"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
See below our stock of Rudyard Kipling First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy Tales] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] x; 306 [12]. With 20 black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar, including a frontispiece. Advertisements dated 15.8.06. Elegantly hand-bound in red half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy Tales] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.x; 306 [10]. With 20 black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar, including a frontispiece. Advertisements dated 20.8.06. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt elephant medallion to upper board. Top edge..... More
London: Methuen and Co., 1892. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xx; 208 [16]. With a vignette illustration to title-page. Publisher's maroon buckram, with gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, and other edges untrimmed. Toned, with some spotting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Spine sunned, with..... More
East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop 1899. Limited Edition to 950 copies of which this is No. 466, SIGNED by Elbert Hubbard. Post octavo, pp.93; [2], blank. Bound in the publisher's limp, green suede boards with yapp edges, embossed gilt to front board, blocked with the image of a tall..... More
London: Methuen and Co., 1903. LIMITED FIRST EDITION printed on Japanese paper. Crown octavo, pp.xv; 215; [1], blank. Elegantly bound in publisher's full vellum with gilt titles, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. A clean, fine copy with just a little expected bowing to the vellum covers. A rare book..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914. [Children's Short Stories] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[14] 195 [5]; pp.[12] 245 [5]. Printed on fine hand-made paper by the Country Life Press. The first volume SIGNED by the author in black ink to an additional half-title. Recently..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2]; x; 365; [7]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and decoration in gilt and blind to spine and upper board, green endpapers. Neat ink ownership to first blank, and a single ink correction to..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. [Short Stories / Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] vi; 393 [23]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt elephant motif stamped to upper. Top edge gilt. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, various prices affixed to..... More
Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., [n.d.]. [Short stories] A 'Wheeler' pamphlet published in India at 1 Rupee. Octavo (21 x 14), pp.[1]-96. Bound in the publisher's printed grey covers. Internally clean, publisher's blue-inked rubber stamp carefully excised, covers a little brittle with chips to spine and extremities. A good-very good..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. [Driving anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.215. Publisher's red cloth in illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 15s. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A fine copy in a very good jacket, with one chip to the top edge of the front panel. Shows well. Contains 'James..... More
London: C.A. Pearson, January - June 1897. [Science Fiction] FIRST APPEARANCE of this title; this version has the bonus of illustrations, none of which featured in the book-form edition. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 28cm), pp.712; pp.754. Consecutive half-yearly volumes uniformly bound in half deep red oasis morocco over matching..... More