Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$4.27 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Reprint Edition without Jacket on blue cloth has loose binding - collectable - will send out 1 st class post
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
KIPLING, Rudyard. Diversity of creatures. Macmillan, 1917.
Price: US$6.35 + shipping
Description: Sound copy in tight binding; red cloth with gilt elephant roundel on front board, and gilt titles on spine. cloth worn, with marks in places; spine softened at head & foot. Bookplate on front pastedown, name inked on front free end paper. gilt top-edge. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket)
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan and Co, London, 1917.
Price: US$6.42 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Copy in red cloth on boards with gilt decoration on cover and gilt title on spine. Spine rubbed at head/foot. Some white fleck marks on edges of boards and small damp stains on board edges which has carried over to front and rear paste downs. Corners lightlyn bumped. Previous owners inscription on FFE. Sporadic light foxing through text, otherwise clean and flat contents.
Seller: Balfour Books, Sidmouth, DEVON, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan and Co, London, 1917.
Price: US$6.42 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: red decorative cloth, with gilt emobussed elphant's head on the front board. Gilt titles on the spine. Foxed endpapers. Binding and pages cean and square. Good copy.
Seller: Krokodile Books, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
KIPLING, Rudyard. The Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan, London, 1917.
Price: US$6.42 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Maroon covers, gilt titles and roundel on cover.441pp with publishers list at rear.
Seller: valley books, Holton, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. A Diversity of Creatures. MacMillan and Co., Limited, London, 1917.
Price: US$7.06 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Pocket Edition. Blue/gilt cloth hardback - chipped/bumped. viii + 442pp. Gilt to top page edges. Occasional foxing/page blemishes. Mildl creasing to fep. Top corners very mildly thumbed. Strain on hinges, more prevalent at front. Inscription on fep dated "10th March 1918". Good content. Fair.
Seller: Makovski Books, Southampton, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard.. A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES.. Macmillan, 1917.
Price: US$7.06 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1917. Macmillan. Hard cover. Book- Good, rear hinge cracked, endpapers darkened, spine sunned, faded gilt titles on spine, gilt illus on front board. 8x5.5. 441pp + publishers adverts. Juxtaposing stories and poems, introducing futuristic sky-travellers, Sussex peasants and would-be-Bloomsbury poseurs, this volume displays Kipling as a connoisseur of variety of life and art.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, U.K., 1917.
Price: US$7.36 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: No dust jacket. Hardcover. Scuffed and edge-worn boards with small areas of colour loss on each. Boards have several surface scratches and abrasions. Small dark ink mark near middle of front board and two similar marks on spine. Small circular decoration embossed in gilt on front board. Spine is faded with much wear and tear on ends. Spine ends are also bumped. Spine edges are rather worn. Leading corners worn and bent. Page block head in gilt; face and foot slightly foxed and grubby. Previous owner's name in ink and small sticker on front pastedown. Endpapers a little yellowed. Book intermittently lightly foxed throughout. Binding rather loose for first half of book. Contents sound. AF
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan and Co., 1917.
Price: US$8.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: VG condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear, spine mildly sunned. Book has clean and bright contents, pen name front endpaper, 442pp.
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Price: US$9.61 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.
Seller: M Godding Books Ltd, Devizes, WILTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$10.27 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Macmillan first edition 1917 on red cloth
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. A diversity of creatures. MacMillan and Co., London, 1917.
Price: US$11.02 + shipping
Description: The dominions edition INGLESE Inglese, rilegatura editoriale rigida, parzialmente ingiallita, con alcune macchie, usura ai bordi, strappi alle punte ed ai lati del dorso, ex libris al risguardo anteriore, pagine leggermente ingiallite e con sporadica fioritura, numeri manoscritti con penna nera al margini sup.di pag.302-303 ed al retro della guardia posteriore. Numero pagine 441
Seller: Biblioteca di Babele, Tarquinia, VT, Italy
Rudyard Kipling. A Diversity Of Creatures. Macmillan and Co Ltd, 1917.
Price: US$11.23 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1917. Macmillan and Co Ltd . Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Gilt titles, blue boards. Library binding, rebound, ex library, usual stamps and labels. 8x5.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan And Co, London, 1917.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A Diversity of Creatures ~ pub by Macmillan And Co, London 1917, 1st Edition, maroon cloth and gilt lettering on spine; includes the famous Elephant & Swastika emblem on front cover. Octavo, 452pps, teg, inscription on inside front page. there is a piece of green paper stuck on inside front cover - maybe intended for some personal details but still blank; there are about 10 lines of hand written notes just below the Preface, some slight wear and tear to covers/spine, some foxing / browning on a few inside front and back end papers; a small library stamp on inside back cover, inside back hinge is a little weak; o/w a good reading copy in good condition
Seller: Vance Harvey, Leicester, LEICS, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard.. A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES.. 1917 Macmillan. First English edition., 1917.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Description: 442pp. In original red cloth. Top edge gilt with gilt elephant's head on front board. Very good. Spine faded and scuffed.
Seller: Verandah Books, Sherborne, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan, Lonodn, 1917.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st Edition Thus, Macmillan 1917. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind. Boun in bright gilt lettered and illustrated red limp leathers, featuring elaborate scrolled gilt flowers embossed to spine and elephant vignette to upper.
Seller: Richard Booth's Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. A Diversity of Creatures(Hardback,1917). Macmillan and Co, 1917.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling, 1917, Published by Macmillan and Co.,Limited, Printed by R and R Clark, Hardback,has some fading to covers and spine, All pages appear present, Pages are yellowing,
Seller: Codex Books, York, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. A diversity of creatures. Macmillan & Co, 1917.
Price: US$13.33 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1917. No Edition Remarks. 442 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan, 1917.
Price: US$14.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1917 Macmillan library edition hardback; Very Good clean copy; with Good price-clipped dj, age-darkened but intact, scarce with dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch
Seller: Simply Read Books, Boat Of Garten, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan & Co., 1917.
Price: US$15.40 + shipping
Description: Very good condition. Spine, binding and cover all absolutely fine and robust. Contents unmarked, very clean and no inscription. Dustcover fine, slightly faded on spine, with a tear a top, with slight wear on top edge.
Seller: Berkshire Rare Books, Maidenhead, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard.. A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES.. 1917 Macmillan. Library Edition., 1917.
Price: US$16.68 + shipping
Description: 442pp. In original red cloth. As the first edition without the elephant's head. Very good in very good dw.
Seller: Verandah Books, Sherborne, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard.. A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES.. 1917 Macmillan. First English edition., 1917.
Price: US$16.68 + shipping
Description: 442pp. In original red cloth. Top edge gilt with gilt elephant's head on front board. Very good. Binding a little slack.
Seller: Verandah Books, Sherborne, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard.. A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES.. MacMillan, 1917., 1917.
Price: US$16.94 + shipping
Description: 8vo. viii + [442pp.] + adverts. Minor ownership inscription and inkstamp to front f.e.p., bookplate to front pastedown, original red cloth with gilt device to upper board, t.e.g. US$16
Seller: Hay Cinema Bookshop Limited, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.25 + shipping
Description: 227 and 244pp. Very good. Spine cloth faded.
Seller: Verandah Books, Sherborne, United Kingdom
Price: US$21.18 + shipping
Description: Bombay edition, limited edition of 1050 copies. Royal 8vo. x + 357pp. E.ps. lightly foxed, with minor owners inscription to front f.e.p., original cloth backed boards with printed paper title label to spine, some slight soiling and rubbing, ede of upper board bumped, t.e.g. US$20
Seller: Hay Cinema Bookshop Limited, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan and Co., London, 1917.
Price: US$21.82 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 'Library edition'. 8vo. Near fine publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to spine, with a previous owners name to front paste down and a Nairobi bookseller's elegant stamp, otherwise a lovely clean copy, in a very good 'Library edition' dustwrapper, this a little chipped to head & tail. A smart copy. Printed in the same year as the first edition. viii, 441, [1]pp., plus catalogue.
Seller: B. B. Scott, Fine Books (PBFA), London, UK, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard:. A Diversity of Creatures.. Macmillan, London,, 1917.
Price: US$22.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 441 S., Kl.-8°, blauer Originalleinenband mit reicher Rückenvergold. und goldgepr. Deckelbild, Goldschnitt, Einband gering fleckig, Kanten etwas berieben, Kopfschnitt angestaubt, Seiten etwas gebräunt, sosnt gutes Exemplar 106216_Literatur Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 700
Seller: Antiquariat J. Hünteler, Hamburg, Germany
KIPLING, Rudyard. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1917.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. In Bleiler. Octavo. Original red cloth over boards with gilt lettering and decorations, gilt top edge. Very good, no dust jacket, spine darkened, wear to spine ends and corners, some rubbing to cloth, some foxing to fore-edge, end papers heavily foxed, previous owner's signature at front free end paper.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$34.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1917. x, 357pp. The Bombay edition of Kipling's works consists of 1050 copies, printed for R.&R. Clark from the Florence Press Type, designed by Herbert P. Horne. Quarter beige cloth over light blue paper covered boards. Paper title label to spine and an extra label tipped in to rear. Top edge gilt. Bottom and fore edges untrimmed. Original blue silk ribbon page marker. Moderate browning to boards. Attractive bookplate to front pastedown. No inscriptions. Excellent condition. PLEASE NOTE: Heavyish book so a little extra may be needed for shipping to non-UK customers.
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard.. A Diversity of Creatures.. London: Macmillan., 1917.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. 442, [4] pp. Good in maroon cloth, covers somewhat soiled, end papers darkened, top edge gilt, ex-libris John Ruyle label within.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan, london, 1917.
Price: US$35.93 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gift inscription dated 1923. Covers have light edge wear. The dustwrapper is heavily browned on the spine and has some chips, mainly on the rear cover. 441 pages + 4 pages publisher's catalogue (which indicates that this is not a first edition).
Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan, 1917.
Price: US$36.19 + shipping
Description: Marked copyright 1917 Very clean red cloth boards with fine gilt elephant to front slight tan to endpaper only internally vg & clean - text block top edge gilt but other 2 sides with shelflife - spine slightly lighter due to shelflife - no D/j please see our other 2 copies 1st edit. Kipling works. Guaranteed posting 24hrs from Cornwall St214
Seller: Collina Books, PENZANCE, CORNW, United Kingdom
Kipling Rudyard. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan, London, 1917.
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Leather-Bound Hardback: half red polished calf decorated in gilt on red patterned cloth boards, spine panelled with raised bands, black leather lettering-piece, top edge gilt, grey end-papers, title-page printed in red and black, signed binding (W.H. Smith and Son); Cloth a little marked, previous owner's name, near fine.
Seller: Bookfare, Ambleside, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan & Co., Limited, London, 1917.
Price: US$41.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Bombay Edition consisting of 1050 copies printed by R & R Clarke from The Florence Press Type designed by Herbert P Horne. Hard cover with titles within brown frame on light grey/brown cloth spine, and pale blue boards showing only some mild discolouration. Clean interior with x, 357 untrimmed pages. Published in 1917 this volume is in very good condition.
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
KIPLING RUDYARD. A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES. Macmillan, 1917.
Price: US$50.47 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RO60079331: 1917. In-8. Relié. Etat passable, Tâchée, Dos abîmé, Quelques rousseurs. 441 pages. Couverture très abîmée (cover in poor condition). Dos détaché. Plats fortement défraîchis et tachés. Annotation en page de garde. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
Kipling, Rudyard. A Diversity of Creatures. MacMillan London 1917, 1917.
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition hardback in decorated cloth Nice copy octavo viii + 442pp., Dominions edition intended for circulation only in India and the British Dominions over the Seas. Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy in pale blue cloth with elephant decoration & minimal wear at peripheries. Scarce
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Rudyard Kipling. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan & Co, london, 1917.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pages are clean "& clear with no markings; red soft leather cover with gilt lettering and decoration to spine: circular gilt elephant and swastika emblem to front: slight spotting to last 8 pages and inner board .
Seller: B and A books, Banff, United Kingdom
KIPLING,RUDYARD. A Diversity of Creatures. macmillan london 1917, 1917.
Price: US$70.09 + shipping
Description: first edition 442pp VG+ (red cloth,sl.soiled w.spine sl.sunned,owner's bookplate to front pastedown - from the library of nz author and book collector,pat lawlor - minor marks to ffep,edges sl.foxed,teg) in VG- d/w (sl.soiled w.spine browned,chipping to extrems.w.sl.loss to head of spine,minor closed tears,closed tear to lower hinge repaired internally w.tape)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
KIPLING, Rudyard.. A Diversity of Creatures.. Macmillan, London., 1917.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. pp viii, 442. Four pages of adverts at rear. Top edge gilt. Fourteen stories interspersed with poems. Red buckram covers with gilt device on front.Free endpapers partially tanned. Very good indeed. No dustwrapper.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES. Macmillan and Co., London, 1917.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Red cloth with elephant gilt stamp on front cover and top edge gilt. Spine just a bit faded and foxing to front and back endpapers otherwise very good to fine, lacking dust jacket.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan, London, 1917.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Very good, bound in red cloth with gilt medallion on front and gilt title on spine, gilt page tops. Very good, light brown dust jacket with blue printing is chipped at spine ends.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES .. Macmillan and Co., London, 1917.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii-viii 1-441 [442] [443-444: blank] [445-448: ads], title page printed in red and black, original red cloth, Ganesha device stamped in gold on front panel, spine panel lettered in gold, t.e.g. First edition. A mixed collection of fourteen stories and fourteen poems. Includes the first book appearance of the long tale of the future, "As Easy as A.B.C." (the sequel to "With the Night Mail") first published in FAMILY MAGAZINE in 1912. "The future world is dominated by the Ariel Board of Control, which regulates the movements of massive dirigible airships . [This story] set in 2065, offers a more elaborate account of a society anxiously preoccupied with Malthusian problems and Marxian class conflict . [In this] story the dictatorial A.B.C. sends a new aircraft to sort out a rebellion in Illinois" (Anatomy of Wonder [2004] II-603). Also collects "In the Same Boat" (1911), a tale "of psychic horrors which becomes rationalized fantasy," and "Swept and Garnished" (1915), "Kipling's grimmest supernatural fiction" (Clute and Grant). Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 1-110; (1987) 1-55; (1995) 1-55 and(2004) II-603. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1235. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 46. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 541. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 670. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 146. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 641. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 152. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2053-54. Bleiler (1978), p. 115. Stewart 408. Hairline crack along inner front hinge repaired, else a fine, bright copy. Bookplate of Indiana novelist George Barr McCutcheon (1866-1928) affixed to front paste-down. (#75586)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan and Co., London, 1917.
Price: US$100.09 + shipping
Description: A bright first impression of this collection of tales by celebrated author Rudyard Kipling. The first edition, first impression of this work, with the publisher's name to back strip measuring over 28mm in length (shorter in later impressions). Collection of Rudyard Kipling's stories accompanied by verses, as often seen in Kipling's anthologies.With four leaves of publisher's advertisements to rear. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean but for the odd light minor spotting to the very occasional leaf. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan, London, 1917.
Price: US$114.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A fine copy of this scarce first edition with its original dj just a little edge worn. 442 pp. t.e.g.
Seller: VANESSA PARKER RARE BOOKS, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
Kipling, Rudyard. A Diversity of Creatures. London MacMillan and Co., Limited 1917, 1917.
Price: US$131.52 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition. viii,441,[1]pp. + 4pp. (ads)pp. Small Octavo in original red cloth with gilt device on front. Free endpapers browned else an solid clean copy. very good
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
KIPLING, Rudyard. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan, London, 1917.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Description: First printing. Octavo (20.5cm). In red publisher's cloth, with elephant badge on front in gilt, titled in gilt on spine, top edge gilt; plain endpaper; viii, 441, [3]pp; with 4pp of publisher's ads at rear. A bright, square copy, gently rubbed at head and tail, with a contemporary pencil annotatation to the table of contents: Very Good. LIVINGSTON 411.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES.. Macmillan and Co: London, 1917.
Price: US$143.75 + shipping
Description: 7.5 x 5", 3/4 red leather; cloth, teg, SIGNED BINDING BY RIVIERE & SON, 442pp, covers a little worn, extremities rubbed, spine with a couple of abrasions, contents used, but still a decent, decorative binding. FIRST EDITION (but with no ads)
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$148.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FIRST Edition. Rebound in beautiful three-quarter dark red leather. Gilt titles on banded spine; TEG/top edge gilt. Marbled end-papers. Corners are gently worn. Front marbled end-paper has a printed Latin gift bookplate, dated 1928. A clean tight volume, no markings at all. Fourteen short stories and a poem. 442 pages. A beautiful volume. Protected in stiff mylar.
Seller: Margins13 Books, Redmond, WA, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard.. A Diversity of Creatures.. Macmillan and Co., London, 1917.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: viii, 441 [1] pp. + 4 pp. ads. 8vo, publisher's red gilt cloth, t.e.g., in dust jacket. First edition. A near fine copy in a jacket with shallow chipping at the top of the spine (not affecting lettering) and some very light use.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan and Co., London, 1917.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Red cloth with gilt stamp of elephant head on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Lacking the dust jacket. Copy in near fine condition with light wear to top and bottom of spine. Ex-libris of henry D. Moore Sherrerd on front endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Top Edge Gilt, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan, London, 1917.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. viii, [442] (+ 4 ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stories and poems by the master. This original cover device contains, along with an elephant head, Kipling's tribal good-luck device of the swastika. Stewart 408 Red cloth. Some faint spotting, else Fine viii, [442] (+ 4 ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard.. A Diversity of Creatures.. London: Macmillan, 1917., 1917.
Price: US$187.89 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., orig. red cloth, viii, (442), 4pp.ads. Fine in the scarce d/w which has internal tape repairs, an external tape repair at the top of the spine, some wear but is still good. Stewart 408.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Rudyard Kipling. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan, UK, 1917.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition 1917. First edition, first impression, first issue, with the publisher's name to foot of spine measuring 28 mm in length. A nice example of this classic work. Fourteen stories and 14 poems. First appearances for two of the stories and most of the poems. Book is very good++ with bright clean boards. Contents good. The rare wrapper is good++ and quite bright. Light loss to spine tips. Spine quite age toned. Light marking. Edges rubbed and nicked. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18469
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES. Macmillan and Co., London, 1917.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. First issue binding with publisher's name at foot of spine measuring over one inch; in second issue dust jacket. Fourteen stories and 14 poems. First appearances for two of the stories and most of the poems. Page fore edges lightly foxed otherwise near fine in near fine dust jacket a little tanned at spine but with otherwise only minor wear.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan, London, 1917.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. viii, [442] (+ 4 ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stewart 408 Publisher's cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket, in red cloth slipcase and chemise viii, [442] (+ 4 ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan, London, 1917.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo, full brown leather, gilt; g.t. London: Macmillan, 1917. First Edition. Fine.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard.. A Diversity of Creatures.. London:Macmillan. 1917. Hardcover., 1917.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Description: 1st. ed. Fine binding partly red leather with gold leaf design on the spine. fine-new. Rebound. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.
Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard.. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan & CO., Limited, London, 1917.
Price: US$430.85 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo. 20th-century burgundy calf by Bayntun, Bath, five raised bands to spine, titles to blue and green spine labels, gilt tooling in compartments, covers bordered with a double gilt fillet, gilt elephant motif to front cover, elaborate decoration to board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Small sticker to front endpaper. Cover minor rubbed, spine labels slightly faded. A fine copy.
Seller: Michal Sawka Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
KIPLING, Rudyard.. A Diversity of Creatures.. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1917, 1917.
Price: US$513.31 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, first issue, with the publisher's name to foot of spine measuring 28 mm in length (shorter on later issues), of this collection of 14 poems and 14 stories by Kipling, some of which had already been published in periodicals. A Diversity of Creatures "was scheduled for publication in October 1914, but this was put off because of the commencement of World War I" (Richards). Richards A295. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles in gilt to spine, elephant roundel in gilt to front board, top edge gilt. With dust jacket. Title printed in red and black. Spine ends a little bumped, the binding otherwise sharp and vibrant, internally crisp. A fine copy in the slightly sunned but very good jacket, lightly toned, very slight creasing and edge-splitting to spine ends.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom