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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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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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"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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Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, Anna Christie, The First Man
O'NEILL, Eugene.
The Hairy Ape and Other Plays.
London: Johnathan Cape, 1930.
Early printing of this collection of three plays by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 111321
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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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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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"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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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 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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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Vermont Feud
VAN DE WATER, Frederic. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling’s Vermont Feud.
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1937.
First edition of Van de Water's account of Kipling's feud with his brother-in-law in Dummerston, which was made very public by local newspapers. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with drawings by Bernadine Custer. With a previous collector's photocopy of a cutting from the New York Herald Tribune's April 1937 article 'Feud in Family Drove Kipling From Vermont.' In very good condition. Design by Vrest Orton. A very desirable work in the pantheon of Kiplingalia.
Price: $15.00 Item Number: 135848
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"When writing of authors, show them, if you can, in their relation to life as well as their relation to literature": First edition of Hilton Brown's Rudyard Kipling: A New Appreciation
BROWN, Hilton. Foreword by Frank Swinnerton.
Rudyard Kipling: A New Appreciation.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945.
First edition of Brown's appreciation of the legendary Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In very good condition.
Price: $12.00 Item Number: 136157
