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"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you... yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and - which is more - you'll be a man, my son!" First American edition of Rudyard Kipling's If
KIPLING, RUDYARD.
If.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday Page 1910.
First American edition of Kipling’s ever-relevant tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. Small octavo, original illustrated boards. In near fine condition, contemporary inscription to the front free endpaper, some pages uncut. An exceptional example, rare and desirable.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145798
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"Every one wanted to say so much that no one said anything in particular": First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous
KIPLING, RUDYARD.
Captains Courageous. A Story of the Grand Banks.
London: Macmillan 1897.
First edition of Kipling’s richly detailed tale of American deep-sea fishing, with frontispiece and 21 illustrations by I.W. Taber. Octavo, original blue cloth elegantly stamped in gilt. In near fine condition with light shelfwear. Pictorial bookplate of L.A. Shilcof to the pastedown. A sharp example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 144073
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First Editions of Rudyard Kipling's The First and Second Jungle Books
KIPLING, RUDYARD.
The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book.
London: Macmillan 1894-95.
First editions of both volumes of The Jungle Book. Octavo, two volumes, original blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, engraved frontispiece with tissue guard present. Illustrated by J. L. Kipling, W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. A sharp example.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 143467
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Rare autograph note signed by famed English writer Rudyard Kipling
KIPLING, RUDYARD.
Rudyard Kipling Autograph Note Signed.
: Sept. 2, 1917.
Rare autograph note signed by and in the hand of Rudyard Kipling. 12mo, one page on Kipling’s Bateman’s house letterhead, the note reads in full, “Sep. 2, 1917 Dear Dr. Curtiss, Would you please come down to Bateman’s as soon as may be to see Mrs. Kipling who is suffering from a sudden attack of illness that I cannot make out the nature of. Very sincerely, Rudyard Kipling.” A 17th-century house located in Burwash, East Sussex, Bateman’s was the home of Rudyard Kipling from 1902 until his death in 1936. Kipling wrote some of his finest works at the house including: “If—”, “The Glory of the Garden”, and Puck of Pook’s Hill, named after the hill visible from the house. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed with a portrait of Kipling. The entire piece measures 14 inches by 11 inches.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 142237
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Rare Edition de Luxe of Rudyard Kipling's Departmental Ditties and Other Verses; one of only 150 extra-illustrated copies
KIPLING, RUDYARD.
Departmental Ditties and Other Verses.
London: Methuen and Co 1904.
First edition of Kipling’s first collection of verse. Octavo, original cloth, top edge gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 142115
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First Editions of Rudyard Kipling's The First and Second Jungle Books
KIPLING, RUDYARD.
The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book.
London: Macmillan 1894-95.
First editions of both volumes of The Jungle Book. Octavo, two volumes, original blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, engraved frontispiece with tissue guard present. Illustrated by J. L. Kipling, W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. One of Kipling’s most desirable works, uncommon in this condition.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 135901
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"We've sent our little cupids all ashore- They were frightened, they were tired, they were cold": Signed limited edition of Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling; one of 125 numbered copies singed by Kipling and illustrated by W. Heath Robinson
KIPLING, RUDYARD.
Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co 1910.
Signed limited edition of the collected verse of Rudyard Kipling, beautifully illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. Quarto, bound in three quarters crushed levant morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson with nine mounted color plates. One of one hundred and twenty five numbered copies signed by Rudyard Kipling, this is number 108. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 141581
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First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Songs For Youth; Signed by Him
KIPLING, RUDYARD.
Songs For Youth.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company 1925.
First edition this selection of Kipling’s songs for children. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Leo Bates. Boldly signed by Rudyard Kipling on the title page. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 140857
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"Ingle-go-jang, my joy, my joy! Ingle-go-jang, my joy!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Debits and Credits; Signed by Him
KIPLING, RUDYARD.
Debits and Credits.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company 1926.
First edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s most sorrowful collections. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, black stamped ship vignette to the front panel. Boldly signed by Rudyard Kipling on the title page. In very good condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 140953
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Rare Rudyard Kipling First Appearance Collection; including first appearances of The Burning of the Sarah Sands, An English School, and My Personal Experience With a Lion
KIPLING, RUDYARD.
Rudyard Kipling First Appearance Collection: The Burning of the Sarah Sands, An English School, and My Personal Experience With a Lion.
Boston: The Youth's Companion 1898.
Rare collection of Kipling first appearances including the first appearance of The Burning of the Sarah Sands, An English School, and My Personal Experience With a Lion. Quarto. Housed in a custom folder. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 123595