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Kipling, Rudyard. The Absent-minded Beggar. Daily Mail Publishing Co., 1899.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Front cover is detached but present. Spine has rubbing to the ends and the raised ridges. Covers have light wear to the outer corners. Rear cover has a small faded spot. Outer (free) edge of folded page is creased its entire length. Front and rear blanks are foxed. Title page and last page (printer's crest) are slightly foxed. ; Approx. 8 1/2" wide by 12 1/2". One page of text followed by folded page with plate and second page of text. When fold is open, entire contents are displayed. Four stanza poem is in facsimile Kipling handwriting. Plate is "A gentleman in kharki" by R. Caton Woodville. ; 3 pages
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Absent Minded Beggar. Daily Mail 1899, 1899.
Price: US$11.31 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: G PB 4to a little creased
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$20.52 + shipping
Description: Single piece of paper with title on one side and the poem on verso. Also the poem cut from newspaper (copyright by the 'Daily Mail' publishing Company) and pasted on white paper. Both nicely mounted in marbled boards with cloth spine and leather title lab
Seller: Verandah Books, Sherborne, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. The Absent Minded Beggar. Daily Mail Publishing Co. 1899, N.p., 1899.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4 pp. Original folded printed pamphlet. Measures 20cm x 32cm. Slightly edgeworn with short tears. Cover spotted and marked. Portrait of Kipling to front cover. Facsimile text of poem on 2 pages with full-page illustration by R. Caton Woodville. 'The whole proceeds from the sale of this poem will be devoted by the 'Daily Mail' in the name of Rudyard Kipling, to the benefit of the wives and children of the reservists.' 4to. Pamphlet
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. The Absent-Minded Beggar. Daily Mail Publishing Co., 1899.
Price: US$46.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Daily Mail Publishing Co. 1899 edition, Single sheet with two vertical folds, forming 6pp, printed in green & brown. Portrait, full-page illustration, text of poem & author's signature reproduced in facsimile. Text clean and bright, fold to corner. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING
Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
KIPLING, Rudyard. Absent-Minded Beggar. , 1899.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: KIPLING, Rudyard. The Absent-Minded Beggar. Original printed folio sheet folded to form three panels. [London]: The Daily Mail, 1899. First edition. Livingston 221. Small closed tear to upper margin and outer margin, else a very good copy in custom cloth portfolio. Reproduces the text in facsimile.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$64.14 + shipping
Description: Vintage piano sheet music in plain cream printed paper covers. 13½'' x 10¾''. Contains 10 pages folded sheet music including the covers. Scored for voice and piano with lyrics. Couple of small nicks to the covers and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHEET MUSIC
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
KIPLING, Rudyard.. The Absent-Minded Beggar.. Daily Mail Publishing Co., [London], 1899.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Single leaf folded in triptych. 12-1/2 x 8 inches, original self-wrapper, preserved in a cloth folding case. First illustrated edition. Stewart 211. A few light creases and soiling; advertisement folded with a little edge wear. Kipling donated the proceeds of this poem to the benefit of the wives and children of the reservists at war in South Africa. With an advertising leaflet for Kipling's "Indictment of the Government" laid in.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Absent-Minded Beggar [Poem]. Daily Mail Publishing Co., 1899.
Price: US$76.97 + shipping
Description: Folio, 312 x 203mm (folded). Single sheet with two vertical folds, forming 6pp, printed in green & brown. Portrait, full-page illustration, text of poem & author's signature reproduced in facsimile. Unbound, as issued. A scarce piece of Kipling ephemera.
Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Kipling (Rudyard). The Absent-Minded Beggar.. Daily Mail, 1899.
Price: US$76.97 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, manuscript facsimile printed in green on stitched cream satin and folded to form a triptych with each panel card-stiffened, sepia illustration by R. Caton Woodville to central panel, pp. [3], folio, front panel lettered in green with sepia portrait of author, printer's device in green to rear panel, some faint spotting, very good. A Souvenir Edition funded by the actress Lily Langtry to commemorate the 100th performance of the 'Degenerates' at the Garrick Theatre. (Richards A147)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. The Absent Minded Beggar. Daily Mail Publishing Co. 1899, N.p., 1899.
Price: US$76.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4 pp. Original folded printed pamphlet. Measures 20cm x 32cm. Slightly edgeworn with short tears. Portrait of Kipling to front cover. Facsimile text of poem on 2 pages with full-page illustration by R. Caton Woodville. 'The whole proceeds from the sale of this poem will be devoted by the 'Daily Mail' in the name of Rudyard Kipling, to the benefit of the wives and children of the reservists.' 4to. Pamphlet
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Kipling Rudyard. The Absent Minded Beggar. Daily Mail Publishing, 1899.
Price: US$76.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: All books outside UK sent airmail. A poem printed on satin with pictorial illustration. Small folio 6 page item with pictorial illustration to one page. Cover is slightly marked. Sold for funds for families of Boer War soldiers.
Seller: Lavender Fields Books PBFA, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Price: US$128.66 + shipping
Description: as a folding triptych, with a photo of the author by Collier on the title page, a full-page reproduction of "A gentleman in kharki", by R. Caton Woodville, 1899, in the centre, showing a 'Tommy', his head bandaged but defiantly drawing the bolt of his rifle, framed by 2 verses each on the pages on either side, together 48 lines, publisher's note on side 5, printed on cream paper by Eyre & Spottiswoode as Queen's Printers showing the Royal Arms, the lettering in green, the two illustrations in reddish-brown, "Copyright in England and the United States by the Daily Mail Publishing Co.", 6 sides 12½" x 8", several light creases, very lightly dusty on side 1, small split in part of one vertical fold but otherwise a pleasing copy Written for and sold and sung (to music by Sullivan) in theatres and elsewhere in support of the families left behind by the reservists who went out to South Africa from all classes of society, beginning "When you've shouted 'Rule Britannia' - when you've sung 'God Save the Queen'. will you kindly drop a shilling in my little tambourine. he's an absent-minded beggar and his weaknesses are great. and he's left a lot of little things behind him!", probing their situations, "There are girls he married secret, asking no permission to. There is gas and coals and skittles and the houserent falling due.", and with references to Paul Kruger. It also exhorted employers to keep the soldiers' jobs open for them when they came back. The fund raised over a quarter of a million pounds. Originally published in the Daily Mail on 31st October 1899. The first edition thus. Livingston 221.
Seller: Sophie Dupre ABA ILAB PADA, Calne, United Kingdom
Price: US$141.10 + shipping
Description: 47x47cm. Excellent condition. Part of an appeal by The Daily Mail, this item was one of a large quantity of merchandise sold to raise money for soldiers fighting in the South African War and their families. The fund was the first charitable effort in Britain for a war.
Seller: Garwood & Voigt, Sevenoaks, United Kingdom
Kipling (Rudyard). THE ABSENT-MINDED BEGGAR. Daily Mail Publishing Co, 1899.
Price: US$153.93 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION PRESENTED BY MRS LANGTRY ON THE OCCASION OF THE 100TH PERFORMANCE OF THE "DEGENERATES" AT THE GARRICK THEATRE. First edition, one sheet folded in to three, front with portrait of Kipling, centre page a drawing "A Gentleman in Kharki", 2 pages reproducing the poem in Kipling's hand writing, all printed on silk, with stiffener paper sewn in. On back page "This souvenir is presented by Mrs Langtry on the occasion of the 100th performance of the "Degenerates" at the Garrick Theatre. For permission to use Mr Kipling's Poem Mrs Langtry has made to the "Daily Mail" a contribution of £100 for the benefit of wives and children of the Reservists fighting in South Africa." Slight water stain to covers. Size: Quarto
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
KIPLING Rudyard. The Absent-Minded Beggar. , 1899.
Price: US$173.17 + shipping
Description: Cover portrait of Kipling by John Collier; illustration of ?A gentleman in kharki? by R. Caton Woodville. First illustrated edition. 4to., single folded sheet, printed on six pages, in triptych form. London, Printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode. The poem, printed here in facsimile, was written at the beginning of the Boer War, and the proceeds from sales were devoted by the Daily Mail to the wives and children of the reservists. An excellent copy, despite some foxing on the upper panel.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$177.02 + shipping
Description: Held in gilded wooded frame behind glass Framed size 47cm x 59cm. Embroidered Surface approx 47cm x 47cm. In good condition. Some foxing & a few small marks. Portraits of Lord Roberts (commander of the British troops) and Queen Victoria frame the text and a detailed map of the region being fought over: Natal, Cape Colony, Orange Free State and South African Republic. Authentic Boer War item. Part of an appeal by The Daily Mail, this item was one of a large quantity of merchandise sold to raise money for soldiers fighting in the South African War and their families. The fund was the first charitable effort in Britain for a war.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$288.62 + shipping
Description: Folio sheet folded to form three panels. Special Limited Edition printed on silk, the three leaves of the triptych being sewn silk pockets containing a stiffener. Illustrations by Caton Woodville, full page, in sepia of 'A Gentleman in Khaki'. Sepia photo of Rudyard Kipling to the front panel. This scarce item is in Very Good condition with the odd fox spotting beneath the silk pockets and predominantly a silky creamy white. Member of the P.B.F.A. KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936)
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
DAILY MAIL PUBLISHING.. The Absent-Minded Beggar.. , 1899.
Price: US$487.45 + shipping
Description: London, the Daily Mail Publishing Co. Ltd, c.1899. Linen handkerchief printed in blue, c. 440 x 440mm. A printed handkerchief published by the Daily Mail to rise funds for the 'Soldiers' Families Fund' after the outbreak of the Second Boer War (1899-1902), the first charitable effort for a war. The map shows the theatre of war, around the South African Republic (the Transvaal) and the Orange Free State. The two portraits are of Lord Roberts, commander of the British Troops, and Queen Victoria, the British Monarch for the first half of the war. The poem, 'The Absent-Minded Beggar' by Rudyard Kipling, was specially commissioned for the Fund, and was given a musical score by Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame). Despite Roberts' portait being entwined in the title, the absent-minded beggar of Kipling's poem is the British 'Tommy' (private soldier), forgetfully leaving their dependents in need while fighting for their country. The Daily Mail paid Kipling £250 for the poem, which he donated to the fund, as did Sullivan with his £100 payment. Soon afterwards Kipling was offered a knighthood, which he declined. It was not Kipling's favourite work: in his autobiography he wrote that it 'lacked poetry' and became 'wedded. to a tune guaranteed to pull teeth out of barrel-organs'. This did not stop it being a huge success, giving the fund the nickname, 'the Absent-Minded Beggar Relief Corps', and helping it raise £340,000 by the time it was wound up in 1903. Not only was it published worldwide (the New York Journal paid $25 for the privilege), it was recited by actresses including Lily Langtree and Lady Maud Beerbohm Tree. Organising the fund was a coup for the Daily Mail, which had been founded only in 1896. This campaign capitalised on the jingoistic mood of the British public and the paper's circulation soared to over a million issues a day by 1902, the highest in the world. The handkerchief was published by The Graphic and is probably the most famous item of British ephemera produced during the South African War.
Seller: Altea Antique Maps, London, United Kingdom