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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Songs From Books
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Songs From Books.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912.
First edition of this selection of songs from Kipling's children's stories. Octavo, original illustrated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 121421
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First edition of George Alfred Henty's Under Wellington's Command: A Tale of the Peninsular War
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
Under Wellington’s Command: A Tale of the Peninsular War.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1899.
First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated by Walter Paget. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 123041
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First edition of Brian Moore's No Other Life; inscribed by him to famed photographer Sally Soames
MOORE, Brian.
No Other Life.
London: Bloomsbury, 1993.
First edition of the award-winning novelist's gripping drama. Octavo, original cloth, ribbon bound in. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Sally Soames L'Image B S Moore." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research on her…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 126419
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First Edition of The Givenness of Things: Essays; Signed by Pulitzer-Prize winning Author Marilynne Robinson
ROBINSON, Marilynne.
The Givenness of Things: Essays.
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2015.
First edition of this collection of essays from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Marilynne Robinson on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Strick and Williams.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 12057
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One Hundred & One Ballades; Inscribed by H.S. Mackintosh
MACKINTOSH, H.S.; Winifred Agar; Sidney Allnut; Maurice Baring; Hilaire Belloc; E.C. Bentley; Cecil Chesterton; Geoffrey Howard; Diggory King; Theodore Maynard; J.B. Morton; J.S. Phillimore; T. Michael Pope; C.K. Scott-Moncrieff; J.C. Squire; R. Weatherhead; Louis Wharton.
One Hundred & One Ballades.
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1931.
First edition, second printing of this collection of narrative poetry, some of which appear for the first time here. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with engravings by John Nash. Presentation copy, inscribed by H.S. Mackintosh, "To Miss S. Fraser-Luckis from H.S. Mackintosh. September 1937." In very good condition with some toning to the spine and light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 147098
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Rudyard Kipling's The Just So Song Book
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Just So Song Book: Being Songs From Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories. Set to Music by Edward German.
Macmillan and Co., Limited: London, 1918.
Early printing of Kipling's Just So Song Book. Quarto, original illustrated boards. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 126592
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First edition of Susan Cheever's Home Before Dark; inscribed by her to Ken Burrows
CHEEVER, Susan.
Home Before Dark: A Biographical Memoir of John Cheever by His Daughter.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.
First edition of Cheever's candid portrait of her father, John Cheever. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "New York City October 1984 To Burrows with love from his old friend Susan." The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989. Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 142633
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First Edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Escape on Venus
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.
Escape on Venus.
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, 1946.
First edition of the fourth book in the 'Venus' series. Octavo, original cloth, top edge red, frontispiece and four illustrated plates by John Coleman Burroughs, cartographic endpapers designed by the author. Near fine in a good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 145058
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"GIRLS AND BOYS COME OUT TO PLAY, THE MOON IS SHINING BRIGHT AS DAY!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Brushwood Boy
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Brushwood Boy.
New York: Doubleday and McClure Company, 1899.
First separate American edition of Kipling children’s classic. Octavo, original illustrated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Orson Lowell, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very condition. Bookplate.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 121634
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First edition of richard ford's the sportswriter; inscribed by him
FORD, Richard.
The Sportswriter.
New York : Vintage Books, 1986.
First edition of this paperback original as issued. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "For Elias Kanner with the very warmest wishes. Richard Ford January 8, 1990 NYC." In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 120536
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"The flowers knew it, the tender-leaved trees overhead were aware, the shining sky had word": First edition of Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott Balestier's The Naulahka
KIPLING, Rudyard with Wolcott Balestier.
The Naulahka: A Story of West and East.
New York: Macmillan and Co, 1892.
First American edition of Kipling and Balestier's ambitious narrative. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 194285
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First edition of Oscar Wilde's A Critic in Pall Mall: Beings Extracts From Reviews and Miscellanies
WILDE, Oscar. Selected by E. V. Lucas.
A Critic in Pall Mall: Beings Extracts From Reviews and Miscellanies.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1919.
First edition of this selection of Wilde's literary criticism. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 139580
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First edition of Gelett Burgess' The Maxims of Methuselah
BURGESS, Gelett.
The Maxims of Methuselah: Being the Advice Given by the Patriarch in his Nine Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grandson at Shem’s Coming of Age in Regard to Women.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907.
First edition of the humorist's colorful take on the Battle of the Sexes. Octavo, original half cloth, with illustrations, decorations, and cover design by Louis D. Fancher. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 119078
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Soldiers Three. The Story of the Gadsbys. In Black and White.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, & Company, 1892.
First edition of this collection of Kipling's stories; the first collected edition of these three tales. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 121044
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First edition of Arthur Schnitzler's Casanova's Homecoming
SCHNITZLER, Arthur.
Casanova’s Homecoming.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1947.
First edition of of Schnitzler's famous novella. Quarto, original boards. In near fine condition. Numbered 96 of 1499 examples. Artwork by Rockwell Kent.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 137532
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Rude Rhymes: Mother Goose Goes Behind the Bike Shed; Inscribed by Michael Rosen
ROSEN, Michael.
Rude Rhymes: Mother Goose Goes Behind the Bike Shed.
London: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1989.
Early printing. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issue. Inscribed by the author opposite the title page, "hello Eileen Michael Rosen was here." In fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 82141
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First Edition of Denzil Batchelor's This My Son; Signed by Him
BATCHELOR, Denzil.
This My Son.
London: Collins, 1954.
First edition of Batchelor's moving story exploring the pathos of childhood. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With love from Denzil Batchelor." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 101441
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Rare first separate edition of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones
O'NEILL, Eugene.
The Emperor Jones.
Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd, 1921.
First separate edition of the play that established O'Neill as a successful playwright. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 118107
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"We had, in silence, a little luminous talk about it, in the course of which she seemed to tell me the most interesting things": First edition of Henry James' The Soft Side
JAMES, Henry.
The Soft Side.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1900.
First edition of this collection of James' novellas. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 80111
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"I'm drawn to characters who see the future, or think they do": First Edition of Avenue of Mysteries; Signed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
Avenue of Mysteries.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015.
First edition of the award-winning author's fourteenth title. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by John Irving on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Emily Pracher. Jacket photograph by Karina Juárez. Author photograph by Everett Irving.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 145157
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"The first time I saw Felix, he had no trousers on": First edition of Hilary Ford's Felix Walking
FORD, Hilary.
Felix Walking.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1958.
First edition of the first book published under Youd's pseudonym Hilary Ford. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Contemporary inscription to the front free endpaper.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 96197
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"Something like an adventure": First edition of George Alfred Henty's Held Fast For England
HENTY, George Alfred.
Held Fast For England: A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83).
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1892.
First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles and decorations to the spine and front panel, illustrated by Gordon Browne. In very good condition. Uncommon.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 122382
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"Art thou content with thy servant? He is very comfy with thee": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's His Apologies
KIPLING, Rudyard.
His Apologies.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932.
First edition of Kipling's classic poetic tribute to his beloved Scottie. Octavo, original half cloth over illustrated boards. With drawings by Cecil Alden. In very good condition. Ownership name.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 123048
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First Edition of Exit Ghost; Signed by Philip Roth
ROTH, Philip.
Exit Ghost.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.
First edition of the author's final novel in his acclaimed Zuckerman series. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 1589
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Mountains Beyond Mountains; Signed by Tracy Kidder
KIDDER, Tracy.
Mountains Beyond Mountains.
New York: Random House, 2003.
First edition, early printing of this powerful work, which tells the true story of a gifted man who loves the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Tracy Kidder on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Peter Mendelsund.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 147197
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Finely bound example of Francis Charles Philips' My Little Husband and If Only; finely bound
PHILIPS, Francis Charles.
My Little Husband and If Only.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1894-1904.
Finely bound example Philips' two collections short stories. Octavo, two volumes bound into one in three quarters vellum over marbled boards with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges red. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 114507
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"And bitter was the rowers' song as they brought the war-boat round": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Years Between
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Years Between.
London: Methuen and Co., Ltd, 1919.
First edition of this collection of 45 poems, often considered Kipling’s darkest work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 120774
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"To-day belongs to me, To-morrow who can tell. Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain": First Nonesuch Press Edition of the Anacreon
COWLEY, Abraham.
Anacreon, done into English out of the original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S.B. 1683.
Soho: Nonesuch Press, 1923.
First Nonesuch Press limited edition of the Odes of Anacreon. Octavo, bound in three quarters vellum over gold paper-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with four full-page tissue-guarded copperplate engravings of Cupid, Bathyllus, Europa, & Venus, headpieces, and tailpieces by Stephen Gooden. One of only 725 copies produced, this is number 680. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 100305
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First edition of George A. Henty's No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1900.
First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with eight illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 122099
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First edition of One City; signed by Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh
RANKIN, Ian; Alexander McCall Smith; Irvine Welsh. Introduction by J. K. Rowling.
One City.
Edinburgh: Polygon, 2005.
First edition of this collection initiated by four of Edinburgh's most famous authors to benefit One City Trust, a charity committed to tackling social injustice and inequality in Edinburgh. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh on the half-title page. Introduction by J. K. Rowling. Foreword by Rt Hon. Lesley Hinds. In fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 125273
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First edition of Robert Markham's Colonel Sun
MARKHAM, Robert. [Kingsley Amis].
Colonel Sun: A James Bond Adventure.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968.
First edition of the first James Bond continuation novel published after Ian Fleming's 1964 death. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom Adams.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 129046
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"Quick, one last kiss, Genevieve. It's my last fight, an' I'll fight as never before with you lookin at me": First edition of Jack London's The Game
LONDON, Jack.
The Game.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905.
First Edition, second issue of London's tragic boxing tale with the magazine rubberstamp of Metropolitan Magazine Co. to the copyright page. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, with illustrations and decorations by Henry Hutt and T. C. Lawrence. In good condition with a child's drawings to a few pages. Ownership inscriptions.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 128146
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First Edition of Touch the Water Touch the Wind; Signed by Amos Oz
OZ, Amos.
Touch the Water Touch the Wind.
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: New York, 1973.
First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Amos Oz on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 5679
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"You won't get me being...I won't be lost in it": First Edition of the Nobel Prize-Winning Playright’s Classic Play The Homecoming
PINTER, Harold.
The Homecoming.
London: Methuen & Co, 1965.
First edition of the two-act play by the Nobel laureate Harold Pinter. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 144687
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Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own; Signed by Eddie Glaude
GLAUDE, Jr..
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own.
New York: Crown, 2020.
First edition, early printing of this "unparalleled masterpiece of social criticism" (Imani Perry). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Eddie Glaude on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 117519
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First edition of Michael Frayn's The Trick of It; inscribed by him to Sally Soames
FRAYN, Michael.
The Trick Of It.
London: Viking, 1989.
First edition of of Frayn's reverential novel. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Sally with best wishes from Michael Frayn 15 August 1989." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research on her…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 119338
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First Edition of Fannie Flagg's A Redbird Christmas; Warmly Inscribed by Her
FLAGG, Fannie.
A Redbird Christmas.
New York: Random House, 2004.
First edition of this enchanting Christmas classic. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Sweet Marilyn Perry- Much Love Fannie Flagg." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Aleta Rafton.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 118788
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First Edition of Hasegawa Takejirō's Kachi-Kachi Yama
TAKEJIRō, Hasegawa.
Kachi-Kachi Yama.
Tokyo: Kobunsha, c.1885.
First edition of volume five in Hasegawa Takejirō's Japanese Fairy Tale Series. Duodecimo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated throughout with color woodcuts, cord ties. In very good condition. Translated by David Thomson.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 147960
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Finely bound example of John Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies
RUSKIN, John.
Sesame and Lilies.
London: George Allen, 1893.
Finely bound example of Ruskin’s classic anthology including Of King’s Treasures, Of Queen’s Gardens, and The Mystery of Life and Its Arts. Octavo, bound in full vellum with morocco spine labels, gilt ruling and central gilt Aske's Hatcham Schools coat of arms, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt with others uncut. In good condition. Bookplate.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 114418
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First English Edition of Rudyard Kipling's From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches. Letters of Travel
KIPLING, Rudyard.
From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches. Letters of Travel.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1900.
First English edition of this collection of Kipling’s essays about his 1889 travels from India to Burma, China, Japan, and the United States en route to England. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt elephant emblem to the front panel, top edge gilt. In very good condition with rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine. Ownership name.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 122350
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Signed by the Nobel Prize-winning Author J.M. Coetzee
SELECTED BY COETZEE, J.M.
African Road: New Writing from Southern Africa 2006.
Claremont, SA: Spearhead/ New Africa Books, 2006.
First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page, who selected these stories.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 2478
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"But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool; And time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop": First edition of Aldous Huxley's Time Must Have a Stop
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Time Must Have A Stop.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1944.
First edition of Huxley's complex and powerful novel, preceding the first English edition. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Ownership inscription.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 138400
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VARGAS LLOSA, Mario; Edited and translated by John King.
Making Waves: Essays.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giraux, 1997.
First edition of this collection of essays by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 1736
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"MEN IN PAJAMAS SITTING ABAFT THE FUNNEL AND SWAPPING LIES OF THE PURPLE SEAS": FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF RUDYARD KIPLING'S ABAFT THE FUNNEL
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Abaft the Funnel.
New York: B. W. Dodge & Company, 1909.
First edition, first issue of of Kipling’s 1909 short story collection with gold lettering to the spine and front panel. Octavo, original blue cloth with gold titles to the spine and front panel. In fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 122911
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First edition of Philip Reeve's Infernal Devices; signed by him
REEVE, Philip.
Infernal Devices.
London: Scholastic Press, 2005.
First edition of the third novel in Reeve's award-winning Mortal Engines quartet. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Philip Reeve on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by David Frankland.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 126739
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First Edition of Toilers and Spinsters and Other Essays
THACKERY, Miss.
Toilers and Spinsters and Other Essays.
London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1874.
First edition of this work by Thackeray. Octavo, bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. top edges gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $110.00 Item Number: 3005
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Rare first edition of Irvin S. Cobb's Incredible Truth; inscribed by him
COBB, Irvin S.
Incredible Truth.
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1931.
First edition of Cobb's absorbing collection of historical essays. Octavo, original cloth, top edge red. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Yours Sincerely Irvine S. Cobb." Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 115067
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Without Benefit of Clergy
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Without Benefit of Clergy.
New York: Doubleday and McClure Company, 1899.
First separate edition of Kipling's Without Benefit of Clergy. Octavo, original illustrated cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 121504
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First edition of George A. Henty's Yule-Tide Yarns
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
Yule-Tide Yarns.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899.
First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with forty-five illustrations. In good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 122632
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First edition of Henry Williamson's Love and the Loveless
WILLIAMSON, Henry.
Love and the Loveless: A Soldier’s Tale.
London: Macdonald & Co., 1958.
First edition of the seventh novel in the author's semi-autobiographical Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Broom Lynne. Bookplate.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 128063
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"SHERE KHAN SPEAKS THIS MUCH TRUTH. THE CUB MUST BE SHOWN TO THE PACK": Rudyard Kipling's Two Jungle Books
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Two Jungle Books.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1932.
Later printing of Kipling's Two Jungle Books in one volume. Octavo, original red cloth decorated in gilt with illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling and W.H. Drake. In very good condition. Bookplate and small ownership inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 135221
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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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First Edition of Annie Proulx's Memoir Bird Cloud; Signed by Her
PROULX, Annie.
Bird Cloud: A Memoir.
New York: Scribner, 2011.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's magnificent memoir. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Annie Proulx on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rex Bonomelli. Jacket photograph of Bird Cloud by Annie Proulx.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 140722
