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Rudyard Kipling | First Editions
1865 - 1936
See below our stock of Rudyard Kipling First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
![Pharos The Egyptian [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume 8. Guy BOOTHBY, Arthur Conan DOYLE, Rudyard...](/pictures/thumb/50087.jpg?v=1534949575)
Pharos The Egyptian [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume 8.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., June to November 1898. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.vi; 716. With many photogravure illustrations. Contemporary deep burgundy half calf with gilt titles to spine and dark green foliate cloth. All edges flecked red; yellow coated endpapers. Binding rubbed and worn, slightly..... More
![The King of the Foxes [and] The Destroyers [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume VIII. Arthur Conan...](/pictures/thumb/49910.jpg?v=1512569739)
The King of the Foxes [and] The Destroyers [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume VIII.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1898. [Literary Magazine]. FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.vi; 3-716. With numerous in-text lithographic illustrations. In publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine and upper board. Brown floral endpapers. With a PSA Book Fund bookplate to front pastedown. Some gatherings a little loose;..... More
'Automania'. A Special Edition of the 'Sunday Times' Magazine, 24th October 1965.
London: Thomson Newspapers, 1965. Newspaper magazine supplement format, colour illustrated. Pp.102. The 'Automania' issue, containing nothing but motoring content. Includes articles on race-tuner John Cooper, car-lover Peter Sellers, Grand Prix drivers Graham Hill, Jim Clark and Jackie Stewart, and road tests of Rolls Royce, Triumph, Humber, etc. Also includes 'The..... More
![An Incident of African History [and] M.I. [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volumes XIII and XIV. Sir H....](/pictures/thumb/49974.jpg?v=1583755546)
An Incident of African History [and] M.I. [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volumes XIII and XIV.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., December 1900 to November 1901. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. In two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.vi; 754; pp.vi; 714. With frequent photogravure illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt and dark brown titles and decoration to spines and upper boards. Blue ink ownership inscription to..... More
The Naulahka: A Story of West and East.
London: William Heinemann, 1892. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[4] 276 [8]. Publisher's peach cloth with titles in gilt to spine, and in black to upper. All edges untrimmed. Illustrated bookplate of Morris Parrish to front pastedown. Some light spotting to endpapers. Spine very lightly toned, and only..... More
The Jungle Book. With illustrations in colour by Maurice and Edward Detmold.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1908. [Children's classic] First Detmold colour illustrated Edition. Octavo (22 x 4.5 cm); pp.xii, 314, [2] advertisements. With 16 full-page colour plates. Publisher's red cloth pictorially blocked in gilt, top edge gilt. Contents clean, a little shelfwear/rubbing to binding. Near fine. Charles Maurice Detmold and Edward..... More
The Dead King.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. [Poetry]. FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (20 x 15cm), unpaginated, with 22 leaves, most with marginal illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. In original publisher's lilac card covers with titles to front cover and the original glassine jacket. Covers lightly sunned with some chips and tears to..... More
The Brushwood Boy. With Illustrations by F. H. Townsend.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1907. [Fantasy] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm). With ninety-two numbered leaves printed on rectos only. Illustrated with sixteen plates in colour, frontispiece with tissue guard present. Smartly bound in recent dark blue half calf over publisher's original gilt-pictorial sides, top edge gilt. Some light..... More
The Brushwood Boy. With Illustrations by F. H. Townsend.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1907. [Fantasy] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm). With ninety-two numbered leaves printed on rectos only. Illustrated with sixteen plates in colour, frontispiece with tissue guard present. Mid blue cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Ink name/date, very light and occasional spotting, some moderate..... More
The City of Dreadful Night, and Other Places.
Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co., and London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [1891]. [Short Stories] FIRST UK COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.96. With the publisher's green paper covers, roughly re-backed in green card with the remains of the front cover taped over. With the errata slip..... More
![Debits and Credits [short stories / strange tales]. Rudyard KIPLING](/pictures/thumb/48440.jpg?v=1505131478)
Debits and Credits [short stories / strange tales].
London, MacMillan and Co., 1926. Strange tales. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[vi]; 416. Publisher's red buckram, gilt device of elephant and fylfot emblazoned on upper, gilt titles, top edge gilt. Original dust-jacket. Binding is fine, used and brittle wrapper has some chips and tears, toned to spine, discreet tape strengthening to..... More
Departmental Ditties. And other verses.
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1890. [Poetry] FOURTH EDITION WITH NEW ADDITIONS. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 121; [24] publisher's catalogue. Publisher's burgundy cloth titled in gilt to spine, gilt illustration to upper board, black monogram to lower board, floral patterned endpapers. Ownership inscription to half title, toning to edges..... More
For All We Have and Are.
London: Methuen and Co., no date [1914]. [Poetry] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo bi-fold pamphlet (17 x 11cm), one leaf folded with the poem inside. Advertisements to rear; priced at 1d. Light toning and handling to edges. Near fine. A rare survival of an ephemeral item. RICHARDS, David Alan, 'Rudyard Kipling..... More
Just So Stories. For Little Children. Illustrated By The Author.
London: Macmillan and Company, 1902. [Illustrated] FIRST EDITION, in First Issue binding. Large Octavo (24 x 19cm), pp.[6]; 249; [3] With illustrations by the author. Publisher's decorative red cloth boards, blocked in white and black depicting notable incidents from the stories. Armorial bookplate. Internally clean, binding sound, but for the..... More
Kim.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 413; [1]; [2 of advertisements]. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, gilt medallion to upper board, top edge gilt. Illustrated with ten plates. Some light spotting to endpapers and edges, end-caps slightly rolled, title page tissue guard..... More
Kim.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. [Espionage novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 413; [1]; [2], advertisements. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, gilt medallion to upper board, top edge gilt. Illustrated with ten plates. Neat and small ink name to flyleaf, endpapers a little toned else contents..... More
The Seven Seas.
London: Methuen and Co., 1896. [Poetry and Songs] FIRST COLONIAL EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 230. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed. Expansive blue ink gift inscription to half-title. A lovely bright copy with just a hint of offsetting to endpapers and a few..... More
Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories. Wee Willie Winkie, Under the Deodars, The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Stories.
London: Macmillan and Co. 1899. Uniform Edition, Colonial Issue. Octavo. pp. 358 [7]. In publisher's coloured paper wraps with red titles to spine and front cover. Fairly clean and tight in plastic jacket, with some cracking and chips to spine cover. Slight spotting and yellowing to pages, especially edges and..... More
The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling. [The works include: The Jungle Books, The Second Jungle Book, Kim, Wee Willie Winkie, Plain Tales from the Hills, Just So Stories, Captain Courageous, Rewards and Fairies, Stalky and Co., Puck of Pooks Hill, Rewards & Fairies, The Man Who Would be King, etc.]
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897-1937. COMPLETE SET, FIRST PRINTINGS, the Outward Bound Edition. In 36 volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm). With a series of engraved frontispieces. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and gilt to spines and an gilt ivory medallion to upper board of each volume. Top..... More
The Years Between.
London: Methuen and Co., 1919. FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 159; [1], imprint; [32], advertisements dated 2/19. Original red cloth, gilt, in illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 7/6. A lightly used copy; jacket a little frayed to spine ends, short tear to upper, minor creasing. Shows well. The..... More
The Just So Song Book. Being the Songs From Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories Set to Music by Edward German.
London, MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1903. First Edition. Quarto. Publisher's pictorial red cloth, depicting scenes from the Just So Stories. With music and lyrics to twelve songs. Head and tail of spine lightly rubbed. Text is clean. Near fine. More
'Puck of Pook's Hill', and 'Some Fore-Runners of Sherlock Holmes' in The Strand Magazine.
London, George Newnes Jan-Dec.1906. The complete Puck in parts; FIRST APPEARANCE, preceeding the edition in book-form. Original magazine issues; 10 separate parts. Illustrated throughout. Bound in publisher's light blue pictorial wrappers. Some minor chips as expected, some adsverts excised from Feb. and June issues, but generally a very clean, attractive..... More
A Book of Words. Selections From Speeches and Addresses Made Between 1906 and 1927.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1928. [Speeches] Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[viii]; 299; [1] blank; [4] advertisements. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, embossed in gilt to upper board, gilt top edge, brown typographic dust-jacket priced at 7/6 net to spine. Title page printed in red and black. Neat..... More
Limits and Renewals.
London: Macmillan and Co., Linited, 1932. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt elephant device to upper, top edge gilt; quite bright, trivial wear, minute specks of foxing to edges. Unusual in its original beige dust-wrapper titled to spine and upper in fine condition..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy tales]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.306; 10 (ads, dated 15.8.06). With 20 black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar. Elegantly hand-bound in burgundy half oasis morocco over original cloth sides gilt with elephant medalion to upper, top edge gilt, spine gilt-lettered in..... More