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55 KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902 In the rare dust jacket First edition, first impression, second state binding, of Kipling’s famous collection of twelve stories and twelve poems, including “How the Camel Got His Hump” and “How the Leopard Got His Spots.” The first impression exists in two issues of the binding. The first, on which the white blocking failed to adhere, was superseded by this more stably blocked one, on which the white decoration remained intact. Unusually for jacket designs of this period, the jacket of Just So Stories reproduces an image different from that of the blocking on the boards. Quarto. Original red cloth, lettering and pictorial decoration on spine and boards in black and white. With pictorial dust jacket. Housed in a red quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. 22 plates by the author, illustrated drop-cap initials, line drawings in the text. Spine ends slightly bruised, front inner hinge a little cracked at foot and rear inner hinge cracked, but both firm, endpapers and first and last few leaves lightly foxed, the occasional faint mark to contents but overall internally clean and fresh; in the toned and chipped jacket, with Japanese tissue repairs to verso, one earlier tape repair to rear joint verso, the spine darkened, and a few small perforations at joints. Overall a very good copy in the rare dust jacket. ¶ Grolier, Children’s 100 , 57. £15,000 [130603] 56 KIPLING, Rudyard – DETMOLD, Maurice & Edward J. (illus.) Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling’s “Jungle Book”. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1903 A sumptuous production First edition, first printing, of one of the Detmold Brothers finest collections, presented in a lavish and large format. The
during the civil war in Spain she helped bring Basque refugee children to England. In 1926 she married James Pennyman, the owner of Ormesby Hall (now a National Trust property) and a staunch Conservative. Ruth transformed Ormesby into a home of theatrical performances and workshops. In the 1930s Ruth and her husband set up a woodworking business, Boosbeck Industries, to create employment for miners, and market gardens and livestock schemes. Oblong quarto. Original black cloth-backed tan boards, front cover lettered in black, illustration on front cover. 12 colour plates, black and white illustrations to text. Pencilled gift inscription on front free endpaper. Covers marked and rubbed, a little wear to ends and tips, worming to front pastedown, offsetting to free endpapers, otherwise contents bright and clean. A very good copy. £400 [149890]
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features a series of adventures “beyond the Four Chimneys” of a young boy who lives near Battersea with his father. Ruth Constance Dorrien Knight (1893–1983) was a socialist (regarded by some as a communist and nicknamed “Red Ruth”);
16 plates were too heavy for the portfolio, and thus it is very rare to find the portfolio in anything but poor state. Folio. Original green cloth portfolio, lettering and illustration on front cover in gilt, housing four pages and 16 loose prints. 16 coloured chromolithograph prints on thin card (sheet sizes: 32.9 × 43 cm) tipped onto white board with grey window mounts (mount sizes: 39.3 × 54.5 cm) with cover sheet to each illustration giving the title and a short extract from the book. Covers worn and a little soiled, small chip to foot of fold of the four pages, white boards and margins of the card unevenly browned, hidden by the grey mounts, printed images bright and in excellent condition. £8,000 [145713] 57 KNIGHT, Ruth Dorrien. The Binks Book. London: The
Chelsea Publishing Company, [1921] “All the Dreams of London”
First and sole edition of this intriguing children’s story, set in London with beautiful art deco illustrations by the author. It is rare: just five copies traced institutionally in WorldCat (BL, Manchester, Scotland, Oxford, Ormesby Hall). The work
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