Recessional by Kipling Rudyard (145 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ivory boards with illustration of yellow flowers with green stems. Lettering in gold. Light surface soiling and bumping to boards. Previous owner's name with date on inside page. Clean pages. No Jacket.

paperback. Condition: Fair. San Francisco; no publication date, gift inscription dated 1898. Poor condition. Paper covers heavily worn; most of backstrip torn and missing; 16mo, 5 3/4" to 6 3/4" tall; pages toned, interior is unmarked; 149 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. No Edition Stated. Green suede covers which edges have toned to brown, edges worn w/some tears and small chips, pages lightly toned, shelfwear, interior hinge starting to crack; 61 pages.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Full Sheep Leather. Condition: Fair. Dull elaborately bind stamped sheep leather with gilt lettering on the spine, top of spine has been nibbled. and the top 1/3 of the spine has been inexpertly laid down. Overall in FAIR condition. UncleAndy Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Card Covers tied with green ribbon. Former owner inscription on first front end page (1920). Good+ tight condition. 61 pages. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0.

Full Leather. Condition: Good. Includes quotes from Kipling, Bacon, Voltaire, Ruskin, Holmes and Goethe. Smaller book, supple green leather wrappers with leather string in bow through front left and back right, pages browned, leather brown at all edges, very light surface wear to top tips. Near Very Good.

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. Half-Leather -- Good -- Other than repair to pine and wear at corners, book is clean and tight -- Pictorial cover with gilt lettering -- No date noted, circa 1890's.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Fair. Fragile, original wrappers with edgetears and drink ring to cover. Contents Very Good with author frontis photo. 5 pages poem with newsprint version in plastic tucked inside. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Leather. Condition: Good. Good leather (suede). No date found.looks to be c.1900. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers (gray suede) show light edge wear. Binding loosening slightly but still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Sheet music. Condition: Very Good. 12 pages. [box 50.24] Original Sheet Music. No internal markings. Clean pages within. Out of print. Quite scarce. No copies cited in WorldCat Libraries.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

leather_bound. Condition: Acceptable. Leather covers are loose and are heavily worn. Rest of book is in good condition. No publlication date listed. Book is from circa 1910. A book that has various signs of damaged but is complete. Heavily worn. We have 75,000 books to choose from -- Ship within 24 hours -- Satisfaction Guaranteed!

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Second edition of 500 copies. Covers worn and water-spotted. Signatures loose.

Condition: New. In.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1898. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 6 pages. Being a Commemorative of the Queen's Jubilee. 6500.

95 pp. With numerous original illustrations by W. St. John Harper and George T. Tobin. 32mo (5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches), publisher's red gilt-decorated cloth. First edition. Some slight dulling to parts of the gilt decoration on the cloth; a very attractive unworn copy. Collection of "Masterpieces.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Light green boards. Spine has name of book taped. 1/2" inch of top and bottom of spine missing or detached. No remainder marks. Text is yellowed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited First Edition. One of five hundred copies printed on Windsor deckle edge paper with decorative embellishments by Blanche MaManus Tan, cloth covered boards with a lovely red and gilt illustration of five men in royal attire blowing gilt horns with flags of rampant lions hanging from their long horns. Text is heavy parchment pages with decorations in red. Light age toning to endpapers, bit of soil on ecru colored cloth boards, light rubbing to tips, one page age toned from a laid in paper, now gone. It is a series of progressive scenes in red line drawings on ecru paper followed by a page of about a paragraph of text. 28 pp.

1st edition thus (Cf. Franklin, 160). 95, [1 (blank)] pp. Full page illustrations by W. St. John Harper and George T. Tobin. 24mo. 14cm x 9cm. Bright gilt, square & tight binding. Some modest extremity wear, espeically at spine ends, hint of soiling to cloth. A VG copy. Red cloth binding with gilt stamped upper board. Photographic paper on-lay at center of upper board.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Fair in boards (spine worn; few lvs detached). Sm 8vo [24] One of 500 copie s, printed June 1900. Originally issued in this format in 1899 (see Livings ton #158). Illustrations and decorations in red (black on upper cover) by B lanche McManus.red decs/illus.

Hardcover. 30 p. + Portrait Frontis. Title page and Frontis printed on glossy paper. Title page decorated with a wide margin floral design. Deckle edges. Top edge gilt. Bookplate of Augustus Clemens Ehrenfeld on front paste down. 16mo. 175m. Original faux vellum spine over patterned brown paper covered boards. Front board title heavily impressed in gold with elaborate gold border. Spine darkened with slight loss at head and tail. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist who is now chiefly remembered for: his celebration of British imperialism; tales and poems of British soldiers in India; and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. KIP BX 3 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. White cloth binding with front cover illustrated in red and gold. Illustrated by Blanche McManus -- lovely, bold illustrations printed in red. Date only appears on endpapers -- MDCCCXCVII (1897). The colophon, however, gives the year 1899 as the date this limited edition was printed (one of five hundred copies). A thin volume, unpaginated -- measures 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches. A handsome little volume, despite some fading and bumping to corners. Binding is strong. Pages unmarked.

Decoarted Paper Covers. Condition: Good. (1890?), 8pp pamplet, printed in calligraphic font with gilt and colour illustrations to the front cover and three pages of text, front cover foxed but pages mainly clean, bound with red string which has faded, covers feel fragile. Size: 8.25 x 6.5 Inches. Poetry.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. (ca. 1908) A Very Good copy. 12mo., 28 pp., with red and green title page. Bound in green limp leather, with title on a gilt field, with floral, stamped decorations. The front paste down has a small closed tear, as usually found. The leather has been sunned to a light brown on the front panel. Previous owner's name and Christmas 1909 date on the front end paper. Text pages generally clean, with a few minor blemishes. A Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition thus. Very good in tan cloth with black and white illustration on front board. No dust jacket.; 28 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Decorations by Elizabeth Ivins Jones. No statement of printing. Edge worn with two large chips to the corners of the front cover, light soiling to covers, else good in brown limp suede.; 61 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dodge Publishing Company, NY. Undated, circa 1910. Near Fine. Soft glossy flexible cream colored card stock wraps tied with a red ribbon. Interior unpaginated one-sided print in the tradition of a broadside in format is still clean and crisp with modern era black ink typesetting. Some fine decorative touches as in gilded inlay on front cover with silver embossed fleur-de-lis, one tipped in color illustration of a harbor scene as the frontispiece, and red ink woodcut emblems throughout. Protected by an additional plain paper wrapper with a chevroned pattern. This outer cover shows some nicks and small tears. A collection of generally aspirational quotations save Kiplings titular Recessional which is more like an elegy for the British Empire. Although Goethe appears on title page he must have been edited at the last. Not so credited but appearing are Publius Syrus, Lydia Maria Child, Henry Drummond, and Charles Kingsley. Approx 20 pages. Size: 6.5" x 4.5".