Search results for: 'the works'
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works.London : 1937-39
The Sussex Edition, number 101 of a limited edition of 525 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf of vol. I. In his last years and with his health failing Kipling continued the gathering-up of existing material that resulted in "the great retrospective work... the Sussex Edition of his works, undertaken by Macmillan as a monument to one of... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 130733
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works.London : 1937-39
The Sussex Edition, number 14 of 525 sets signed by the author in volume I, this set in notably attractive condition. In his last years Kipling gathered existing material to create "this great retrospective work... the Sussex Edition of his works, undertaken by Macmillan as a monument to one of the firm's most profitable authors" (The Letters, p. 231).
"The... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 143836
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works.London : 1937-39
The Sussex Edition, number 513 of a limited edition of 525 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf of vol. I. In his last years and with his health failing Kipling continued the gathering-up of existing material that resulted in "the great retrospective work... the Sussex Edition of his works, undertaken by Macmillan as a monument to one of... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 139233
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works.New York : 1914-26
The Seven Seas Edition, number 435 of 1,050 copies signed by the author on the half-title of vol. I. This was issued by Doubleday as the counterpart to the Bombay Edition, published by Macmillan in London. A particularly attractive set, beautifully bound by the workshop of Henry Stikeman, one of the leading American binders of the period. Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 132739
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Bombay Edition of the Works.London : 1913-38
The Bombay Edition, one of only 500 possible complete sets signed by the author on the half-title. The Bombay edition was initially published in 20 volumes and limited to 1,000 copies. Kipling continued to write and the edition eventually grew to 31 volumes, but the last 11 volumes were limited to 500 copies only. Because later volumes were issued separately... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 119612
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Bombay Edition of the Works.London : 1913-38
The Bombay Edition, one of only 500 possible complete sets signed by the author on the half-title of Volume I. The Bombay edition was initially published in 20 volumes and limited to 1,000 copies. Kipling continued to write and the edition eventually grew to 31 volumes, but the last 11 volumes were limited to 500 copies only. Because later volumes were... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 127234
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![The Jungle Book; [together with:] The Second Jungle Book.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/2/126049.jpg)
KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book; [together with:] The Second Jungle Book.London : 1894 & 1895
First editions in book form of Kipling's best-known prose work. An immediate success on publication, The Jungle Book was reprinted twice in 1894 and twice again the following year. "Kipling followed with The Second Jungle Book (1895), but the two sets of stories have rarely been united, despite the fact that the later book completed the Mowgli saga... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 126049
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book.London : 1895
First edition in book form of the second volume of Kipling's best-known prose work. An immediate success on publication, The Jungle Book (1894) was followed with this title which "completed the Mowgli saga with five stories that relate closely to those in the first book and that are essential to its emotional rounding-out" (Grolier). The stories were... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 149740
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KIPLING, Rudyard. [Three English editions from the Indian Railway Library:]London : [1890 & 1891]
First English editions of the second, fifth, and fourteenth instalments in Kipling's Indian Railway Library, which was first published at Allahabad, by A. H. Wheeler & Co., from 1888. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 145760
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KIPLING, Rudyard. A collection of catalogues relating to significant Rudyard Kipling collections1921-94
A collection of auction and dealer catalogues relating to significant Kipling sales between 1921 and 1994, including many photographic illustrations. This is a fine resource for Kipling scholarship and bibliography.
The individual catalogues are as follows:
i) First Editions and Manuscripts of Rudyard Kipling The Anderson Galleries, October... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 149416
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KIPLING, Rudyard. Kim.London : 1901
First UK edition, first impression. "Considered to be Kipling's greatest work, and the finest novel about the India of the British Empire, the text appeared serially in the United States in Mclure's Magazine from December 1900 through October 1901 and in Great Britain in Cassell's Magazine from January through November 1901" (Richards). This first... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 149743
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KIPLING, Rudyard. Captains Courageous.London : 1897
First UK edition in book-form. The UK edition was preceded by the US edition, released the previous month. The work was originally serialized in Pearson's Magazine between 1896 and 1897. Written while the newlywed Kipling was living in Vermont, Captains Courageous is Kipling's only novel set entirely in America. "Kipling thought he'd written a great... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 144806
