[Rarebooks] FS: Rare Kipling temporarily discounted

[Allington Books]

Greetings to all. We offer Rudyard Kipling's *With the Night Mail* at a
substantial discount through and including Monday July 16, 2018.  The
description is below and additional images are available on request.

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Stephen

Stephen Johnson
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With The Night Mail [in the RARE DUST JACKET]Kipling, Rudyard
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*Place Published:* New York
*Publisher:* Doubleday, Page & Company
*Date Published:* 1909
*Edition:* First Edition, First Printing
*Binding:* Hardcover
*Condition:* Near fine
*Book Id:* 686

*Description*

*TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $7,500*. A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of
the first edition, first printing, of the first separate publication in
book form, in the Publisher's original boards with the spine and front
board lettered and decorated in gilt, the front board richly so with a
beautiful depiction of a dirigible surrounded by stars with only minor to
modest rubbing -- considerably less rubbing than we usually see on this
notable Kipling work -- and with unusually bright gilt to the spine, some
minor surface rubbing to the spine ends, and with a stray spot and a couple
of tiny indents to the front board, rear hinge cracked but holding well.
The endpapers are richly illustrated and it appears that a second rear
illustrated pastedown has been overlaid on the first one -- with the age
and bookseller's sticker having the price of $1.75 showing that such work
may have been done contemporaneously with the book's production or soon
thereafter -- such sticker being that of Books Inc., the American West's
oldest independent book store which traces its history back to the Gold
Rush days of 1851 and which took the name "Books Inc." in 1946. While there
is some toning to page 21 and to the blank, unnumbered, page facing it from
something previously loosely inserted, the leaves are unusually bright and
show only a few short closed marginal tears not affecting the text. Most
important, this copy wears a Very Good + or better example of the RARE DUST
JACKET, such dust jacket showing only modest toning, and surprising minor
to modest wear and tear, as well as a few tape repairs to the verso.
Rudyard Kipling's greatest and most precise foray into the realm of Science
Fiction, the tale first appeared the November 1905 issue of McClure's
Magazine (an American publication) and thereafter in the December 1905
issue of The Windsor Magazine (a UK publication). The story (modified
somewhat from the magazine text) first appeared in book form in the volume
described herein which was published on March 25, 1909, which publication
was the first appearance of the story in book form. Thereafter, it was
published -- along with other Kipling Stories and Poems, in "Actions and
Reactions", a volume first published on October 5, 1909 in both the UK and
America (with slight textual differences between the English and American
editions in nearly every story and in two of the Poems). Set in the year
2000, the tale tells of a dirigible voyage aboard 'Postal Packet 162',
carrying mail from London to Quebec, traveling across the airwaves. The
narrator describes in great detail the technical aspect of the journey, the
crew's expertise and the radio communications they use, as well as the
beacons which guide the airship traffic. The great American Science Fiction
Poul Anderson said of Kipling: "He is for everyone who responds to
vividness, word magic, sheer storytelling. Most readers go on to discover
the subtleties and profundities." Anderson also noted that "[Kipling's]
influence pervades modern science fiction and fantasy writing", and John W.
Campbell considered Rudyard Kipling to be the first modern science fiction
writer, being the first to go beyond simply providing the reader with the
essential background information needed to read his story [referring
foremost to "With the Night Mail"]. Notably, the American edition, the
first appearance of the tale in book form, for which the text was slightly
revised from that provided in the magazine publications of the tale,
contains a supplement not contained in the magazine versions of further
feature articles from the bulletin of the "Aerial Board of Control" in the
year 2000 with a schedule of flights, list of casualties, book review,
correspondence, and advertisements for dirigible equipment and services
referred to in the book's title as "extracts from the contemporary magazine
in which it appeared". The temporal setting differs between the magazines
and between those magazines and the book. In McClure's, it is June 2025
A.D., in the Windsor magazine it is October A. D. 2147, and the book
proclaims it to be "A Story of 2000 A. D." The story itself, and almost all
of the other components of the book, appear only on the leaf rectos, and
the tale includes a tissue-guarded frontispiece and three additional
illustrations. Rudyard Kipling won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature "in
consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination,
virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize
the creations of this world-famous author", making him both the first
author writing in English, and the youngest writer ever, to win the Prize.
[The average age when awarded is 65 for all the Literature Laureates
between 1901 and 2016. Kipling was only 41 when he was awarded the Prize,
and also had been nominated for the Prize in 1903, 1904, and 1905.] A
REMARKABLE COPY OF THE TRUE FIRST APPEARANCE IN BOOK FORM OF THIS NOTABLE
KIPLING SCIENCE FICTION TALE, IN THE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE, PERHAPS RARE, DUST
JACKET.
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