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"This is precisely what I expected Hong-Kong would be like": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's 'They' and the Brushwood Boy
KIPLING, Rudyard.
‘They’ and the Brushwood Boy.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1925.
First edition of this collection of two Kipling stories. Octavo, original cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, with illustrations in color by F. H. Townsend. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121873
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"For secret doubt and open slight the mercy, lord, be for the right!": Scarce First separate edition of Rudyard Kipling's "After" A False Start
KIPLING, Rudyard.
“After” A False Start.
At the Sign of the George, 1924.
First Separate edition of Kipling's "After", the first draft of the poem that would later become The Recessional, being a facsimile of a hand-written note retrieved from Kipling's wastebasket which was later donated to the Harvard College Library. One page, folded. In fine condition. Scarce.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 123514
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"My small feet could walk the sun up and down across the stony hill-crests where we worked": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's "Teem"- A Treasure-Hunter; in the scarce original dust jacket
KIPLING, Rudyard.
“Teem”- A Treasure-Hunter.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1938.
First edition of Kipling's beloved dog story. Octavo, original cloth. Frontispiece illustration by Marguerite Kirmse. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121883
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Rare original large format acrylic painting signed by Vietnam War Veteran and Golden Globe Award winning screenwriter Ron Kovic
KOVIC, Ron.
“The Joy of Color!” Ron Kovic Original Painting.
2013.
Rare original large format acrylic painting signed by Vietnam War Veteran and Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriter Ron Kovic. On thick Aquarell watercolor paper, the painting is signed three times by the artist on the verso, "Ron Kovic Oct 2013", "'The Joy of Color' by Ron Kovic" and with a signed self-caricature. American anti-war activist, writer, and United States Marine Corps sergeant Ronald Lawrence Kovic was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War. His 1976 memoir Born on the Fourth of July was made into the Academy Award–winning 1989 film directed by Oliver Stone. Kovic received the Golden Globe Award for…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 135265
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"Please may I come in? I am Boots. I am son of Kildonan Brougue - Champion Reserve - V.H.C. - very fine dog": First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Thy Servant A Dog
KIPLING, Rudyard.
“Thy Servant A Dog” Told by Boots.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930.
First edition of Kipling's beloved children's classic, as told by Boots the dog. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 121841
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"PLEASE MAY I COME IN? I AM BOOTS. I AM SON OF KILDONAN BROUGUE - CHAMPION RESERVE - V.H.C. - VERY FINE DOG": FIRST EDITION OF RUDYARD KIPLING'S THY SERVANT A DOG
KIPLING, Rudyard.
“Thy Servant A Dog” Told by Boots.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1930.
First edition of Kipling’s beloved children’s classic, as told by Boots the dog. Octavo, rebound in new boards with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse, frontispiece. Near fine in a custom slipcase.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 123470
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Limited Edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'Arthur; Illustrated with Original Designs by Aubrey Beardsley
BEARDSLEY, Aubrey; Sir Thomas Malory; William Caxton; John Rhys; Aymer Vallance.
[Morte D’Arthur]. The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of His Noble Knights of the Round Table Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of This World of Them All.
Edinburgh: Turnbull & Spears, 1927.
Limited Beardsley illustrated edition of perhaps the best-known work of Arthurian literature in English, containing two additional illustrations not appearing in the second edition, in addition to the 10 further illustrations published in the second edition that did not appear in the first. Quarto, original publisher's cloth with gilt art-deco botanical design by Aubrey Beardsley, some pages uncut, top edge gilt, illustrated with twenty-two plates by Beardsley, numerous in-text designs, and head- and tail-pieces throughout. One of one thousand six hundred examples. In very good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146914
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Rare Signed limited edition of E. E. Cummings' untitled work
CUMMINGS, E. E.
[No Title]. [An Imaginary Dialogue Between Almost Any Publisher and a Certain Author A.D. 1930].
New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1930.
First edition and signed limited edition of Cumming's cleverly titled untitled work. Quarto, original cloth stamped in silver, illustrated with 8 full-page drawings by the author. One of 491 copies signed by the author on the colophon, this is number 144. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Small bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent. One of the more elusive Cummings titles.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 136284
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"There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur": First Editions of Tinker, Tailor Soldier Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley’s People; Each Signed by John Le Carre
LE CARRE, John.
[The Karla Trilogy]: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; Smiley’s People.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974-1979.
First editions of each title in the author's acclaimed Karla Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth, 3 volumes. Each volume is signed by John le Carre on a bookplate to the title page. Each is near fine in near fine dust jackets. An exceptional set, uncommon in this condition and signed.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 133663
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First Edition of Richard Wright's 12 Million Black Voices; Signed by Him
WRIGHT, Richard.
12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States.
New York: The Viking Press, 1941.
First edition of this powerful work by the author of The Native Son, featuring photographs by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed Richard Wright on the front free endpaper. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Photo-direction by Edwin Rosskam. Uncommon signed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 119447
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First Edition of Gore Vidal's 1876: A Novel; Inscribed by Him to His Sister
VIDAL, Gore.
1876: A Novel.
New York : Random House, 1976.
First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the "Valerie love Gore." The recipient, Valerie Gore was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. The two remained close throughout the years. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 126331
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First Edition of Gore Vidal's 1876: A Novel; Inscribed by Him to His Sister
VIDAL, Gore.
1876: A Novel.
New York : Random House, 1976.
First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the "Kit love Gore." The recipient, Katherine “Kit” Vidal was Eugene Vidal’s second wife; he married her in 1939 when she was a 20 year old model with the Powers Agency, only six years older than Gore. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A nice association.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 131323
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Rare 1950s-1970s Paperback Collection including Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Rudyard Kipling's Kim, Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, John Steinbeck's Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and many others
BRONTE, Emily; Agatha Christie; Ernest Hemingway; Jack Kerouac; Rudyard Kipling; John Steinbeck et al.
1950s-1970s Paperback Collection.
New York: Avon, Bantam, Dell, et al, c. 1940-1960.
Large collection of first edition and early printings including a variety of classic literature and pulp fiction. Small octavos, 60 volumes, the collection includes Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Rudyard Kipling's Kim, John Milton's Paradise Lost, Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, John Steinbeck's Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans and many others. In very good to fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 121681
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Rare "Noh aspires to indescribability": 200 Utaibon Noh Chantbooks
200 Utaibon Noh Chantbooks.
Kyoto: Tsunenosuke Hinoki, 1943-1944.
A theatrical collection of exactly 200 Utaibon Noh chantbooks. Original wrappers with stitched binding, average of approximately 20 pp. each, title labels on rice paper, patterned paper covers, calligraphic text in red and black. All in very good to fine condition. Housed in a dedicated wooden case, which is in good condition with partitioning to one of the doors. From the collection of Mae Smethurst, a University of Pittsburgh professor who authored a groundbreaking book comparing Noh drama to Greek classical drama. An exceptional rarity.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 145827
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First Edition of Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two
CLARKE, Arthur C.
2010: Odyssey Two.
New York: Ballentine Books, 1982.
First edition of the second volume in Clarke's acclaimed Odyssey series. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gary Friedman. Cover painting by Michael Whelan.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 145180
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First Edition of Roberto Bolano's 2666; Signed by Translator Natasha Wimmer
BOLANO, Roberto.
2666.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
First edition of the author's masterpiece published posthumously in English, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers. Boldly signed by the translator Natasha Wimmer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Charlotte Strick.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 146350
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First Edition of 3 by Irving; Inscribed by John Irving To Editor David Kent
IRVING, John.
3 By Irving: Setting Free the Bears; The Water-Method Man; The 158-Pound Marriage.
New York: Random House, 1980.
First edition of this compilation of the author's first three novels. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to his editor David Kent, "For David Kent John Irving with my admiration and affection." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jack Ribik. Introduction by Terrence Des Pres.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 37055
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First Edition of Jose Saramago's A Bagagem Do Viajante: Cronicas; Inscribed by Him
SARAMAGO, Jose.
A Bagagem Do Viajante: Cronicas.
Lisboa: Ed. Futura, 1973.
First edition of this early collection of essays by the future Nobel Prize- winning author. Octavo, original wrappers, as issued. Inscribed and dated by Jose Saramago.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 1334
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“We all remember what we need to remember”: First Edition of A Book of Common Prayer; Inscribed by Joan Didion
DIDION, Joan.
A Book of Common Prayer.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977.
First edition of Didion's classic fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Kenneth Stein Joan Didion 11 July '94." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. An exceptional example, uncommon signed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144198
