Estimate: | £100 - £150 |
Hammer price: | £220 |
MISCELLANY - Rudyard KIPLING (1865-1936). Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923. Large 8vo (205 x 155mm). Half title, 2-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end. Original red pictorial buckram, dust-jacket (the dust-jacket spotted and frayed at corners, sections of the front and rear free endpapers browned). FIRST EDITION. Livingston Bibliography of the Works of Rudyard Kipling 479. With 18 other miscellaneous books including the same author's Debits and Credits (London, 1926, 8vo, original red buckram gilt, in a fine dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), the same author's Something of Myself. For My Friends Known and Unknown (London, 1937, 8vo, original red buckram gilt, in a fine dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION of the author's posthumously-published autobiography), Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare ... With Twelve Illustrations in Permanent Photography from the Boydell Gallery (London, 1881, 8vo, plates, attractively bound in contemporary prize calf gilt), Elizabeth's Gaskell's Cranford (London, 1892, 8vo, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, original elaborate pictorial buckram gilt), Thomas Hardy's Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (London, 1928, 8vo, original green buckram, unopened, in a fine dust-jacket, AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of the author's final, and posthumously-published, collection of poetry, the last poem titled, "He Resolves to Say No More"), Rose Macaulay's Keeping Up Appearances (London, 1928, 8vo, original red buckram, in a fine dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), John Masefield's The Hawbucks (London, 1929, 8vo, original red buckram, in a fine dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION) and C. S. Forester's Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (London, 1950, 8vo, original green cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION). (19)