[Rarebooks] F/S Interesting Kipling Group mostly in wrappers

[Garry R Austin]

We offer for your consideration the following postpaid and net to all @$200



Kipling, Rudyard. Independence, Rectorial Address delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923. London: MacMillan and Co., (printed by R. & R. Clark Ltd, Edinburgh), 1923.
First Edition; duodecimo; pp; 32; scarce variant binding; gilt decorated pebbled stiff leather covered boards, lettered in gilt, tan endpapers; Previous owner’s name and bookplate on endpapers; rubbed at spine tips and bottom edge else very good; Richards A343; Livingston 486; Grolier 529;  Stewart 552;  Rectorial address delivered at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland on October 10, 1923. Originally published as "Man's Desire for Independence" in The London Times. Kipling became Rector of St. Andrews in 1922. "The sole revenge that Maturity can take upon Youth for the sin of being young, is to preach at it. When I was young I sat and suffered under that dispensation." .

Kipling, Rudyard. The New Army In Training. London: MacMillan and Co., (printed by R. & R. Clark Ltd, Edinburgh), 1915.
First Edition; 16mo; pp; 63, (i); pale orange yellow wrappers ruled and lettered in red, rear wrapper has ad for the “Service Kipling”; Previous owner’s bookplate on endpapers; rubbed at spine tips, lower front joint started, else very good; Richards A282; Livingston 391; Grolier 453;  Stewart 383.

Kipling, Rudyard. Rudyard Kipling With The British Fleet For The New York American.  (New York: New York American, 1916).
American reprint; octavo; pp; 56; pictorial wrappers ruled and lettered in gilt; printed in green ink on illuminated pages; wrappers chipped at extremities, else very good; Richards A276; Livingston 399; Grolier 458;  Stewart 394. The Hearst Newspapers including the New York American printed the “Fringes Of The Fleet” in newspaper form. This separate printing followed the newspaper appearance.

Kipling, Rudyard. A Fleet In Being; Notes Of Two Trips With The Central Squadron. London: Macmillan And Co., Ltd. (Printed by Richard Clay & Sons), 1898.
First edition; octavo; pp; 84; pictorial blue wrappers ruled and lettered in black; wrappers chipped at extremities, else very good; Richards A117; Livingston 178; Grolier 271;  Stewart 191. A series of six articles that appeared in the London Post & Times.

Kipling, Rudyard. Recessional. New York: F. M. Buckles & Company, printed by Powers & Stein, 1899.
Unauthorized American edition; Duodecimo; pp; Unpaginated (8) mostly uncut; original beige textured wrappers  with a pictorial inset at center, lettered in red and black; text block laid within wrappers,  very good; A very scarce issue.

Kipling, Rudyard. Recessional, A Victorian Ode. Boston: Privately printed, 1898.
24mo; pp; Unpaginated (8); original string tied wrappers lettered in red and black, pages decorated with red devices; very good;
and a little different;
Kipling, Rudyard. Recessional, A Victorian Ode. Boston: Privately printed, 1899.
24mo; pp; Unpaginated (8); frontispiece portrait of Kipling; original string tied  wrappers lettered in red and black, pages decorated with red devices; very good;
and finally, different still;
Kipling, Rudyard. Recessional, A Victorian Ode. New York: Alex Grosset & Company, Nd, c1899.
Duodecimo; pp; Unpaginated (8); frontispiece portrait of Kipling; original string tied  wrappers lettered in black; very good;

Kipling, Rudyard. The Kipling Index; Being A Guide To Authorized American Trade Edition Of Rudyard Kipling’s Works. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919.
First American edition; duodecimo; pp; iv, 99; decorated red pictorial wrappers ruled and lettered in white; rubbed at spine edges, else very good; Contains an essay by Kipling, “My First Book”.  

Dobrée, Bonamy. Rudyard Kipling. London: Longman’s Green & Co., Supplement to British Book News for the British Council, (1951).
First edition; octavo; pp; 55; frontispiece portrait; original printed paper wrappers; very good; essays and a select bibliography.


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