kipling martindell e w (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. New and Revised Edition. A newly expanded and enlarged edition, published in 1923, in a limited edition of 700 copies - this copy No. 202. Copiously illustrated with 52 plates. ***Very good in burgundy buckram boards, with gilt titles on the spine, and the RK monogram i gilt on the front board. The gilt has faded slightly on the spine but remains quite bright. The boards show some marks and rubbing commensurate with age and handling over the last 100+ years, but are generally clean. The spine of the book is undamaged, just slightly creased at the top and tail. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Light foxing to the page block edges which are untrimmed at the fore-edge and bottom edge. Top edge stained red to match the boards by the publisher. Internally also very clean, with no previous ownership details. The interior is extremely clean, with just some occasional foxing spots, but no creasing or tears. Please note that some of the pages are uncut at the top edge. Printed on thick quality paper stock. No dustwrapper. ***221 pages including a detailed 18- page Index at the back of the book. 224mm x 150mm. ***'In this New Edition will be found much fresh matter, besides what I had originally desired to appear in the previous edition, viz. details of the Manuscripts, Proofs, Author's Working Copies, etc., which were in my possession, a considerably larger number of plates, and an Index.' (Quote taken from the Preface to the New Edition) ***'Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 Dec 1865 - 18 Jan 1936) was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology - "The Jungle Book" (1894, "The Second Jungle Book" (1895), "Kim" (1901), the "Just So Stories" (1902) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If?" (1910). He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers. Henry James said "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood, but declined both. Following his death in 1936, his ashes were interred at Poets' Corner, part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey. Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed with the political and social climate of the age. The contrasting views of him continued for much of the 20th century. Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: "[Kipling] is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with.' (Wiki) ***A newly expanded and enlarged edition, published in 1923, in a limited edition of 700 copies. A beautifully produced and illustrated work for the Kipling enthusiast. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

A new Edition much enlarged. XVI, 221 S., 52 Tafeln. OLn. Unbeschnitten. Gedruckt auf Bütten. Sprache: englisch.

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd, 1923. New Edition Much Enlarged, Limited to 700 copies of which this is no. 518. Octavo; publisher's cloth in grey printed dust jacket, red topstain; [2],xvi,[2],221pp.; frontispiece and fifty-one (51) leaves of plates, collated and complete. Dust jacket verso entirely reinforced / backed with evidence of expert repair along margins and across spine; faint spotting to front and rear panel, bottom fore-edge corner of front board has been touched up, else a Near Fine copy in a Very Good, albeit rather excessively restored jacket.