Stalky & Co

by Kipling, Rudyard

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On Aug 3, 2011, feeney said
Rudyard Kipling was no Franz Kafka. By contrast with the Prague writer, Kipling's narrative genius did not consist in making up characters whole cloth from a vivid imagination. Kipling's men and boys in KIM, THE JUNGLE BOOKS, MULVANEY STORIES and other narratives were based on living three-dimensional people whom he had met, interacted with or whose real-life stories others had told him. Academic and literary careers have been built on tracing Kipling's "originals." One way to look at Kipling's fiction: there is always a lot more Rudyard in it than you might suspect. *** STALKY & CO (1899) is a hugely successful fictional re-creation of Rudyard Kipling's half dozen years as a boarder at the United Services College on the seacoast of North Devon at Westward Ho! In the novel, Kipling is "Beetle," a disheveled, near-sighted poet, editor of the school newspaper, one of three inseparables which includes Irish aristocrat M'Turk and team leader Stalky. The 1899 edition has nine chapters. Down the years Kipling would write more of their adventures. We focus on Stalky, M'Turk and Beetle in their last two years of school, when they are 15 and 16 years old. *** United Services College was an almost brand new prep school whose students were mainly born abroad of parents serving Queen Victoria's Empire, especially in India and Burma. Most of them were being prepared to become Subalterns in the army. ***The three boys are all destined for eccentric greatness when they grow up. They betray signs of this early on. We readers are shown them as deliberate "outsiders" who go their own way (within limits prescribed by loyalty to the school and to the school's beloved Head -- in real life an old school chum of Kipling's family). *** The three boys are indulged and their good qualities much appreciated by the Head and by the school's congenial Chaplain, while thoroughly disapproved of by the four rigorously traditional Housemasters. Nor are the three entirely approved of by their fellow students. *** A constant theme of STALKY & CO is revenge. If wronged, the three will find an appropriate punishment to fit the crime. Thus M'Turk makes friends with a local Irish landowner and receives permission to wander on his estate. Ostensibly this going off campus violates school rules and a house master trespasses in pursuit of them and is punished by the landowner for his sins. And on and on. *** In a reunion of Old Boys 15 years after graduation, the tale is told of Stalky leading his beloved Sikhs out on the northwest frontier of the Indian Raj. He is besieged by two tribes that normally hate one another. While out on a solitary patrol, Stalky employs on a hostile corpse a form of mutilation characteristic of the other tribe. This was the same carving on a chest after tribesmen had killed Stalky's deputy officer. The ploy saved the besieged. What a book! -OOO-

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London : Macmillan & Co., 1899. First edition. "In summer all right-minded boys built huts in the furze-hill behind the college - little lairs whittled out of the heart of the prickly bushes, full of stumps, odd root-ends, and spikes, but, since they were strictly forbidden, palaces of delight". Post 8vo (195 x 122mm). (xii),272,[ii]pp. Bound in a smart recent… Read more about this item
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New York: Doubleday & McClure Company. 1899. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 1899. Doubleday and McClure Company. 310 pages. Owners name and bookplate on endpaper. Light shelwear, else Very Good condition. First Printing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 310 pages .
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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1899. First Edition, First Issue. Quarter Leather. Near fine. First edition, first issue of Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling.. Octavo, ix, [iii], 272pp, [2pp ads]. Finely bound in three-quarter red morocco, top edge gilt. Five raised bands, title in gilt on spine. Publisher's original cloth covers laid in place, with author's emblem… Read more about this item
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. Very Good+. 1923. Leather. Beautiful Red Leather Binding with gilded gold lettering, Spine is striaght, binding is tight, pages are unmarked, some wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899. This episodic novel of life in an English boarding school was based upon Kipling's own experiences. It was originally serialized in "Windsor" Magazine, but does not include the first story of the series. In 2004, a manuscript containing additional Stalky material was found. Here is a Near Fine copy of the First American Edition,… Read more about this item
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London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1899. First British edition of Kipling's collection of school stories. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt medallion displaying an elephant to the from panel, top edge gilt. In fine condition. From the library of George Barr McCutcheon with his bookplate to the pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco… Read more about this item
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949. Blue cloth boards. Good/No Dust Jacket. Wear and soil to covers. 248 pages. Short story collection includes Slaves of the Lamp, In Ambush, An Unsavory Interlude, The Impressionists, The Moral Reformers, The Flag of Their Country, The Last Term.
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Macmillan and Co. 1920. Sm. 8vo. Bound in original bright blue cloth with elaborate gold decor. on spine (medallion with head of elephant in gold on fr. cover) Plus attractive gilt shield In very good condition. Gilt & cloth nice & bright. A few small faint mark on front board. Endpapers have a coupe of faint light brown marks… Read more about this item
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New York: Doubleday & McClure Co, 1899. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 7x5x1. First American edition. Front hinge nearly split but still holding, ink gift note on front free endpaper, rear hinge starting. 1899 Hard Cover. 310 pp. The Anglo-Indian author Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who was strongly influenced by Indian culture, used a swastika as his… Read more about this item
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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1899. 8vo. First Edition. xi, 272, [2] pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and elephant medallion on the front board, top edge gilt. Slight wear to spine ends, rubbing to joints and darkening to spine. Ink name to ffep. Occasional spots but generally internally clean. . Very Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth. First… Read more about this item
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London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1922. Reprint . Very Good Plus. 4.5 x 6.75 inches (11 x 17 cm). Macmillan's Pocket Kipling edition. Limp full red calf leather binding with gilt motif to front cover and gilt decoration to spine. Top page edge gilt, silk page marker. Light foxing to endpapers, otherwise in very clean condition throughout. Overall… Read more about this item
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New York: Doubleday & McClure Co, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition in book form following its serialization in the *Windsor Magazine.* Decorated green cloth with gilt letters on front and spine. Top edge gilt. Owner's name on preliminary page, edges modestly worn, small hole affecting the spine title, still a very good copy.
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1927. Hardcover. Wear to boards and spine text. International orders may require additional postage. ; Black boards with gold lettering and embossed sailing ship on front board. 8 black & white illustrations, including frontispiece. ; 310 pages .
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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1899. First edition. Leather. Near Fine. 7.5" by 5". None. A finely bound first edition second printing of Rudyard Kipling's school-based anthology, showing the juvenile exploits of boys in boarding schools. The first edition, second impression, of this work, published the month after the first impression.In a smart half calf fine binding.A collection… Read more about this item
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New York: Doubleday & McClure Co, 1899. Hardcover. Good. First edition in book form following its serialization in the *Windsor Magazine.* Decorated green cloth with gilt letters on front and spine. Top edge gilt. Contemporary owner's name on front fly, hinges cracked, some pages roughly opened, edges modestly worn, a good only copy with light stains on rear… Read more about this item
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Ware, Hertfordshire, England: Wordsworth Classics. Very Good. 1994. Reprint. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Very light shelf wear, some reading creases. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; 272 pages; Stalky, M'Turk and the Beetle are the trio who conduct a battle of wits with masters and schoolfellows alike in these nine classic tales… Read more about this item
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1899. First English edition, 8vo, ix-xii, 272pp., plus 2pp. ads; extremities rubbed, spine and covers lightly soiled, binding slightly askew, front hinge starting, else a near fine copy in original red cloth with Ganesha device on front cover and lettering in gold on cover and spine, title-p. printed in red & black, t.e.g. Livingston, 216.… Read more about this item
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