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First edition of G. C. Beresford's Schooldays With Kipling
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Schooldays With Kipling.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1936.
First edition of Beresford's homage to the legendary man of letters. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. In near fine condition.
Price: $15.00 Item Number: 135197
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"Just follow along, okay?": First edition of Brian Moore's Cold Heaven
MOORE, Brian.
Cold Heaven.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1983.
First edition of Moore's supernatural thriller. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Hans Wendler. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 126409
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"The Architect, by his arrangement of forms, realizes an order which is a pure creation of his spirit": First edition exhibition catalog from the Yale University School of Architecture
HOUGH, Jessica and Monica Ramirez-Montagut.
Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture.
New Haven: Yale School of Architecture, 2008.
First edition catalog of the Painting the Glass House exhibition organized by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum with the Yale School of Architecture. Octavo, original wrappers as issued, illustrated with photographs. In fine condition.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 88094
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First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov: A Tribute
QUENNELL, Peter.
Vladimir Nabokov: A Tribute.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1980.
First edition of this tribute to Nabokov. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Edited by Peter Quennell. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 36337
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First edition of John O'Hara's Lovely Childs
O'HARA, John.
Lovey Childs: A Philadelphian’s Story.
New York: Random House, 1969.
First edition of this novel by the author of Appointment in Samarra. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nassar.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 126114
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First Modern Edition of Norman Douglas' South Wind
DOUGLAS, Norman.
South Wind.
New York: The Modern Library , 1925.
First Modern Library edition of the author's classic work based on the island of Capri. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 142444
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First Edition of Saul Bellow's The Last Analysis: A Play
BELLOW, Saul.
The Last Analysis: A Play.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1966.
First edition of the only play by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Alan Ball.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 34864
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"You have a strong spirit, Ibu. Would you like to be a priestess?": First edition of Joyce Cary's The African Witch
CARY, Joyce.
The African Witch.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1936.
First edition of Cary's first popular novel. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 124131
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"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst": The inclusive edition of Rudyard Kipling's Verse
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Inclusive Edition 1885-1932.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1938.
Later printing of the inclusive edition of Rudyard Kipling's Verse. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Kipling. Very good in the original dust jacket which is price-clipped and in good condition.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 135464
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Isaac Bashevis Singer's The King of the Fields
SINGER, Isaac Bashevis.
The King of the Fields.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988.
Early printing of Singer's masterful historical novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Alcorn. Author photograph by Nancy Crampton.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 126208
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"A Stone's throw out on either hand from that well-ordered road we tread, and all the world is wild and strange": First edition of John Palmer's Rudyard Kipling
PALMER, John.
Rudyard Kipling.
London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd, 1915.
First edition of Palmer's warm biography of the famed Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In very good condition. Bookplate.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 136201
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First edition of A Kipling Primer: Including Biographical and Critical Chapters, an Index to Mr. Kipling's Principal Writings, and Bibliographies
KNOWLES, Frederic Lawrence. [Rudyard Kipling].
A Kipling Primer. Including Biographical and Critical Chapters, an Index to Mr. Kipling’s Principal Writings, and Bibliographies.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1900.
First edition of Knowles' Kipling Primer. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In near fine condition.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 123018
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First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' Kipling's Sussex
HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].
Kipling’s Sussex.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1921.
First edition of Thurston's work on Kipling in Sussex. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In good condition.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 135205
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"THE SOLE REVENGE THAT MATURITY CAN TAKE UPON YOUTH FOR THE SIN OF BEING YOUNG IS TO PREACH TO IT": FIRST EDITION OF RUDYARD KIPLING'S INDEPENDENCE: RECTORIAL ADDRESS DELIVERED AT ST. ANDREWS, OCTOBER 10, 1923
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924.
First American edition of Kipling’s October 1953 address delivered to the students of St. Andrews discussing the challenges and necessity of individuality and independence. Octavo, original boards. In very good condition.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 124544
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First Edition of Lawrence Durrell's Constance or Solitary Practices
DURRELL, Lawrence.
Constance or Solitary Practices.
London: Faber and Faber, 1982.
First edition of the third novel in Lawrence Durell's Avignon Quintet. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by David Gentleman.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 138734
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First edition of Lucile Russell Carpenter's Rudyard Kipling: A Friendly Profile
CARPENTER, Lucile Russell.
Rudyard Kipling: A Friendly Profile.
Chicago: Argus Books, 1942.
First edition of Lucile and William Carpenter's work on Kipling's life in Vermont, his travels around the world, and school days. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 123558
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First Edition of Christopher Isherwood's Down There On a Visit
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.
Down There On a Visit.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.
First edition of this novel from the author of Goodbye Berlin and what many consider his finest novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 112391
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First edition of Hilton Brown's Rudyard Kipling: A New Appreciation
BROWN, Hilton. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: A New Appreciation by Hilton Brown.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945.
First edition of Brown's candid work on the genius of Rudyard Kipling. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with 5 portriats. Foreword by Frank Swinnerton. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 123612
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First edition of Bonamy Dobree's Rudyard Kipling: Realist and Fabulist
DOBREE, Bonamy.
Rudyard Kipling: Realist and Fabulist.
London: Oxford University Press, 1967.
First edition of Dobree's fresh approach to Kipling's philosophy, poetry, and verse. Octavo, original cloth. Good in a very good dust jacket. Stamp to the title page, lacking the front free endpaper, tape remnants.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 135942
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"It was as a writer of short-stories that Kipling first established his fame": First edition of Walter Morris Hart's Kipling: The Story-Writer
HART, Walter Morris. [Rudyard Kipling].
Kipling: The Story-Writer.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1918.
First edition of Walter Morris Hart's survey of the Kipling's short stories. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 125277
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"For all we have and are, for all our children's fate, stand up and meet the war, the Hun is at the gate!": The Special limited edition of Twenty Poems From Rudyard Kipling
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Twenty Poems From Rudyard Kipling.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1936.
Special limited edition of Twenty Poems From Rudyard Kipling. Octavo, original boards. Seventh edition. In fine condition. Rare.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 123607
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First edition of Rex Warner's The Converts: A Novel of Early Christianity
WARNER, Rex.
The Converts: A Novel of Early Christianity.
London: The Bodley Head, 1967.
First English edition of Warner's fascinating reconstruction of the early life of St. Augustine in fourth century Rome and Milan. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Ownership inscription.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 126807
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First Edition of George Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart: a Political Extravaganza
SHAW, George Bernard.
The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza.
London: Constable and Company, 1930.
First edition of this classic play by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 138394
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"I was wide awake, packed and ready to go at dawn": Eric Ambler's The Night-Comers
AMBLER, Eric.
The Night-Comers.
London: Heinemann, 1965.
Early printing of Ambler's inventively thrilling novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Brian Russell.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 126375
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Brian Boyd's Vladimir Nabokov : The Russian Years
BOYD, Brian [Vladimir Nabokov].
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Early printing of this biography on Nabokov. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 87069
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First Edition of John O'Hara's Pal Joey
O'HARA, John.
Pal Joey.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940.
First edition of this classic novel, basis for the 1957 film starring Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 133139
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First edition of Neil Philip's Fairy Tales of Eastern Europe
PHILIP, Neil. Illustrated by Larry Wilkes.
Fairy Tales of Eastern Europe.
Aylesbury: Liber Press, 1991.
First edition of the author's selection of tales from the traditional folklore or Eastern Europe. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated by Larry Wilkes. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Alan Peacock.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 140123
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First Edition of Richard Church's British Authors: A Twentieth Century Gallery
CHURCH, Richard.
British Authors: A Twentieth Century Gallery.
London: Published for the British Council by Longmans Green & Co.
First edition of Church's authoritative guide to the greatest British authors. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with 58 portraits. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Small name.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 126107
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First edition of Kingsley Amis' Rudyard Kipling
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Rudyard Kipling.
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1975.
First edition of Amis' study of great English author, Rudyard Kipling. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, frontispiece portrait of Kipling, with 114 illustrations. In near fine condition. Cover illustration by Avril Broadley.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 126944
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First edition of Martin Fido's Rudyard Kipling
FIDO, Martin. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling.
London: Hamlyn, 1974.
First edition of the great biographer's lively and absorbing study of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling. Quarto, original cloth, marbled endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 126709
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"Why is it always a pink princess? Why not an Indian princess or a princess from Thailand of an African princess or a princess from China?: First edition of Ian Falconer's Olivia and the Fairy Princesses
FALCONER, Ian.
Olivia and the Fairy Princesses.
New York: Antheneum Books, 2012.
First edition of the tenth installment in Falconer's whimsical Olivia series. Quarto, original illustrated boards, patterned endpapers, illustrated by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ann Bobco.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 141044
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First edition of Evelyn Anthony's The Silver Falcon
ANTHONY, Evelyn.
The Silver Falcon.
London: Hutchinson, 1977.
First edition of Anthony's suspenseful Derby novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Patrick McCreeth. Jacket photograph by Gerry Cranham. Author photograph by Mark Gerson.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 124384
