English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations
English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations
From the Library of Christian Heuer
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From the Library of Christian Heuer
[KIPLING, RUDYARD]
Collection of works, chiefly by or about Kipling:
Soldiers Three, a collection of Stories. Allahabad: the "Pioneer" Press, 1888, FIRST EDITION, one of 1,500 copies, rebound in contemporary calf, original wrappers bound in, preserved in chemise and slipcase, original upper wrapper detached, upper board detached; Wee Willie Winkie and other Child Stories. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler, [1888], first Indian edition, original wrappers; The Story of the Gadsbys. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler, [1888], first Indian edition, original wrappers, preserved in chemise and quarter morocco slipcase, covers torn and chipped; The Story of the Gadsbys. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and (London:) Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, [1890], first English edition, original paper covers, covers slightly torn; The City of Dreadful Night and other places. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and (London:) Sampson Low, Marston & Company, [1891], first English edition, original wrappers, wrappers slightly torn; The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Tales. Allahabad: A.W. Wheeler, [1889], first Indian edition, original wrappers, preserved in chemise and quarter red morocco pull-off box; Phantom Rickshaw & other Tales. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and (London:) Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890, first English edition, original wrappers; Plain Tales from the Hills. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. and (London:) W. Thacker and co., 1888, first edition, second issue, original pictorial cloth; Plain Tales from the Hills. Macmillan, 1890, third edition, the American author William Clyde Fitch's copy with his bookplate and ownership inscription, original blue cloth; Stalky & Co. Macmillan, 1899, reprint, rebound in full crushed morocco, pictorial morocco doublure, slipcase; In Sight of Mount Monadnock, privately printed, 1894 [1918], original wrappers, slightly stained; Sea and Sussex...illustrated by Donald Maxwell. Macmillan, 1926, ONE OF 500 LARGE PAPER COPIES, SIGNED BY KIPLING, original quarter vellum, light blue boards; 'They'. Macmillan, 1905, original white buckram; with eight other works by Kipling (titles including Wee Willie Winkie, A Song of the English, A Diversity of Creatures, Debits and Credits, Limits and Renewals, A Book of Words, and Letters of Travel, various editions, most in dust-jackets) and other volumes, chiefly relating to Kipling, including biographies, exhibition catalogues, auction catalogues and bibliographies (the latter including Martindale, Livingston and Richards); chiefly 8vo (47)
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