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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Holy War. Doubleday, Page, Garden City, 1917.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: First American Copyright Edition. octavo, light yellow paper wrappers printed in green. (8)pp. Doubleday, Page, The Doubleday, Page copyright editions were issued in small print runs of generally under 50 to 75 copies. Staples starting to rust otherwise a fine clean copy. Slight stain line across back wrapper. octavo, light yellow paper wrappers printed in green
Seller: Colophon Book Shop, ABAA, Exeter, NH, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Holy War. One of 20. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1917.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Octavo. Original stiff yellow wrappers stamped in green. No dust jacket. Very good. 5 pages. Livingston 421. Only a few copies printed to secure copyright. Actor Jean Hersholt?s copy, with his signed bookplate.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Holy War. Doubleday, Page & Company, Inc, 1917.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition- American Copyright Issue. Printed in a tiny quantity by the publisher to secure the copyright. Published 8 December 1917, distributed privately. Number of copies is unknown. Richards A300 locates 14 copies. Precedes the English edition "Published: December 1917, at 2p." Poetry. Paperbound. Fine in printed wrappers. Housed in a custom case with cold lettering on spine. Also includes a brochure on Kipling Poetry.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
KIPLING(Rudyard). The Holy War. Doubleday, Page, Garden City, 1917.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, original cream yellow glazed printed paper wrappers, very fine and preserved in cloth folding case. Kipling was fond of taking a line or two from Bunyan as an opening, and here molds thoughts and patterns from Bunyan's work of the same name and applies them in allegorical fashion to the first World War. This is one of few copies printed off to secure the American copyright. Steward 429; Livingston 42l. The rare American Copyright issue; first edition.
Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.