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Kipling, Rudyard. With the Night Mail (Prospectus, brochure, etc.). The Arion Press, 1998.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Softcover. Publication announcement from The Arion Press of a limited edition of With the Night Mail, A Story of 2000 A.D., by Rudyard Kipling, to be published in 1998. Printed on two folded pages of cream paper, with an example illustration (by Vincent Perez) tucked inside. Measures 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Housed in a paper envelope which also contains: the Arion price list for in-print and trade titles for which prospectuses may be requested, the 1998 subscribed brochure, and a copy of a feature article in Biblo magazine. All is clean, unmarked, and in very good condition.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. With the Night Mail. Arion Press, 1998.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: With an introduction by Thomas Pinney and 32 two-color illustrations by Vincent Perez. From an edition of 250 numbered copies, signed by the artist. Near fine book in very good "mailing" envelope, as issued.
Seller: Vendome Books, San Clemente, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$445.91 + shipping
Description: First edition thus. Introduction by Thomas Pinney. Octavo. 119 pages. Illustrations by Vincent Perez. Full canvas. Printed title-label label on upper cover and spine. Printed under the direction of Andrew Hoyem. "Zounds! Science fiction from 1905. Predicting aeronautics in the year 2000 to be primarily dirigible. Airplanes outmoded. Airships the main means of conveyance for passengers and freight. The mail, airmail of course, transported across the Atlantic overnight." - from the 8-page Prospectus which is present.One of 250 numbered copies signed by the artist.Fine in the original printed reinforced envelope which is creased.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: One of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the artist, this being copy no.160. Octavo (25.5cm); full beige canvas cloth, with printed title label mounted across spine and front cover; publisher's original reinforced string-tied envelope, with printed labels; [ii],[4],5-119,[7]pp, with an applied frontispiece portrait of Kipling, and 32 illustrations by Vincent Perez. Fine in a Near Fine envelope, with some mild external wear, and some very faint creasing along one edge. Fine press edition of Kipling's science fiction story set in the year 2000, first published in the November, 1905 issue of McClure's Magazine. With an introduction by Thomas Pinney. Arion No.54.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.