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First edition of Rudyard Kipling: A Criticism by Richard Le Gallienne; with a bibliography by John Lane
LE GALLIENNE, Richard [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: A Criticism by Richard Le Gallienne.
London: John Lane, 1900.
First edition of Le Gallienne's critical work on the legendary writer. Octavo, original cloth. With a bibliography by John Lane. In very good condition.
Price: $15.00 Item Number: 135718
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"If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same... Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and - which is more - you'll be a man , my son!" A Kipling Anthology: Verse
KIPLING, Rudyard.
A Kipling Anthology: Verse.
London: Methuen and Co. Limited, 1922.
Second edition of this anthology of Kipling's verse, published the same year as the first. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. Contains an abridged version of Kipling's famed poem If-. In near fine condition. Period secondary school bookplate to the pastedown. A charming example.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 135918
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Douglas C. McMurtrie's The Book: The Story of Printing & Bookmaking
MCMURTRIE, Douglas C.
The Book: The Story of Printing & Bookmaking.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1962.
Later printing of the printing historian's classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In near fine condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 135148
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First edition of Edward Shanks' Rudyard Kipling: A Study in Literature and Political Ideas
SHANKS, Edward. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: A Study in Literature and Political Ideas.
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1940.
First edition of the author's homage to the legendary Nobel Prize-winning author, poet, and great man of letters. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In good condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 135947
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First edition of Aesop's Fables; selected and edited by Laura Harris and illustrated by Tony Palazzo
HARRIS, Laura. Illustrated by Tony Palazzo. [Aesop].
Aesop’s Fables.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1954.
First edition of Tony Palazzo's charmingly illustrated rendition of Aesop's Fables. Quarto, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Tony Palazzo. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 135747
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First edition of Louis L. Cornell's Kipling In India
CORNELL, Louis L. [Rudyard Kipling].
Kipling In India.
London: Macmillan, 1966.
First edition of Cornell's study of Kipling's apprenticeship in India. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 135841
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"The tale tells that all was dark there, and Jurgen could see no one": James Branch Cabell's Jurgen
CABELL, James Branch.
Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1923.
Early printing of Cabell's famed fantasy novel. Octavo, original cloth, top edge red. In very good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 101682
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"Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved: there can be no world peace unless there is soul peace": Fulton J. Sheen's Peace of Soul
SHEEN, Fulton J.
Peace of Soul.
New York and Toronto: Whittlesey House, 1950.
Early printing of the bishop's enormously popular book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 135990
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LATER PRINTING OF PHILIP PULLMAN'S THE SHADOW IN THE NORTH; INSCRIBED BY HIM
PULLMAN, Philip.
The Shadow in the North.
London: Scholastic Ltd, 1999.
Later printing of Philip Pullman’s second book in his Sally Lockhart Quartet. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “Good luck to Eileen, Philip Pullman.” In near fine condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 88119
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FIRST EDITION OF J.K. ROWLING'S THE CASUAL VACANCY
ROWLING, J.K.
The Casual Vacancy.
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.
First edition of this “positively propulsive read” (Wall Street Journal). Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice. Jacket illustration by Joel Holland.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 137044
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First edition of C. A. Bodelsen's Aspects of Kipling's Art
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Aspects of Kipling’s Art.
Manchester: University Press, 1964.
First edition of Bodelsen's homage to Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 135881
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First edition of G. F. Monksood's Rudyard Kipling: The Man and His Work
MONKSHOOD, G. F. and George Gamble.
Rudyard Kipling: The Man and His Work. An Attempt at Appreciation.
London: Greening & Co., Ltd., 1902.
Third and enlarged edition of Monkshood's homage to the legendary man of letters. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait. In very good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 135217
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"This is Robert Francis Weatherbee who was just like you and me when he was little, only his ears were bigger": Munro Leaf's Robert Francis Weatherbee
LEAF, Monro.
Robert Francis Weatherbee.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1935.
First edition of Munro Leaf's early children's tale. Octavo, original boards, illustrated by the author. In good condition with some preliminary leaves removed, ownership signature and bookseller's stickers to the front free endpaper and pastedown, rebacked.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 104087
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"Your house is your castle": Catherine and Harold Sleeper's Classic Work: The House For You To Build, Buy, or Rent
SLEEPER, Catherine and Harold R.
The House For You To Build, Buy, or Rent.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1952.
Early printing of the authors' classic no-nonsense work on home ownership. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated by Henry Diamond and Lombard C. Jones. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 133435
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First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' The Kipling Country
HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].
The Kipling Country.
London: Cecil Palmer, 1924.
First edition of Hopkins' illustrated homage to Kipling's home in rural Burwash and its surrounds. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with drawings by Captain Irvine B. Bately and Gordon Volk. In good condition. Bookplate.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 135263
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"There are few pastimes that supply their followers with more innocent merriment than is afforded by the royal and ancient": First edition of Mr. Punch's Golf Stories
PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR. EDITED BY J.A. HAMMERTON,.
Mr. Punch’s Golf Stories: Told By His Merry Men.
The Educational Book Co. Ltd, 1909.
First edition of this charming compilation of golf stories. Octavo, original red cloth, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 88075
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Rudyard Kipling's Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories. [Baa, Baa, Black Sheep; His Majesty the King; The Drums of Fore and Aft]
Allahabad: Published by Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co, n.d.
Later printing of this classic collection of Kipling's tales for children. Octavo, original cloth. Contains Wee Willie Winkie, Baa Baa Black Sheep, His Majesty the King, and The Drums of Fore and Aft. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 135005
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Willard Espy's Words at Play Finely Bound; Presentation copy with a Typed Letter Signed by the author laid in
ESPY, Willard R.
An Almanac of Words at Play.
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1975.
Early printing of Espy's work on wit in wordplay. Quarto, bound in half morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, red spine labels, marbled endpapers. Presentation copy, from the library of Jonathan Goodman with his embossed library stamp to the front free endpaper. Enclosed is a typed letter signed by the author to the recipient date March 7, 1977 in the original envelope. The letter reads in part, "First time any correspondent has mentioned giving the Almanac the leather treatment. Next time I'm in London I must call to learn whether you really did it...Sincerely, Willard…
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 95845
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"In a little village there was a church, and on the top of the church stood a weathercock": Evelyn Sharp's The Story of the Weathercock
SHARP, Evelyn. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
The Story of the Weathercock.
London: Blackie & Son Limited, n.d..
Early printing of Sharp's children's classic. Quarto, original publisher's decorated cloth, illustrated with sixteen color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations by Charles Robinson. In good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 135422
