Inventions by Kipling, Signed (4 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 3rd printing. 1st edition, 3rd printing, November 1893. SIGNED. A Very Good copy. 8vo., end papers coated slate-blue. SIGNED by Kipling on the title page, under his lined out name, as is often seen. Tips a bit rubbed. Small blemish on the front board, possibly by an old sticker.Binding slightly slanted, back to front. Text clean and appropriately age-toned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION SIGNED. 1 vol., signed by Kipling on the title-page under his name, bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped blue cloth, engraved bookplate of A. P. Watt to front pastedown, additionally signed by Watt on the front blank endleaf, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, internally clean and bright, A VERY GOOD COPY. From the library of A. P. Watt, literary agent to Rudyard Kipling. Signed by Author(s).

First English edition of this collection of Kipling's poems and tales. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. Association copy, inscribed by Rudyard Kipling on the title page in the year of publication to his second cousin by marriage, "Eliot [sic] Balestier from Rudyard Kipling Xmas. 93." The recipient, Elliot Francis Balestier was the second cousin of Kipling's wife, Caroline Balestier and her brother, Wolcott, with whom Kipling collaborated with for the novel The Naulahka: A Story Of East And West, which he would later name his historic shingle style house in Dummerston Vermont after. In very good condition. A fine association, exceptionally rare inscribed by Kipling. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India, which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907.

Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. A total of 27 volumes. Signed by Kipling to Vol. I and limited to 1,050 numbered copies, of which this is number 489. Half dark purple morocco over mauve cloth boards. Five raised bands with gilt compartments. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Some wear to heads and tails, as well as to the raised bands, predominantly to Vol. XXI (see image). Moderate wear to corners and hinges, while all remaining intact. Clean interiors with no previous owners' names or other defacements. 6.75 x 9.75 in each (17 x 25 cm).