Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling, First Edition (95 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. FIRST. Limited edition of 1050 sets (. Signed on the half-title of volume 1. full red Morocco 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 paperA BEAUTIFUL SET.

First edition, first impression, of one of Kipling's major books, very rare in the dust jacket. Puck of Pook's Hill brings together ten stories and 16 poems, which had previously appeared in journals. Richards A205; Stewart 306. Octavo. Frontispiece and 19 full-page monochrome illustrations by H. R. Millar, 4 pp. of publisher's advertisements at end. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt Ganesha device to front cover, top edge gilt. With dust jacket. Corners a touch bumped, the binding otherwise bright and firm, internally clean and fresh. A very good copy in good only jacket, small tape repairs to verso, slight wear to extremities, spine panel toned.

Hardcover. Harold R. Millar (illustrator). First edition. This is a magnificent copy of the British first edition, second printing in the exceptionally scarce dust jacket. The second printing was issued the same month as the first printing and is nearly identical. The dust jacket differs from that of the first printing only in adding Puck of Pook's Hill to the list of Kipling titles on the rear panel. The volume differs only in the copyright page notation of the second printing. Puck of Pook's Hill is Kipling's abidingly English collection of ten stories and sixteen poems, informed by English history and animated by English mythology, for a youthful audience, this British first edition published with twenty illustrations by Harold R. Millar. This is the first publication of the sixteen poems. Preceding the British and American first editions, the stories had appeared in Strand Magazine, as well as in Ladies' Home Journal and McClure's Magazine in America. "Several minor changes were made in the story texts, as printed in book form, and there are numerous but unimportant textual differences between the English and American Editions." (Richards, A205) This copy is rare thus fine in a very good dust jacket. The red cloth binding is improbably bright and clean, tight with sharp corners, vivid gilt, and no appreciable wear. The contents are pristine crisp and bright with no previous ownership marks, no spotting, clean fore and bottom edges, and bright gilt top edge. The endpapers show differential toning corresponding to the dust jacket flaps. A single leaf (verso and recto) bound in at the rear advertises other works by Kipling. The sole previous ownership mark is a tiny "Times Book Club" sticker affixed to the lower rear pastedown. The dust jacket shows only trivial loss at the spine head and corners, with moderate overall soiling and short closed tears to the upper hinges and upper edge of the rear panel. The spine shows mild toning, but the red print remains distinct. The dust jacket is protected beneath a removable, archival quality clear cover. When first published, Kipling referred to the first four stories as "part of scheme of mine for trying to give children not a notion of history but a notion of time sense which is at the bottom of all history that rightly understood means love of one's fellow man and the land one lives in". (Letters 3, p.189) Siblings Dan and Una of rural Sussex are reciting A Midsummer Night's Dream to one another on Midsummer Eve near the titular "Pook's Hill" when they summon Puck "a small, brown, broad-shouldered, pointy-eared person with a snub nose, slanting blue eyes, and a wicked twinkle in his eye". Puck introduces himself as "the oldest Old Thing in England" and introduces a procession of figures from English history among them a Roman centurion, a Saxon monk, a Norman knight, a Viking sea captain, and so on. Rewards and Fairies, published in 1910, added additional stories and poems. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, stories and poems of British India, and his tales for children. Despite this reputation, Kipling's extraordinary body of work "eludes all labels in its range and variety Kipling's work is not only of the highest artistic excellence, it is deeply humane and fully expresses the sense of one of his favourite texts: 'Praised be Allah for the diversity of his creatures.'" (ODNB) Kipling was in his twenties when his stories of Anglo-Indian life made him a literary celebrity, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907, the year after this book was published. This book has two instances - on the gilt front cover device and on the half title verso of the swastika symbol prevalent in Kipling's published works, an ancient symbol of "good fortune" used at least 5,000 years before being perverted by Hitler's Reich. Bibliographic reference: Richards A205.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). First. 4 colored Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 8vo, original green cloth, stamped in gilt & black. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1906. First American Edition. Fine copy in a 1/2 green morocco slipcase.

8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, and 19 full-page illustrations in the text, neat contemporary signature on title; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, original gilt from upper board and backstrip mounted on new and separate leaves at front, custom-made-slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Collects ten historical tales. Livingston 299.

[Fantasy Tales] FIRST EDITION THUS, first impression. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.x; 670 [4], ads. With colour frontispiece and full page illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, gilt, with top edge gilt, in pictorial dust-wrapper priced 10/6. Contents clean, school prize label, binding a little mottled, fragile jacket mostly complete with a few chips to upper panel and to crown, with a few neat tape strips to reverse side. Very good (uncommon in jacket). Kipling's complete series of popular tales told by 'Puck', traditionally a name for a malicious spirit or demon of popular superstition, and from the 16th century the name of a mischievous goblin (or Hobgoblin), similar to that appearing in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', the fairy scene from which is acted out here. Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature (277). BMC No.1[1984]; 'Edwardian Children's Books'.

hardcover. Condition: fine. First. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Handsomely rebound in full green morocco using the original pictorial cover, New York: Doubleday, 1906. First American edition. Fine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Near fine in publisher's original red cloth with some fading to the spine and darkening of the boards, and a former owner's bookplate.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth with gilt device of elephant and fylfot on front cover and gilt letteriing on spine. Top edge gilt. 1st Printing 1st Printing 1st Printing 1st Printing 1st Printing 1st Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First American Edition. A Fine copy in dark green vertically ribbed cloth, top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, 277pp. with frontis illustration (glassine guard) with three more illustrations in text (by Arthur Rackham, all present). Uncut copy. A collection of stories and poems. Q13118.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. First Printing of the First American Edition, published two months prior to the English Edition. Very Good+ in boards. Light shelfwear on spine crown and heel. Owner name on FEP. Light foxing throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Millar, H R (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. x, 306pp, [10pp], with frontispiece and 19 further full page illustrations all by H R Millar. In a later fine binding, half bound in red leather over marbled boards, five raised bands, gilt rules and gilt decorations on spine. 8vo. Small nick in paper on rear lower edge. Text block edges a little toned. Hint of toning in page margins and the very occasional faint spot, the final leaf of the publisher's adverts at end is browning. A very handsome first edition copy of Kipling's collection ten stories inspired by English history under the auspices of Puck, the 'oldest Old thing in England'. Millar, H R Beautiful Books, Rudyard Kipling, Fine Bindings,

First edition and the first with illustrations. Four illustrations in colour by Arthur Rackham. 8vo, publisher's original green cloth, the spine and upper cover lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black with the design of the famous caravelle sailing ship. t.e.g [8], 277 pp. A very pleasing copy, the gilt and cloth bright. FIRST EDITION, AND THE FIRST WITH THE RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS. The English edition was not illustrated. Stories from English history told by romantic characters to two children over whom Puck the fairy had cast a midsummer spell. It can count both as historical fantasy since some of the stories told of the past have clear magical elements, and as contemporary fantasy since it depicts a magical being active and practicing his magic in the England of the early 1900s when the book was written.

First Edition. Hard cover, no dj. 306 pp. Illustrated. Very good binding and boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. First Edition. Octavo. Pp. x, 306, [10] - publ. adverts. dated 20.9.06, with 20 black & white illustrations by H.R. Millar. Original maroon cloth with a gilt embossed "Ganesha" roundel - an elephant head with a lotus in its mouth, a recognizable Kipling "logo" which symbolizes wisdom, foresight, and good luck. Another ancient symbol Kipling used for over 40 years was the swastika, a Hindu good luck symbol. In Sanskrit the word means "fortunate" or "well-being". Once the Nazis had usurped the swastika Kipling ordered that it should no longer adorn his books. Covers lightly rubbed and scuffed, corners bruised, spine ends starting, shaken, rear hinge split revealing the mull, front hinge split between p. x, and title of first story. Tanning to endpapers, else interior clean and bright. A nice copy of the first edition.

Illustrated by Arthur Rackham; extra-illustrated with thirteen additional half-tone illustrations depicting scenes alongside Kipling's stories. (illustrator). First US edition, first printing. 277pp. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BRITISH FANTASY In a whimsy-laced journey through time, the trickster Puck summons visitors from across England's pastfrom Roman legionaries to Norman knights and Magna Cartaera merchantseach weaving captivating stories steeped in history and folklore. Framed by evocative poems, these vignettes blend fantasy with national legacy, culminating in a celebration of England's evolving identity. The first US edition is notable for its four haunting color plates by Arthur Rackham, absent from the British edition. This copy is further distinguished as an extra-illustrated example, enriched by a previous owner with thirteen additional half-tone illustrations depicting scenes of Ancient Rome. The juxtaposition of Kipling's imaginative retelling of English history with Roman imagery creates a layered dialogue between text and illustration, offering a fascinating glimpse into the interpretive creativity of early 20th-century collectors. [Livingston, 283]. Mild foxing frontis tissue-guard, extremities rubbed, internally clean, binding tight and square, a near fine copy. Publisher's green cloth, pictorially stamped in black with image of a ship, titled in gilt, teg.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). First American Edition. Green cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine, imagine of ship embossed on cover, wear to extremities, top gilt page edge, deckled pages edge and bottom. Signature of previous owner on front free endpaper. Frontispiece with heavily foxed tissue guard, title page also foxed. (4) illustrations including frontispiece by Arthur Rackham. Pages 165 and 166 have open tear, edges of ten lines of text obscured by tear. Some age toning throughout. 277 pp. First American Edition published two months before British Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). First U.S. Edition. 8vo,( 8) 277, (1)pp. Beautiful First Printing of the First American Edition, published two months prior to the English Edition. Bound in original pictorial green cloth with titles and viking ship vignette stamped in black gilt on the front board and spine. t.e.g. Four colored plates by Arthur Rackham present which were not present in the English Edition. Housed in a red cloth-covered chemise and matching quarter red morocco and red cloth slipcase. Bookplate on front paste-down.of popular American Author, George Barr McCutcheon, best known for the "Graustark" novels as well as"Brewster's Millions", made into several films of the same name. Bookseller ticket of Lauriat's of Boston on ffep. Square, tight and clean throughout. Mild rubbing to hinges, edges and tips. A hint of off-setting on the ffep from the bookplate but quite minor. Very well-preserved. A most handsome collectable copy.

First edition, first printing of 'Puck of Pook's Hill', First Issue with adverts at rear. Red boards with gilt elephant vignette to front board & gilt titles. A near fine copy. Clean boards with no marks of note. Nicking to spine tips. A touch of fading to the spine - rubbing to the spine tips and corners. No inscriptions. All plates present. A collection of short stories blending history, fantasy, and folklore. Set in England's Sussex countryside, it follows two children, Dan and Una, who encounter Puck, a mischievous sprite from English folklore. Puck introduces them to various historical characters, including Roman soldiers and Norman knights, who share tales of England's past. Through these stories, Kipling explores themes of identity, nationalism, and the enduring spirit of England. The book serves as both entertainment and a celebration of English heritage, showcasing Kipling's skillful storytelling and his love for the land and its legends.

[Fantasy tales] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 306 [2]. With 20 engraved plates by Millar, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green half calf by BUMPUS with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and green cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Lightly toned with some tobacco scent. Spine sunned to brown, with moderate rubbing and bumping. Very good. Kipling's popular series of tales set in different historical eras, including Roman Britain, Anglo-Saxon England, The Norman Conquest, The Middle Ages and the Tudor Period. The stories are all told to two children living near Pevensey, East Sussex, by characters magically plucked out of history by 'Puck'. Traditionally the term 'Puck' referred to a malicious spirit or demon of popular superstition, and from the 16th century the name of a mischievous goblin (or Hobgoblin), similar to that appearing in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', the fairy scene from which is acted out here. Although 'Puck' is seen as a children's book, (in the same way 'Treasure Island' or 'King Solomon's Mines' are viewed), the story-tellers are adults and the romances they describe would only be suitable for older readers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt titling on the spine, gilt design on front cover. Illustrated with 20 b/w drawings. 4-page publisher's catalogue. Top edge gilt. Some wear to the corners and to the ends of the spine. Foxing to the end-papers. The spine has darkened, and the covers have dusting. Label of bookseller (Burrows Bros., cleveland)on rear paste-down. Bookplate of Munson and Hetty Havens on front paste-down, and hand-written inscription "Munson from Hetty, Sept. 5, 1906." (Munson Havens, 1873-1942, of Cleveland, Ohio was an author and a collector of Kipling's works.) A near fine copy.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. First edition of Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling, with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. (illustrator). First Edition. Octavo, 277pp. Green cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine, illustrations stamped in black on front cover. Stated "Published, October, 1906" on copyright page. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's signature in ink on front free endpaper. Complete with frontispiece and three color illustrations by Arthur Rackham. A near fine example.

First edition, first printing of Puck of Puck's Hill by Rudyard Kipling, published by MacMillan, London in 1906, a First Issue with adverts at rear. Red boards with gilt elephant embossed vignette to front board & gilt titles, nicking to spine tips and some surface damage to heal of the spine, fading to the spine, rubbing to corners, gilt top stain to text block, light pencil annotation marks throughout. A collection of short stories blending history, fantasy, and folklore. Set in England's Sussex countryside, it follows two children, Dan and Una, who encounter Puck, a mischievous sprite from English folklore. Puck introduces them to various historical characters, including Roman soldiers and Norman knights, who share tales of England's past. Through these stories, Kipling explores themes of identity, nationalism, and the enduring spirit of England. The book serves as both entertainment and a celebration of English heritage, showcasing Kipling's skillful storytelling and his love for the land and its legends.

[Fantasy Tales] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] x; 306 [12]. With 20 black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar, including a frontispiece. Advertisements dated 15.8.06. Elegantly hand-bound in red half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original cloth with gilt elephant medallion to upper board. Top edge gilt. Light toning to edges. A nice clean copy in an attractive recent leather binding. Very good. Kipling's popular series of tales set in different historical eras, including Roman Britain, Anglo-Saxon England, The Norman Conquest, The Middle Ages and the Tudor Period. The stories are all told to two children living near Pevensey, East Sussex, by characters magically plucked out of history by 'Puck'. Traditionally the term 'Puck' referred to a malicious spirit or demon of popular superstition, and from the 16th century the name of a mischievous goblin (or Hobgoblin), similar to that appearing in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', the fairy scene from which is acted out here. Although 'Puck' is seen as a children's book, (in the same way 'Treasure Island' or 'King Solomon's Mines' are viewed), the story-tellers are adults and the romances they describe would only be suitable for older readers.

Condition: near fine. 1st Canadian Edition. [x],306pp. Octavo. Original publisher's red cloth; spine title in gilt with Ganesha device to front board in gilt. Spine slightly faded; minor shelfwear to crown and foot, corners lightly rubbed. Upper edge gilt. Ruled title page. 20 B/W plates from etchings (including frontis with tissue guard), in pagination. Advertisements bound in at rear. A tight, clean copy; plates clear and bright. near fine Stewart 306. Kipling's classic. A collection of 10 stories and 16 poems roginally published in the "Strand" journal. With illustrations by H.R. Millar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Decorated green cloth printed in black and gilt. Substantial chip on front fly else a bright very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION AND FIRST WITH THE RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS. The English edition was not illustrated. Stories from English history told by romantic characters to two children over whom Puck the fairy had cast a midsummer spell. It can count both as historical fantasy since some of the stories told of the past have clear magical elements, and as contemporary fantasy since it depicts a magical being active and practising his magic in the England of the early 1900s when the book was written. First edition and the first with illustrations. Four illustrations in colour by Arthur Rackham. 8vo, publisher's original green cloth, the spine and upper cover lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black with the design of the famous caravelle sailing ship. [8], 277 pp. A very pleasing copy, gilt and cloth bright, only light age evidence with slight rubbing to the tips and spine ends and slight bowing of the binding. Uncut with pages largely unopened with no previous ownership signatures.

First U.S. edition and the first edition with illustrations by Rackham. A fantasy book for children with frontispiece and four full-page colored illustrations by Rackham tipped in. 8vo green cloth stamped in black and lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. Small hole in rear endpaper at hinge, which is starting at the final blank; otherwise very good to near fine with just a bit of rubbing to tips. Pages largely unopened.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. Rudyard Kipling's anthology of historical fantasy tales, the illustrated first impression. The first edition, first impression of this work. With four leaves of advertisements to rear, dated 15.08.06 as called for.A Rudyard Kipling's anthology of short stories featuring fantasy tales set in various periods of English history.Illustrated with frontispiece and nineteen further illustrations. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, back strip gently faded. Previous ownership faint stamp to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. 306 pp. Second impression. Half calf Eton School prize: red cloth and leather with gilt titles and deco to spine: fading to extremes and minor abrasion to tips. Marbled pastedown and end papers and gilt to top of text block. 'Woodrush School' faint stamp to front and rear end papers. Neat penned dedication to further FEP: 'H. Nettlefold, 2nd. in school-work. Eton Upper Fourth. Lent 1911. from H. Brinton'. Hubert Brinton was House Master 1898-1924. Very clean throughout with A1 binding. A handsome copy with illustrations by H. R. Millar all present and correct.