Mcgivering John H (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. 230 page hardcover reference work - a dictionary for Kipling's works. Bibliography at rear. Dust jacket has a few small clean tears and some fraying to bottom spine. Red cloth exterior is dampstained at bottom - front, back and spine about 2 inches from bottom- but has not transferred to text. Interior is very good condition - unmarked, tight and clean. Because of the exterior dampstain this is a reading copy only, not a collector copy.…

Hardcover. 230 pages. ".all the books, stories and poems readily available to the general reader, together with the characters, places, first lines of verse, and a few comprehensive headings." This is an ex-library book with the usual markings. Otherwise, in Near Fine condition.; Ex-Library; 6 x 8 3/4" Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boards water stained. Interior lightly tanned, but clean and unmarked. DJ chipped, has small tears and red staining on back.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Biography by Ricketts is trade paper published by Carroll & Graf, 2001, also in fine condition.

Red Cloth Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Revised Edition. First revised edition of the original 1911 edition.

Condition: Good. Boards are clean. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some chips/tears, marks and is price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 230p, hardback, VG+/VG+, dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. A FINE tight copy in a FINE bright dj. , 1st Edition.

First Edition. VG in VG DJ, 1st edition. 230 pages, octavo. Light rubbing to the edges and the corners. Mild soiling to the textblock. Jacket is rubbed along edges and has very light soiling. A great reference to Kipling's work presented in dictionary format.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover book in good+ condition with dust jacket also in good+ condition. Creasing to all edges of jacket which is faded to spine. Bumps to head and foot of spine. Pages tanned throughout. 8vo. 230pp.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket complete, price clipped. Red cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. Slight bump at top of spine. No inscription. 225 pages clean and tight. Who detested 'Tipperary'? In what book does Gloriana appear? What was the name of the `Stute-fish' and where does he appear? There is now no need to grope for the source of a Kipling quotation or the name of his story in which X appears: John McGivering has built on the corpus of W. Arthur Young's well-known but outdated Dictionary to produce a work that is authoritative, comprehensive, and a boon which will be welcomed by the growing body of Kipling addicts and by the librarians who are perpetually beset by the odd query. Young recorded some six hundred and thirty titles; Kipling's post- i r i literary output has enabled the present compiler to bring the number up to just under a thousand. He sets forth all the books, stories and poems readily available to the general reader, together with the characters, places, first lines of verse, and a few comprehensive headings, so that the reader with a word or phrase in mind can locate the item he seeks. Size: 8vo. …