudyard. A Song of the English. Doubleday, Page & Co, New York, 1909.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Robinson, W. Heath. First American Edition. 30 color plates by W. Heath Robinson. 1 vols. 4to. Gilt green cloth. Spine a little faded, else very good 30 color plates by W. Heath Robinson. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson [ROBINSON, W. Heath, illustrator]. KIPLING, Rudyard. A Song of the English. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, [n.d., 1909]. First American trade edition. Large quarto (10 15/16 x 8 5/8 inches; 278 x 219 mm.). [64] leaves. Thirty color plates (including frontispiece), mounted on leaves with color border decorations. Descriptive tissue guards, each with a miniature line illustration. Pictorial title and fifty-nine black and white line illustrations in the text (half-page or smaller). Title printed in red and black. Original green cloth with front cover pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. A very fine copy. "The next important task I undertook, was the illustration of an edition of Rudyard Kipling's A Song of the English to be published by Hodder & Stoughton in the year 1908. It became necessary for me to meet the author and discuss the proposed book with him. For this purpose, I travelled down to Burwash where he lived at that time. This was an excursion I shall always remember. I was met at Heathfield and journeyed thence in a motor-car. There were few cars on the road in those days and this in itself was a joyful experience as we drove through the pleasant Sussex lanes. Bateman's, the house at Burwash, where Rudyard Kipling lived, was a fine old building with stone mullioned windows. It was in the midst of wind-blown Sussex country. There was a faint smell of the sea in the air wafted across the few miles of country from the shore where the Coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go. It was a fitting setting in which to find the author of A Song of the English. He met and entertained me with a quiet affability, which speedily removed the shyness I felt at first in his presence. Before long I was quite at home with him. His own knowledge of illustration gave him an appreciation of the artist's point of view. While making suggestions, he realized that the illustrator must have as free a hand as possible. His sympathetic understanding of my part in the undertaking made me feel that I was consulting with a brother artist. I spent a happy and for me a helpful day. It was a great inspiration for the work I had in hand to be in such close association with the author's interesting personality. I am always glad to remember that he was satisfied with my illustrations to his book." (W. Heath Robinson, My Line of Life. pp.126-127) "This poem originally appeared in The English Illustrated Magazine, May, 1893, prior to its inclusion in The Seven Seas, 1896" (Martindell). Beare 61b. Lewis, p. 215. Livingston 321. Martindell 133. Stewart 152*.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$935.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. As the English, but bound in olive green cloth rather than the dark blue of the English issue. Sheets and plates all most probably printed in England as this is essentially the same as the English issue but for the colour of the cloth. With 30 color plates tipped-in within ornamental borders, and with black and white drawings on almost every page, all by W. Heath Robinson. Descriptive tissue guards, each with a miniature line illustration. Pictorial title and fifty-nine black and white illustration sin the text. Title printed in red and black. Large 4to, original olive green cloth lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt with fine pictorial designs on the upper cover and spine. An unusally nice copy of this lovely book, the binding and text are both very fine and the plates all pristine and as mint, the cloth and gilt quite bright and very well preserved. FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WORK BY RUDYARD KIPLING. THE W. HEATH ROBINSON ILLUSTRATIONS ARE SUPERB BY ANY MEASURE. The trade edition of this volume was issued to benefit the "Daily Telegraph" National Bands Fund, and includes the text of a speech given by Kipling on the subject: "From the lowest point of view, a few drums and fifes in a battalion are worth five extra miles on a route march." Robinsons highly sensuous illustrations perfectly complement Kiplings poems of British seafaring around the world. The grand poem, SONG OF THE ENGLISH is followed by six subsidiary poems likely composed while the Kiplings were living in Vermont. The theme underlying much of this collection is that the English are the Chosen under the Lord. This is one of Kiplings earliest verses specifically setting out his vision of the British Empire, and the duties which it imposes on the English people. His definition of 'the English' is wide, certainly embracing the people of the overseas Empire, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, but arguably also the Americans among whom he lived in the years working on the collection. "The next important task I undertook, was the illustration of an edition of Rudyard Kipling's A SONG OF THE ENGLISH to be published.in the year 1908. It became necessary for me to meet the author and discuss the proposed book with him. For this purpose, I traveled down to Burwash where he lived at that time. This was an excursion I shall always remember. I was met a Heathfield and journeyed thence in a motor-car. There were few cars on the road in those days and this in itself was a joyful experience as we drove through the pleasant Sussex lanes. Bateman's, the house at Burwash, where Rudyard Kipling lived, was a fine old building with stone mullioned windows. It was in the midst of wind-blown Sussex country. Three was a faint smell of the sea in the air wafting across the few miles of country from the shore where the Coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go. It was a fitting setting in which to find the author of A SONG OF THE ENGLISH. He met and entertained me with a quiet affability, which speedily removed the shyness I felt at first in his presence. Before long I was quite at home with him. His own knowledge of illustration gave him an appreciation of the artist's point of view. While making suggestions, he realized that the illustrator must have a free a hand as possible. His sympathetic understanding of my part in the undertaking made me feel tha I was consulting with a brother artist. I spent a happy and for me a helpful day. It was a great inspiration for the work I had in hand to be in such close association with the author's interesting personalty, i am always glad to remember that he was satisfied with my illustrations to his book." (W. Heath Robinson, MY LINE OF LIFE. pp. 126-127)
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. A Patrol Song.. Doubleday, Page & Co, New York, 1909.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: Scarce separate edition of Kipling's song for the Boy Scouts. Octavo, original wrappers. One of only 20 copies printed by Doubleday for copyright purposes. In near fine condition. Bookplate. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. Scarce. 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.