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Rudyard Kipling. Soldier Tales. Macmillan and Co, 1896.
Price: US$12.54 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1896. Reprint. 172 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Illustrated by A. S. Hartrick. Gilt to all edges. B&W illustrations throughout. Plate at p77 detached but present. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Front hinge cracked. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Notable tanning to spine. Spine ends crushed.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. Soldier Tales. Macmillan, London,, 1896.
Price: US$16.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Covers and contents crisp and clean with small owner's name. Front free endpaper removed. 172 pages. Size: 5" x 7.5"
Seller: Bosco Books, Looe, CORNW, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. Soldier Tales. MacMillan & Co. Ltd, London, 1896.
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Reprint of the 1896 first edition. Some scuffing to the blue cloth.
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. Soldier Tales. Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1896.
Price: US$23.67 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1896. Hardcover. Good copy in good cloth covers. Title in gilt to spine. Rebound endpapers. Previous owners name to half title page. Light shelf wear, remains a good copy. . . . .
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Rudyard Kipling. SOLDIER TALES. Macmillan and Co., London, 1896.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 5 x 8 in. Cloth boards. Condition is GOOD+ ; corners and spine ends worn, spine slightly cocked and stained. Binding tight. Gift message on half title pg. Fic. Stax.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
rudyard kipling. soldier tales. macmillan, london, 1896.
Price: US$25.65 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: cr 8vo, illustd, orig blue cloth gilt, spine little darkened and small bit rubbed top and bottom, binding good clean and sound, owners bookplate to front pastedown, contents good clean and sound , a good plus plus copy , still good enough for a collection or a present
Seller: Peter Sexton, arlington, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. Soldier Tales. Macmillan, 1896.
Price: US$31.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Macmillan 1896 1st, very good for age - bright blue boards, gilt edges, gilt lettering to spine & gilt motif on decorated front board, previous owner's heraldic bookplate of front pastedown - a clean tight copy
Seller: ivanpavlovitch, East Hoathly, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. Soldier Tales. Macmillan, London, 1896.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. [viii], 172 pp. Frontispiece, tissue guard. Illustrations. Blue cloth binding, gilt lettering & cover design, a.e.g., very good condition. (42659). 21 plates, woodcuts at beginning and end of chapters, by A. S. Hartwick.
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Soldier Tales. Macmillan & Co, London, 1896.
Price: US$58.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 10 thousandth second impression contain 7 short stories. Includes "With the Main Guard", "Drums of the Fore and Aft", "The Man Who Was", "The Courting of Dinah Shadd", "The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney", "The Taking of Lungtungpen", "The Madness of Private Ortheris". CONDITION Blue cloth with drummer boy and flautist gilt engraved illus to front with drum and flag standard to spine, bright gilt to all edges, pp viii 172 with 21 illus plates and 14 engravings. Copy s bright and crisp with light edge, just starting to fray and spine ends, black ends pages have slight partial gutter split to paper at front, foxing to tissue guard at frotis illus, light foxing to edges of some plates due to differing paper type from text pages. Overall a very nice copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Ariel Books IOBA, Auckland, New Zealand
Kipling, Rudyard. Soldier Tales. Macmillan, London, 1896.
Price: US$64.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition/First printing Published by Macmillan, London 1896. Blue cloth covers with Gilt page edges, Gilt Text and Gilt illustrations. Clean pages. No marks or inscriptions. Mild fading to spine and minor wear to edges.
Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936). Soldier tales. London ; New York : Macmillan, 1896.
Price: US$71.43 + shipping
Description: Provenance: bookplate of Samuel Hindlip. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii, 172 pages, 21 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm. Subjects: Soldiers ; Fiction. Genre: Fiction. Language: English. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Kipling Rudyard. Soldier Tales. Macmillan & Co, London, 1896.
Price: US$87.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [First edition] Macmillan, 1896. Original blue cloth gilt, trifling wear to extremities. Pp. viii, 172, all edges gilt, complete with 21 illustrations. good condition
Seller: Antiquariaat Tanchelmus bv, Berchem, Belgium
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936). Soldier tales. London ; New York : Macmillan, 1896.
Price: US$88.00 + shipping
Description: Provenance: bookplate of Samuel Hindlip. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii, 172 pages, 21 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm. Subjects: Soldiers ; Fiction. Genre: Fiction. Language: English. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. Soldier Tales. Macmillan, 1896.
Price: US$89.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: *** BOOK in very good clean and tight condition. Publisher's original dark blue boards with gilt title and decoration on the spine. Gilt drummer and fife on the upper board. double wavy gilt rules on spine ends and upper board. Bookplate on front pastedown. All edges gilt. 172 pages, tissue guarded frontispiece and many more unattributed plates and illustrations. Size: 190x130mm
Seller: Salusbury Books, GLASGOW, United Kingdom
Rudyard, Kipling. Soldier Tales. Macmillan & Co, 1896.
Price: US$89.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VGC.Macmillan,1896.First edition-2nd reprint(November 1896).Blue hardback(gilt illustration on the front cover,gilt illustration and lettering to the spine,very small tear,some small nicks and dents on the edges of the cover and spine) in VGC, no Dj cover.Illustrated with b/w plates.Illustrations by A.S. Hartrick.Nice and clean pages with some creases and small foxing marks on the edges of the pages,previous owner's name and date(1900) written inside the half-title page.The book is in VGC for its age with light shelf wear.175pp including List of illustrations.A collectable book.
Seller: Alpha 2 Omega Books BA, Southampton, HANTS, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. Soldier Tales. Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London, 1896.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 12mo. Pp. viii, 72. Learoyd, Mulvaney, and Ortheris, later featured in Soldiers Three (1899) blunder through Afghanistan, speaking in impenetrable Cockney, Irish, and Yorkshire accents. Blue cloth, with illustrations in gilt to front and spine. A.e.g. 20 full-page illustrations. A beautiful copy. Opens automatically to p. 80, else fine.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. Soldier Tales. MacMillan, London, 1896.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edit, 1st imp, hbk, pub by Macmillan, vg book, no names or inscriptions, all edges gilt, gilt pictorial front board & spine, not foxed, tightly bound, v. V. Small bump to lower outside front board corner, the spine a bit mellowed with the gilt dulled a bit but with only very minor rubbing to the tips or corners, v. Slight cant, no DJ, a very nice collector's copy indeed; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 172 pages
Seller: Rare Collections, Brighton East, VIC, Australia
KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Soldier Tales. London: Macmillan and Company, 1896, 1896.
Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Description: [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 172. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles and illustration to spine, gilt motif to front board, all edges gilt, black endpapers. With twenty-one illustrated plates including frontispiece. Light spotting to preliminaries, more so frontispiece tissue guard, rubbing to board edges, minor sunning to spine. A near fine copy.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two smart early printings of the first editions of these works by the popular author Rudyard Kipling. The second printing (first reprint) of the first edition of Soldier Tales, published November 1896, a month after the first edition, and the third printing (second reprint) of the first edition of 'Captains Courageous', published January 1898, three months after the first edition. Both bound in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with pictorial gilt to the front boards. All edges gilt. Illustrated to Soldier Tales with a frontispiece and twenty further plates. Illustrated to 'Captains Courageous' with a frontispiece and twenty-one plates. Collated, complete. Two works from the popular author Rudyard Kipling, a prolific writer of poems, novels, and short stories, best known for his novel 'The Jungle Book'. Soldier Tales consists of seven short stories, including With the Main Guard, The Drums of the Fore and Aft, The Man Who Was, The Courting of Dinah Shadd, and The Madness of Private Ortheris. Illustrated throughout by the Scottish painter A. S. Hartrick (1864-1950). Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks is a novel which follows the adventures of Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. Illustrated throughout by I. W. Taber (1830-1912). This novel originally appeared as a serialisation in McClure's. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally fairly smart, with some fading to the spines, and light shelf wear to the extremities and head and tail of the spines. Spines are a little slanted. Front hinge to Soldier Tales is slightly strained but is held firmly. Internally, firmly bound. To Soldier Tales, pages are bright and clean, apart from the odd spot to the first and last few pages. To 'Captains Courageous', pages are bright but spotted throughout. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
KIPLING, RUDYARD. SOLDIER TALES. Macmillan and Co, London and New York, 1896.
Price: US$104.00 + shipping
Description: 190 x 122 mm. (7 1/2 x 4 3/4"). viii, 172 pp., with the half title. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt pictorial design on upper cover and on flat spine, all edges gilt. Vignette headpieces and tailpieces, frontispiece and 20 plates by A. S. Hartrick. Verso of front free endpaper with ink owner's inscription of Constance Reynolds dated 14 February 1898. Stewart 157. âSpine a bit cocked and faded, with a little fraying at tail edge, extremities lightly rubbed, a couple of small stains to upper cover, text slightly open at gutter at gathering D, occasional mild marginal foxing or faint fore-edge dampstain to plates (not affecting image), but a very good copy, clean and fresh with nothing approaching a fatal defect. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is most famous for his works portraying the lives of both natives and colonialists on the Indian subcontinent. An opponent of female suffrage and a staunch supporter of British imperialism, Kipling nonetheless had great sympathy for the traditions of India as well as the literary ability and desire to present it as a land of beauty and enchantment. He was born in Bombay, where his father ran a school of art, and he lived in India until the age of six. He was sent to school in England, but chose to return to the East at 18. His father had become director of the Lahore Museum in what is now Pakistan, and Rudyard became a journalist for the "Lahore Civil and Military Gazette." His first two collections of stories, "Plain Tales from the Hills" and "Soldiers Three," depict the lives of the British military in India; he proved to be a prolific author, writing novels, tales for children and adults, and many poems. Kipling's wife was American, and they lived for a time in Vermont, but from 1896 the couple settled in England. Among his many honors are a Nobel Prize (1907) and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature (1926), which had previously only been awarded to Scott, Meredith, and Hardy.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.
KIPLING Rudyard. Soldier Tales. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY. Macmillan,, 1896.
Price: US$143.66 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 20 plates and numerous wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces by A. S. Hartwick, preliminaries very lightly spotted, frontispiece guard moderately spotted and offset to title, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original pictorial blue cloth gilt, fife and drummer boys from plate facing p.58 elaborately blocked in gilt on upper board, pictorial back gilt, all edges gilt, a very bright, crisp, clean copy. Collects seven stories first published between 1888 and 1890. Livingston, 133; Martindale 67; Stewart 157.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrated with 21 full-page b/w captioned plates. Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown and ink name on half-title, else a fine copy.
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$153.92 + shipping
Description: 8vo., Second Impression thus, bookplate scar on front paste-down; original blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, uncut, black endpapers, backstrip very lightly sunned else a remarkably well-preserved bright, clean copy. With 6pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end, and a small printed portrait of the author mounted on front free endpaper verso. For the first Macmillan edition of the previous year the text was revised and two stories - 'Of Those Called' and 'The Wreck of the Visigoth' - added. To Soldiers Three. In this second impression these two tales were omitted and a new story - 'L'Envoi' - added to The Story of the Gadsbys. Scarce, especially in this condition. Livingston 119 (recording the first edition of the previous year).
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
KIPLING, Rudyard.. Soldier Tales.. Macmillan, London, 1896.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 172 pp. 12mo, publisher's blue gilt cloth. First edition. Livingston 133. Tiny bookseller's ticket at rear; slightly cocked; light foxing to frontispiece and tissue guard; otherwise a bright, unworn copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard.. Soldier Tales.. London: Macmillan and Co., 1896., 1896.
Price: US$261.76 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., orig. blue cloth with pictorial gilt dec. on upper cover and spine, 170pp. Inner fron hinge cracked, o/w a better than very good copy. Stewart 157.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, three volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in full navy leather armorial bindings with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spines. Mild shelf wear and soiling to all volumes. All corners bumped and rubbed, and mild wear to all joints. Some wear to crowns and tail of spines. Upper edges of text blocks gilt. Original owner Henry Arthur Johnstone's ex libris in blind tooled leather as front free endpaper for all volumes, and previous owner's bookplate at all front pastedowns. Some age-toning to textblocks. Pages clean. Shelved above Homer/Virgil. 1351210. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Soldier Tales.. Macmillan and Co., Ltd, London, 1896.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Kipling's collection of soldier tales. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and pictorial gilt tooling to the spine and front panel, gilt ruled, all edges gilt, frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated with engravings. In near fine condition with a touch of wear to the crown of the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. A bright example. Kipling was born in India, which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. He became 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. Kipling's Soldier Tales include With the Main Guard, The Drums of the Fore and Aft, The Man Who Was, The Courting of Dinah Shadd, and The Madness of Private Ortheris.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. SOLDIER TALES. Macmillan,, 1896.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION IN SCARCE DUST JACKET WITH CHIP AND WATERMARK ON SPINE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET in custom made slipcase with leather label on spine
Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Soldier Tales - 1st Edition. Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1896.
Price: US$5940.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, published on 30 October 1896, at 6s; 5,000 copies were printed. Deep blue cloth boards, lettered and illustrated on spine and illustrated on front board in gold, dark bluish green endpapers. All edges trimmed and gilt. Near Fine condition with lightly rubbed extremities. Richards E1-12, Martindell 67, Livingston 133, Stewart 157. In the rare dust-wrapper, only rather minor chipping to spine ends and corners, little tanned, soiled. Small label to paste-down. Second state wrapper with "The Works of Rudyard Kipling" on back panel rather than rectangular vignette of three Indian deities in temple arch, advertising second printing (tenth thousand) of Soldier Tales; Includes "With the Main Guard", "Drums of the Fore and Aft", "The Man Who Was", "The Courting of Dinah Shadd", "The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney", "The Taking of Lungtungpen", "The Madness of Private Ortheris". As noted in Kiplings contract with Macmillan, this is an "illustrated volume of stories (already published)" in prior English editions ; Crown 8vo; [viii], 172 pages
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.