seven seas edition works von rudyard kipling (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. First Edition Thus. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 401 pages; 1917 Doubleday, Page & Company. HC Vol XXIV of the Seven Seas Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling, limited to 1050 copies. This copy out of sequence and not numbered. Quarter linen cloth backed spine with printed paper title label and beige paper covered boards. Mild chipping to title label at spine; small abrasion to paper covered rear board at bottom corner. Mild shelf soiling to boards. Many page unopened top edge. VG to VG+.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good Plus. First Edition Thus (Bombay Edition). 1914. xvii, 307pp. The Bombay edition of Kipling's works consists of 1050 copies, printed for R.&R. Clark from the Florence Press Type, designed by Herbert P. Horne. Quarter beige cloth over light blue paper covered boards. Paper title label to spine and an extra label tipped in to rear. Top edge gilt. Bottom and fore edges untrimmed. Original blue silk ribbon page marker. Moderate browning to boards. Attractive bookplate to front pastedown. No inscriptions. Excellent condition. PLEASE NOTE: Heavyish book so a little extra may be needed for shipping to non-UK customers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. The Mandalay Edition. 6 x 9 in. Finely bound in half deep blue morocco with blue cloth boards. Raised spine bands, gilt spine titles and decorations, gilt upper text block. Incomplete set, a sequential run from Vol. 6 - Vol. 13. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; the leather is supple and has no cracks or splits, all joints are excellent. Covers very clean except Vols 6,7, 10 and 13, which have some paler discolorations to the cloth only, Vol. 6 also has some pale stains to the leather of the covers, but not the spine. Bindings all tight and text spotless. A very handsome partial set. Fine Bindings, RGR.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). A smart complete twenty-seven volume set of this limited edition of the works of Rudyard Kipling, signed by the author. Complete in twenty-seven volumes. The Seven Seas edition. Volume one is signed by the author to the half title. Limited to one thousand and fifty copies of which this is number five hundred and ninety-two. With the original note of receipt of subscription issued to Mr. Archibald Harrald. A collection of the works of Joseph Rudyard Kipling, an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling is best known for the Jungle Book duology, Kim, the Just So Stories, and many of his short stories, considered an innovator in the art of the short story writing and noted as having "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". This set contains: Plain Tales from the Hills, 1914. Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys: In Black and White, 1913. Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories, 1913. From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, in two volumes, 1913. Life's Handicap, 1914. The Light That Failed, 1914. The Naulahka, 1914. Many Inventions, 1914. Captain Courageous, 1914. The Jungle Book, 1914. The Second Jungle Book, 1914. The Day's Work, 1914. Stalky & Co., 1914. Kim, 1914. Just So Stories, 1914. Traffics and Discoveries, 1915. Puck of Pook's Hill, 1915. Rewards and Fairies, 1915. Actions and Reactions, 1915. Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads, 1915. The Five Nations and The Seven Seas, Etc., 1915. Songs from Books, 1915. A Diversity of Creatures, 1917. The Years Between and Parodies, 1919. Letters of Travel, 1920. Debits and Credits, 1926. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with minor rubbing to the extremities and light fading to the spines. The odd small mark to the boards with light loss of the spine labels of volumes I, II, and VI only. Replacement spine labels inserted into a couple of the volumes. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot or handling mark. Small parts of the text block remain unopened to the first and last few pages of the odd volume. Light tide marks to the rear endpapers of volume four. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.

Zustand: Very Good. Limited Edition. A total of 27 volumes. Signed by Kipling to Vol. I and limited to 1,050 numbered copies, of which this is number 489. Half dark purple morocco over mauve cloth boards. Five raised bands with gilt compartments. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Some wear to heads and tails, as well as to the raised bands, predominantly to Vol. XXI (see image). Moderate wear to corners and hinges, while all remaining intact. Clean interiors with no previous owners' names or other defacements. 6.75 x 9.75 in each (17 x 25 cm).