Puck of Pook’s Hill
Rudyard Kipling. New York, Doubleday/Page, 1906.

Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 4 color plates. (8vo) original green cloth gilt-lettered and pictorially stamped in black, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. First Illustrated Edition.

KIPLING, RUDYARD. 1865-1936.

1. Wee Willie Winkie. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co., [1888]. Original wrappers. Custom cloth chemise, morocco-backed slipcase. Toned, wrappers with repair to spine and one corner of back wrapper. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Livingston 43.

2. The Light That Failed. London: Ward, Lock, Bowden, & Co., [1891]. In: Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, January, 1891. Original wrappers. Custom cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. Some restoration to wrappers at spine, a few chips, front fold partially cracked. Early periodical appearance.

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Those who have watched till the morning know how the last hour before the light lengthens itself into many eternities. It seemed to Dick that he had never since the beginning of original darkness done anything at all save jolt through the air. Once in a thousand years he would finger the nailheads on the saddle-front and count them all carefully. Centuries later he would shift his revolver from his right hand to his left and allow the eased arm to drop down at his side. From the safe distance of London he was watching himself thus employed,—watching critically. Yet whenever he put out his hand to the canvas that he might paint the tawny yellow desert under the glare of the sinking moon, the black shadow of a camel and the two bowed figures atop, that hand held a revolver and the arm was numbed from wrist to collar-bone. Moreover, he was in the dark, and could see no canvas of any kind whatever. -The Light that Failed, ch.XV

A Song of the English
One of 500 Copies, Signed by W. Heath Robinson
Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d., 1909].

First separate edition. Limited to 500 copies (this copy being No. 136), numbered and signed by the artist. Large quarto (12 3/16 x 9 7/8 inches; 308 x 252 mm.). [65] leaves. Thirty color plates (including frontispiece), mounted on leaves with color border decorations. Descriptive tissue guards, each with a miniature line illustration. Pictorial title and fifty-nine black and white line illustrations in the text (half-page or smaller). Title printed in red and black.

Original vellum over boards with front cover pictorially stamped in dark green, red, and gilt and lettered in gilt and spine pictorially stamped in dark green, red, and gilt and lettered in gilt and green. Later taupe silk ties. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Some slight discoloration to the vellum on covers and very slight rubbing to gilt on spine. Otherwise an excellent copy.

The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling. London, 1894-1895. First editions.

Uniformly rebound in full red morocco gilt by Riviere, with original blue cloth covers bound into rear of each volume, the first title with onlay of elephants and drivers, the second title with onlay of snakes, slipcase. First title with blank prelim detached but present, both volumes with some wear at hinges