Search Results: rewards and fairies by kipling rudyard 1865 1936

London: Macmillan, 1924. Reprint. Hardcover. Poor copy in gilt-blocked leather. Spine bands worn, with some loss. Front board starting. Top edge gilt. Text remains in fine condition; clear without blemish. Previous owner's bookplate. Physical description: xii, 338 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates. Subjects: English literature 19th century. Space and time 19th century Fiction. Great Britain History Fiction.

London : Folio Society, 1996. Reprint. Hardcover. Presented in slipcase. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 256p,[11] leaves of plates : ill ; 24cm. Adventure stories. Fantasy fiction. Fantasy stories. English literature. Classics authors. 20th century fiction.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, St. Martin's Street,, 1935. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Colour frontispiece and BW illustrated.. FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1935. Rare publisher's leather binding. Soft-bound in full dark-red leather. Gilt lettered and decorated spine. Gilt Puck to front-cover. Colour frontispiece; illustrated throughout. All edges gilt. Bright, tight and clean. No owner name or internal markings. Minor wear only; rear hinge worn and nicked - unfaded and strong. Internally near fine. VERY GOOD. (x) 670 pages. 8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ]. SCARCE.

London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd. 1935. [Fantasy Tales] FIRST EDITION. 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'.

London: Macmillan and Company, 1913-1938. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by the author in volume I to half title. Complete in 31 volumes; large octavo (25 x 132cm). Finely bound in deep red half morocco, raised bands and gilt rules to spines, matching cloth sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Printed from Florentine Press type on hand-made paper bearing the watermark "RK". First published in 25 volumes and limited to 1050 sets, the collection eventually grew to 31 volumes as Kipling continued to write. The later volumes were limited to just 500 copies, meaning complete sets are scarce. Stewart p.572.