London: Macmillan and Co., 1909. Limited "Edition de Luxe", one of 260 copies. 4to. x, 273, (1) pp. Publisher's gilt lettered and decorated vellum, lacking the silk ties. Frontispiece and 31 colour plates, all tipped in with captioned tissue guards. Neatly recased in the original binding which is quite soiled..... More
London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1864. Second edition, 8vo, (iv), 378 pp. Frontispiece and one plate, some foxing to early leaves, endpapers with some wear, signatures to fly leaf verso. Original gilt decorated dark green cloth, recently rebacked retaining the original spine. First published the year before... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1929. First edition thus. 8vo. (xvi), 447, (1) pp. Publisher's gilt lettered and decorated red soft leather, top edge gilt, dust jacket. Frontispiece and 16 plates. Slight wear to the spine ends of the jacket and the book, very good overall. Published by the Canadian Branch..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1902. First edition, large 8vo, (vi), 249, (3) pp. 22 full page illustrations plus others in the text. Recent red full morocco, a.e.g., a lovely copy. The only book that Kipling illustrated himself. Martindell 99. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1951. Reprint. Large 8vo. (vi), 249, (1) pp. Publisher's red cloth with black and white decorations and lettering, dust jacket replicating the same design. Numerous full page black and white illustrations plus others in the text. Wear to the edges of the jacket plus some mild..... More
London & Edinburgh: T.C. and E.C. Jack, 1905. First edition thus, 8vo, xii, 323, (1) pp. Frontispiece portrait of the Lambs plus 20 coloured plates, light damp stain to the lower edge of the first few leaves, signature and ink date stamp to front blank. Original gilt and blind decorated..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906. First edition thus, 8vo, 196 pp. Coloured frontispiece and black and white full page illustrations in the text, five of these not unattractively coloured in, contemporary inscription to front blank, patterned endpapers. Original gilt titled cloth, spine slightly sunned with rubbing to the ends..... More
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897. 8vo, xviii, (11)-144 pp. Black and white illustrations, first and last page browned, contemporary bookplate and later booklabel to paste down, contemporary inscription to fly leaf, offset through onto the half title, slight chipping to the outer edge of the fly leaf. Original gilt..... More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. First edition, small 4to, (xii), 159, (1) pp. 72 wood engravings, 5 full page. Cloth, d.w., browned with some soiling, spine with minor loss to the top and middle. More
London: Collins, 1934. Second impression, oblong folio, (vi), 54, (2) pp. 12 full page wood engravings and 7 vignettes plus initial letters, patterned endpapers, contemporary inscription to front blank. Original gilt titled green cloth, top and bottom edges faded, d.w. with some tears and fairly minor loss to the top..... More
(London): The Sumach Press, (1992). Oblong folio, (vi), 54, (2) pp. 12 full page wood engravings and 7 vignettes plus initial letters, patterned endpapers. Cloth, d.w., spine and edges of the lower wrapper small dink to the top of the upper wrapper, overall very good. More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1935. First edition, small 4to, 166, (2) pp. 86 wood engravings, 6 full page, monogrammed bookplate. Original green cloth, d.w. browned with a few minor marks, some loss to the spine ends. More
London: The Folio Society, 1996. First edition thus, seven volumes, 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Gilt and silver decorated green cloth, card slipcase with a couple of bumps, one edge slightly cracked. More
London: Geoffrey Bles, (1951). First edition, 8vo, 194, (2) pp. Coloured frontispiece and black and white illustrations in the text, map to front endpapers. Cloth, spine faded. More
London: Sylvan Press, Nicholson & Watson, 1944. Second edition, 4to, 28 pp 10 full page coloured illustrations plus others in the text. Original cloth backed pictorial boards, some soiling and wear to extremities. First published in 1939. More
[London]: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1912]. First edition, 8vo, 96 pp. Coloured frontipiece plus black and white illustrations, a few marginal marks, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of Parktown Preparatory School, Johannesburg. Contemporary dark blue calf, gilt border and spine, red label, slight wear to spine. More
London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. First edition, 8vo, (ii), 288, (4 advertisement) pp. Frontispiece and 3 plates plus a few vignette illustrations, endpapers browned, contemporary bookplate and a small, more recent bookseller's label to the foot of the paste down, W.H. Smith blind stamp to the fly leaf and..... More
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, (1939). First edition, 8vo, 261, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations, a few spots at the beginning and end. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, some marking from old sellotape strengthening to spine ends and corners, now mostly removed, light edge wear with minor loss to the..... More
London: Virgin Publishing Ltd., 1999. First British edition. 4to. 239, (1) pp. Publisher's pictorial boards with a cut-out section to the upper cover, this with a glassine panel with colour illustrations of Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters. Illustrated in colour throughout. An excellent copy. First published in the US the previous year..... More
London: Grant Richards, (1902). Second edition, 32mo, (viii), 94, (2) pp with the majority of the leaves printed on one side only. 24 coloured illustrations. Original cloth, some light soiling, recently recased. 24 verses and illustrations on national themes (omitting X and Y), from "A for Arab" and "B for..... More
Oxford University Press, 2006. No. 1,477 of 1,500 copies signed by the author. 8vo. (xii), 275, (1) pp. Publisher's red cloth, dark red lettering to the spine with a matching illustration to the upper board, dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. An excellent copy. More
London: Stanley Paul & Co., (1925). First edition, 4to, 106 pp. 12 colour plates plus an illustration to the title, contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Original gilt titled cloth with a coloured illustration to the upper cover, d.w. soiled with loss and some creasing to extremities. More
London: Stanley Paul & Co., 1925. Sixth edition. 4to. 106 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with darker blue lettering and decoration, a colour illustration mounted to the upper cover. 12 colour plates plus the same illustration as on the upper cover repeated on the title page. Some light spotting to the..... More
London: Methuen & Co Ltd., 1928. First edition. 8vo. (xii), 178, (2) pp. Publisher's salmon cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and decorated to the upper board, pictorial endpapers with a gift inscription dated the year of publication to the front, top edge gilt. Illustrations throughout. Spine and boards sunned..... More
London: Methuen & Co., (1927). First edition, 8vo, (xii), 103, (1) pp. Illustrations throughout, pictorial front endpapers, signature to fly leaf. Recent red full morocco, t.e.g., a handsome copy. More