Kipling Kay (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Warwick Goble, Stanley L. Wood, R. Sauber, J.F. Sullivan, A. Forestier, H. Piffard, F.T. Jane, R. Caton Woodville, etc. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Large 8vo in pebbled cloth and half-leather. The first six months, bound volume of the British periodical, absent individual wraps and advertising matter, as usual. Includes Anthony Hope's (Hopkins') "The Vigil of Count Amadeo" (here two years after his success with his classic "Prisoner of Zenda"), illustrated by R. Sauber, R.B.A.; Bret Harte's "A Convert of the Mission," illustrated by A. Forestier; Rudyard Kipling's poem "Soldier an' Sailor Too," dramatically illustrated by G. Montbard; the six-gun Western adventure "Shadow of the Greenback," by Robert Barr, illustrated by the renowned Stanley L. Wood; "London's Danger," by Cutliffe Hyne (a k a Weatherby Chesney), illustrated by Warwick Goble; "War on the Water," by George Griffith, illustrated by F.T. Jane; "The Great Water Joke," written and illustrated by J.F. Sullivan, E. Kay Robinson's non-fiction "Rudyard Kipling in India," etc. The great magazine just as it was hitting its stride. Reduced from $90.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Light scuffing and wear to cover, otherwise very clean and sound. Includes 9 full-color plates. 33 pgs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Rackham, Arthur; Dulac, Kay Nielsen, Maxfield Parrish (illustrator). First Edition. Color Plates; b&w drawings and photos; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 188 pages; 1914 Hearst's International Library. Oversize HC soundly bound in original slate gray cloth lettered in white. Organized and promoted by William Randolph Hearst the book was a celebrity-packed anthology designed to raise money and rally international and especially American sympathy for Belgium after the 1914 invasion. Includes original contributions (poems and texts) by major figures including Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Edith Wharton, and others, together with tipped-in color platesspecial contributions and authorized reproductionsby leading illustrators including Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, and Maxfield Parrish, produced in support of Belgian relief. Spine lettering slightly dulled; light toning to cloth at spine and along edges of upper board. Contents generally bright and neat, with light foxing adjacent to some plates; a few black-and-white plates on thinner glossy paper show mild rippling. About VG.

(Categ. Letteratura straniera) - (In 16.mo cm. 12,5x18,5) - (Legatura : tutta tela editoriale con tassello e titoli in oro al dorso e cofanetto cartonato illustrato) - (pp. 447) - (Collana : I Marmi - n. 63) A cura di Kurt Singer una raccolta di opere degli autori indicati (58d). Trad. Marisa Sughi. Fioriture al cofanetto cartonato illustrato.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original cream cloth covers, green title lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 4to. 11'' x 9''. Contains 188 pp with black and white frontispiece portrait, plus 24 plates (17 colour tipped-in and framed), black and white text illustrations, music scores throughout. Ink message dated 1928 to the front paste down, off-setting to the end papers, slight soiling to the pale cream cloth covers, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book).

Cream hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and soiled. Sporadic foxing; heavy at eps; Inner hinge cracking. Some creasing to plates. 280mm x 220mm (11" x 9"). 187pp. 16 tipped-in plates by Rackham, Neilsen, Dulac, Parrish et al; additional plates and b/w illustrations. 'A Tribute to the Belgian King and People from the Representative Men and Women Throughout the World'. A compilation of prose and illustrative work from the great luminaries of the age. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original cream cloth covers, dark navy title lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 4to. 11'' x 9''. Contains 188 pp with black and white frontispiece portrait, plus 24 plates (17 colour tipped-in and framed), black and white text illustrations, music scores throughout. In Very Good clean and bright condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book).

First edition. Presented by King George V to S. Lawes of the 1st Royal Berkshire Regiment at the 4th London General Hospital, Denmark Hill, on Christmas Day 1914 (inscribed to front free endpaper). Quarto. Publisher's original cream cloth with decorative titles in green to the upper board and spine. Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece, 16 tipped-in colour plates, 1 further colour plate, and 10 black and white plates. Additional printed presentation plate to front pastedown: "King Albert's Book, with Sir Francis Trippel's Best Wishes for a Happy Xmas, a Speedy Recovery and a Victorious New Year, Xmas 1914". 188pp. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with marking and darkening to the boards. The contents with toning to the endpapers, scattered foxing, and creasing to the corners of some of the tipped-in plates, are otherwise in very good order. Inscribed in black ink to the front free endpaper: "S. Lawes. 1st Royal Berkshire. / December 25th - IH. / 4th London Genera Hospital / Denmark Hill. / Presented by His Majesty King George V" (not in the King's hand). Published in aid of the Belgium Fund, the work includes contributions from over 250 figures from the worlds of literature, art, politics, music, and science. Certainly not an uncommon book, but an evocative copy, presented by King George V to a wounded soldier on Christmas Day 1914, just five months in to the First World War.

First Edition. King Albert's Book: A tribute to the Belgian king and the people from representative men and women throughout the world, The Daily Telegraph in conjunction with The Daily Sketch, The Glasgow Herald, and Hodder and Stoughton, 1914, first edition, some foxing to the page edges, some minor stains to a small area of the front cover and the head of the spine, off-setting to the end-papers no doubt due from the dust-wrapper flaps, else just about fine in the publishers original scarce printed vg tissue dust-wrapper with some wear and tear and chipping. Contains poems and prose from Edith Wharton, Jack London, Winston Churchill, Claude Debussy, Rudyard Kipling, H. Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy, G. K. Chesterton, et.al. as well as tipped in full color, full page illustrations by Arthur Rackham, Maxfield Parrish, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, et.al. Uncommon in dust-wrapper to be sure.