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Rudyard Kipling. The Day's Work. Doubleday & McClure Company January 1899, 1899.
Price: US$5.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
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Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good
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Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$6.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Firmly bound, green boards. Small scuffing and marks on cover and spine. No jacket.
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Price: US$6.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Firmly bound, green cloth boards. Scuffing on outer hinges and on the ends of the spine. Marks on the end papers. No jacket.
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Price: US$6.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Firmly bound, green cloth boards. Scuffing on outer hinges and on the ends of the spine. No jacket.
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Price: US$6.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Firmly bound, green cloth boards. Scuffing on outer hinges and on the ends of the spine. Marks on the end papers. No jacket.
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. The Day's Work.. Doubleday and McClure, New York, 1899.
Price: US$6.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 431pp. Wear boards, yellowing interior, corners rough
Seller: Priceless Books, Urbana, IL, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Day's Work. The Works of Rudyard Kipling. Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: X-Library: date sheet and stamp on fep. card pocket removed from inside rear cover. Clean text. Edgewear, esp. corners and rubbing to dark green cover. Size: 7 1/2" X 5 "
Seller: Acme Books, Alton, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: X-Library: date sheet and stamp on fep. card pocket removed from inside rear cover, rear hinge badly mended. Front hinge weak. Cornerwear to dark green cover, Scattered black stain marks on cover. Size: 7 1/2" X 5 "
Seller: Acme Books, Alton, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: X-library: date sheet and stamp on fep. Clean text. cornerwear, esp. spine ends, to dark green cover. Light cover rubbing, wear to rear cover. Size: 7 1/2" X 5 "
Seller: Acme Books, Alton, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: X-Library: date sheet ans stamp on fep. Card pocket removed from inside rear cover. Weak hinges, light edgewear and rubbing to dark green cover, heavier wear along spine edges. Gilt lettering on spine. Size: 7 1/2" X 5 "
Seller: Acme Books, Alton, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.69 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Firmly bound, green cloth boards. Scuffing on outer hinges and on the ends of the spine. Marks on back cover and on the end papers. No jacket.
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Price: US$7.69 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Firmly bound, green cloth boards. Scuffing on outer hinges and on the ends of the spine. Scuffing and marks on covers. Marks on the end papers. Tear on the edges of some pages. No jacket.
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Price: US$7.69 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Firmly bound, green cloth boards. Scuffing on outer hinges and on the ends of the spine. Marks on the end papers. No jacket.
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Price: US$7.69 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Firmly bound, green cloth boards. Scuffing on outer hinges and on the ends of the spine. No jacket.
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. The Day's Work. Doubleday & Co., Inc., New York, 1899.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: green cloth with gilt lettering. cover is slightly rubbed, and scuffed. pages are tanned with a few loose pages. spine is chipped at tips. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$9.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: G/none, used hc, 365 pp. Maroon cloth, blind stamp on upper; faded maroon text on spine; tips bumped and slightly frayed; fraying to head of upper spine; shelf wear to head and tail of spine. The title page says this is The New World Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling and is also The "Authorized Edition published exclusively for Funk & Wagnalls Company. Interior pages clean, unmarked; slightly larger print. Binding is tight.
Seller: Prairie Creek Books LLC., Torrington, WY, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Craig Hokenson Bookseller, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Day's Work. Doubleday & Co., Inc., New York, 1899.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The books spine is chipping, all edges worn, hinges weak. Text is clean with no markings. Prior owner name in pencil on fep. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.81 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Firmly bound, green cloth boards. Scuffing on outer hinges and on the ends of the spine. Marks on covers on volume one and paper on front inner hinge is torn on it. Creases on some pages of this volume. No jacket.
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Price: US$13.88 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hard Cover. Green boards. Kipling's initials blind stamped on front and rear boards, gilt title on spine, there are bumped corners and some shelf wear on spine top and bottom and rubbing on spine front cover, white clean text. The spine is coming loose from the binding and the rear end sheet has separated some what from the binding, but still holding. 344, 325 pages. See my other Rudyard Kipling books
Seller: Weatherby Books, West Pawlet, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Naulahka: A Story of West and East by Rudyard Kipling, written in collaboration with Wolcott Balestier. Copyright 1899. Published by Doubleday and McClure Company, printed in the United States. Authorized Edition, part of a series of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. In very good condition. There is wear to the covers and spine, particularly around the edges. The cloth of the spine is somewhat loose, but the binding is still fully intact. The inside is nearly pristine. No stains, tears, or writing inside. Hardcover.
Seller: Whitmore Used & Vintage Books, McKenna, WA, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. The Day's Work (The Works of Rudyard Kipling). Doubleday & McClure Company, 1899.
Price: US$19.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good hardcover, no DJ. Covers show light edge wear. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Hinge cracked but binding intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. The Day's Work. Doubleday & McClure, New York, 1899.
Price: US$22.95 + shipping
Description: Hard cover. 8vo. 431pp. Clean unmarked text. Very nice boards and binding. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: History Bound LLC, Mendota, MN, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard.. THE DAY'S WORK.. 1899 First thus, Doubleday & McClure, New York., 1899.
Price: US$28.18 + shipping
Description: 431pp. Dark green cloth with R.K monogram on front board. Authorised U.S. edition in the standard format. Very good. Corner's bruised.
Seller: Verandah Books, Sherborne, United Kingdom
Price: US$33.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The books are VG++ Green boards gold print all in great shape pointed corners many titles 1899
Seller: Hook's Book Nook, Pottstown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clean and tight and square. Just a little wear at the corners and ends of the spines. Darker green boards with gold lettering on the spines. No dust jackets. Embossed author's initials on the front. Private library label on the inside of the front covers. Previous owner's name at the tops of the first pages. Dated notation of donation to a local historical society on the first pages, also. First Editions with the same year on the copyright pages as is on the title pages. Vol 2 has the First Edition errors. page 90 Line 12 has 15 feet instead of 1500 feet and page 153, line 26 has tacked instead of packed. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: funyettabooks, Bloomington, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cover w/gilt title on spine. Embossed circular initials RK on front cover. Lightly bumped corners. Light rubbing wear to extremities. Binding and interior very good. Light toning to pages.
Seller: Burke's Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. BRUSHWOOD BOY. Doubleday and McClure Company, New York, 1899.
Price: US$37.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 120 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Top edge gilt. Binding moderately soiled and rubbed. Spine a bit sunned. Light foxing to edges of text block. Illust. w/ b/w drawings. Contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good condition textured and embossed green cloth boards with gold spine lettering. The upper and lower spine are moderately rubbed with the board edges lightly rubbed. All pages are in fine condition with the normal lightly tanning of page edges and the spine is tight and square. (see photographs). The blank first free front endpaper contains s beautifully scripted vintage former owner signature. Authorized Edition. "I have eaten your bread and salt, I have drunk your water and wine, The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives that ye led were mine. Was there aught that I did not share I vigil or toil or ease, One joy or woe that I did not know, Dear hearts across the seas? I have written the tale of our life For a sheltered people's mirth, I jesting guise - but ye are wise, And ye know what the jest is worth." - From the Preliminary Page entitled "Prelude". "We are very slightly changed From the semi-apes who ranged India's prehistoric clay; Whoso drew the longest bow, Ran his brother down, you know, As w run men down today." - excerpt from the "General Summary"
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
RUDYARD KIPLING. THE DAY'S WORK. DOUBLEDAY, & MCCLURE CO., NEW YORK, 1899.
Price: US$57.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 431 p. PUBLICATION DATE 1899. COPYRIGHT 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898. BOOK DESCRIPTION: GREEN RIBBED CLOTH HARDBOUND WITH BLACK/GILT GOLD STAMPED TITLE/PICTORAL ILLUSTRATION ON SPINE COVER/FRONT BOARD, GILT GOLD UPPER LEAF EDGE, TEXT ACCOMPANIED BY NUMEROUS BLACK/WHITE PLATES. DIMENSIONS: 8 1/8" x 5 1/2" x 1 3/8." CONDITION: VERY GOOD; BUMPED/RUBBED SPINE CROWN/HEEL/CORNER TIPS, VERY LIGHT SPORADIC SPOTTING OF BOARDS, WEAR AT EXTREMITIES (LIGHT FRAYING), STRONG SQUARE SPINE/BINDING (STARTING TO LOOSEN), DEDICATION PAGE STARTING TO LOOSEN AT TOP ATTACHMENT, BRIGHT/CLEAN AGE TONED PAGES. A NICE COPY.
Seller: dC&A Books, Crockett, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$62.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel (Vol. I&II) by Rudyard Kipling. Copyright 1899. Published by Doubleday and McClure Company, printed in the United States. Authorized Edition, part of a series of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. In good condition. There is wear to the covers and spine of both volumes, particularly at the top and bottom of the spine. There is a small hole near the top of the spine of volume I. The cloth of the spine is somewhat loose on both volumes, but the binding is still fully intact. The inside is nearly pristine. No stains, tears, or writing inside. Hardcover.
Seller: Whitmore Used & Vintage Books, McKenna, WA, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. From Sea to Sea 2 Volumes. Doubleday & McClure Co., NY, 1899.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: volume 1-400 pp, volume 2-460 pp, the set is first edition, first state, both volumes are clean and tight, they have light edge rubbing and volume 2 has a small chunk out of the top page corners that runs from page 205 to 287, it is approximately 1/8" x 3/8", both volumes have 3 small Oriental ( ? ) letters stamped on upper corner of front free endpaper, this is a clean and solid 2 volume set of Rudyard Kipling's work. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Yesterday's Books, Richmond, IN, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Day's Work. Doubleday & McClure Co., NY, 1899.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12 stories by Kipling. Dark green binding with outline of a sailboat on front cover plus gilt lettering & top edge gilt. A locomotive is, next to a marine engine, the most sensitive thing man ever made; and No. 007, besides being sensitive, was new. Page 189 shows a half-closed "o" at end of word into. Owner bookplate and name front endpaper.
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Without Benefit of Clergy.. Doubleday and McClure Company, New York, 1899.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First separate edition of Kipling's Without Benefit of Clergy. Octavo, original illustrated cloth. In very good condition. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India, which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original green gilt embossed cloth. Extremely scarce in this fine condition. First publication of this work in America, as part of the collected works of Kipling.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Brushwood Boy.. Doubleday and McClure Company, New York, 1899.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First separate American edition of Kipling childrenâs classic. Octavo, original illustrated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Orson Lowell, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very condition. Bookplate. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India, which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$140.90 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A lovely two volume set of the work of Rudyard Kipling, both first U.S. editions. This set features two fictional works by Kipling, 'Without The Benefit of Clergy' and 'The Drums of Fore and Aft'. Uniformly bound in the original cloth binding, with a elephant illustration to the front board, both of these volumes are the first U. S. editions. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a English journalist, novelist, poet and short story writer. Born in colonial India, Kipling spent his school days in England. One of the leading authors of the 19th and 20th century, he is perhaps famous for his novel 'The Jungle Book'. An extremely influential and popular writer, poet Alison Brackenbury once stated 'Kipling is poetry's Dicken's'. In 1907 aged 42 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, making him the first English language writer to receive the accolade. Rudyard Kipling is of course best remember his novel 'The Jungle Book'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally excellent with minor shelfwear, and rubbing to the spine. Light offsetting to the front and rear endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$213.77 + shipping
Description: Very good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Embossed 'RK' device to front panels. Very light tanning to page margins. Vols. 5 and 7 have some minor scuffs and stain marks on front and rear panels. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Description: 13v., fronts.; 19cm. Summary: 13-volume set of Kipling's works. Contents: [v. 1.] Soldiers three. The story of the Gadsbys. In black and white. --[v. 2.] The light that failed. Rev. ed. --[v. 3.] The days work. --[v. 4.] Life's handicap. --[v. 5-6.] From sea to sea. --[v. 7.] The Naulahka, written in collaboration with Wolcott Balestier. -[v. 8.] Departmental ditties and ballads and barracks. Room ditties. Rev. ed. --[v. 9.] Plain tales from the hills, with a biographical sketch by Charles Eliot Norton. Rev. ed. --[v. 10.] Under the deodars. The phantom rickshaw. Wee Willie Winkie. --[v. 11.] Captain Courageous.--[v. 12.] The seven seas.--[v. 13.] Many inventions. Notes: Vol. 11 published by Century, New York. Vols. 12 and 13 published by D. Appleton, New York. Vols. 11-13 uniform with the rest of the set. 10 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$244.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Embossed 'RK' device to front panels. Very light tanning to page margins. Vols. 5 and 7 have some minor scuffs and stain marks on front and rear panels. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Description: 13v., fronts.; 19cm. Summary: 13-volume set of Kipling's works. Contents: [v. 1.] Soldiers three. The story of the Gadsbys. In black and white. --[v. 2.] The light that failed. Rev. ed. --[v. 3.] The days work. --[v. 4.] Life's handicap. --[v. 5-6.] From sea to sea. --[v. 7.] The Naulahka, written in collaboration with Wolcott Balestier. -[v. 8.] Departmental ditties and ballads and barracks. Room ditties. Rev. ed. --[v. 9.] Plain tales from the hills, with a biographical sketch by Charles Eliot Norton. Rev. ed. --[v. 10.] Under the deodars. The phantom rickshaw. Wee Willie Winkie. --[v. 11.] Captain Courageous.--[v. 12.] The seven seas.--[v. 13.] Many inventions. Notes: Vol. 11 published by Century, New York. Vols. 12 and 13 published by D. Appleton, New York. Vols. 11-13 uniform with the rest of the set. 10 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. From Sea to Sea (2 Volumes). Doubleday & McClure, New York, 1899.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in two volumes preceding the British edition. Original green cloth with green blindstamp on cover and gilt lettering on spine. Top edges stained gray. Bindings are tight and in very good condition with only light wear on corners. Book is gifted to "Sarah E. Willis" from Daisy on half title page of volume one. Residue of small newspaper clipping (2.5 inches by 1.5 inches) on preface page of volume one and recto page. These volumes include the first authorized edition of "American Notes," "Letters of Marque," "The City of Dreadful Night" and "The Smith Administration"; according to Kipling's Preface he was "forced" to issue this title "by the enterprise of various publishers" who were pirating and embellishing his earlier works. The half-title versos bear Kipling's usual icon from India, the swastika -- which until the 1930s signified peace and continuity.
Seller: Top Edge Gilt, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First separate edition of Charles Eliot Norton's concise sketch of Kipling's early life, written for the new popular edition of his writings and prepared with his approval. Octavo, original boards, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Kipling. One of one hundred numbered copies, this is number 52. In near fine condition. Scarce. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India, which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Kipling's classic short story which first appeared in Harperâs Short Stories in September 1890. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth. In fine condition. House in a custom half morocco and chemise case. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India, which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Works of Rudyard Kipling:. In 15 Volumes. Doubleday & McClure, New York, 1899.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition Thus. Hardcover. A handsome set of this extremely readable collection. Light shelf wear, several spots of careful repair to leather, else tight, bright and unmarred. Small 8vo. Various Pagination. Illus. (b/w plates).
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel.. Doubleday & McClure Company, New York, 1899.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue of this collection of Kipling's essays about his 1889 travels from India to Burma, China, Japan, and the United States en route to England with "fifteen feet" on p. 90, line 12 of vol. II. Octavo, two volumes, original decorated cloth. In fine condition. Housed in the original publisher's box which is in good condition. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India, which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition Thus. Original blue cloth, printed dustjackets, and lower portion of original carrying case. According to The Annual American Catalogue for 1900, the set sold for $1.50. A very scarce collection of 19th Century dustjackets, all the stories except for Morrowbie Jukes were published separately a year earlier by Brentano and by Doubleday and McClure [Flora Livingston 'Bibliography of the Works of Rudyard Kipling', 1927] A Very Good set, jackets modestly darkened, Morrowbie title with more darkening to jacket than other titles, Man Who Would Be King title with closed tear across front panel, half inch chip at top spine end.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works of Rudyard Kipling. Doubleday & McClure, New York, 1899.
Price: US$1350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 14 (of 15) volumes. Short 8vo, handsomely rebound by Blackwell in 3/4 tan polished calf, marbled boards and endpapers, ornately gilt spines with red leather labels, top edges gilt. New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899. A fine set, un-numbered volumes but lacking "Captains Courageous".
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. FROM SEA TO SEA. Letters of Travel. [In Two Volumes.]. , 1899.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Description: [in jackets and original case] New York: Doubleday & McClure Company, 1899. Original blind-stamped sea green cloth, with dust jackets and with publisher's printed paperboard slipcase. First Edition (published eight months before the 1900-dated English edition) of this collection of pieces that had appeared in Indian periodicals prior to 1890. These volumes include the first authorized edition of "American Notes," of "Letters of Marque," of "The City of Dreadful Night" and of "The Smith Administration"; according to Kipling's Preface he was "forced" to issue this title "by the enterprise of various publishers" who were pirating and embellishing his earlier works. The half-title versos bear Kipling's usual icon from India, the swastika -- which until the 1930s signified peace and continuity. This is an amazing set. The two volumes are absolutely fine and bright. Their two dust jackets are likewise fine (a few trifling edge-nicks, but that's all). The reason everything is virtually as-new is that the volumes still reside in the publisher's paperboard slipcase, with printed label on one end -- which slipcase IS edge-worn as one would expect, with some re-gluing along a couple of edges. Certainly the finest set obtainable. Richards A131; Stewart 198.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.