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Sylvia Townsend Warner's Kingdoms of Elfin
WARNER, Sylvia Townsend.
Kingdoms of Elfin.
New York: The Viking Press, 1977.
First edition, second printing of Warner's classic collection of fantasy tales. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Endpaper maps by Anita Karl.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 126860
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First edition of Beryl Bainbridge's Watson's Apology
BAINBRIDGE, Beryl.
Watson’s Apology.
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1984.
First edition of the award-winning author's investigation of the Stockwell Murder. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 126810
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First edition of Sir George MacMunn's Rudyard Kipling: Craftsman
MACMUNN, George. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: Craftsman.
London: Robert Hale & Company, 1937.
First edition of MacMunn's homage to Kipling. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 135157
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"The greatest short story writer of his day": First edition of Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Appreciation by R. Thurston Hopkins
HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Appreciation by R. Thurston Hopkins.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd, 1915.
First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' anthology and appreciation of Kipling's works. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 121670
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First Edition of John Updike's Roger's Version; Signed by Him
UPDIKE, John.
Roger’s Version.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.
First edition of this novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John Updike on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sara Eisenman.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 122435
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Rare German edition of Rudyard Kipling's Puck
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Puck: Geschichten aus alten Sagen. Ein Buch fur groke und heine Leute.
Berlin-Charlottenburg: Bita Deutsches Berlagshaus, n.d..
Rare German edition of Kipling's collected Puck stories. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth, illustrated by H.R. Millar. Translated into German by E. Rosenbach. In near fine condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 123493
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First edition of V.S. Pritchett's Blind Love and Other Stories
PRITCHETT, V.S.
Blind Love and Other Stories.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1969.
First edition of Pritchett's collection of humorous short stories. Octavo, original light blue cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ionicus.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 120358
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First edition of Charles Stuart Calverley's Verses and Translations
CALVERLEY, Charles Stuart.
Verses and Translations.
Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1862.
First edition of Calverley's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In good condition. Ownership inscription. Rare.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 124130
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"Men often do their best work blind, for someone else's sake": First edition of Kipling Calendar: A Quotation from Kipling's Writings for Every Day in the Year
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Kipling Calendar.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. .
English printing of the Kipling Calendar, containing a Kipling verse for each day of the year. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 126065
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First Edition of Graham Greene's The Human Factor
GREENE, Graham.
The Human Factor.
London: The Bodley Head, 1978.
First edition of this espionage novel, which was later adapted into the 1979 film, directed by Otto Preminger using a screenplay by Tom Stoppard. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Harvey.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 10098
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Rare Edition de Luxe of Rudyard Kipling's Departmental Ditties and Other Verses; one of only 150 extra-illustrated copies
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Departmental Ditties and Other Verses.
London: Methuen and Co, 1904.
First edition of Kipling's first collection of verse. Octavo, original cloth, top edge gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 142115
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Uncorrected Proof of the First Edition of The Hotel New Hampshire
IRVING, John.
The Hotel New Hampshire.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1981.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author's fifth novel. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition with the review information laid in.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 144884
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First Edition of The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer
FROST, Robert.
The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963.
First edition of the collected correspondence between Frost and lifelong friend and fellow poet Louis Untermeyer. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Author photograph by Warren Rothschild.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 137256
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"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish not to take delight in it while we have it": W. Somerset Maugham's Our Betters
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
Our Betters.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1924.
Later printing of this incredible comedy in three acts. Octodecimo, original red cloth. In very good condition. In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 145200
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"He wrote us verse of all our sweet, familiar things, of religions, of working-folk, of man and maid and philosophies": Sir George MacMunn's Rudyard Kipling: Craftsman
MACMUNN, Sir George. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: Craftsman.
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1938.
New and revised edition of MacMunn's biography of Rudyard Kipling. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In near fine condition.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 122047
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First Edition of Eugene O'Neill's Lazarus Laughed and Dynamo
O'NEILL, Eugene.
Lazarus Laughed and Dynamo: Two Plays by Eugene O’Neill.
London: Johnathan Cape, 1929.
First edition of this collection of two of the great playwright's works including the long theo-philosophical meditation, Lazarus Laughed, which called for more than one hundred actors making up a masked chorus. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 111219
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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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First Edition of A.M. Homes' The Safety of Objects; Signed by Her
HOMES, A.M.
The Safety of Objects.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1990.
First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by A.M. Homes on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chris Welch and A.M. Homes. Jacket photograph by Man Ray.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 122397
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First Edition of Memories from a Sinking Ship: A Novel; Inscribed by Barry Gifford
GIFFORD, Barry.
Memories from a Sinking Ship: A Novel.
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2007.
First edition of this novel by author of Wild at Heart. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Brett a few new memories for you- Barry Gifford." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jess Morphew.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 104899
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First edition of Elliot L. Gilbert's Kipling and the Critics
KIPLING, Rudyard. [Edited with an Introduction by Elliot L. Gilbert].
Kipling and the Critics.
London: Peter Owen, 1966.
First British Commonwealth edition, second impression of this compilation of the best pieces of Kipling criticism with contributions by Max Beerbohm, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, George Orwell, and Oscar Wilde. Octavo, original cloth. Edited and with an introduction by Elliot L. Gilbert. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 126772
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First Folio Society of The Spy's Bedside Book
GREENE, Graham and Hugh.
The Spy’s Bedside Book.
London: The Folio Society, 2006.
First Folio Society edition of this sampler of excerpts from some of the greatest spy novelists of all time. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 141349
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First Edition of Oliver Stone's A Child's Night Dream; signed by him
STONE, Oliver.
A Child’s Night Dream.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
First edition of Stone's first novel, a fictionalized account of his harrowing experiences in Vietnam. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Joe, Oliver Stone." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Steve Sonder. Jacket illustration by Sergio Premoli.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 115105
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First Edition of Kenneth S. Lynn's Mark Twain and Southwestern Humor
LYNN, Kenneth S.
Mark Twain and Southwestern Humor.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1959.
First edition of Lynn's work examining the literary artistry of the legendary American writer. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Allan Seide.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 139811
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First Edition of The Ghost in the Music; Signed by John Nichols
NICHOLS, John.
A Ghost in the Music.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979.
First edition of Nichols' fifth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Nichols on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Neil Stuart.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 95882
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Two Forewords; One of 950 copies
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Two Forewords.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1935.
First edition of this collection of two letters written by Kipling to Frank Nelson and Nelson Doubleday. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth over marbled boards. One of 950 copies. Fine in the original slipcase which is in near fine condition.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 123463
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First edition of David Benedictus' The Fourth of June
BENEDICTUS, David.
The Fourth of June.
London: Anthony Blond, 1962.
First edition of Benedictus' first novel. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 121643
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First Edition of John Dos Passos' Chosen Country
DOS PASSOS, John.
Chosen Country.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951.
First edition of this work by Dos Passos. Octavo, original cloth. Advanced review copy with the slip laid in, near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Samuel H. Bryant.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 101669
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First edition of Dennis Wheatley's The Rape of Venice
WHEATLEY, Dennis.
The Rape of Venice.
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1959.
First edition of the sixth book in the best-selling author's Roger Brook espionage series. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sax.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 128105
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First edition of Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832: An Edinburgh Keepsake; with contributions by Eric Linklater, C.S. Lewis, Hesketh Pearson, and Ludovic Kennedy
FRAZER, Allan. [Sir Walter Scott; C.S. Lewis].
Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832: An Edinburgh Keepsake.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971.
First edition of this compilation of speeches delivered by the annual President of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 132075
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First Tauchnitz edition of Rudyard Kipling’s The Seven Seas
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Seven Seas.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1897.
First Tauchnitz edition of Kipling’s collection of songs and poems dedicated to voyages on the high seas which includes A Song of the English and Hymn Before Action. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Ownership inscriptions.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 123492
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Magali Boisnard's Le Roman de La Kahena
BOISNARD, Magali.
Le Roman de La Kahena: d’Après Les Anciens Textes Arabes.
Paris: Édition d'Art, 1925.
Later edition of this work by the French poet and novelist. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, ornamentation by Paul Zenker, original wrappers bound in. In very good condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 145217
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"Who dost though love O seer in thy vision? Women I love, slender and strange and stately waiting untroubled for the years to bear them": First Edition of Sir George Macmunn's Kipling's Women
MACMUNN, Sir George [Rudyard Kipling].
Kipling’s Women.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., n.d..
First edition of the former President of the Kipling Society's study of the women portrayed in Kipling's song and story. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles and central gilt emblem to the front panel. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 135257
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First edition of Roger Lancelyn Green's Kipling: The Critical Heritage
GREEN, Roger Lancelyn. [Rudyard Kipling].
Kipling: The Critical Heritage.
New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1971.
First edition of Green's critical history of the great British author. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 126889
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"During this period Kipling's fame and the demand for his work were constantly growing": Revised edition of Rudyard Kipling in New England
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Rudyard Kipling in New England.
Brattleboro: The Book Cellar, 1951.
Revised edition of Howard Rice’s Rudyard Kipling in New England. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 123411
