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Rudyard Kipling (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Rudyard Kipling. 1st Edition. Signed by Author. From TBCL's Children's Bookcase. Kipling, Rudyard. JUST SO STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN. Signed. Illustrated by the Author. Toronto: George S. Morang & Co., Limited. 1902. Unique Copy. First Canadian Edition. Sm. 4to. 249p. With 22 plates & many in-text illustrations. Cream cloth covered boards with titles & illustrations on the spine & upper cover stamped in black. An extraordinary example with three key manuscript highlights tipped-in: 1 - Opposite page 141, Kipling on a piece of club size stationery has written out, in fact decoded the runes of Taffimai in 2 columns of 18 lines with the added "This is the identical tusk-on-uitch the tale of Taffimai ouas ritten. Etched by the author. / See Page 141 / Just So Stories / Double Day Page Edn 1902." 2 - Tipped opposite page 197, on a piece of club size stationery, Kipling has deciphered the runes on the Mutton Bone illustrated in the story: The Cat That Walked By Himself. Inscribed: "On the mutton bone / page 197. Just So Stories". Two columns of decoding followed by: " I Rudyard Kipling drew this but because there was no mutton bone in the house I faked the anatomy from memory. R.K." 3 - One page als [true copy neatly written & signed in blue fountain pen] on the letterhead of the Canadian Copper Company, Sussex, dated Nov. 30th 1912, addressed to: David H. Brown esq. " Dear Sir / Many thanks for your amusing letter of the 12th. I am sorry that any of my handicraft should have disturbed your dinner. I should imagine it would be quite hopeless to find one in the small drawing what the runes meant but I have looked up the original pictures and found that on the cross bar of the H, I put myself on record as having also written all the plays ascribed to Mrs. Gallop. I hope now that you and your friends will be able to return to their respective vocations. / Yours very sincerely / Rudyard Kipling". An extremely good example showing light use. [Stewart 261. Notes binding is usually brown/orange cloth]. First published in London, by Macmillan in 1902 this is the uncommon Canadian edition of Kipling's most famous collection of twelve animal stories & twelve poems, including "How the Camel Got His Hump" and "How the Leopard Got His Spots," "How the Whale Got his Throat," "The Elephant's Child," & "The Butterfly That Stamped." "Just So Stories has achieved nursery immortality because a genius has married two of the most tried and trusted media - the fable and the fairy-story" (Muir, 107). Stewart [260]. BMC No.1 [1984]; 'Edwardian Children's Books'. (30820).

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : very good. First Edition. 249p quarto, illustrated. A fine bright copy in a very good dust jacket. The design on the dust jacket differs from the design on the covers of the book. Just So Stories was Kipling's only self illustrated book. A fine bright copy with none of the usual flaking to the white pigment on the binding; armorial bookplate of George Jefferson Mersereau with the bookplate of A. Edward Newton above it on the front paste down. The extremely rare dust jacket is complete with only minor wear and tear and with a few archival tape reinforcements o the inside of the spine. Preserved in a custom cloth chemise and morocco-tipped slipcase.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. None (illustrateur). First edition. The first edition of Kipling's book of collected verse, with the author's ink annotations and edits. Bound in the publisher's original burgundy cloth.An extremely scarce-to-see copy of this collection of Rudyard Kipling's poetry, with annotations and edits by the author throughout. This work was originally published in October 1907.From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son, literary agent of Rudyard Kipling.Throughout this copy of collected verse, Kipling reworked the order, layout, contents and the occasional wording of the poems. Some of the changes to wording, such as substituting "hansoms" for "traffic" in the final verse of 'The Broken Men', made the final version of the poem, however others, such as changing the name "Mary Pollock" to "Margaret Pollock" in 'The Derelict', did not, showing Kipling's thought process in his editing.Annotations include: A line through the publisher on the title page. A line through the page opposite the title page, entitled "Other Books by Rudyard Kipling". The third verse of "The Fires" has been removed (xi).Punctuation amendments to most pages, substituting comas, exclamation marks and semi-colons. The occasional change to the wording used, such as alternating "hansoms" for "traffic" in the final verse of "The Broken Men". On page 85 Kipling has written "To printer smaller type for all these sub-heads of song of the English R. K." "The Sacrifice of Er-hets" has a vertical line through it (p168). "Service Songs" has been crossed out (p190). The second verse of "The Gift of the Sea" has been crossed out (p248).Pencil annotation, not in Kipling's hand to p1, with "Dedication from "Barrack Room Ballads" crossed out. On page 8, "Song of the Wise Children" is directed "To follow Sestina of the Tramps Royal", with similar directions given to "Buddha at Kamakura" (p10), "The Broken Man" (p13), "The "Mary Gloster" (p45), "South Africa" (p118), "Dirge of Dead Sisters" (p126), "Cleared" (p132), "General Joubert" (p145), "Before a Midnight Breaks in Storm" (p193), "The Lesson" (p200), "Rimmon" (p210), "The Three-Decker" (p220), "The Rhyme of the Three Captains" (p222), "The Conundrum of the Workshops" (p227), "Evarra and his Gods" (p229), "In the Neolithic Age" (p231), "The Story of Ung" (p233), "The Fires" (p236), "The Legends of Evil" (p238), "Tomlinson" (p241), "The Explanation" (p246), "The Answer" (p247), "The Gift of the Sea" (p248), "The King" (p250) and "The Last Rhyme of True Thomas" (p252). Bound in the publisher's original burgundy cloth. Externally, very good, with light bumping to the extremities and a little rubbing to the head and tail of the spine. The occasional mark to cloth, mainly to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with the author's ink edits and annotations throughout. Very Good. signed by author. book.

The Sussex Edition, number 72 of 525 sets only, signed by the author in the first volume and containing two volumes of previously uncollected prose. Published after Kipling's death on 18 January 1936, this magnificent posthumous edition saw a small limitation and became even rarer following the destruction of many unsold sheets during the German bombing of London. In his last years, and with his health failing, Kipling remained determined to finish editing this "great retrospective work" which was first proposed in 1928. The edition was "fuller than that of any other. [Kipling] saw the proofs of at least 21 of the edition's 35 volumes before his death" and it is now "among the most prized and most expensive of all modern editions" (Pinney, p. 231). Richards D23; Stewart, pp. 577-80. Thomas Pinney, The Letters of Rudyard Kipling, vol. 6, 1990. 35 volumes, large octavo. Original full russet niger morocco by James Burn & Co., spines lettered in gilt, raised bands ruled in blind, twin gilt fillet bordering covers, turn-ins ruled in gilt and blind, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt and red on the rough, other edges uncut. Printed on handmade paper with Ganesha watermark. Fly-titles printed in orange. Bindings slightly darkened, occasional light scuffs and internal marks, otherwise clean. A near-fine set.

Folio (321 x 200 mm). 3½ pp. on 4 ff. Autograph emendations and cancellations in black ink, editorial annotations in pencil and pink ink in another hand (each of the first three leaves in two pieces and repaired with thick tape). An intriguing autograph manuscript by Kipling for a satirical short story. Written to be published in the Pall Mall Gazette, "Things As They Are" never appeared there and is not published in any of the collected editions of Kipling's work. Kipling recounts the details of a conversation between "That very terrible deity The God of things as They are" and the British public, imagined here as a teething kitten, on the failure of most artists to truly grasp the beauty of the world around them. - The manuscript was written by Kipling for the Pall Mall Gazette under the condition that his name not be attached to it; the editor, Harry Cust, refused to grant this anonymity, so Kipling declined to have it published. Rudyard Kipling was just one of the literary luminaries enticed to join the ranks of contributors to William Waldorf Astor's Gazette under the editorship of Harry Cust, who transformed the publication into one of the best respected evening journals of the time after his appointment in 1892; alongside Kipling, it featured work from H. G. Wells, Algernon Swinburne, Jack London, and Joseph Conrad. The manuscript was probably written between 1892 and 1896: Kipling writes on the same theme in an article published by The Times on 20 August 1892 entitled "Half-a-Dozen Pictures", and by 1896 Cust had ceased to edit the Gazette.

Etat : Very Good. First Edition, Third Printing. First edition, third printing, published just two months after the first printing. A fantastic association copy, signed by Rudyard Kipling on the title page and inscribed to "Janet Aitken from her obliged and obedient servant the author Jul. 1911," beneath which Kipling has struck through his printed name and signed below it. Then three years old, aristocrat and socialite Janet Gladys Aitken (later Campbell, Montagu, and Kidd), was the daughter of Kipling's close friend Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook. Beaverbrook was a highly influential Canadian-British press magnate and politician and his daughter Janet grew up with her family entertaining powerful and influential figures such as Kipling, Sir Winston Churchill, and David Lloyd George at their family home. Beaverbrook met Kipling in 1910 after he relocated his family to Britain from Canada; Kipling advised Beaverbrook on the purchase of Cherkely Court, his Surrey mansion and later even became godfather to Beaverbrook's youngest son, Peter. In her autobiography, Janet recalls Kipling, whom as a child she nicknamed "Mr Sad": "He had a drooping moustache and never seemed to smile.I felt a bit sorry for him but never said so because he never seemed to notice I was there.He would stand staring soulfully at us as we clattered past.I was always pleased to see him". Ultimately a rift developed between Beaverbrook and Kipling, who endorsed Irish Home Rule, and despite the efforts of Janet and Kipling's daughter Elsie, the two never reconciled. Bound in publisher's original red pictorial cloth stamped in black and white. Very Good with fading to spine and bottom of rear cover, extremities a little worn and frayed, front hinge tender and rear hinge partly cracked but holding, contents mildly foxed throughout; with Beaverbrook's family bookplate to the front pastedown. Signed copies of this title are rare, especially those with such a close association and inscribed; just six other inscribed copies are known. Housed in a custom red cloth chemise case.

Set of two first edition, first printings published by Macmillan and Co. between 1894-5. A pair of first editions of the first and second Jungle Books published in. Both copies are very fine copies, without inscriptions and without damage to the gilt and edges A simply superb pair of books so difficult to find in collectable and 'as new' condition. In custom made morocco, contemporary slipcases.

Signed limited edition of Rudyard Kipling's collected works. Octavo, 27 volumes. Bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, gilt tooling and ruling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, inner dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. One of 1,050 sets with volume 1 signed by Rudyard Kipling. In fine condition. An exceptional set. The works of Rudyard Kipling contains his poetry, novels, stories, travel writings, children s tales, military tales and essays. Kipling in 1907 became the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize.

limited edtion, number 17 of 20 hors commerce, out of a total of 160 copies, 4 vols; 4to (31.5 x 26.5 cm). 276 pp.; 272 pp. with 15 colour plates, including frontispiece, and 15 chapter heading vignette illustrations and initials, all cut in wood and printed in colour by F. L. Schmied with 15 supplementary plates not called for in index and two extra suites of all the illustrations, one in colour, one in monochrome; original wrappers protected by chemises and slipcase; slipcase slightly rubbed, with one joint starting to split. with 15 supplementary plates and two extra suites of all the illustrations. Set in the period between the second and third Afghan Wars (therefore 1893-1898), Kim was first published in 1900-1901, with this French translation first appearing in 1902. Unfolding against the backdrop of the political conflict between Russia and Great Britain in Central Asia, the novel popularised the term 'The Great Game'. The charming illustrations were engraved and printed by the painter and printer François-Louis Schmied (1873 1941), who was of Swiss origin. After attracting fame with his engravings for a 1919 edition of The Jungle Book, Schmied turned his attention to producing expensive, luxurious works in limited editions. Buyssens, no 43.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. First Editions, First Printings SIGNED by Rudyard Kipling on a laid in signature in the first book. A fabulous set. Both books are in excellent condition with minor wear to the edges. The bindings are tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in either book. A superb set SIGNED by the author. We buy SIGNED Kipling First Editions. Signed by Author(s).

LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by the author in volume I to half title. Complete in 31 volumes; large octavo (25 x 132cm). Finely bound in deep red half morocco, raised bands and gilt rules to spines, matching cloth sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Printed from Florentine Press type on hand-made paper bearing the watermark "RK". First published in 25 volumes and limited to 1050 sets, the collection eventually grew to 31 volumes as Kipling continued to write. The later volumes were limited to just 500 copies, meaning complete sets are scarce. Stewart p.572.

SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION No. 88 of 525 Copies 35 Volumes, complete. 8vo. (25 x 16cm) hardbacks in full russet Niger morocco, bound by James Burn, with raised bands in six compartments, gilt, and double gilt fillet borders to upper and lower boards. Top edges gilt on rough, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Titles printed in white on chestnut panels on handmade paper with Ganesha watermark. " The present volumes constitute the deluxe and definitive edition of Kipling's oeuvre, which he worked on in his final years before his death in 1936. Two volumes of uncollected prose and much verse are collected here for the first time. During the bombing of London in 1941 a substantial portion of the unbound sheets was destroyed; it was later said, in Macmillan's centenary history, that the visitors' furniture at the publisher's office was covered with the Nigerian goatskin leather which could not be used for the destroyed text blocks." [Richards D23]. Lower board to Volume I lightly scuffed and with small streaks of white (please see photos). A VERY GOOD, HANDSOME SET. PLEASE NOTE: EXTREMELY Heavy SET (50 kg+) Postage rates vary according to destination, weight and speed. For an accurate overseas quote PLEASE either call or email us before ordering. [AbeBooks shipping quote is based on items weighing up to 1 kilo only]. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

En feuilles. 4 tomes. In-4. Sous étui et couverture en demi-percaline grise avec étiquettes imprimées : 2 chemises de texte, une chemise de suites et une chemise à rabats et rubans pour la Suite pour Kim.Édition illustrée de 56 compositions d'après François-Louis SCHMIED dont un frontispice, 14 planches hors texte, 15 grandes vignettes, 15 lettrines et 11 culs-de-lampe, gravés par Philippe Gonin. Superbe exemplaire enrichi de 5 suites offrant 105 planches supplémentaires. TIRAGE LIMITÉ À 160 EXEMPLAIRES SUR JAPON SIGNÉS PAR L'ÉDITEUR. Celui-ci un des XX hors commerce, enrichi d'une suite en couleurs sur Japon (30 planches) et d'une suite en noir sur papier vélin (30 planches).En 1932, F.-L. Schmied compléta l'édition en dessinant une série supplémentaire de 15 planches, intitulée Suite pour Kim, portant le nombre d'illustrations à 45. Elle fut tirée à 160 exemplaires sur Japon.Exemplaire ENRICHIdu bon à tirer de la Suite pour Kim, avec justification autographe et signature de l'artiste. Il contient de plus deux tirages supplémentaires de cette suite, en couleurs sur japon et en noir sur papier vélin.

Hard Cover. Etat : Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Taber, Isaiah West (illustrateur). First Edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-two black and white plates by Isaiah West Taber. First edition, first printing. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt to front board and spine, all edges gilt, black coated endpapers; original off-white dust jacket with boating illustration to front panel, list of Kipling's works to rear panel, lettered in blue. Fine with a tiny bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, exceptionally bright gilt; very good unclipped dust jacket with a bit of thumbsoiling to front panel, some toning to spine, curved closed tear to upper portion of spine, minor chipping to spine ends, a few small closed tears to front and rear panels, and corners lightly chipped. Overall, a gorgeous copy, in its exceptionally scarce first issue jacket. Housed in a custom blue slipcase with folding chemise. Originally published serially in McClure's Magazine beginning in November 1896, Captains Courageous is a story about Harvey Cheyne, the marooned son of a wealthy railroad magnate who is rescued by fishermen off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. After being tossed overboard an ocean liner, Harvey meets Disko Troop, captain of the small fishing boat We're Here, who refuses to take the young man back to port, but agrees to take him on as part of the crew. Over the course of the novel, Harvey befriends the captain's son Dan, who helps the arrogant millionaire develop into a hard-working, honest young man who is self-reliant and content with living simply.

First edition, sole impression. Generally considered as one of the Detmold Brothers finest collections and presented in a lavish and large format. The 16 plates were too heavy for the portfolio, and thus it is very rare to find the portfolio in anything but poor state. Folio. Original green cloth chemise, titles and illustration on front cover in gilt, housing four pages and 16 loose prints. 16 coloured chromolithograph prints on thin card (sheet sizes: 32.9 x 43 cm) tipped onto white board with grey window mounts (mount sizes: 39.3 x 54.5 cm) with cover sheet to each illustration giving the title and a short extract from the book. Covers worn and a little soiled, small chip to the foot of the fold of the four pages, white boards and margins of the card unevenly browned, hidden by the grey mounts, the printed images bright and in excellent condition.

8° , Ledereinband. Nr. 42 von 500 Ex. (Gesamtaufl.: 525). Druckvermerk in Band I vom Verfasser signiert. Ausgabe letzter Hand, postum vollendet. Unbeschnitten und unaufgeschnitten. Sauber. Mod. Exlibris. OLdr. (geringe Altersspuren). Definitive edition, completed posthumously. Untrimmed and unopened. Clean. Modern exlibris. C Original calf (minor signs of wear). Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 20550.

The Bombay edition of Rudyard Kipling's collected works. Octavo, 31 volumes, bound in full morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt titles to the spine, gilt tooling and ruling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, inner dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. One of 1,050 sets with volume one signed by Rudyard Kipling. In fine condition. A very sharp set. The works of Rudyard Kipling contains his poetry, novels, stories, travel writings, children s tales, military tales and essays. Kipling in 1907 became the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Rudyard Kipling (1894 and 1895) The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book , UK first editions, first printings, published by Macmillan. Together with a fascinating three-page long handwritten letter to a fellow writer penned in 1892 on the eve of Jungle Book duology publication. Provenance: the two books are from the library of Oliver Brett, the third Viscount of Esher with his coat of arms bookplates to each front pastedown. From 1905-1910 Brett was the private secretary to Lord John Morley, the Secretary of State for India, making this a nice India association first edition set. Condition: near fine boards with the gilding on the spine intact and NOT rubbed out. Gilding of the elephants and the cobra are NOT rubbed out and beautiful. Light stains to front boards as shown and a little shelf wear. Since both volumes have been housed in their respective solander case for a century the books have little shelf wear to them. No owner s inscriptions in the First Jungle book, gift inscription in black ink to the ffep of Vol 2 as shown. Internally, both books are clean, however the typical foxing spots as usual within the text commensurate with age. More foxing to the Second Jungle Book than to the first. Gilding to the page block on all three sides. Books are square and tight. The letter: 3pp of a bifolium, measuring 4.5″ x 7″, Brattleboro, Vermont, dated September 10, 1892. A neatly written letter signed Rudyard Kipling , addressed to Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote. Kipling apologizes for the delay in writing before remarking on Mrs. Foote s sick daughter, his own niece s health, and the role of mothers. He also goes on to playfully chastise Foot for ending The Chosen Valley and acknowledges his hypocrisy over hating inquiries about his publications while wanting to ask Foote a myriad of questions about hers. With flattened mail folds. Bold, clear signature. Very fine. In part: That news about your daughter is not good. When a man or a woman goes down with something it s bad enough but with a child well my brother in law s baby, a three toothed little maiden of fourteen months and much dignity. She is not quite well a cold or something and you can distinctly hear all our hearts beating all down the road when she sneezes. God certainly made the little ones but Eblis made their diseases. At the best of times one small child is full employment for all the grown-ups within hail. It is glorious to have gifts two of them So that you can express in both the ways the shadows of those things which you imagine but I can well see how there must be a big tug now and again between those gifts your own to you, and those other gifts that come to all mothers. I ve a notion however that sometimes giving up is accounted as more than giving out. All the same Fate is queer and she lacks tact Sometimes I wonder but more often I wish I had been born befo de war. Then I would have taken my dollars down South and bought me a man and a woman and perhaps, got some work of them. How do you manage in Idaho? Chinamen at $60 a month or kidnapped aliens from railway gangs? The subject interests me more deeply than anything else on the top of Earth at present We ve had another indignation meeting and the vote is that this community views with alarm and disgust, the expressed intention of Mrs. Hallock Foote to end The Chosen Valley next month. This community expected a solid year of the said story and refuses to be pacified even by the picture of the girl looking through the window People drive me wild by asking me a whole lot of questions that I used to call Dee Impertinent but now if you only know the amount of questions, all personal, all unauthorized, that I want to ask you! Mary Hallock Foote (1847 1938) was an American author and illustrator. Upon moving out west, Foote keep a record of her travels and wrote stories for Eastern readers as a correspondent to The Century Magazine and other periodicals. She wrote several novels. Signed by Author(s).

Etat : Very good plus. Rare portfolio of the production often considered the Detmolds' finest work, complete with 16 stunning color plates loose as issued. Done with the rich colors that typify the Detmolds' artwork, the reproductions found in the small book edition published five years later pale in comparison to these plates. Arguably among the finest book illustrations of all time, R. Dalby records: "These paintings were praised for their realistic detail and decorative arrangement"; Diana Johnson intriguingly adds: "The end result of this incongruous joining together of the quasi-scientific and the ornamental is an image which is both fanciful and often rather disturbing." The portfolio was published when the Detmold twins were only twenty years old, and proved to be their last collaborative work before Maurice committed suicide in 1908. It is not known how many of these portfolios were issued, but due to the high quality of the reproductions and the costs involved in printing and constructing the pictorial cases, the total number was undoubtedly very small. Because the illustrations almost look like original art when framed, that was the fate of most plates, so the set is rarely found complete. 22'' x 16''. Containing 16 plates plus a 4 page list of illustrations and title page, all loose as issued in gilt pictorial cloth case. The gilt eagle design on the cover of the case was also by the Detmolds. Plates vary in size, each mounted on archival board measuring 21.5'' x 15.5'' and matted. Each plate has a protective paper sheet captioned with the title of the illustration. The case has the usual wear, with a faint section of dampstaning (not affecting plates inside); the fold-over cloth flaps and joints with extensive repairs, some neat mends to many of paper protectors and contents pages, especially at joints. Overall this is a better than very good, nice complete copy.

Etat : Good. 8vo. 87 vols. a few duplicates. All numbered and some signed. Original wraps.MORNAY (Éditions)]. Ensemble de 87 volumes illustrés. Paris, Éditions Mornay, 1919 à 1940. In-8, broché, couverture illustrée.Important ensemble de 87 ouvrages d'Honoré de Balzac, Colette, Gustave Flaubert, Anatole France, Rudyard Kipling, Pierre Loti, Octave Mirbeau, Henri de Régnier, ou encore Jules Vallès, tous illustrés par George Barbier, Carlègle, Deluermoz, Pierre Falké, Louis Jou, Mathurin Méheut, Jean Lébédeff ou Gaston Nick à travers différentes techniques comme le bois gravé en noir ou l'aquarelle au pochoir.Répartis en deux collections intitulées Les Beaux livres et La Collection originale, la centaine de titres publiés par Georges et Antoinette Mornay devaient paraître en un nombre prédéterminé d'ouvrages (cinq par an) et en quantité limitée. Le tirage justifié, était environ de 1 000 exemplaires sur japon ou vélin de Rives.Certains volumes contiennent un envoi autographe signé de l'illustrateur.Liste détaillée : -ANNUNZIO (G. d'). Triomphe de la mort. 1923.-BALZAC (Honoré de). César Birotteau. 1929. X2-BALZAC (Honoré de). Le Père Goriot. 1933.-BÉRAUD (Henri). Le Vitriol de Lune. 1931. -BOYLESVE (René). La Leçon d'amour dans un parc. 1929.-BOYLESVE (René). Les Nouvelles leçons d'amour dans un parc. 1930. x2-BRAZ (Le, Anatole). Le Gardien de feu. 1923. -CHADOURNE (Louis). Le Pot au noir. Scènes et figures des Tropiques. 1922. -CHATEAUBRIANT (Alphonse de). Monsieur des Lourdines. 1925.-CHÉRAU (Gaston). Valentine Pacquault. 1927.-COLETTE. L'Entrave. 1929.-CONSTANTIN-WEYER (Maurice). Clairière. 1929.-CRÉBILLON (fils). Le Sopha. 1933.-CURWOOD (James Oliver). Nomades du Nord. 1932. -DEVAL (Jacques). Marie Galante. 1935. -DOFF (Néel). Jours de famine et de détresse. 1927.-DUHAMEL (Georges). Vie des martyrs 1914-1916. 1919.-DUNAN (Renée). Le Prix Lacombyne. 1924. X2 -FARRÈRE (Claude). La Bataille. 1926.-FARRÈRE (Claude). Les Civilisés. 1931. X2-FARRÈRE (Claude). Thomas l'Agnelet Gentilhomme de fortune. 1928.-FLAUBERT (Gustave). Madame Bovary. 1930. -FRANCE (Anatole). Crainquebille. Putois, riquet et plusieurs autres récits profitables. 1922. X3-FRANCE (Anatole). La Révolte des anges. 1921. -FRANCE (Anatole). La Rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque. 1920.-FRANCE (Anatole). Le Comte Morin député. 1921 (joints spécimen et suites)-FRANCE (Anatole). Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard membre de l'Institut. 1923. -FRANCE (Anatole). Les Opinions de Monsieur Jérome Coignard. 1924.-FRANCE (Anatole). Les Sept femmes de la Barbe Bleue et autres contes merveilleux. 1925.-GORKY (Maxime). Les Vagabonds. 1921. X2-ISTRATI (Panaït). Tsatsa Minnka. 1931.-KIPLING (Rudyard). Le Livre de la jungle. 1930. X2-KIPLING (Rudyard). Le Second livre de la jungle. 1930 X2-KIPLING (Rudyard). Les Bâtisseurs de ponts. 1935. X2 -LEMONNIER (Camille). Au c?ur frais de la forêt. 1922.-LORRAIN (Jean). Monsieur de Phocas. Astarté. 1922. X2-LOTI (Pierre). Mon frère Yves. 1928. X2-LOU?S (Pierre). Psyché. 1935. X2-MAUROIS (André). Ariel ou la vie de Shelley. 1932. X2-MIRBEAU (Octave). Le Calvaire. 1928.-MIRBEAU (Octave). Le Jardin des supplices. 1923. X2-MIRBEAU (Octave). Le Journal d'une femme de chambre. 1932. -MIRBEAU (Octave). Sébastien Roch. 1926. -MONTHERLANT (Henry de). Les Bestiaires. 1926. X3-MONTFORT Eugène. Un C?ur vierge. 1926.-PERGAUD (Louis). De goupil à Margot. 1925. -PERGAUD (Louis). Le Roman de Miraut chien de chasse. 1928.-PERGAUD (Louis). La Guerre des boutons. 1927.-PHILIPPE (Charles-Louis). Marie Donadieu. 1921.-RACHILDE. Portrait d'hommes. 1929. -RÉGNIER (Henri de). L'Escapade. 1931. X2-RÉGNIER (Henri de). Les Rencontres de Monsieur de Bréot. 1930.-ROLLAND (Romain). Colas Breugnon. 1927. -ROUQUETTE (Louis-Frédéric). L'Ile d'enfer. 1924.-SAVIGNON (André). Filles de la pluie. 1934.-SUDERMANN (Hermann). Le Chemin des chats. 1924-TILLIER (Claude). Belle-plante et cornelius. 1921.-THARAUD (Jérome et Jean). Dingley l'illustre écrivain. 1920. -THARAUD (Jérôme et Jean). L'Ombre de la croix. 1932. X2-VALLÈS (Jules). Le Bachelier. 1921. -VALLÈS (Jules). L'Enfant. 1920.-VALLÈS (Jules). Les Réfractaires. 1930. X2 -VALLÈS (Jules). L'Insurgé. 1923. -WILDE (Oscar). Le Portrait de Dorian Gray. 1920.-WHITE (Stewart Edward). Terres de silence. 1922.-ZOLA (Émile). La Bête humaine. 1924. -ZOLA (Émile). La Faute de l'abbé Mouret. 1922. Tout commence en 1919 , pour beaucoup , la révolution apportée par les Editions MORNAY fut l'utilisation systématique de l'illustration pour les ouvrages édités par cette maison.Il faut savoir que jusqu'alors l'illustration était réservée aux editions dites "de Luxe", qualificatif qui indiquait à la fois un soin tout particulier apporté à l'édition, à la composition, mais aussi un prix élevé qui ne permettait pas à tous d'acquerir ces ouvrages et les réservés ainsi aux classes les plus aisées de la société.En ce début de XXeme siécle un certain nombre de maison d'édition se lancérent sur le créneau de ce que l'on appela le livre de "demi-luxe" eut égard aux prix plus modéré pratiqué pour ces ouvrages. Ouvrages qui pour autant permettaient de découvrir des auteurs de tout premier ordre et étaient imprimé avec une attention toute particuliére sur des velins de qualité. Pour autant les illustrations n'étaient qu'exception dans ce genre d'edition.Antoinette et Georges MORNAY ont pensés une organisation qui allait bien au-delà de ce "coté visible de l'iceberg" que fut le recours permanent aux illustrateurs. Leur concept de maison d'edition etait global et trés "marketing" dirions nous aujourd'hui :- Prix de vente trés bas (augmentant néanmoins au fil des années avec le succés) mais qui n'acceptait aucun compris tant sur la qualité de l'impression (papier, gravure, etc.) que sur le choix des auteurs et des illustrateurs .- Création d'un Service de Presse qui par les livres offert aux journalistes donna aux Editions MORNAY une publicité non négligeable.- Campagne de publicité, pouvant être de grande envergure (Article de Maurice CONS.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First American Edition. Original green illustrated cloth and publisher's dustjacket. Although the English edition is occasionally found in dust jacket, the American edition is much less common. Not in Tanselle (for the English dust jacket see Tanselle 97.91) Very good with light shelf wear in nearly Very good dustjacket, with chips at top and bottom of spine, and a few tears along the spine and front flap.

First American Edition. Original green illustrated cloth and publisher's dustjacket. Although the English edition is occasionally found in dust jacket, the American edition is much less common. Not in Tanselle (for the English dust jacket see Tanselle 97.91) Very good with light shelf wear in nearly Very good dustjacket, with chips at top and bottom of spine, and a few tears along the spine and front flap.

Limited Edition. No. 148 of one thousand sets, signed by Kipling in the first volume. Twenty-eight octavo volumes; red gilt-blocked beveled cloth, top edges gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; in uniform dustjackets. Front endpapers with printed bookplates of Harry Bishop Clapp (to each pastedown) and James Glen Mead (to each free endpaper). The latter have caused some mild rippling to the endleaves, else a fresh, fine set in the original printed dustwrappers, uniformly fine and free of darkening or wear. The authoritative edition of Kipling's works, rarely found in the original dustwrappers and almost unheard of in this condition, certainly the finest set to reach the market in the past twenty or more years. RICHARDS D25.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. First Editions, First Printings of both books. Each book is bound in the publisher's ORIGINAL blue cloth. Both books are in great shape. The bindings are tight with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the books. Overall, a wonderful copy of these two First Editions housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation.

Sepia photograph mounted on mat, 320 x 237 mm. With Kipling's signature in fountain pen on the mount below photograph. Photographic portrait signed on the matting by its subject Rudyard Kipling, the English novelist, short-story writer, journalist, political actor, and winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize for literature, best remembered for "The Jungle Books". - The photographer's mount features the blindstamp of the photography studio: "J. Russell Photographer" with its Baker Street address below. The Russell studio was known for portraits of famous individuals of the day, from artists to heads of state. By middle age, Kipling had already won his Nobel Prize and was his work was famous across the English-speaking world. - Signature bright and clear, very well preserved.

The Bombay edition of Rudyard Kipling's collected works. Octavo, 30 volumes, bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt titles to the spine, gilt tooling and ruling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, inner dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. One of 1,050 sets with volume one signed by Rudyard Kipling. In very good condition. The works of Rudyard Kipling contains his poetry, novels, stories, travel writings, children s tales, military tales and essays. Kipling in 1907 became the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize.

Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Early Printing. First American edition, early reprint with "Thirtieth Thousand" on the title page. Bound in publisher's original olive green cloth decoratively embossed and stamped in gilt. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper, contents lightly tanned and occasionally foxed, else Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with light chipping at the edges, toning, and a scratch to the front panel. A stunning and bright copy, with sharp gilt no doubt protected by the dust jacket over all these years. A remarkable survival.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. . [Limitation statement]: "Cette edition a ete tiree [there have been printed] 140 exemplaires [copies] numerotes et signees. Les dix premiers exemplaires [the first 10 copies] comportent une aquarelle originale [an original watercolor illustration] et une triple suite des gravures [this copy lacks this triple suite of engravings]; les trente [30] exemplaires suivants comportent une double suite des gravures. Il a ete tire en outre vingt [20] exemplaires hors commerce numerotes en chiffres romains. Exemplaire No. 9 [signed]: Gonin + Cie." "Les compositions qui ornent cet ouvrage sont de F. L. Schmied; elles ont ete gravees sur bois et imprimees en couleurs par Ph. Gonin. Collaborateur: Dill. Acheve d'imprimer le 28 fevrier 1930.". Size of the bindings: 10 inches x 12 1/4 in. x 2 1/4 in. (thick), Volume 1: half-title with small red bull design in colors, dedication page with limitation and with the publisher's signature on the reverse of the dedication page; watercolor illustration of a red bull, signed in ink by Schmied; second half-title; title-page printed in red, black and gray with Plus Haut design. Text: pp. [9]-[268] + [1] p. list of illustrations. With 8 heading illustrations & 8 full-page, both in colors, as well as tail-pieces, etc. Volume 2: half-title with small design of red bull; half-title; title-page printed in red, black and gray with Plus Haut design. Text: pp. [5]-[264] + [1]p. list of illustrations + printer's colophon leaf with design. 7 heading illustrations & 6 full-page, both in colors, and tail-pieces, etc. The text is in French. Bound in full, dark green morocco leather (the spines have faded to light brown), with the author's name and title and illustrator's name gilt on the spine, with one or two white dots on each spine for the volume numbers. The front and back covers of each volume feature a circular, concentric design, which is formed of two cut-out, leather-covered forms which are mounted in a circular cut-out well, lined with a white plastic material. The circular cut-out forms display the title: KIM in gilt letters and gilt dots. The central form bears a gilt sunburst type design formed of small dots, around a larger gilt dot; these are repeated in each corner of the front and back covers. The mounted title form on the back covers does not display the lettered word Kim, but does have the sunburst design on the central form; multicolored, sewn headbands; inner leather turn-ins with green slik endpapers, and green, brown and gold marbled flyleaves. The binding is unsigned, but possibly designed by Schmied, who also used Crette and Dunand to design and execute bindings for his books; the design also seems to echo some of Paul Bonet's early work, in the use of the circular forms with lettering. The spines show fading and some rubbing to the leather surfaces of the spines, spine ends, outer hinges. In dark green & gold-flecked paper-covered slipcases, with brown morocco leather facings. The slipcase for volume one shows splitting, which has been covered with green cloth tape at some point to reinforce the edges. Weight: 15 lbs. Postage is extra on this item. Ward Ritchie: "Art Deco: The Books of Francois-Louis Schmied" (1987), # 32; page 37. (French text). Seller Inventory # F-114.

First edition, first impression, of the book written by members of the Kipling family. Published in an edition of 250 copies, it is rare in original wrappers and with advertisements at the end. The book includes the first appearance of "The Phantom 'Rickshaw'" and "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, C. E.". Kipling described the conception of this work in his autobiography, Something of Myself (1937). He noted that "in the cold weather of [18]85 we four made up a Christmas annual. which pleased us a good deal and attracted a certain amount of attention. (Later, much later, it became a 'collector's piece' in the US book-market, and to that extent smudged the memories of its birth)". The 16 pieces, comprising eight in prose and eight in verse, were written by "four Anglo-Indian writers" (as described on the title page and remaining anonymous throughout the book) who were Kipling, his father, mother, and sister. Kipling had initiated the publication with the Civil and Military Gazette and it was sold by subscription. This slim volume gave the 19 year old writer an opportunity to publish his work and he contributed half of the texts. The ghost stories would become better-known and were reprinted within The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other tales in 1890. Kipling's father had been somewhat against publication of Quartette and wrote to Margaret Burne-Jones that he had hoped that someone would "rap [Rudyard's] knuckles for the unwholesomeness of 'The Phantom 'Rickshaw' and the coarseness of the 'Tragedy of Teeth'". The binding of the publication was particularly chaotic. According to Kipling, the work took place at night by candlelight and he provided workers on overtime with tots of brandy and plugs of free tobacco to encourage the "forty odd men besides binders to keep Quartette going". Publication was announced on 19 December and the front cover was possibly designed by John Lockwood Kipling, then serving as the first principal of the Mayo School of Art in Lahore. Richards notes that the advertisements "sometimes vary in number". He states "copies are known with only three leaves, or four leaves or six or even eight, with a blank final yellow leaf, instead of the more standard seven. Copies were also bound without advertisements (at Kipling's direction for family members). In some copies the last of the seven leaves of advertisements is pink rather than pale yellow". Additionally "the rear endsheet has been excised from some copies. with the stub pasted to the terminal leaf of advertisements". The present copy carries seven leaves of which the final leaf is pink. Martindell 4; Livingston 5; Stewart 7; Ballard VII; Grolier 18; Richards A4. Octavo. Original wrappers, printed in black. Housed in a red cloth chemise with a red morocco-backed slipcase. Ownership signature on front wrapper. Loss to most of spine, minor chip at top right corner of front wrapper, some slight rust-staining; a very good copy and a particularly attractive example.

Relié. 1 volume. In-4. XVI + 115 pp. Reliure bradel demi-maroquin noir. Dos lisse avec titre doré. Tête dorée. Sans les couvertures.Illustré de 115 compositions en couleurs de Paul JOUVE, dont 21 à pleine page, gravées sur bois par Camille Beltrand encollaboration avec Pierre Bouchet. La typographie et l'impression de cette édition ont été réalisées dans les ateliers de Pierre Bouchet. Bel ensemble. TIRAGE LIMITÉ à 185 exemplaires, tous imprimés sur Japon Impérial à la forme, dont 60 non mis dans le commerce et réservés à l'artiste.