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
![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 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
Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Verse. Inclusive Edition 1881-1922.
[Printed for Private Circulation], no date [1923]. [Poetry] UNAUTHORISED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 185; [13]. Number 9 of 12 (alleged) copies "printed solely for presentation", signed by the printer John M. Stitt in blue ink. With the loose 'Job's Wife' leaf, as called for by Richards, as well..... More
A Song Of The English.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1920]. [Illustrated Poetry] ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.123 [1]. With 16 mounted colour plates by Heath Robinson, including a frontispiece with captioned tissue guard, as well as numerous in-text wood engravings. Publisher's dark blue cloth pictorially blocked in lime green..... 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
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
The Five Nations.
London: Methuen and Co., 1903. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 215 [41]. Catalogue dated July 1903; with the misprint 'David' for 'Saul' on p.56. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Illustrated bookplate of Wilfred H. Osmond to front..... More
The Five Nations.
London: Methuen and Co., 1903. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 215 [41]. Catalogue dated July 1903; with the misprint 'David' for 'Saul' on p.56. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Armorial bookplate of Cyril Hamilton Aitken to front..... 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
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
Kipling's Message.
London: W.H. Smith & Son, 1918. [Wartime Speech] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Duodecimo (15 x 9cm), pp.[12]. Publisher's plain soft covers, stapled once. Staple oxidised, and a small black ink ownership to front cover. The lightest of handling. Near fine. The transcription of a short speech given by Kipling at Folkestone on..... More
The Light That Failed.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1892. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, the fifth impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 339 [3]. Contemporary red full calf with gilt titles to green label and further gilt decoration to spine. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Black ink gift inscription to first blank, dated 1894. Blue..... 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
Stalky and Co.
London: Macmillan, 1899. [School Story] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xii, 272 [2]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt elephant motif to upper board. Top edge gilt. Illustrated bookplate of Steven R. Lomax to front paste-down. Light sunning to spine, otherwise very good. Kipling's famous tales about adolescent..... More
Under the Deodars. The Phantom 'Rickshaw. Wee Willie Winkie. And Other Stories.
Allahabad: Messers. A. H. Wheeler and Co., [and] London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington Ltd., no date [1888]. [Fiction] THREE TITLES IN ONE VOLUME. English issues of the Indian edition; Under the Deodars is the second edition, The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Wee Willie Winkie both being first editions. Octavo..... 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 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' (complete parts), and 'Some Fore-Runners of Sherlock Holmes' in The Strand Magazine [Ten monthly parts].
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
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.306; [4] advertisements dated 15.8.06. Twenty black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar. Elegantly bound in red half morocco over marbled boards, top edge gilt, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Internally fine with just..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Company, 1906. [Fantasy tales] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 306 [2]. With 20 engraved plates by Millar, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green half calf by BUMPUS with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and green cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; marbled..... More