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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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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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"When one believes that all the tigers in the jungle are dead, it is quite amusing to walk along the jungle paths in a dressing-gown with a fan instead of a gun": First Edition of H. G. Wells' Joan and Peter
WELLS, H.G.
Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1918.
First American edition of this satirical portrait of late-Victorian England, the education system on the eve of the First World War, and the effects of that war on English society. Octavo, original red cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 145204
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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 Barry Lopez's Crow and Weasel; beautifully illustrated by Tom Pohrt
LOPEZ, Barry. Illustrated by Tom Pohrt.
Crow and Weasel.
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990.
First edition of the best-selling author's Parents' Choice Award-winning novella-length fable. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated by Tom Pohrt. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Bullen.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 135159
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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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"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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First edition of James Goodwin's Burwash and the Sussex Weald
GOODWIN, James [Rudyard Kipling].
Burwash and the Sussex Weald. (“An English History in Miniature.”).
Turnbridge Wells: Printed for the Author by The Courier Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd., n.d.
First edition of work on the history and landscape of the Sussex Weald where Rudyard Kipling resided from 1902 until his death in 1936. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 136107
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First Edition of Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell
MARIAS, Javier.
Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell.
London: Chatto & Windus, 2009.
First edition of the author's final volume in his brilliant trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 145662
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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 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 Lawrence Durrell's The Best of Antrobus
DURRELL, Lawrence.
The Best of Antrobus.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1974.
First edition of the best twenty Antrobus stories from Lawrence Durrell's three paperbacks. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated with drawings by Nicolas Bently. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 145171
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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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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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"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
