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Andre Chevrillon Preface By Rudyard Kipling. England and the War. Doubleday, Page, New York, 1917.
Price: US$11.00 + shipping
Description: Book Condition: Fair/Good. Clean interior pages. Crack to inside spine. Lightly rubbed covers. Reading copy. Fair. No dust jacket. Ex-library.
Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, maroon cloth covers with gilt titles, xxi [3] 3-250 pages, Includes appendices, Index. 092508C
Seller: Alkahest Books, Deerfield, IL, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Sea Warfare. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1917.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: [6], 222, [2] pages. Cover stained and soiled at bottom. Includes three stories by Rudyard Kipling: The Fringes of the Fleet; Tale of "The Trade"; and Destroyers at Jutland. Inside the front cover is the bookplate of John Lyman! This is believed to be the John Lyman whose achievement in maritime history is particularly notable because, like most of his colleagues, Lyman worked regular jobs in the Navy and later in academia. He also obtained his advanced degrees in Oceanography (M.S., 1951; Ph.D., 1958) from Scripps while pursuing his avocation. Even working full-time and producing Log Chips, he was able to publish a dozen or more articles a year, a pace that increased after his retirement. Lyman also continued to publish work in oceanographic and linguistic journals and to consult and serve on the boards of various maritime societies and preservation projects. He continued to pursue his interests and build collections in maritime history and technology, linguistics, sea chanteys, the history and lore of flags, and the genealogy of the Lyman family. While Dr. Lyman usually described these activities as merely a way of filling his free time, Karl Kortum summarized the value of his work when he observed, "We have been benefiting from a scientist's mind -- educated, reaching, retentive, analytical -- and we've been lucky that sailing ship history is the 'sideline' it chose." He was a founding trustee and later advisor to the National Maritime Society, and an organizer and council member of the North American Society for Oceanic History, which annually offers the John R. Lyman Book Award in his memory. Sea warfare is a collection of three series of articles with the poems which accompanied them in their serial publication, together with one additional poem. The articles were written for the Minister of Information and Publication in British and American newspapers during 1915 and 1916.The two editions [i.e. British and American] differ slightly from one another in text; both differ in many respects from the texts as published in the newspapers." Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers. Henry James said "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood, but declined both. Following his death in 1936, his ashes were interred at Poets' Corner, part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey. Kipling is recognized as an incomparable interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with. At the beginning of the First World War, like many other writers, Kipling wrote pamphlets and poems enthusiastically supporting the UK war aims of restoring Belgium, after it had been occupied by Germany, together with generalized statements that Britain was standing up for the cause of good. In September 1914, Kipling was asked by the government to write propaganda, an offer that he accepted. Kipling's pamphlets and stories were popular with the British people during the war, his major themes being to glorify the British military as the place for heroic men to be, while citing German atrocities against Belgian civilians and the stories of women brutalized by a horrific war unleashed by Germany, yet surviving and triumphing in spite of their suffering. During the war, he wrote a booklet The Fringes of the Fleet containing essays and poems on various nautical subjects of the war. Some of these were set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
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.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A clean unmarked copy of this rare pamphlet. 9 pages.
Seller: Yes Books, portland, ME, 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.. Mesopotamia.. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1917., 1917.
Price: US$152.64 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. [8]; yellow wrappers printed green; a fine copy.American copyright edition. A poem lamenting the losses of the First World War and calling for justice against the military and political leaders whose decisions and actions sent so many to their death.They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young,The eager and whole-hearted whom we gave.But the men who left them thriftily to die in their dungShall they come with years and honour to the grave?Richards A298
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: First American Copyright Edition. octavo, light yellow paper wrappers printed in green. (12); (12); (12); (8)pp. Doubleday, Page, The Doubleday, Page copyright editions were issued in small print runs of generally under 50 to 75 copies. Staples just starting to rust. Part I in very fine, clean condition. Part II has a very tiny mark to front wrapper but otherwise fine and clean. Part IV has slight bend through the center and very slight foxing. Part V has slight fold to lower quarter of front wrapper but otherwise fine. octavo, light yellow paper wrappers printed in green
Seller: Colophon Book Shop, ABAA, Exeter, NH, 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.
Price: US$477.01 + shipping
Description: Editions of 89. 89, 88, 93, and 121 copies, respectively, for private distribution. 5 vols, printed wrappers, various paginations. A complete set of the true first editions of these five articles, these American copyright issues being published simultaneously with the first newspaper publication in The Daily Telegraph and The New York Tribune. The articles were prompted by the British Ambassador to Rome asking Kipling to visit and write about the Italian front in the First World War, finding it "maddening" that the British seemed to think that Italy was "not pulling her weight". The articles are: The Roads of an Army; Podgora; A Pass, a King, and a Mountain; Only a few steps higher up; and The Trentino Front. The Kipling Society website records that "anecdotal evidence claims that an Alpini general described it as one of the best accounts of alpine warfare ever written". A Near Fine set preserved in a somewhat used chemise and leather-backed slipcase.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: I The Roads of an Army, II Podgora, III A Pass, a King, and a Mountain, IV Only a Few Steps Higher Up, V The Trentino Front. All five are in very good condition with only slight marks to covers. Cream colored stapled card covers.
Seller: RZabasBooks, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$763.21 + shipping
Description: First US copyright edition of Kipling's series of articles written after a visit to the Italian front during the First World War. The publisher's archives note that 89, 89, 88, 93, and 121 copies of each pamphlet were printed. Complete sets in this condition are rare. In his after-dinner speech at the Kipling Society annual lunch in May 1999, David Alan Richards noted that Kipling's "London literary agent A. P. Watt and his New York publisher Frank N. Doubleday made extensive use of limited printings. to establish copyright in each country". The present pamphlets represent the true first editions. The text would later be collected for the Sussex edition of the author's work. The articles were simultaneously published within The Daily Telegraph in the UK, and within The New York Tribune in the US on 6, 9, 13, 16, and 20 June 1917. The sub-titles of the pamphlets comprise: "The Roads of an Army", "Podgora", "A Pass, a King, and a Mountain", "Only a Few Steps Higher Up", and "The Trentino Front". Livingston 415; Stewart 638A-E; Grolier 479; Ballard CLXXI p. 198; Richards A297. 5 volumes, octavo. Original pale yellow wrappers, lettered on front covers in light green or black. Housed in a custom red cloth chemise and red morocco-backed slipcase. Very minor ink mark and crease on back cover of volume 1; near-fine and crisp copies.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
KIPLING(Rudyard). The War In The Mountains. Doubleday,Page, Garden City, 1917.
Price: US$820.00 + shipping
Description: Octavos, the five separately published parts complete, each in original cream yellow glazed paper wrappers printed in green, very fine, preserved in quarter morocco gilt slip case. Stewart 638; Livingston 415. The rare American Copyright issues; first editions. This set will require extra postage, the exact amount depending upon the destination.
Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.