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Rudyard Kipling. Songs From Books. DOUBLEDAY PAGE & CO, 1912.
Price: US$9.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good HARDCOVER. No DJ. ORIGINAL 1912 EDITION. Re-bound by library with newer covers. Ex-Library with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Slightly tanned, Some pages corner bump. Covers show minor shelf wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Songs From Books. Doubleday, Page, 1912, 1912.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st U.S. edition thus VG-/no dj (gilt on spine is faded; gilt on front still bright; both hinges are loose, although the book itself is still fairly tight; small bookstore stick on front free endpaper)
Seller: Reed's Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Just So Song Book. Doubleday, Page & Co, New York, 1912.
Price: US$15.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Being the songs from Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories set to music by Edward German. Words and score. Green cloth cover depicting an Elephant trumpeting musical notes. Binding a little slack otherwise very good throughout.
Seller: Wadard Books PBFA, Farningham, KENT, United Kingdom
KIPLING, Rudyard. Songs From Books. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, 1912.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Front hinge cracked, gutter cracked, loss to spine head, lettering on spine faded, thus good only, lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. SONGS FROM BOOKS. Doubleday, Page and Co., Garden City, 1912.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6 x 8 in. Dark green pictoral cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and spine ends worn, some loss to spine head, covers very clean. Binding tight and text unmarked. Inner stitching starting to pull apart at pg. 11. Fiction. Stax.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. Songs From Books. Doubleday, Page, & Company, Garden City, 1912.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Octavo. Olive green, fabric binding. Embossed band to front cover. Embossed, gilt lettering and black, ship design to front cover and spine. Very Good. Hinges cracked. Slight soiling to back cover.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. Songs From Books. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1912.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Octavo. Original green blindstamped decorated cloth over boards, gilt lettering at front cover and spine. Very good, spine lettering faded, spine ends and corners bumped, bookstore stamp at front free end paper, pages slightly agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Songs From Books. Doubleday, Page & co., New York, 1912.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Description: VG+, color loss on rear board, else a nice clean copy
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. SONGS FROM BOOKS. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1912.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st American edition. 8vo., 249pp. Bound in black cloth, with title on spine and front board in gilt. With printed dust jacket. The dj has been repaired with tape, at the crown and foot of the spine, and all four tips. Dj is priced at $2.00. Internally clean and bright. A Near Fine copy in good, tape-repaired dj.
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard.. Songs From Books.. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912., 1912.
Price: US$93.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, variant binding. 8vo., full publishers wine flexible leather, gilt decoration on the spine, gilt medallion decoration on upper cover, 249pp. Some minor rubbing to the spine ends o/w near fine. Stewart 367 different binding.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In white jacket with orange and black titling, over green cloth with gilt titling and pictorial upper cover in blind and black, 8vo, 249pp. jacket with Kipling blurb to cover, rear cover with advertisement for Kipling Pocket Editions. (light darkening and wear to jacket, upper jacket tip chipped with 3/4 in loss at top; spine lightly leaning) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard.. Songs From Books.. Doubleday, Page and Company Inc, Garden City, 1912.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in vertically striated very dark green cloth stamped in gilt and spine and on front cover, with boat motif on front cover. No jacket. Spine gilt slightly dulled, else Fine. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Boards clean and unworn. 249pp. with Index. Q06640
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Songs From Books.. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, 1912.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this selection of songs from Kipling's children's stories. Octavo, original illustrated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard 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. Songs From Books contains songs The Recall, Cuckoo Song, The New Knighthood, Puck, Rewards and Fairies, Kim, Actions and Reactions, and The Truthful Song among dozens of others.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Songs from books. Doubleday, Page, Garden City, New York, 1912.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. 249 p. 21 cm. Jacket with shallow chipping to spine head, more significant chipping to spine foot, taking out most of the letters in publisher's name. Price clipped. Set in is a publishers pamphlet advertising the new release of this book, plus special edition of other books by Kipling.
Seller: Graver & Pen Rare Books, Midland, MI, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Songs From Books. Garden City New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Date on title page. Fine hardback in near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket has a 1.25 inch closed tear and two associated 1.25 inch hairline creases to top edge of front panel at spine; a 2.5 inch closed tear to bottom edge of front panel at fore-edge fold; 1/4 inch chips to head and heel of spine; and minor, if not trivial additional wear to front and rear panel, spine, corners, edges and extremities. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket. Includes contemporaneous brochure promoting Kipling books with order blank (6.5 inch by 6 inch).
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Songs From Books. Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, 1912.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Fine copy of the book that has been exquisitely preserved in its original dust jacket. Dust jacket is Very Good +, with a large chip at the base of the spine and price-clipped, but otherwise in excellent condition. A rare survivor. Kipling's compilation of songs from his various children's books. This is the authoritative guide to Kipling's charming poetic works; and it provides an opportunity for readers to indulge in nursery rhymes and songs outside of their narrative contexts. Songs from Books has become a perennial family bedtime favorite. Fine in Very Good + dust jacket.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard.. SONGS FROM BOOKS.. Doubleday, Page, New York., 1912.
Price: US$614.81 + shipping
Description: Signed on the title page by the author. Green cloth boards, bumped and rubbed at head and tail of spine. Spine a little faded and concave. Tips of corners a little turned. Rear hinge cracking a little, but still an attractive sound copy with gilt and decoration to board still bright. Vg. Loosely inserted is an order form for three books, this, the Just So Stories, and Kim.
Seller: Dennys, Sanders & Greene, Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom