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Kipling, Rudyard. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan, London, 1924.

Price: US$18.54 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: No dust jacket. Hardcover. Macmillan Pocket Kipling. Red leather boards and spine. Gilt decoration and Hindu swastika emblem on front board. Gilt decoration, lettering and Hindu swastika emblem on spine. Several scores on boards. Spine ends are worn and chipped. Minor wear and slight splitting on leading corners. Minor tanning and foxing at front and rear. One or two small marks on pages. Binding is sound, and the contents are clear. AF

Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom

Rudyard Kipling. The Two Jungle Books. Macmillan and Co., London, Great Britain, 1924.

Price: US$44.63 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition published and edited by Macmillan and Co. in 1924, London, Great Britain. With illustrations of J. Lockwood Kipling and W. H. Drake. Very good condition, minor signs of wear, paint stains in last pages (publicity space by editors). 573 pages. 8 x 5 inches.

Seller: Rayo Rojo, Buenos Aires, BUE, Argentina

Rudyard Kipling. From Sea to Sea. Macmillan, London, 1924.

Price: US$55.58 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Two very good copies in original djs a little edge worn and a 1" tear on vol 1 t.e.g.

Seller: VANESSA PARKER RARE BOOKS, Westport, MAYO, Ireland

KIPLING, RUDYARD:. The Junge Book. AND: The Second Jungle Book. Pocket edition.. London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1922 & 1924 repr, 1924.

Price: US$57.23 + shipping

Description: 2 Volumes Size approx 7 x 5 inches. In maroon full calf leather binding with gilt to spine and gilt elephant head to front. In very good condition. Some very minor rubbing on edges, Second jungle book spine very slightly lighter & two small nicks head of spines, corners very lightly bumped. Inscription on each front endpaper, else generally clean and tight copy. Many b&w ills. by J. Lockwood Kipling and W. H. Drake. 299 pp. / 276 pp.

Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom

KIPLING, Rudyard; illustrated by KIPLING, J. Lockwood, and DRAKE, W. H.. THE TWO JUNGLE BOOKS: The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book.. London: Macmillan and Company Ltd., 1924.

Price: US$1203.12 + shipping

Description: First combined edition, on thin paper. Handsomely bound in full red crushed morocco with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. All edges gilt. Hand-sewn endbands. Housed in a red cloth slipcase. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and line drawings throughout. Publisher's cloth bound in at the rear. A superb fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. A beautifully presented first edition of the adventures of Mowgli and friends. A classic of nineteenth century children's literature. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom

DETMOLD, Edward J., illustrator. Arabian Nights, The. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924, 1924.

Price: US$1850.00 + shipping

Description: Edition Deluxe Of Detmold's Rarest Book [DETMOLD, Edward J., illustrator]. The Arabian Nights. Tales from the Thousand and One Nights. Illustrated by E.J. Detmold. London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1924]. Edition Deluxe, limited to 100 copies only, here bound without the signed limitation leaf. Quarto (11 x 8 1/4 in; 280 x 211 mm). viii, 240 pp. Twelve tipped-in color plates. Publisher's full pictorially gilt vellum. Very light stain on front board, spine gilt a little rubbed, some very light foxing to endpapers but still an excellent copy of Detmold's rarest book. Some deluxe copies were bound, as here, without the signed limitation leaf, the result, apparently, of the publisher printing more than 100 copies and deluxe binding the extra sheets. Detmold illustrated "a number of books of fantasy drawing. which show a vivid imagination, fine drawing and warm coloring" (Houfe, 115) "The Detmold twins were a unique phenomenon in British art, recognized by their contemporaries as a single creative personality ‘divided between two bodies'. Their remarkable etchings and watercolours of plants and animals, minutely detailed in the Japanese manner, are all prized collector's items. Charles Frederick and Edward Barton Detmold were born in Putney, south London, on 21 November 1883. Their middle names were later replaced by ‘Maurice' and ‘Julius', but the two boys were generally called Maurice and Edward.At the age of 5 the twins developed a dual passion for drawing and observing animals, and made regular sketching expeditions to Regent's Park Zoo and the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, where they drew detailed sketches of shells, crayfish, monkey skulls, and hundreds of other animal subjects. Their first book, Pictures from Birdland, comprising 24 colour plates, was published by J.M. Dent for the Christmas market in 1899. The Detmolds' most celebrated joint achievement, and among the finest book illustrations ever produced, was the set of 16 watercolours depicting scenes from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. Macmillan first issued these in November 1903.Maurice suddenly committed suicide in April 1908. "Edward was devastated.[but] was determined to carry on with all the various ideas and projects they had originally planned in unison. He joined the ranks of Hodder & Stoughton's immortal band of gift book illustrators.with the superb 1909 edition of Aesop's Fables.For George Allen, Detmold illustrated Lemonnier's Birds and Beasts (1911), and two de luxe volumes by the Nobel prizewinner Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee (1911) and Hours of Gladness (1912). He returned to Hodder & Stoughton with another popular animal series for children: The Book of Baby Birds (1912), The Book of Baby Pets (1913), The Book of Baby Dogs (1914), and Our Little Neighbours (1921). His final two opulent gift books for Hodder & Stoughton were Fabre's Book of Insects (1921), with 12 remarkable colour studies of the beautiful and bizarre denizens of the insect world a seen through Detmold's ‘microscope' eye; and The Arabian Nights (1924), a very successful change of direction into the realms of exotic fantasy. On the strength of The Arabian Nights, Detmold could have become one of the greatest illustrators of fantasy and fairy stories.During the 1920s Detmold continued to draw, paint, and hold exhibitions of etchings and drypoints, but it was not long before he retired completely from public life.On 1 July 1957 he committed suicide, nearly half a century after the death of his twin brother" (Richard Dalby, The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration, pp. 96-98).

Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.