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Over 1,200 Volumes
Collected From 1875 Through 1950
The surviving editions are held in trust in the archive of grandson Danton Burroughs
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W H G Kingston (William Henry Giles)
In the Wilds of Africa -  Tale for Boys - 1879 London, Nelson Bergen New York  ~ 558 pages  65 black and white engravings.
OTHER:
Captain Mugford: Online eText Edition: 
http://www.athelstane.co.uk/kingston/captnmug/captnmug.htm


With Axe and Rifle, or The Western Pioneers ~ Thomas Nelson and Sons,  1914  410 pages  Illustrated in colour.
 The Young Llanero ~  Thomas Nelson and Sons 1918 368 pages~ Illustrated in colour.
The Cruise of the Mary Rose ~ ca. 1900
The Three Lieutenants ~
Hendricks the Hunter ~ 1908 ~ Henry Frowde, Hodder&Stoughton
In the Wilds of Florida ~ Thomas Nelson and Sons,~ 1918 ~ 399pages ~ Illustrated in colour, including colour printed title-page.
The Young Rajah  ~ 1885 ~ T. Nelson
The Mysterious Island translation of the Jules Verne book
The Two Supercargoes, or Adventures in Savage Africa~. Thomas Nelson and Sons ~ 1919 298 pages   green cloth pictorially printedIllustrated in colour.
In the Rocky Mountains, A Tale of Adventure ~. Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1901 ~ 1878) ~ 334 pages ~  cloth pictorially printed and embossed,  41 full-page illustrations
A Voyage Round the World. A Book for Boys ~. Thomas Nelson and Sons  1893. ~  460 pages ~ red cloth pictorially printed and embossed, With 40 engravings
On the Banks of the Amazon ~ Thomas Nelson and Sons, ~ 1907 ~ 411 pages ~  green cloth pictorially printed Colour-illustrated title page and coloured illustrations.
My First Voyage to the Southern Seas ~ Thomas Nelson and Sons ~ 1912-13 ~  412 pages ~ blue cloth pictorially printed. Illustrated in colour.
Saved from the Sea ~. Thomas Nelson and Sons,  1907  317 pages ~ green cloth pictorially printed, gilt title. Illustrated in colour, including title page, by Cyrus Cuneo.
Dick Cheveley, His Adventures and Misadventures ~ Thomas Nelson and Sons 1914  388 pages ~ blue cloth pictorially printed, gilt title. Illustrated in colour.
Old Jack, A Sea Tale ~ Thomas Nelson and Sons 472 pages ~  maroon cloth pictorially printed, gilt title. Coloured frontis and colour-illustrated title-page.
The Wanderers ~ Thomas Nelson and Sons, ~  332 pages plus pp 4, blue cloth pictorially printed, gilt title Coloured illustrations.
Zebros and elsophants excerpts
Kingston Books Online

William Henry Giles Kingston  1814-1880 

 
Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936
The Seven Seas ~1896 ~ The 1923 Methuen edition bears a swastika good luck symbol on cover and spine. ~ collected stories and poems ~ The Seven Seas’ is a powerful, disillusioned series of poems centred on Britain's role in colonialism and Empire building. With reverberating lyrics and powerful imagery, Kipling writes of the ruthless means that were often employed to add nations to the glorious Empire, and the subsequent effects upon these colonised nations. Though disturbing and unsettling in theme, Kipling's lyrical dexterity makes these poems strangely compelling reading.
Methuen edition with swatika symbol

Other:
Just So Stories 1902  Macmillan and Co Illustrated by the author.
"McClure's magazine" June 1896 featuring Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain It features a Rudyard Kipling short story - "In the Rukh - Mowgli's Introduction to White Men" and a series of 16 photo portraits of Mark Twain. Stephen Crane contributes with - "The Little Regiment" and there are 'Reminiscences of Harriet Beecher Stowe' by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.  illustrations
Recessional and Vampire: 1897 Barse & Hopkins
Recessional and Other Poems:  Poems included in this book are: Recessional: A Victorian Ode ~ The Vampire, as suggested by the painting by Philip Burne-Jones, Danny Deever ~ Tommy ~ Fuzzy-Wuzzy (Soudan Expeditionary Force) ~ Screw-Guns ~ Mandalay ~ Troopin'
Kipling in eText


Rudyard Kipling  (1865-1936)
Kipling was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). His most popular works include The Jungle Book (1894) and the Just So Stories (1902), both children's classics though they have attracted adult audiences also. Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India, where his father was an arts and crafts teacher at the Jeejeebhoy School of Art. His mother was a sister-in-law of the painter Edward Burne-Jones. At the age of six he was taken to England by his parents and left for five years at a foster home at Southsea. His unhappiness at the unkind treatment he received was later expressed in the short story "Baa Baa, Black Sheep", in the novel The Light That Failed (1890), and in his autobiography (1937). In 1878 Kipling entered United Services College, a boarding school in North Devon. It was an expensive institution that specialized in training for entry into military academies. His poor eyesight and mediocre results as a student ended his hopes for a military career. However, Kipling recalled these years in a lighter tone in one of his most popular books, Stalky & Co (1899). Kipling returned to India in 1882, where he worked as a journalist in Lahore for the Civil and Military Gazette (1882-87) and as an assistant editor and overseas correspondent in Allahabad for the Pioneer (1887-89). The stories written during his last two years in India were collected in The Phantom Rickshaw. (1888) Kipling's short stories and verses gained success in the late 1880s in England, to which he returned in 1889, and was hailed as a literary heir to Charles Dickens. Between the years 1889 and 1892, Kipling lived in London and published Life's Handicap (1891), a collection of Indian stories and Barrack-Room Ballads, a collection of poems that included "Gunga Din". 1892 Kipling married Caroline Starr Balestier, with whom he collaborated on a novel, The Naulakha(1892). The young couple moved to the United States. Kipling was dissatisfied with the life in Vermont, and after the death of his daughter, he took his family back to England and settled in Burwash, Sussex. Kipling's marriage was not in all respects happy. During these restless years Kipling produced Many Inventions (1893), The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), The Seven Seas (1896) and Captains Courageous(1897)  Widely regarded as unofficial poet laureate, Kipling refused this and many honors, among them the Order of Merit. During the Boer War in 1899 Kipling spent several months in South Africa. In 1902 he moved to Sussex, also spending time in South Africa. Kim, widely considered Kipling's best novel appeared in 1901. The story, set in India, depicted the adventures of an orphaned son of a sergeant in an Irish regiment. The children's historical work Puck of Pook's Hill appeared in 1906 and its sequel Rewards and Fairies in 1910. Soon after Kipling had received the Nobel Prize, his output of fiction and poems began to decline. His son was killed in the World War I, and in 1923 Kipling published The Irish Guards In The Great War , a history of his son's regiment. Kipling died on January 18, 1936 in London, and was buried in Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey. His autobiography, Something Of Myself, appeared posthumously in 1937.
Bio and Biblio

 
Henry Herbert Knibbs 1874 - 1945
Jim Waring of Sonora-Town or Tang of Life
Online eText Edition in ERBzine: http://www.erbzine.com/craft/hhk.html
Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse ~  1914 ~ Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Real Life
The Innocents

Henry Herbert Knibbs Tributes in ERBzine:
http://www.erbzine.com/mag9/0950.html
http://www.erbzine.com/mag9/0951.html
Knibbs' Poem that inspired The Mucker
http://www.erbzine.com/mag9/0950.html#THE POEM THAT INSPIRED THE
Knibbs' Out There Somewhere
http://www.erbzine.com/mag9/0950.html#OUT THERE SOMEWHERE
Jim Waring of Sonora-Town or Tang of LifeAndrew Melrose UK edition
OTHER:
Temescal ~ 1925 ~ NY: Grosset & Dunlap ~ Adventure in Mexico, featuring a mysterious traveler captured by bandits, and his subsequent escape to become leader of "a band of followers as brave as himself." 
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River ~ 1919 ~ Illustrations by R. M. Brinkerhoff ~ 457 pages ~ (also Dell paperback 1950 ~ cover by Robert Stanley)The story of a young boy of 12 named Pete that lived off the land and did odd jobs for ranchers...At age 12 Pete was a tough boy who grew up the hard way with no parents to speak off...He was destined to become an outlaw if he did not change his ways...Then came along Pop Annersly who took the rough rider under his wing and showed the boy compassion and respect...Someone then kills Pop and Pete is determined to find Pop's Killer and kill them...
The Tonto Kid ~ 1946 ~ Bantam paperback #56 ~ 218 pages 
The Proud Sheriff. with Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Sundown Slim ~ 1915 ~ Houghton Mifflin/G&D ~ Illustrations by Anton Fischer (frontiespiece is color illustration)
Songs of the Trail ~ 1920 ~ Houghton Mifflin Co (Collection of poems such as "The Valley That God Forgot." 
Riders of the Stars: A Book of Western Verse, 1916 ~ Houghton Mifflin
Lost Farm Camp ~ 1912 ~ G&D ~ Frontispiece and three interior art by Harold James Cue ~ 355 pages
Overland Red: A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail ~ 1914 Boston: Houghton, Mifflin. Interesting: Knibbs' name is absent from the book. Illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer, including bright color frontispiece.
Partners of Dance ~ Hutchinson & Co. 1921 (A parody of Partners of Chance) ~ 286 pages
Saddle Songs ~ 1922
The Sungazers
Gentlemen, Hush! ~ with Turbese Lumis ~ 1933 ~ Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin ~ 193 pages


The Sungazers
Sundown SlimPartners of ChanceOverland Red
Bantam Books ~ October 1952

Song:
Where the Ponies Come to Drink/Along the Santa Fe Trail (4:57) ~ H.H. Knibbs/Al Dubin, Edwina Coolidge,Will Grosz
With Bertha's Talking Blues in the Winnipeg Stage Production Boxcar Bertha

Bio from ERBzine 0950: http://www.erbzine.com/mag9/0950.html
Henry Herbert Knibbs 1874 - 1945 was born in Clifton (Niagara Falls), Ontario, Canada to affluent American parents. His biography      record at Los Angeles Library states that his ancestors were Cornish tin miners, seamen and Long Island farmers. He was encouraged to read the works of Longfellow, Lord Byron, Whittier, Tennyson, Edgar Allen Poe while developing a love for the fiddle and its music. His introduction to horses and livestock on his grandparents' farm in Pennsylvania stuck with him throughout his life.  He never graduated from college but attended Woodstock College at age 14, then Bishop Ridley College for three years and studied English at Harvard. He moved to California in 1901 where he wrote his first Novel, Lost Farm Camp. Most of Knibbs' novels are set in the West and in revolutionary Mexico.

Knibbs' poetry books include, First Poems, 1908 ~ Songs of the Outlands, Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse, 1914 ~ Riders of the Stars: A Book of Western Verse, 1916 ~ Songs of the Trail, 1920 ~ Saddle Songs and Other Verse, 1922 ~ and Songs of the Lost Frontier 1930. He also authored 13 western novels and a series of articles printed in the Saturday Evening Post, Red Cross Magazine, Current Opinion, West, Western Stories and Adventure. Henry Herbert Knibbs was a scholar who aspired to be a Western writer and poet. There is no doubt that he put a great deal of  research and thought into his writing. He was not born into ranch life, but became a Western writer through his great efforts. As a result, he left a legacy of profound cowboy poetry for our pleasure.Knibbs spent his last few years as owner/operator of a violin shop in Banning, California. His self-biography, A Boy I Knew remains unpublished. 
Knibbs was a favourite of Burroughs and other writers of the day such as Robert E. Howard

Overland's Delight
When we quit the road at night,
And the birds were folding up their music bars,
Just to smoke a little bit; rub his chin awhile, and sit,
Like a Hobo statue, looking at the stars. (Allsop, 232)
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Emilie Benson Knipe & Alden Arthur Knipe
A Cavalier Maid: 1919 MacMillan Co., NY ~ Illustrated by Emilie Benson Knipe
A novel about a young woman who escapes servanthood in England to find happiness in Puritan New England.
A Maid of Old Manhattan ~ 1920 ~ Rawson, Wade Publishers
Diantha's Quest
Girls of 64
Polly Trotter Patriot
The Lost Little Lady (2) ~ Century Co. 1917 ~ 410 pages


Other:
The Missing Pearls: Little Miss Fales Goes West  1911 Harper Bros
A Maid of '76: 1915 MacMillan, NY
Vive La France!  in St. Nick Magazine, Volume 46, No. 12 (October 1919) ~ Illustrations by  by Emilie Benson Knipe
Now and Then: 1925  New York & London Century Company ~ b&w line drawings by Emilie Benson Knipe, 150 pages
La Croix de Guerre from Vive La France!

 
Cleone Knox (Magdalen King-Hall) July 22, 1904 - March 1, 1971
The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-1765
Reprint edition"as an escape from the boredom of living at a select seaside resort, the inhabitants of which seemed...to consist mainly of formidable old ladies being dragged along the 'front' in bath chairs by ancient men..." A clean, yet frank and. open, description of life in Ireland of the Eighteenth Century, of the sumptuous. luxury of France just before the Revolution, of the gaiety of Venice at carnival time, and of the social bustle of London.
Cleone Knox's  book  was an immediate sensation - several critics rushed to their typewriters and declared that the newly discovered diaries of the captivating Cleone Knox rivaled Pepys. Unfortunately it was a fraud, albeit a fairly innocent one, and it turned out that Cleone Knox was merely a figment in the imagination of an equally remarkable writer - Magdalen King-Hall, who had never dreamed that her publisher would take the whole thing seriously. She was but 19 when she wrote it.

 
J. A. Knox and A. E. Sweet
On A Mexican Mustang, Through Texas, From The Gulf To The Rio Grande ~ S. S. Scranton & Company, Hartford, Conn.  1883. Franklin Press: Rand Avery & Company, Boston. 672 Pages ~ 19th Century Texas humour


 
William J. Kountz Jr.
Billy Baxter's Letters ~ 1899 ~  83 pages ~ This book contains letters written to and from Billy Baxter during the 1800s. Billy Baxter was from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where most of the letters in this book originate from 
Online eText Edition: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext99/bbxtl10.txt
http://jollyroger.com/xlibrary/ofBillyBaxtersKW/ofBillyBaxtersKW1.html
http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/1920
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/drama/BillyBaxtersLetters/Chap1.html
William J. Kountz Jr. of Pittsburgh was one of the nation's foremost humorists of the time

 
William O. Krohn
In Borneo Jungles: Among the Dyak Headhunters: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company [©1927]
A noted 1927 study of the Dyak People of Centra (Dutch) Borneo. A valuable account of their way of life before modern changes and developments had much impinged upon it. 
William O. Krohn was an American forensic surgeon who travelled on behalf of the Chicago Museum of Natural History.
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Frederick Kuhne
The Finger Print Instructor ~ N.Y.: Scientific American, 1927
1930.12.16 - 1927 New York belonged to FM Danger
Frederick Kuhne: Late Bureau of Criminal Identification - Police Department, City of New York.
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Peter B. Kyne
Kindred of the Dust 1920 376 pages ~ a love story set in the great Northwest.This book was #2 on the best seller list of the year 1920. In 1922, this book was used as the scenario for a silent film of the same name. 
Never the Twain Shall Meet ~ 1923 Cosmopolitan Book Co. ~ 375 pages
The Enchanted Hill 1924 Copp Clark
The Pride of Palomar 1921  G&D Illustrated by H.R. Ballinger 372 pages
"...the days of the old ranchos, the days of guitars in the moonlight, the days of beautiful Spanish women and men, gallant and brave...also it vitally has to do with the California of today, and with a California question which is so far-reaching that is affects every an, woman and child in the United States..."
Kindred of the DustKindred of the Dust

Other:

Ominibus: containing Never the Twain Shall Meet and The Pride of Palomar
Captain Scraggs, or The Green-Pea Pirates 1919 G&D Illustrated by Gordon Grant
Tide of Empire 1928 Illus. Cosmopolitan . 395 pages
Cappy Ricks Retires 1922 G"&D Illustrated by T.D. Skidmore  442 pages
The Valley of the Giants
Golden Dawn  1930 Cosmopolitan
Crime-action romance with a Jekyll & Hyde theme, a childhood accident caused the heroine's personality to split. As Penelope Gatlin she is a "society Cinderella"; as Nance Belden, she's an escaped convict on the lam.
The Long Chance ~ 1914 ~ G&D ~ 313 pages ~ A western novel illustrated by Frank Tenny Johnson


The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How To Be One 1921
Ever since its first printing by William Randolph Hearst in 1921, The Go-Getter has inspired employees and entrepreneurs to take initiative, increase their productivity, and excel against the odds. Now, more than half a million copies later, Alan Axelrod,  bestselling author of Patton on Leadership and Elizabeth I, CEO, updates the tale to address today's most pressing work  issues. In The Go-Getter, Bill Peck, a war veteran, persuades Cappy Ricks, the influential founder of the Rick's Logging & Lumbering Company, to let him prove himself by selling skunk wood in odd lengths-a job that everyone knows can only lead to failure. When Peck goes on to beat his quota, Rick hands Peck the ultimate opportunity and the ultimate test: the quest for an elusive blue vase. Drawing on such classic values as honesty, determination, passion, and responsibility, Peck overcomes nearly insurmountable obstacles to find the vase and launch hia career as a successful manager. In a time when jobs are tight and managers are too busy for mentoring, how can you maintain positive energy, take control of  your career, and prepare yourself to ace the tests that come your way? By applying the timeless lessons in this compulsively  readable parable, employees at all levels can learn to rekindle the go-getter in themselves.


Film Adaptations
Kindred of the Dust 1922
Bronco Buster (1952)
In this rodeo drama, Lund plays an old roper who takes a promising young cowboy under his wing. But when the youngster gets good, he also gets full of himself, turning his back on his mentor and trying to steal his girl. That's more than the old feller can stand, so he takes it upon himself to show the kid how it's done. The film incorporates plenty of actual rodeo footage.
Three Godfathers (1936)
Three badmen traveling across the desert after robbing the New Jerusalem bank come across a wagon in the sand. Inside, they find a dying mother (Hervey) and, by her side, a newborn baby. The mother pleads with the men to look after the child and see that it is returned safely to civilization. Reluctant at first, they eventually agree and take the baby with them. As time passes, the life of the young foundling becomes more important than the money they've stolen or even their own lives. This Western version of the Three Wise Men story was made for the screen five times.
Dean Cornwell Connection: Cornwell's art is featured in many of the Kyne editions.
A student of both Harvey Dunn and Frank Brangwyn, Cornwell was equally at home with illustrations and murals. Born in 1892,  his cartoon is found in   Caricature - The Wit and Humor of a Nation, a compilation of material from Judge, as early as 1912. In the 20's, his work could often be found in Cosmopolitan Magazine providing large, dynamic illustrations for serialized novels and later in the books into which they were compiled. Representative colour works pieces are found in The City of the Great King which, along with The Man of Galilee presented a dozen large color images each. Other minor treasures of the decade are found in the novels of Peter B. Kyne and Oliver Curwood, which contained an image or three by Cornwell  from their original magazine appearances. Though often in color in Cosmo, the book versions were often shown in two- or three-color versions. By the end of the decade, he was working in all of the popular publications of the period. His work may also be found in Kyne's Never the Twain Shall Meet, The Enchanted Hill and The Pride of Palomar.  Many of them were issued with color Cornwell dustjackets as well. By the 30's and 40's, Dean Cornwell was a household name. His patriotic war posters and full-page color advertisements were everywhere: Seagrams Whiskey, General Motors, and Coca Cola - to name a few. He created a series of placards commemorating great moments in medicine for Wyeth and Brother. The image at left is "Conquerors of Yellow Fever". Every drugstore in America was happy to display them in their windows, giving more visibility to Cornwell's art. Cornwell executed some wonderful murals, some of which can still be seen in the Los Angeles Library. He was a president of the Society of Illustrators from 1922-1926, a member of the Dutch Treat Club from at least 1927 to 1949, and a frequenter of "The 21 Club" in New York, for which he provided the painting at left which appears in The Iron Gate of Jack & Charles "21", the 1950 Memorial Edition. Said book also contains "Venus and the organ player - with apologies to Titian" by Cornwell. In 1947 and 1952 he returned to images of the Near East with illustrations for Lloyd Douglas' two immensely popular novels, The Robe and The Big Fisherman. Each title contained eight double-page color paintings crafted at the height of his talent. We prefer the first Houghton-Mifflin editions, personally, but even the editions from The Peoples Book Club provide striking testimony to the talent of this great artist.
http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/cornwel2.htm
Conquerors of Yellow FeverIron GateCity of the Great King
Coca Cola AdPioneers of American Medicine series for the Wyeth Laboratories in 1939-1942.


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