Kipling Rudyard Illustrators (9 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Hardcover. Octavo, 77 leaves + unnumbered leaves of "Advertising Section". In Good minus condition. Spine is blue with gold print. Boards in blue cloth with illustration on front panel. Wear to spine caps and corners, light shelf wear. Text block has illustrated endpapers. Spine crack at page 35. Illustrated: color frontispiece and plates. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column N. 1386247. FP New Rockville Stock. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Sahib Edition in red cloth. 7 Volumes which include: Plain Tales from the Hills and Other Stories, The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories, City of the Dreadful Night, Under the Deodars--American Notes, Story of the Gadsby's In Black and White, My Own People and Other Stories, Letters of Marque. Missing Volumes 3, 4 and 10. Extra shipping for set. Books are in good conditon with little wear. Inventory #001120. Burne-Jones, Reginald Bolles, W. Kirkpatrick Illustrators (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No DJ. First American Editions. First American Editions (1894 & 1895.) 8vos with 303 pages & 324 pages. Illustrated with drawings in the text by John Lockwood Kipling (Rudyard's father), and the American artists W. H. Drake and Paul Frenzeny. The books are in good condition. The Jungle Book has one small black ink stain on front panel, one small black ink stain to top of rear panel, rubbing to edges of boards and previous gift presentation on front free end paper. The second jungle book has rubbing to edges, badly opened pages from 57 to 60 without loss of text, a perforated bookseller stamp to top right of front free end paper and gift presentation to title page from mother. Both volumes have hinges that are strong and intact. A Classic set. The Jungle Books have been adapted many times in a wide variety of media in literature and film. Robert Heinlein wrote the Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel, Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), when his wife, Virginia, suggested a new version of The Jungle Book, but with a child raised by Martians instead of wolves. Green & Salmon Orange spines/gold text. #035343 Size: 8vo. W. . Drake John Lockwood Illustrators (illustrator). Children's Literature.…

dj. First Edition. [Fantasy Tales] FIRST EDITION THUS, first impression. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.x; 670 [4], ads. With colour frontispiece and full page illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, gilt, with top edge gilt, in pictorial dust-wrapper priced 10/6. Contents clean, school prize label, binding a little mottled, fragile jacket mostly complete with a few chips to upper panel and to crown, with a few neat tape strips to reverse side. Very good (uncommon in jacket). Kipling's complete series of popular tales told by 'Puck', traditionally a name for a malicious spirit or demon of popular superstition, and from the 16th century the name of a mischievous goblin (or Hobgoblin), similar to that appearing in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', the fairy scene from which is acted out here. Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature (277). BMC No.1[1984]; 'Edwardian Children's Books'.…

[Children's classic] FIRST DETMOLD COLOUR ILLUSTRATED EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm); pp.xii, 314, [2] advertisements. With 16 full-page colour plates. Publisher's red cloth pictorially blocked in gilt, top edge gilt. Contents clean, a little toning to edges and endpapers, binding carefully handled, small pull at crown. Charles Maurice Detmold and Edward Julius Detmold were English graphic artists, twins, born on 21 November 1883. Due to the illness of their father, they grew up in the care of their uncle, Dr E B Shuldham, who had acquired a notable collection of Japanese woodprints of plants and animals. This encouraged the twins to commence drawing animals and plants at a very early age, and resulted in a debut (aged 13) at the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters, with nature studies in the Japanese style. The Detmolds subsequently learned techniques of watercolour etching and of colour printing with copper plates.…

[Children's Illustrated] FIRST US EDITIONS, first volume 18th thousand, second volume first impression. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiv; 303; [3]. Pp.[10]; 324; [2]. With 35 illustrations by Drake to volume I, including a frontispiece, and frequent in-text illustrations by the author's father John to volume II. Publisher's green and red cloth respectively, with gilt titles and decoration to spines and boards. Top edges gilt. Bookplate of the Colonial Club to front pastedown of volume I, with light spotting throughout. Light general wear to cloth. Second volume has a blue ink ownership stamp to fly-leaf, otherwise internally clean. Moderate wear to cloth, including some loss to headcap. Very good overall. The Jungle Book and its sequel comprise a selection of short stories-the best-known being the three tales centring on the adventures of the abandoned 'man cub', Mowgli. Other popular tales include 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi', the story of a heroic mongoose, and 'Toomai of the Elephants', the tale of a young elephant-handler.…

Condition: Good. 16mo. 12 x 18.4 cm. Original publisher's blue cloth and blue and green endpapers with gilt embossing and edges. Heads of spines reinforced with thin later blue cloth. Ownershiip ink incription on blank white endpaper of one voplume.

First Edition. "Beauty That Hath Terror in It" The Detmold Brothers' Sublime and Unsettling Vision of The Jungle Book KIPLING, Rudyard. DETMOLD, Maurice & Edward J., illustrators. Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's "Jungle Book" by Messrs. Maurice & Edward Detmold. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1903. First edition. Folio (21 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches; 543 x 394 mm.). Title page, contents leaf and sixteen fine colored prints tipped onto white board with gray window mounts, each with a cover sheet providing the title and a short extract from the text. Title-page and list of illustrations expertly repaired at fold, second plate description with short marginal tear, some light foxing to text and mounts only - the plates clean and fresh. Housed in the publisher's green cloth portfolio, front cover lettered and with illustration in gilt, one of two original green silk ties. An excellent example of the Detmold's finest work. Rendered in the rich colors characteristic of the Detmolds' artwork, the plates in this portfolio far surpass the later small book edition published five years later, whose reproductions appear comparatively muted. Considered among the finest book illustrations of all time, R. Dalby notes: "These paintings were praised for their realistic detail and decorative arrangement," while Diana Johnson intriguingly observes: "The end result of this incongruous joining together of the quasi-scientific and the ornamental is an image which is both fanciful and often rather disturbing." Published when the Detmold twins were only twenty years old, this portfolio was their final collaboration before Maurice's tragic suicide in 1908. Because the illustrations closely resemble original artwork when framed, many individual plates were separated from their sets, making a complete portfolio a rare find today. The sixteen plates in Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's Jungle Book represent the Detmold brothers at the absolute height of their early powers, combining natural history accuracy with a highly personal, imaginative symbolism. Executed when Maurice Detmold and Edward J. Detmold were only twenty, the images reveal an astonishing maturity of design, color harmony, and psychological insight. Across the series, animals are rendered with an almost zoological precision - musculature, fur, scale, and movement observed with scientific care - yet the compositions are unmistakably poetic and stylized. Wolves stand with hieratic gravity; panthers and tigers possess an elegance that borders on the mythic; serpents coil with hypnotic inevitability. These are not merely illustrations of stories by Rudyard Kipling, but visual interpretations that deepen and at times darken the emotional tenor of the text. Several plates focus on Mowgli himself, depicted as a lithe, vulnerable yet resolute figure, often isolated against vast, spare landscapes. His nudity is treated without sentimentality: the Detmolds emphasize his animal belonging rather than childhood innocence, reinforcing the central tension of The Jungle Book - the precarious boundary between human and beast. In scenes with Bagheera, Baloo, and Akela, the animals are endowed with a quiet authority, their gazes expressive and morally charged, suggesting intellect and memory rather than simple instinct. The Monkey People, shown amid cold stone lairs and architectural fragments, are among the most unsettling inventions in the set: simian forms twisted into almost grotesque attitudes, animated by restless, purposeless energy. By contrast, the great predators - Shere Khan especially - are portrayed with a terrible beauty: powerful, controlled, and ominously calm, embodying what the Manchester Guardian aptly described as "that beauty which hath terror in it." Color plays a central role throughout. The Detmolds employ a restrained but sumptuous palette - burnished browns, smoky grays, deep greens, and muted ochres - heightened by subtle tonal transitions rather than overt brilliance. …